I know there are mods like EPOE out there with a lot of bionics already, but being the modification obsessed guy I am, I felt that some were just kinda simple, its always just more manipulation, more damage, occasionally you do find something diffrent like the venomous fangs from Genetic Rim.
I currently don't have much time to learn how to mod, so I'm just putting some ideas. What if there are bionics designed to do very specialized things, like a mini operation robot for an arm, that is too weak and complicated to do anything an arm would, reducing carry weight and manipulation but boosting surgery chances and speed by a lot(I think it should be doable as long as the flat stat boosts take the manipulation loss into account). Jaws, for example could be separated into Attack Jaws, Eating Jaws and Talking Jaws. Or perhaps having a poisoned blade as part of the colonist arms, reducing work speed as he has to be careful not to cut himself. Having ranged implants would be fun but from how much I understand it'd be super complicated to mod, though just imagine a colonist with a machine gun peg leg like that dude from Samurai Jack.
My other idea was to use "consciousness" as a currency for some super bionics, lore wise, they'll use the colonist brain to enhance the processors to operate such a strong bionic. To compensate, other implants that weaken or make a body part useless to increase consciousness, such as replacing an eye for a processor or some glitterworld brain extension(i know this needs a better name). The pain or energy these use could increase hunger, tiredness or just give colonist a mood debuff, while having other sacrificial parts to compensate. This was sort of inspired by the bionic eye in Aldnoah Zero.
I figured some extra things other than permanent effects may work as "payment" for improved stats, such as randomly falling asleep, or having the AI take over the pawn and have them go on insulting sprees.
It'd be fun to have things like having a pawn never sleep, but drop to 50% conciousness and have their rest meter go up (certain animals IRL use half their brains to sleep sometimes, such as dolphins).
On a more traditional note, having implants that enhance a current bodypart would be fun as well, I mean it exists, but mostly for the brain. Having extra processors for bionics and muscle enhancers for organic parts would feel nice, a sensitivity based organic implant could increase pain felt, but also decrease failure rate for things like surgery.
But it'd be fun to see fantasy inspired implants from stories, anime, movies as well, I mean lore wise you could just say some rich glitterworld dude found some old media, and wanted to imitate them so he sponsored a bionic project. (it'd be hilarious to see a pawn equipped with bionics to imitate some kung fu shit, hitting super fast but dealing really low damage, inflicting a consciousness reducing effect every hit, like Ty Lee from Avatar or the Eight Trigrams sixty four palms thing from naruto)
Just wanted to share some things I wanted to see but can't mod myself, hopefully I'll learn a thing or two in the future, but hey if anyone else feels like doing it, why not?