Hediffs/Biotech/Mechanitor/Mechlink

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Name	Description	Details	Stages
Mechlink Def Name: MechlinkImplant Label: mechlink	A bionic implant that allows direct control of mechanoids. Mechlinks are used by soldiers to control war mechs, and by workers to control labor mechs. A person with a mechlink is known as a mechanitor. Mechlinks are self-installable. Pressed into the back of the throat, the unit injects itself through the flesh to clamp inside the base of the skull where it meets the spinal cord. There, it threads a web of ultrafine wires throughout nearby neuronal tissue to make the direct mental link between the user and the mechanoid control band. Mechlinks are not simply devices for sending radio signals to mechanoids, because mechanoids are not merely robots. In addition to traditional computers, mechanoids have a dim psychic presence, so fluently controlling them requires a psychic connection. By linking mechanitor and mechanoid both psychically and electromagnetically, the mechlink permits deeper control than screen-and-button interfaces. Since the mechlink interlaces deep within the brain tissue, it can only be removed after death. Note: A mechanitor must be capable of smithing work to gestate mechanoids. A bionic implant that allows direct control of mechanoids. Can only be removed after death.	Hediff Class: Hediff_Mechlink Default Label Color: Is Bad: false Price Impact: true Counts As Added Part Or Implant: true Duplication Allowed: false Keep On Body Part Restoration: true Remove On Redress If Not Of Kind: Mechanitor (Player Pawn Kind used for "The Mechanitor" Scenario) Mechanitor_Basic (Lootable corpse used in the Ancient Transport and Ancient Mechanitor Complex quests) Allow Mothball If Low Priority World Pawn: true Comps: Letter On Death Letter Def: NeutralEvent Letter Label: Reusable {HEDIFF_label} available Letter Text: {PAWN} has died with a {HEDIFF_label} installed. This can be removed and installed by someone else. Only If No Mechanitor Died: true	Label Parameters Mechlink Mech Bandwidth Offset: +6 Mech Control Groups Offset: +2