Colonist Merger
This mod adds the Amalgamation Chamber which merges two colonists into a single, superior entity, blending their skills, traits, and identities while erasing their original forms. The merged colonists? Scrubbed from existence—but never forgotten. Their deaths will be mourned, celebrated, or conveniently ignored.
Be warned, the unnatural collapse of their quantum-entangled state releases a violent burst of exotic energy, triggering a solar flare as reality itself recoils from the violation.
- Build it (Microelectronics Basics required). Costs 300 Steel, 4 Components, 1 Advanced Component, 250W power (2,000W during merging).
- Select two pawns. They must be healthy, free-willed, and not suffering from paradoxical dissonance.
- Merge initiates: Pawns strip their gear, move into position, and combine into one entity.
- New pawn inherits:
- Best skills and highest passions from both.
- A random mix of traits (you might love or regret this).
- Average age of the two.
- No existing health conditions.
- A heartwarming, bizarre, or downright offensive hybrid name (blame the algorithm).
- Merging kills the originals. Their items drop, their existence erased.
- Immediate solar flare. The unnatural collapse of the merged colonist’s quantum-entangled state releases a violent burst of exotic energy, triggering a solar flare as reality itself recoils from the violation. Power grid? Say goodbye for a while.
- The below only applies if you actively have Biotech downloaded and installed. If Biotech is not installed, the mod skips xenotype and gene assignments. i.e. This mod does not require Biotech but it is compatible.
- Xenotype Selection: The hybrid’s xenotype is randomly chosen from either of the two merging colonists.
- Gene Selection. All unique genes from both parents are pooled, with duplicates removed. A random subset is then assigned to the hybrid, ranging from at least one gene to the full set from both parents. This means they could inherit just one gene from a single parent or all available genes, or anything in between. Additionally, hybrids can inherit genes outside their assigned xenotype—for example, merging a Baseliner and an Impid could result in a Baseliner with Fire Spew.
- Mental instability risk: New pawn will suffer from Paradoxical Dissonance (confusion, vomiting, psychotic wandering, slowed movement). This fades over time.
- One Amalgamation Chamber per map (no limit on number of hybrids created). The universe struggles to tolerate this level of heresy.
- No guarantees: You might create a god-tier pawn, or you might end up with a lazy, neurotic disaster—or a slutty thirst trap. I can’t reiterate this enough: you might love or regret this.
- Save skills from a terminally ill pawn by reincarnating their expertise.
- Create a prison recruitment factory for a genetically optimized workforce.
- Give an old OP pawn a new lease on life by merging them with a child (because ethics).
- Gamble with traits if you’re feeling lucky (or unhinged). I look forward to the day I get a staggeringly ugly yet beautiful pawn and watch them implode.
Two conflicting identities coexist in a single consciousness, each asserting memories, instincts, and emotions that contradict the other.
They are suffering from paradoxical dissonance—caught in an endless loop of cognitive dispute, unable to form a stable sense of self. Every thought is both true and false, every decision both right and wrong. Until their identity stabilizes, they suffer from loss of consciousness, vomiting, psychotic wandering, and slowed movement.
Imagine it like two people trapped in your head, screaming—not just at you, but at each other, at the colony, at themselves, at Randy. Blaming you for their deaths, for stealing their lives, for existing. Their memories flood you in tangled, contradictory waves—every love, every loss, every failure, every last, gasping breath.
You think you’re forming a thought, but it’s not yours. Nothing is. You are a trespasser in your own mind, drowning in voices that will never let you forget what you are—a mistake.
And you deserve this.
