Knowledge is a type of personal and non-linear progression, which can accomplish things such as unlocking new actions in Towers.
You can obtain knowledge through different actions, such as interacting with tower processes, reading Franz Hopper's Diary or witnessing certain events.
It is possible to see a list of all your knowledge from the "/lw knowledge list" command and from the Virtual Menu.
Each piece of knowledge has a different chance of being lost on game over: some are more likely to be forgotten than others. They can however always be obtained once again later.
The Defense knowledge is obtained by being near a tower that is being attacked.
It will unlock a new tower action usable from the Remote Tower Control Program or from the tower itself.
The Defense action will defend the tower from physical attacks and costs 50 Energy.
The Safeguard knowledge is obtained by being near a tower that is being taken over or by interacting with a takeover process.
It will unlock a new tower action usable from the Remote Tower Control program or from the tower itself.
The Safeguard action will protect the tower from being taken over and costs 50 energy.
The Remote Frontier Rescue knowledge is obtained by rescuing someone from the frontier using a waytower or Sector Five's interface.
It will allow you to launch frontier rescues using the Remote Tower Control program.
The frontier rescue does not cost energy.
The Possession knowledge is obtained by reading the sixth report of Franz Hopper's diary.
It will unlock a new tower action usable from the Remote Tower Control program or from the tower itself.
This action can be used to make the activator of the tower possess the selected warrior. It can only be used on warriors that are in the same Faction as the user. In the case of a jeremification, XANA will attempt to take over the tower and will drain the warrior's vital force if it is not safeguarded.
The Possession action requires 100 energy.
The Sector Destruction knowledge is granted upon destroying a surface sector using Code XANA after being xanafied by the Scyphozoa.
It will unlock a new tower activation available only in waytowers.
This action can be used to launch a vote asking every Lyokowarrior if they wish to destroy a sector. Everyone must agree for it to be a success. The vote will be skipped if the player has been xanafied by the Scyphozoa again.
The Liberation knowledge is granted upon interacting with a Translation or a Data Remnant process of a permanently xanafied warrior.
It will unlock a new tower action available only from the Remote Tower Control program.
This action can be used to launch a Liberation process in any tower (it does not require activation) in exchange for 100 energy, which will give a small period of time to devirtualize the selected xanawarrior to free them.
This knowledge is obtained by clicking the padlock in an encrypted CD of Franz Hopper's diary.
It will unlock a new tower action usable from the Remote Tower Control program or from the tower itself.
XANA will attempt to take over the tower and will break into the restricted parts of the Supercomputer if it is not safeguarded.
This knowledge is obtained once the tower has finished decrypting Franz Hopper's diary.
It will allow you to decrypt encrypted CDs infinitely by clicking the padlock button.
This knowledge is obtained by reading the second report of Franz Hopper's diary.
It is used to unlock the Sector Builder program that will allow you to recreate destroyed Sectors.
This knowledge is obtained by escaping the Scyphozoa's grasp after being caught. Note that you are not guaranteed to get it if that happens.
It will grant you immunity to the fear effect of the Scyphozoa that prevents you from escaping it.