Got a pile of corpses? Need stuff done? The solution is here!
Convert the mostly dead bodies of your recently departed enemies (and allies) into horrible cyborg automatons. Here's how I envision them working:
You take a recently deceased person, and bring them to your surgery table. Implant them with advanced cybernetics that turn them into a single function (one skill) automatons. They will mindlessly perform their one task, whatever it is, with great efficiency, stopping only to periodically return to a drone maintenance bay to recharge and refill their nutrient paste dispensers.
The drones will have a negative impact on the psyche of colonists who spend time around them, especially if the drones were created from the bodies of friends / other colonists. This impact might diminish over time as colonists get more used to them. (I picture one challenge of their use being to design their workspaces such that colonists get minimum exposure to the drones while maximizing the amount of work they can get done. One way to aid this might be to be able to flag a door as impassible to drones to give players better control over where they can go.)
This would require research and/or the acquisition of advanced technology from traders or ruins as well as the construction of specialized facilities.
Other fun ideas might be making combat drones bad at friend/foe recognition making them more like a psychotic creature when activated (a combat mode on/off toggle could be available when a colonist is at a control station or similar letting you switch them from harmless warriors in waiting to crazed killing machines that obliterate anything that moves. They would make a great last line of defense, specialized trap, etc.)
Thoughts anyone?
Convert the mostly dead bodies of your recently departed enemies (and allies) into horrible cyborg automatons. Here's how I envision them working:
You take a recently deceased person, and bring them to your surgery table. Implant them with advanced cybernetics that turn them into a single function (one skill) automatons. They will mindlessly perform their one task, whatever it is, with great efficiency, stopping only to periodically return to a drone maintenance bay to recharge and refill their nutrient paste dispensers.
The drones will have a negative impact on the psyche of colonists who spend time around them, especially if the drones were created from the bodies of friends / other colonists. This impact might diminish over time as colonists get more used to them. (I picture one challenge of their use being to design their workspaces such that colonists get minimum exposure to the drones while maximizing the amount of work they can get done. One way to aid this might be to be able to flag a door as impassible to drones to give players better control over where they can go.)
This would require research and/or the acquisition of advanced technology from traders or ruins as well as the construction of specialized facilities.
Other fun ideas might be making combat drones bad at friend/foe recognition making them more like a psychotic creature when activated (a combat mode on/off toggle could be available when a colonist is at a control station or similar letting you switch them from harmless warriors in waiting to crazed killing machines that obliterate anything that moves. They would make a great last line of defense, specialized trap, etc.)
Thoughts anyone?