Morale Points

Your Morale Points represent your character's mental state.

• Each character starts the game with 7 .
• A character can gain a maximum of 14 . This can be reduced by certain Diseases and Disorders.
• When your drops to 0, your character will commit suicide during the next cycle change (unless they have the Self-sacrifice skill). This can only be avoided by raising your to at least 1 before the cycle change occurs.
• The of Mush characters is always at its maximum and cannot be changed.

Gaining Morale

Source	Gain	Notes
Eating a Banana	+1
Eating certain Alien Fruits	+1
Taking certain Drugs	+1-3
Sleeping in the same room as a Shrink	+1	The point is gained during cycle change.
Being comforted by a Shrink	+2
Being present during a Leader's Motivational Speech	+2
Doing the thing	+2	When Derek does the thing for the first time, he restores all .
Caressing Schrödinger	+3	Once per game.
Using the Alien Holographic TV	+3	Once per game.
Rebel Base: CYGNI	+3
Rebel Base: KALADAAN	+6
Establishing communications with Sol	+3	Only triggers the first time contact is re-established.
Being rescued from a MIA event on Expeditions	+3

Losing Morale

Source	Loss	Notes
Certain Disorders	-1
Death of a crewmember	-1	No morale is lost if the crewmate dies to suicide, trades, or quarantine. None is lost if you have Detached Crewmember.
Death of a Pregnant crewmember	-2
Death of Chun	-3
Consuming a Alien Steak or a Standard Ration	-1
Taking certain Drugs	-2
Eating Organic Waste	-4
Surviving a day	-2	Morale is lost when transitioning from Cycle 8 to Cycle 1. Reduced by 1 while Chun is alive. Reduced by 1 if you have The Optimist.
Being the victim of a panic attack	-3	Happens randomly between cycles, the same as other negative events.
Being lost on a planet during cycle change	-1
Finola: Being Dirty during cycle change	-1
Raluca: Being in the same room as another crewmate during cycle change	-1
Raluca: Schrödinger dies	-4
Using Premonition	-1
Being the victim of Demoralize	-2

Low Morale

If your morale is low, you become:

• Demoralized if your morale is less than or equal to 5 .
• Suicidal if you have only 1 left.

Tips

• Staying at low morale should be avoided if possible, as you risk dying to an unexpected panic attack or a Mush rampage that causes multiple deaths.
• Communicate with Janice, or a character with Leader, if your morale is low. However, beware of being too open about having low morale, or an opportunistic Mush could kill you with Demoralize.
• If you are Mush:
  • Other players may grow suspicious if they realize that you aren't having morale issues. You may want to keep track of how much you should have at the time, and ask for "help" if that number dips low.
  • Exploit other characters' morale by going on a killing spree, especially by targeting characters like Janice (to remove the crew's easiest morale source) and Chun (due to the large morale loss caused by her death).