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'''Stasis''', also known as Suspension, is a state of suspended animation in which a person subject to the process is chronologically frozen. The subject is unconcious, and cannot move, think, or speak. Stasis is usually used in extended relaxation centers.
{{Quotation|'''The Announcer'''|Good morning. You have been in suspension for -fifty- days. In compliance with state and federal regulations, all testing candidates in the Aperture Science Extended Relaxation Center must be revived periodically for a mandatory physical and mental wellness exercise.|sound=Announcer_openingexercise01.wav}}


[[File:Stasis main picture.png|right|300px|thumb|A stasis bed as it appears in the [[Extended Relaxation Center]].]]
'''Stasis''', also known as '''suspension''', is a state of suspended animation in which a person subject to the process is chronologically frozen. The subject is unconscious, and cannot move, think, or speak.
== Side Effects ==
== Side Effects ==
Stasis has some known side effects. Being in stasis for a period of a couple months may cause cognitive deterioration, while staying subject to it for a couple years may cause serious brain damage. The effects of being under stasis for a short period of time are unknown.
Stasis has some known side effects. Being in stasis for a period of a couple months may cause cognitive deterioration, while staying subject to it for a couple years may cause serious brain damage. The effects of being under stasis for a short period of time are unknown.


== Stasis In-Game ==
===Portal===
*The player character, [[Chell]], is put under stasis a number of times throughout the [[Portal]] franchise. In Portal, the game opens up with Chell having just awakened from an undefined time in stasis. At the end, she is put into stasis again by [[Doug Rattmann]].  
At the beginning of Portal the player character,[[Chell]] , wakes up from stasis in the [[Relaxation Vault]]. The amount of time she had been in suspension was undefined.  This is the only appearance of stasis in Portal.
*In [[Portal 2]], the game also opens with Chell awakening from a period of fifty days in stasis. When she wakes up again after returning to stasis, it has been an extremely long time, too long for the announcer to compute.
 
*In [[Portal: Prelude]], Abby awakens from stasis at the beggining just like in Portal.
===Portal 2: Lab Rat===
In the Portal comic [[Lab Rat]], which is set between Portal and [[Portal 2]] , shows stasis on two occasions. {{spoiler text|The [[Party Escort Bot]] puts Chell into Extended Relaxation. [[Doug Rattmann]] realises that the whole of the test centre's power had run out and patched Chell's cryo-chamber into the reserve power to allow her to live with the consequence of her being in stasis indefinitely. In Rattmann's words "So it's the long sleep... or the long sleep. At the end of the comic, Rattmann then goes into short term stasis after being shot by a [[turret]].}}
 
 
=== Portal 2===
In Portal 2 the player character wakes up from Stasis after 50 days and is asked by the [[Announcer]] to do a mandatory physical and mental wellness exercise. The player goes into stasis again. The player then reawakens after an extremely long time, too long for the announcer to compute. This is the only appearance of stasis in Portal 2.
 
===Appearance===
The bed in the relaxation vault,seen to the right, is evidently some kind of medical equipment. At the front there is a screen and near the back there are canisters of a undefined substance. 
This is very different to the bed found in The Extended Relaxation Centre which is made to look like a normal bed and does not show any signs of how it works .

Revision as of 18:21, 6 June 2013

Good morning. You have been in suspension for -fifty- days. In compliance with state and federal regulations, all testing candidates in the Aperture Science Extended Relaxation Center must be revived periodically for a mandatory physical and mental wellness exercise.
The Announcer
A stasis bed as it appears in the Extended Relaxation Center.

Stasis, also known as suspension, is a state of suspended animation in which a person subject to the process is chronologically frozen. The subject is unconscious, and cannot move, think, or speak.

Side Effects

Stasis has some known side effects. Being in stasis for a period of a couple months may cause cognitive deterioration, while staying subject to it for a couple years may cause serious brain damage. The effects of being under stasis for a short period of time are unknown.

Portal

At the beginning of Portal the player character,Chell , wakes up from stasis in the Relaxation Vault. The amount of time she had been in suspension was undefined. This is the only appearance of stasis in Portal.

Portal 2: Lab Rat

In the Portal comic Lab Rat, which is set between Portal and Portal 2 , shows stasis on two occasions. The Party Escort Bot puts Chell into Extended Relaxation. Doug Rattmann realises that the whole of the test centre's power had run out and patched Chell's cryo-chamber into the reserve power to allow her to live with the consequence of her being in stasis indefinitely. In Rattmann's words "So it's the long sleep... or the long sleep. At the end of the comic, Rattmann then goes into short term stasis after being shot by a turret.


Portal 2

In Portal 2 the player character wakes up from Stasis after 50 days and is asked by the Announcer to do a mandatory physical and mental wellness exercise. The player goes into stasis again. The player then reawakens after an extremely long time, too long for the announcer to compute. This is the only appearance of stasis in Portal 2.

Appearance

The bed in the relaxation vault,seen to the right, is evidently some kind of medical equipment. At the front there is a screen and near the back there are canisters of a undefined substance. This is very different to the bed found in The Extended Relaxation Centre which is made to look like a normal bed and does not show any signs of how it works .