Healixir

The Healixir is a Diagnosis and Treatment machine, used only in the DNA Lab by a Doctor with the Genetics Qualification to diagnose and cure patients with a multitude of illnesses. It is first made available for research immediately upon starting Melt Downs.

Appearance
The machine centres around a dark turquoise hexagonal metal base, with orange border. This is overlapped on the front side by a smaller hexagonal section in the same colours, with a pair of footprints marked on it to indicate where the patient would stand. To the left of this is a similarly-sized hexagon with a plain surface, which serves as a holographic projector. To the right is a slightly smaller, flatter hexagon, although in the same colours. This one bears a large touchpad on a lighter turquoise stand, a secondary control system for the doctor to use, which bears a cascading pattern of green squares on it.

At the back, connected across the base to the footprinted hexagon by two grey tubes with orange fittings, is the main control panel. Consisting of a waist-high hexagonal platform with an orange surface and a cutout in the back for the doctor to stand, it has a large glass screen on the three front-facing sides, behind which is a grey keyboard. On the right is a light turquoise panel with green and red buttons, with a corresponding panel on the left featuring only one large red button. To the left of this is an additional section bearing a sliding lever with an orange knob.

The Healixir II replaces the base with a larger octagonal one in the same colours. It also adds two short half-hexagonal sections in turquoise, bracketing the holo-projector, with a third, taller one, on an orange base, attached to the section on the control panel that houses the lever. Each of these three is connected to the floor by a grey pipe with orange fittings.

The Healixir III adds, in a similar fashion, two very tall turquoise hexagonal sections on orange bases, also on orange bases and connected to the floor with grey pipes. Each has red stripes around their outer faces, four pairs of horizontal light blue lines on their inner faces, and a stubby green conical light on top.

Function
The doctor, at the main controls behind the glass screen, will direct the patient to step onto the footprint-marked section, and press the green button to start the process. A translucent blue hexagonal field will rise around the patient, at which point the doctor will move to the smaller control panel, and activate the genetic analysis. Two light blue rings rise and fall around the patient from inside their hexagonal field, and on the other side of the machine, the patient's DNA double-helix will be projected as a hologram. The doctor returns to the main controls, in order to use the keyboard and the hexagonal red button in order to complete the process. The hexagonal field will retract, the double-helix will fade, and the patient will step away from the machine.

If the patient has come for treatment, this is where their visit to the hospital will be completed. Elsewise, they will receive a boost to their total diagnosis, followed by a return to the GP's Office, unless they have reached the fast-track treatment threshold, in which case they will move directly to the appropriate treatment room (which may well be the same DNA Lab).

Maintenance
The Healixir loses 5-10% of its maintenance gauge with each use. Once the gauge falls below 50%, a Janitor will automatically be called to repair it. A janitor can be summoned manually by the player by pressing the appropriate button.

Should the maintenance gauge fall below 15%, the machine will catch fire. A janitor will need to use an Extinguisher to put this out before the gauge reaches zero; if it is allowed to do so, the machine will explode, leaving wreckage which must be sold and replaced with a new machine before the room can resume functioning.

Upgrades
Upgrades are performed by a Janitor with the Mechanics Qualification. The machine will not be accessible while this work is being done, although it can be interrupted and resumed without losing progress.

Staff
The following Staff is required before the DNA Lab, and by extension the Healixir, will function correctly: Doctor with the Genetics Qualification Additionally, the following staff is required to both maintain and upgrade the machine: Janitor (with Mechanics Qualification for upgrades)