[i]Marketed as emotionless killing machines, biodrones are engineered soldiers -- a more disciplined alternative to the volatile Hussar. They have a high tolerance for adversity well suited to protracted campaigns, but their overtuned metabolisms result in short lifespans.
Outside of combat they are extremely docile, lacking initiative or complex social reasoning, which makes them easy to control.
As labourers they are useful for their capacity to work long hours without rest or diversion, but they struggle with most skills that don't relate directly to combat.[/i]
Xenotype
[b]Hunger rate: x150%[/b]
[b]Advantages[/b]
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[*] Super immunity
[*] Fast wound healing
[*] Superclotting
[*] Reduced pain
[*] Cold tolerant
[*] Heat tolerant
[*] Strong stomach
[*] Partial antitoxic lungs
[*] Dead calm
[*] Low sleep
[*] Rarely bored (recreation fall x40%)
[*] Stoic (mental break threshold -10%)
[*] Pack bond (+30 relationship with fellow pack bond)
[*] [i]Dutiful (with VRE Hussar)[/i]
[*] Great Shooting
[*] Strong Melee
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[b]Neutral/Mixed[/b]
[list]
[*] Psychically deaf
[*] Low libido
[*] Psychopathic
[*] Docile (suppression fall rate x20%)
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[b]Disadvantages[/b]
[list]
[*] Sterile
[*] Unattractive
[*] Major cell instability
[*] Asocial (incapable of Social)
[*] Poor Construction
[*] Poor Cooking
[*] Poor Crafting
[*] Awful Animals
[*] Awful Artistic
[*] Awful Intellectual
[*] Awful Mining
[*] Awful Plants
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[b]Cosmetic[/b]
[list]
[*] Short-haired
[*] Facial ridges
[*] Standard/hulk body
[*] Hair: snow-white/gray/mid-black/dark-black/ink-black
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Faction
[i]These people are the remnants and descendants of some failed attempt at planetary conquest, abandoned by the ships that brought them here when the venture failed. Most of their advanced technology has succumbed to lack of maintenance, leaving them at a largely industrial tech level, but they retain the cloning laboratories that churn out biodrone soldiers.
When what you have is an army, every problem looks like a battlefield, and they acquire a sizeable portion of their resources through raiding and piracy. They can, however, be convinced to trade, and may even be turned into valuable allies if it proves profitable for them.[/i]
The [b]militant biodrone corps[/b] is a new faction type roughly equivalent to rough outlanders. The faction is not enabled by default but can be selected at world generation.
The militant biodrone corps begins hostile, but can be befriended. Their traders and civilians are mostly baseliners and a handful of other xenotypes, but their elite combatants are all lethal biodrones.
Their bulk goods traders, combat suppliers, and exotic goods traders trade in similar stock to the outlander equivalents. They are somewhat pickier about what they buy, but any of them may have some genepacks in stock, or even some spare biodrones.
They can also send specialist biodrone suppliers, who sell biodrone slaves, biodrone xenogerms, and even growth-vat-ready biodrone embryos.
Other Features
[b]Compatibility[/b]
1.6 only. In 1.5, this xenotype is included in the base mod [url=https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2889844371]Cyanobot's Genes[/url].
With VRE - Hussar, biodrones also get the Dutiful gene, preventing mental breaks while drafted.
[b]Factionless Generation[/b]
The frequency with which biodrones show up as factionless pawns (beggars, transport pod crashes, etc) can be controlled using a slider in the mod settings.
Planned features
[b]Infographics.[/b] For now, check parent mod [url=https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2889844371]Cyanbot's Genes[/url] for [url=https://steamcommunity.com/linkfilter/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fdocument%2Fd%2F1iZElzhElgqX8ctgyEpiULWZ6jdBOXbNhR6gObmrRBgI%2Fedit%3Fusp%3Dsharing]documentation of the new genes.[/url][docs.google.com]
[b]Custom faction/settlement icons.[/b]
[b]Empire biodrones.[/b] Toggle to swap the Empire's hussars out for biodrones. Possibly similar toggles for appropriate factions from other mods.
With thanks to:
- wep of [url=https://steamcommunity.com/linkfilter/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwepfont.com%2F]https://wepfont.com/[/url] for Atmospheric font
- [url=https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=867467808]Camera+[/url] for allowing close screenshots
Links:
[url=https://steamcommunity.com/linkfilter/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fcyanobotcodes.tumblr.com%2F][img]https://imgur.com/Fayl3vF.png[/img][/url][cyanobotcodes.tumblr.com]
[url=https://steamcommunity.com/linkfilter/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fko-fi.com%2Fcyanobot][img]https://imgur.com/3Fx0AfG.png[/img][/url][ko-fi.com]
