Medical Flavor Text - For Scanners Mostly

[Evandorf]

Would it be possible or wanted to add flavor text in character creation that shows up on medical scans? Things about your character that a scan would not mechanically show and may not be actionable aboard the ship but would be interesting or useful to transmit to medical personnel in a way that's more visible than them having to catch it in your medical files.

For instance, I play a character missing an eye but I also know others that have defining physical traits like heavy scarring that you would think would show up on high-tech medical scanners. Maybe you use a cane because of an old wound that would show up as irregular on the scanner but not really something medical can fix. Maybe you had some disease like cancer that left telltale medical signs on your body.

There's definitely a chance for people to make up ridiculous shit but it would be addressed the same way we currently deal with people creating heinous flavor text within the scope that already exists.

[EJJ]

Tbh I'd love this; medical doesn't really have time to check records a lot. Just a big "THIS CHARACTER IS NATURALLY MISSING AN ARM, DON'T PUT ONE ON" would be useful for a lot of characters. I'm still laughing over the time medical tried to force legs onto a random wheelchair bound bartender.

[Sheeplets]

If we implement this we need to make sure that wherever it shows up it's very obviously marked as only being flavor text with no room for misinterpretation. New players in the department already have a hard enough time decoding gibberish, memorizing dozens of medications, and working through the laundry list of other systems involved. If we mix fluff in with the mechanically relevant info it'd likely end up (unintentionally) confusing them.