Impids

Impids are a xenotype of fire-breathing devilish desertpeople. They are adapted well to the desert, but sacrifice ability with melee fighting, plants, and animals, to accomplish this. They're recognizable by their horns, bright skin, and fire-breathing attacks.

Lore

Made for desert life, impid cultures live on many rimworlds and dry deathworlds. Impids are extremely fast-moving, easily tolerate high temperatures, and can spew fire from their mouths. Though they are masters on the sand, impids struggle in other environments. They are terrible with farming. They fight well at range, but in close combat their physical weakness becomes apparent.
Outlanders call them dustrunners because of their speed over open terrain and resistance to heat. Some tribes call them devils because of their horns and because they burn their enemies.
The savage impid tribe has no intention of coexisting peacefully with anyone else. Their warriors are experts at using their natural speed and flame attacks to burn the towns and children of other peoples. Impid tribes' combat tactics usually center on rapid-approach incendiary attacks using both handheld fire weapons and their fire spew ability.
Having been on the planet for thousands of years, the origins of this tribe are lost in myth. They might descend from a group of settlers who lost their technology, or an impid community in some long-ruined civilization. - In Game Description

Occurrence

The table below describes the chance for a given pawn from each faction being a impid. Note that this value does not account for chances in xenotype chance from ideoligion or from pawn kind, it only shows the base value before those factors.

As raiders, impids have a x1.2 combat power multiplier, meaning they count as 1.2 of a raider.^[Verify] A raid consisting of all impids would be 83% as large as the same raid with baseliners.

Summary

Impids generally live in the desert and their genes reflect this.

Visuals

Impids differ from regular baselines in two major ways: their skin color (which can vary from orange all the way to red) and the mini-horns which protrude from their head. These both offer no advantage in combat and are purely cosmetic. They also have blond hair and no beards.

A male impid with orange skin

Genes

Impids have a mixed bag of physical abilities, but their fire spew ability is their main talent. Their genes are all hereditary germline genes, unlike the xenogenes of some other xenotypes, like hussars.

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Name	Description			Exclude
Fire spew	Carriers are able to spew flammable bile generated by a special organ in their neck. The bile sticks to anything in a small area and can ignite people, objects, and the ground. Adds ability: Fire spew Spit a stream of sticky, flammable bile from the mouth. The bile can ignite anything or anyone it hits, and also form flaming pools on the ground. The bile is generated and stored by an organ in the neck, along with a separate pouch of hypergolic reactant for ignition. Spits flammable liquid in a 7.9 tile triangle with a 3 tile wide end.[Detail Needed] Target: Pawn or Location Warmup Time: 60 ticks (1 sec) Cooldown: 300,000 ticks (5 in-game days) Charges: 1 AI Can Use: True. Note: AI will still target fire-immune targets. Market value of genepacks containing this gene: ×150%	−2	1	-
Weak immunity	Carriers of this gene gain immunity to diseases more slowly than normal. They may die from infections that others would survive. Immunity Gain Speed ×90%	+2	1	Immunity
Slow wound healing	Carriers of this gene heal from wounds half as fast as normal. Injury healing factor ×50%	+2	1	WoundHealingRate
Very fast runner	Carriers of this gene move much more quickly than normal. Move Speed: +0.4 c/s	−5	1	MoveSpeed
Unhappy	Carriers of this gene are predisposed to pessimistic perceptions. They'll tend to interpret things negatively and have lower mood than others. Permanent −5 Genetic pessimism mood	+3	1	Mood
Cold weakness	Carriers of this gene are slightly less comfortable in cold temperatures. Minimum Comfortable Temperature: +5 °C (9 °F)	+1	1	MinTemperature
Heat super-tolerant	Carriers of this gene are much more comfortable in warm temperatures. Maximum Comfortable Temperature: +20 °C (36 °F)	−2	1	MaxTemperature
Fire resistant	Carriers of this gene have special fast-acting sweat glands and heat-resistant skin. They only take 25% of the normal damage from fire. The chance of them catching on fire is also drastically reduced. Flammability ×10% Flame damage ×25% Note that this does not affect Heat or Vaporize damage	−2	1	FireDamage
Weak melee damage	Carriers of this gene do less damage in close-quarters combat. Weak fast-twitch muscle fibers make their strikes shaky and weak. Melee damage factor ×50% This also affects melee AP when calculated from damage. It does not affect weapons whose AP has been set independently of damage. Examples include: Spears, Monoswords, Persona monoswords, Knee spikes, Hand talons, and Venom talons.	+1	1	MeleeDamage
Beardless	Carriers of this gene grow no facial hair.	0	0	BeardStyle
Mini-horns	Carriers of this gene grow two small horns protruding from the forehead.	0	0	Headbone
Sandy-blonde hair	Carriers of this gene have a particular hair color. With multiple hair color genes, one is randomly selected. Hair color override: (193, 146, 85) Selection weight factor with dark skin: 0	0	0	HairColor
Pale yellow skin	Carriers of this gene produce a pigment that turns their skin a grayish yellow color. Skin color override: (193, 165, 99)	0	0	SkinColorOverride
Poor Plants	The carrier's aptitude in Plants is reduced by 4. Aptitude acts like an offset on skill level. Plants: −4. Note: Experience gain and decay applies as if this offset did not exist.	+1	1	-
Poor Animals	The carrier's aptitude in Animals is reduced by 4. Aptitude acts like an offset on skill level. Animals: −4. Note: Experience gain and decay applies as if this offset did not exist.	+1	1	-

Impid genetic complexity is 11. With a metabolic efficiency of 0, they have a normal hunger rate.

Acquisition

You'll meet many impids when you get attacked by the Savage Impid Tribe: a vicious tribe with every intention of burning your base down. There is a slight chance that impids will show up with various pirate gangs, but it appears impids do not attempt to peacefully cohabitate in regular tribes and unions. they will also appear in transport pod crashes, as is the same for almost every xenotype.

Analysis

Impids are threatening enemies due to the combination of Very Fast Runner and Fire Spew. Impids are hard to kite, due to their speed. Their fire can cause pawns to run around wildly, removing them from cover. Care should be taken in indoor areas as the fire can quickly spread. Mechanoids are a decent counter against their fire-breathing; mechs are immune to fire, but enemies will waste their fire spew regardless. Weak melee damage encourages melee tactics.

As colonists, impids main benefit is very fast runner's movement speed. Fire Spew has a 5 day cooldown, but it can be useful to disengage from melee enemies. They are poor at Plants and Animals, but are reasonably good at most other tasks, depending on the specific colonist. Impids are naturally resistant against heat and weak against cold, though parkas and/or heaters should keep impids warm even in the coldest of biomes. High speed, weak melee, and slow wound healing encourage them to be ranged fighters.

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Biotech (DLC)

Families

Relationships (Reproduction • Children)
Life stages (Babies • Children • Adults)
Furniture (Crib • Baby sleeping spot • Growth vat • Toy box • Baby decoration • School desk • Blackboard)

Mechanoids

Laborers (Agrihand • Cleansweeper • Constructoid • Fabricor • Lifter • Paramedic • Tunneler)
Combatants (Centurion • Legionary • Militor • Scorcher • Tesseron)
Commanders (Apocriton • Diabolus • War queen • War urchin)

Mechanitors

Control (Mechlink • Band node • Mech boosters • Mech signallers • Control pack • Airwire headset)
Mechanoid creation (Basic subcore • Standard subcore • High subcore • Subcore encoder • Subcore softscanner • Subcore ripscanner • Mech gestator)
Maintenance (Mech recharger)

Genetics

Xenohumans (Dirtmoles • Genies • Highmates • Hussars • Impids • Neanderthals • Pigskins • Sanguophages • Wasters • Yttakin)
Genes Germline • Xenogene • Metabolic efficiency
Genetic Modification Genepack • Gene extractor • Gene bank • Gene assembler • Gene processor • Xenogerm • Archite capsules
Deathrest (Deathrest accelerator • Deathrest capacity serum • Deathrest casket • Glucosoid pump • Hemogen amplifier • Hemopump • Psychofluid pump)

Pollution

Nature (Toxalope • Toxipotato plant • Waste rat • Gray pine tree • Pebble cactus • Rat palm tree • Witchwood tree • Stasis cocoon)
Mitigation (Wastepacks • Atomizers • Pollution pumps • Polux trees)
Adaptation Face mask • Gas mask • Tox grenades • Tox pack • Tox shell • Toxic needle gun • Toxbomb launcher • Detoxifier kidney • Detoxifier lung
Nonchalance Toxifier generator