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{{Hatnote|'''Notice: Currently, Telescience has been effectively removed from the normal game, as the circuit boards for it are admin spawned only and are not obtainable in normal play. This page remains as a reference for the future and in case a telescience setup is produced through admin intervention.'''}}
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=What is this strange thing?=
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Telescience is the use of the Telepad and Telepad Control Console.
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|exits=East into Science, South into Maintenance.
|purpose=To use the teleporter!
|contents=Teleporter pad, Telepad Control Console, Protective suit, and GPS unit.
|clearance=[[Scientist]] and RD
|description=A disgusting radiation filled place. Enter with protection. (Note, I have no idea how to remove mapping notes, so just look at them, they're pretty.)
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=What is this strange place?=
This focuses on teleportation, both sending and receiving.
[[File:Telescience_room.png|thumb|515px|alt=Telescience_room|link=Telescience|The Telescience Lab]]
Telescience is a single room at the south end of the Research department hallway.


This area focuses on teleportation, both sending and receiving. It is equipped with a [[Telepad]], a secure room to teleport people and things in and out of, and several handheld [[GPS]] readers.
Telescience is relatively complicated, and in the right hands can be a great aid... or detriment to the station.


Telescience is relatively easy, and in the right hands can be a great aid... or detriment to the station.
=How to telescience=


Telescience has two barriers preventing you from doing whatever the hell you want: maths and bluespace crystals. Without math, you'll be randomly opening portals to nowhere useful, and without additional bluespace crystals, you'll be limited to teleporting about 60 squares in any direction.


===Really? So.... I can like, kidnap the captain and turn him into a sex slave?===
==Numbers and stuff, or why is this even fun==
Do remember, you have to know college-level calcu---- hahahah fuck no, did you pass six grade? Yes? Well you're ready for telescience!


The telepad console has 3 settings:
Firstly, the maths. Telescience works on a ballistic or parabolic trajectory - it may be helpful to imagine you're firing a cannon at the location you wish to teleport from/to.


X-Value
You have four variables: Bearing (direction), power, elevation (angle from the ground), and sector (section of space).
Y-Value
Z-Value


To simplify this, picture the game as being on a huge graph, because it pretty much is. The higher the X-Value is, the farther to the right your teleport will send you. The higher Y is, the higher north you will be sent. Z-Value is "Depth" if a graph had one, one z-level is the station, another is the abandoned Russian station, etc. You'll figure this out with practice.
The bearing is in degrees, and is the direction to your target from the telepad. It will randomly have an offset from -10º to +10º that you will need to compensate for.


===How do work===
Power is selected from a series of defined power levels, which can be unlocked with bluespace crystals. It has a random offset from 0 to -4 applied to it.


At round start, the telepad will be calibrated. That means the following: the Bearing setting will be offset to a random value between -10 and 10 degrees, and the Power setting will be offset randomly from -4 to 0. At this point, there are somewhere between 30 and 40 uses before it will have to be re-calibrated. Every time the crystals are re-calibrated, the remaining uses until calibration is needed again will be a random number between 30 and 40. When recalibrating, the bearing and power offsets will be re-rolled. These values do not stack, so they will always be within these ranges. To find out these offsets, you will need those little gizmos called [[GPS]]. The round starts with a number of them on the table in the [[Telescience Lab]]. Grab two, place one on the telepad and the other in your pocket.
Elevation can be set from 0º to 90º, and represents the vertical angle you are firing your imaginary cannon at. You can see that if you aim close to vertically, you'll get a high shot that lands close to your origin. If you aim at 45º, you'll get an optimum long shot that goes as far as possible. If you fire at less than 45º, your shot will hit the ground earlier.
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'''Now this next part requires some math and a calculator supporting square roots and inverse trigonometric functions, specifically asin() and atan().''' If you're incapable of math, ask yourself what the hell are you doing in the Research Division of the most high-tech space station ever built, and apply to [[Head of Personnel]] for the [[Clown]]'s job.
Sector is which 'level' of the game map you're zapping about on. This will usually be 1 unless you're screwing with the mining outpost.


First, let's find the power offset. It is most simply done by setting elevation to 45. Elevation set to 45 sets the sin(2*elevation) to 1 so the equation for the distance simplifies to (power^2)/10. For example if you teleport something with power 20, it should be (20^2)/10 = 40 tiles away. That's where the power offset comes in, as the GPS will actually be in ((power-offset)^2)/10, so, using the previous example and if the offset is, say, -4, the GPS will be actually ((20-4)^2)/10  = (16^2)/10 = 25.6 (rounded to 26) tiles away. So, to find out the power offset, you need to teleport the GPS with 45 elevation and see how far away it actually flies. Let's designate the GPS coordinates as X and Y, and the telepad coordinates as Xt and Yt. Then the formula for the distance from the telepad to the GPS is:
Bearing and power offsets are changed each time you recalibrate.
*distance = sqrt((Xt - X)^2 + (Yt - Y)^2)
and the equation for actually finding the offset is:
*((power-offset)^2)/10 = distance,  therefore (power-offset)^2 = distance*10,  therefore '''power-offset = sqrt(distance*10)'''.


So, to recollect, to find the power offset you need to:
==Let's zap something==
*Teleport the GPS with settings 0 bearing, 45 elevation, 20 power.
*Using another GPS find out how far did it go in both x and y directions (say, it travelled X tiles on x axis and Y on y axis).
*Calculate the distance from the telepad to the GPS as sqrt(X^2 + Y^2)
*Multiply it by 10 and extract sqare root.
*What you see at your calc now is power minus offset. As the power was set to 20, to find offset, you need to substract the number you've got from 20. So, for example, if you got roughly 17, the offset is 3 (remember it can be only integer).
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Now, to find the bearing offset. When you teleported the GPS, you might've noticed it didn't go precisely north, although the bearing was set to 0. The bearing offset is to blame. Once again, assume the GPS travelled X tiles west and Y tiles north. Then, by dividing X by Y, you get the tangent of the offset angle, and the angle itself can be calculated as '''offset = atan(X/Y)''' (it's also integer, so feel free to round). Given the GPS travelled '''west''', that will be a positive offset that will be added to your bearing, so you have to compensate by substracting it from the bearing you will be setting. Inversly, if the GPS has gone '''east''', the offset is negative and you need to add it to the bearing.
To successfully teleport, you need to know the following:
* Location of the telepad [[File:x1y1.png]]
* Location of the target [[File:x2y2.png]]
* The bearing offset (b)
* the power offset (O)
* the elevation (E)


Congratulations! Now that you know both offsets, you can teleport anything with some deadly precision or steal some high-secure items in the most stealthy fashion without having anyone see the GPS tools dancing around! So, how do you put that knowledge to use? Let's assume you want to teleport something X tiles west and Y tiles north. First, you again need to find the distance as '''sqrt(X^2 + Y^2)''' (let's designate it '''D'''). Now, set the power setting so that '''((power-offset)^2)/10''' (let's designate that number as '''Dmax''') was greater than your distance. (If you can't, you need to find you more bluespace crystals). Now, once the power is set, you need to adjust the bearing. '''Divide D by Dmax'''. As Dmax is greater, you'll get a number less than 1. You need to '''calculate the inverse sine from that number and then divide it by 2'''. In one formula,
This allows you to calculate the distance between target and telepad: x₂ - x₁ in a north/south direction, and y₂ - y₁ in the east-west direction, let's call that Δx and Δy. The straight line distance can be found using pythagorus's theorem:
*elevation = (asin(D/Dmax))/2.
Now the bearing setting is obviously dependant not only on the distances the object has to travel along the X and Y axes, but on the general direction it travels to or from (northeast, southeast, southwest, northwest). To set the bearing, you'll need to calculate '''atan(X/Y)''' if the destination is northeast or southwest, and '''atan(Y/X)''' otherwise. Both X and Y numbers here have to be positive (just the distances on X and Y axes without signs). (Writer's note: wish I could add a picture of trigonometric circle in here, that would explain everything much better than I can in words). You'll get a number between 0 and 90, which will be your bearing plus(or minus) offset if you're sending northeast. To send something along the same distances on X and Y, but in the other direction, you'll need to add a multiple of 90 degrees to it. So:
*To send north and east, don't add anything.
*To send south and east, add 90.
*To send south and west, add 180.
*To send north and west, add 270.
Now compensate for the bearing offset, punch those numbers in the computer and hit that Send (or Recieve) button! If you're not miscalculated and everything was done right, you should now have DAT FUKKEN DISK on the telepad or a maximum-yield bomb at the AI core. Enjoy your near-omnipotence, you've truly deserved it.
{{Item
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Sadly, every 30 to 40 teleportations (roughly) the [[Telepad]] will '''fizzle'''. This means you need to click  Recalibrate and start from step 1. Learn to recalibrate quickly, or you may end up in a heap of trouble.
[[File:DistanceEqn.png]]


Leave handy beacons around the station, and GPS units at interesting locations in space, and you can easily find them again. It's worth putting something down in the [[Medbay]] so you can quickly send the wounded and the dead there.
To find the random power offset, put a GPS on the telepad, set Bearing to 0º so it goes straight North, Elevation to 45º and Power to 20.


Also, note that the maximum radius you can reach is proportional to power squared, so, with so much as three or four extra crystals, your reach extends immensely. Just insert them into the console and higher power will become available. This also amplifies the recharge time between teleports and the energy the telepad consumes from the room's APC.
To figure out the bearing to your destination, you'll need to do one of the following calculations, depending on if Δx and Δy are positive or negative:


===Challenges for the Robust in All of Us===
# Be useful and teleport dead bodies to Genetics for cloning, or injured crew straight to Medbay for treatment!
# Teleport an Engineering Cyborg straight to a hull breach!
# Borrow all the Chef's donuts!
# Teleport the last remaining revhead into the Brig for ''implanting''!
# Find the remaining Bananium ore and construct a H.O.N.K. mech for the Clown!
# Teleport the Nuclear Device around during a Nuclear Operatives -round! Bonus points if it's right after they stick in DAT FUKKEN DISK and before they input the code! Double bonus points for teleporting it to the derelict!
# Teleport a bomb onto a malfunctioning AI's core!
# Teleport the [[Woody's Got Wood|WGW]] reader into LORD SINGULOTH!


{| class="wikitable"
|+'''Bearing''' is equal to:
|-
|Δx is positive:
|arctan(Δy/Δx)
|-
|Δx is negative:
| arctan(Δy/Δx) + 180º
|-
|Δx is 0, Δy is positive:
| 90º
|-
|Δx is 0, Δy is negative:
| 270º
|}


Some calculators will have an atan2 function that will use the correct function from the above table for you automatically.
Once you have the angle, adjust it by the bearing offset as required.
So you now have the correct bearing, and need to find the power level and elevation to use.
The lowest amount of power required to do this teleport would be a perfect 45º shot, so we need to figure out the next available power level above that.
Through some magic maths, the minimum power you require is equal to the square root of ('''D''' × 10). Pick the next highest power level '''P''' from the console, adding in the power offset if required.
You'll also need to know the maximum range possible with the power level you just selected:
You now have the bearing and power level, and just need the elevation.
[[File:ElevationEqn.png]]
==Examples==
'''Calibration at Power 20, Elevation 45º, Bearing 0º:'''
The GPS should travel 40 squares north. However, it went -3 squares in the x axis and only 39 squares in the y axis, travelling just 39.1 units.
We can work out the equivalent power level: Square root of ((10×distance travelled) ÷ sine of ( 2 × elevation)) = power of 19.7, which is close enough to 20 that we can say there is probably no power offset.
The GPS was actually sent on a bearing equal to the inverse tan of (-3 ÷ 39), or about -4º, which gives us our bearing offset.
'''Getting an item from (-45, 16y):'''
That's a straight line distance of 47.76 units, at a bearing of -70.4º. Adjusting for the offset, i need to aim for about -74º, or 286º as a positive angle.
It'd take 21.8 units of power to reach it at a 45º shot, so I'll choose 25 power units for my Dmax, which works out to be 62.5.
The elevation I need is therefore the antisine of (47.76/62.5) ÷ 2, which is 24.9º.
== Setting up your lab ==
First, you will want to get the following items from R&D: A telepad board, a telepad control console board, a console screen, 11 cable coils, 10 metal sheets, 2 glass and either: 5 bluespace crystals and a quadratic capacitor, or 6 bluespace crystals and a super capacitor. Also, if you set up close enough to the bridge, you can get away with 5 bluespace crystals and a super capacitor. For a teleportation hub and all that other jazz, grab 5 more bluepsace crystals, 2 capacitors, a console screen, and matter bin. <strong>WARNING: If the teleporter hub does not have a high level matter bin, you will get teleported into deep space without recalibrating the hub every single teleport.</strong>
Next, find a suitable location for your telescience lab. You could either nag the chief engineer for a build permit and build your own room right across from the Test Lab, or you could clear out some space in one of the other rooms in R&D and build it there. If your worried about people getting mad at you for being able to teleport to and from anywhere on the station (including important places that have pre-spawned tracking beacons) then don't be, for some reason people generally don't mind (as long as your a scientist).
Then, you want to use the metal to build a machine frame and a computer frame. Wrench the computer frame, add the telepad control console board, screwdriver, add wires, add glass, screwdriver. Add wires to the machine frame, add the telepad board, add 2 bluespace crystals, a piece of cable, the console screen, and the capacitor. Screwdriver twice, use multitool on the telepad, then use multitool on the telepad control console, then screwdriver the panel closed on the telepad. Now add the rest of the bluespace crystals to the telepad control console. For the hub setup, make a machine frame, wires, teleporter hub circuit board, the rest of the stuff, then screwdriver. Then, <strong>THIS IS IMPORTANT</strong>, build a machine frame and construct the teleporter station, touching the hub you just built, right up against it. Then, touching the teleporter station make a computer frame and build the teleporter control console the same way you did before. To be clear, that's |hub||station||console|, or any other arrangement like that. Then, use a screwdriver on the station, wirecutters, screwdriver again. This is to link it with nearby devices (you must do this every time you deconstruct/reconstruct the hub or the console.
== Using a telepad ==
Now that you've got your equipment on, you're ready for action! Take one of the GPS devices on the table and go put it on the telepad. Make sure to remember it's ID! Now go to that fancy purple console and bring it up. You'll see multiple buttons. Begin by clicking "Recalibrate". You should see a "Calibration Successful" message.
Sadly, every 30 to 40 teleportations (the exact number is randomized every calibration) the Telepad will decalibrate. This means that the telepad simply will not work, and when you hit recalibrate again, you will have to recalibrate your offsets.
Leave handy beacons around the station, and GPS units at interesting locations in space, and you can easily find them again. It's worth putting something down in the [[Medbay]] so you can quickly send the wounded and the dead there. A good thing to consider is to build a crew monitoring computer in the telescience room, or get an engineer to build one for you. That way, you can directly obtain the coordinates of any dead or dying crew, and teleport them directly to Medbay or Genetics.
== Teleporter Station ==
This is what gives power and connection to your hub. Once you have a target/gate set on your teleporter console, you simply click on the station to activate the hub. You can also link stations with other stations, allowing these stations to be used as targets. To do this, screwdriver the station to open the maintenance hatch, click on it with a multitool, close the hatch, then click on your second station (with a closed maintenance hatch) to link it. If you wish to sync multiple stations, you need to upgrade its capacitors. You must do this process for both stations on each other, in order to go to and from one another. To use these linked stations as a target, simply open up your teleporter console, set the regime to gate, then set target to the station of your choice.
== Teleporter Console ==
This is the grandpappy of teleportation, the thing that the user actually interacts with to use their hub. There are three types of teleporting: using tracking beacons, linked stations, or custom coordinates. To use the tracking beacon method (the easiest and most common), place your tracking beacon wherever your honk desires, set the regime mode to "Teleporter", set the target to the location that your beacon is in, press calibrate hub, click on your station to activate the hub, then walk on through. If you want to use linked stations, see [[Guide to Telescience#Teleporter Station|teleporter station]]. If you want to use custom coordinates, a pain in the ass awaits you. Set up and calibrate a telepad control console <strong>and a working telepad</strong>, do all the math and memes to get your target, send nothing to that configured location, insert a GPS device into the console, click "set gps memory", eject the gps and insert it into your teleporter console, click get target from memory, click calibrate hub, then click on your station to activate the hub.
== Permanent Teleporter ==
This is basically a teleporter hub except it can work without a station or a console. It uses pre-set coordinates on its circuit board to teleport to a specific location and only that location. Simply set the target on the circuit board and construct via machine frame. To do this, use a teleporter console, set the target, then open the maintenance hatch of the teleporter station, then click the circuit board on the station. An extremely cheaper, more effective alternative is the use of quantum pads.
== Quantum Pads ==
Quantum pads are self-contained teleporters that can be set up as a linked network. Any quantum pad can be utilized to teleport to any other linked quantum pad. Grab 2 bluespace crystals, 2 capacitors, 2 manipulators, and 2 cable coils, and 10 metal and 10 cable coils for building two machine frames. Fire out two machine frames, cable coils, add the boards, then once you have your two pads built screwdriver one, multitool, screwdriver it back together, then click on the other (maintenance hatch closed) pad, then repeat the same process backwards to link the other pad. Now simply stand on either pad and click on it to send yourself away! Better capacitors will make it use less power, and a better manipulator will increase speed and drastically decrease cooldown times (default 30 seconds). Mining will love you if you put one the asteroid and its partner in cargo.
=Traitor Usage=
You're a syndicate and you've been assigned as Scientist. You see a lot of potential for your objectives. You're damned right! Amongst countless things, here's a few useful ideas.
# Teleport your target to a whole entire different Z-level that you just populated with xenomorph queens and the supermatter crystal. Or be boring and teleport them into LORD SINGULOTH.
# Steal that locker and take that precious jumpsuit then send it back. Unseen, unknown.
# Flood the chamber with N20 and teleport in anyone with valuable objects.
# Teleport harmful artifacts into the brig. Disable that shitcurity!
# Drop in a [[Guide to toxins|!FUN! surprise]] in that meeting of the heads.
# *Borrow* some weapons from the secure armory.
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Notice: Currently, Telescience has been effectively removed from the normal game, as the circuit boards for it are admin spawned only and are not obtainable in normal play. This page remains as a reference for the future and in case a telescience setup is produced through admin intervention.

What is this strange thing?

Telescience is the use of the Telepad and Telepad Control Console.

This focuses on teleportation, both sending and receiving.

Telescience is relatively complicated, and in the right hands can be a great aid... or detriment to the station.

How to telescience

Telescience has two barriers preventing you from doing whatever the hell you want: maths and bluespace crystals. Without math, you'll be randomly opening portals to nowhere useful, and without additional bluespace crystals, you'll be limited to teleporting about 60 squares in any direction.

Numbers and stuff, or why is this even fun

Firstly, the maths. Telescience works on a ballistic or parabolic trajectory - it may be helpful to imagine you're firing a cannon at the location you wish to teleport from/to.

You have four variables: Bearing (direction), power, elevation (angle from the ground), and sector (section of space).

The bearing is in degrees, and is the direction to your target from the telepad. It will randomly have an offset from -10º to +10º that you will need to compensate for.

Power is selected from a series of defined power levels, which can be unlocked with bluespace crystals. It has a random offset from 0 to -4 applied to it.

Elevation can be set from 0º to 90º, and represents the vertical angle you are firing your imaginary cannon at. You can see that if you aim close to vertically, you'll get a high shot that lands close to your origin. If you aim at 45º, you'll get an optimum long shot that goes as far as possible. If you fire at less than 45º, your shot will hit the ground earlier.

Sector is which 'level' of the game map you're zapping about on. This will usually be 1 unless you're screwing with the mining outpost.

Bearing and power offsets are changed each time you recalibrate.

Let's zap something

To successfully teleport, you need to know the following:

  • Location of the telepad X1y1.png
  • Location of the target X2y2.png
  • The bearing offset (b)
  • the power offset (O)
  • the elevation (E)

This allows you to calculate the distance between target and telepad: x₂ - x₁ in a north/south direction, and y₂ - y₁ in the east-west direction, let's call that Δx and Δy. The straight line distance can be found using pythagorus's theorem:

DistanceEqn.png

To find the random power offset, put a GPS on the telepad, set Bearing to 0º so it goes straight North, Elevation to 45º and Power to 20.

To figure out the bearing to your destination, you'll need to do one of the following calculations, depending on if Δx and Δy are positive or negative:


Bearing is equal to:
Δx is positive: arctan(Δy/Δx)
Δx is negative: arctan(Δy/Δx) + 180º
Δx is 0, Δy is positive: 90º
Δx is 0, Δy is negative: 270º

Some calculators will have an atan2 function that will use the correct function from the above table for you automatically.

Once you have the angle, adjust it by the bearing offset as required.

So you now have the correct bearing, and need to find the power level and elevation to use.

The lowest amount of power required to do this teleport would be a perfect 45º shot, so we need to figure out the next available power level above that.

Through some magic maths, the minimum power you require is equal to the square root of (D × 10). Pick the next highest power level P from the console, adding in the power offset if required.

You'll also need to know the maximum range possible with the power level you just selected:


You now have the bearing and power level, and just need the elevation.

ElevationEqn.png

Examples

Calibration at Power 20, Elevation 45º, Bearing 0º:

The GPS should travel 40 squares north. However, it went -3 squares in the x axis and only 39 squares in the y axis, travelling just 39.1 units.

We can work out the equivalent power level: Square root of ((10×distance travelled) ÷ sine of ( 2 × elevation)) = power of 19.7, which is close enough to 20 that we can say there is probably no power offset.

The GPS was actually sent on a bearing equal to the inverse tan of (-3 ÷ 39), or about -4º, which gives us our bearing offset.


Getting an item from (-45, 16y):

That's a straight line distance of 47.76 units, at a bearing of -70.4º. Adjusting for the offset, i need to aim for about -74º, or 286º as a positive angle.

It'd take 21.8 units of power to reach it at a 45º shot, so I'll choose 25 power units for my Dmax, which works out to be 62.5.

The elevation I need is therefore the antisine of (47.76/62.5) ÷ 2, which is 24.9º.


Setting up your lab

First, you will want to get the following items from R&D: A telepad board, a telepad control console board, a console screen, 11 cable coils, 10 metal sheets, 2 glass and either: 5 bluespace crystals and a quadratic capacitor, or 6 bluespace crystals and a super capacitor. Also, if you set up close enough to the bridge, you can get away with 5 bluespace crystals and a super capacitor. For a teleportation hub and all that other jazz, grab 5 more bluepsace crystals, 2 capacitors, a console screen, and matter bin. WARNING: If the teleporter hub does not have a high level matter bin, you will get teleported into deep space without recalibrating the hub every single teleport.

Next, find a suitable location for your telescience lab. You could either nag the chief engineer for a build permit and build your own room right across from the Test Lab, or you could clear out some space in one of the other rooms in R&D and build it there. If your worried about people getting mad at you for being able to teleport to and from anywhere on the station (including important places that have pre-spawned tracking beacons) then don't be, for some reason people generally don't mind (as long as your a scientist).

Then, you want to use the metal to build a machine frame and a computer frame. Wrench the computer frame, add the telepad control console board, screwdriver, add wires, add glass, screwdriver. Add wires to the machine frame, add the telepad board, add 2 bluespace crystals, a piece of cable, the console screen, and the capacitor. Screwdriver twice, use multitool on the telepad, then use multitool on the telepad control console, then screwdriver the panel closed on the telepad. Now add the rest of the bluespace crystals to the telepad control console. For the hub setup, make a machine frame, wires, teleporter hub circuit board, the rest of the stuff, then screwdriver. Then, THIS IS IMPORTANT, build a machine frame and construct the teleporter station, touching the hub you just built, right up against it. Then, touching the teleporter station make a computer frame and build the teleporter control console the same way you did before. To be clear, that's |hub||station||console|, or any other arrangement like that. Then, use a screwdriver on the station, wirecutters, screwdriver again. This is to link it with nearby devices (you must do this every time you deconstruct/reconstruct the hub or the console.

Using a telepad

Now that you've got your equipment on, you're ready for action! Take one of the GPS devices on the table and go put it on the telepad. Make sure to remember it's ID! Now go to that fancy purple console and bring it up. You'll see multiple buttons. Begin by clicking "Recalibrate". You should see a "Calibration Successful" message.

Sadly, every 30 to 40 teleportations (the exact number is randomized every calibration) the Telepad will decalibrate. This means that the telepad simply will not work, and when you hit recalibrate again, you will have to recalibrate your offsets.

Leave handy beacons around the station, and GPS units at interesting locations in space, and you can easily find them again. It's worth putting something down in the Medbay so you can quickly send the wounded and the dead there. A good thing to consider is to build a crew monitoring computer in the telescience room, or get an engineer to build one for you. That way, you can directly obtain the coordinates of any dead or dying crew, and teleport them directly to Medbay or Genetics.

Teleporter Station

This is what gives power and connection to your hub. Once you have a target/gate set on your teleporter console, you simply click on the station to activate the hub. You can also link stations with other stations, allowing these stations to be used as targets. To do this, screwdriver the station to open the maintenance hatch, click on it with a multitool, close the hatch, then click on your second station (with a closed maintenance hatch) to link it. If you wish to sync multiple stations, you need to upgrade its capacitors. You must do this process for both stations on each other, in order to go to and from one another. To use these linked stations as a target, simply open up your teleporter console, set the regime to gate, then set target to the station of your choice.

Teleporter Console

This is the grandpappy of teleportation, the thing that the user actually interacts with to use their hub. There are three types of teleporting: using tracking beacons, linked stations, or custom coordinates. To use the tracking beacon method (the easiest and most common), place your tracking beacon wherever your honk desires, set the regime mode to "Teleporter", set the target to the location that your beacon is in, press calibrate hub, click on your station to activate the hub, then walk on through. If you want to use linked stations, see teleporter station. If you want to use custom coordinates, a pain in the ass awaits you. Set up and calibrate a telepad control console and a working telepad, do all the math and memes to get your target, send nothing to that configured location, insert a GPS device into the console, click "set gps memory", eject the gps and insert it into your teleporter console, click get target from memory, click calibrate hub, then click on your station to activate the hub.

Permanent Teleporter

This is basically a teleporter hub except it can work without a station or a console. It uses pre-set coordinates on its circuit board to teleport to a specific location and only that location. Simply set the target on the circuit board and construct via machine frame. To do this, use a teleporter console, set the target, then open the maintenance hatch of the teleporter station, then click the circuit board on the station. An extremely cheaper, more effective alternative is the use of quantum pads.

Quantum Pads

Quantum pads are self-contained teleporters that can be set up as a linked network. Any quantum pad can be utilized to teleport to any other linked quantum pad. Grab 2 bluespace crystals, 2 capacitors, 2 manipulators, and 2 cable coils, and 10 metal and 10 cable coils for building two machine frames. Fire out two machine frames, cable coils, add the boards, then once you have your two pads built screwdriver one, multitool, screwdriver it back together, then click on the other (maintenance hatch closed) pad, then repeat the same process backwards to link the other pad. Now simply stand on either pad and click on it to send yourself away! Better capacitors will make it use less power, and a better manipulator will increase speed and drastically decrease cooldown times (default 30 seconds). Mining will love you if you put one the asteroid and its partner in cargo.

Traitor Usage

You're a syndicate and you've been assigned as Scientist. You see a lot of potential for your objectives. You're damned right! Amongst countless things, here's a few useful ideas.

  1. Teleport your target to a whole entire different Z-level that you just populated with xenomorph queens and the supermatter crystal. Or be boring and teleport them into LORD SINGULOTH.
  2. Steal that locker and take that precious jumpsuit then send it back. Unseen, unknown.
  3. Flood the chamber with N20 and teleport in anyone with valuable objects.
  4. Teleport harmful artifacts into the brig. Disable that shitcurity!
  5. Drop in a !FUN! surprise in that meeting of the heads.
  6. *Borrow* some weapons from the secure armory.
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