New Midround Antagonist: Android

[wesoda25]

The syndicate has recently begun to augment its agents! These agents, or androids (or is it cyborg?), are incredibly lethal, requiring no weapons, as everything is built into them.

Basically, a new antag ghost role in which a syndicate drop pod spawns an android in maint. Barring making a new sprite, they could just have a fully augmented body, with maybe one random body part still human. It’d be kinda cool if their head was human, so that they have a chance to try and blend in. All cybernetic organs, exlcuding their eyes. Maybe some EMP resistance, but since its a ghost role it might be best if it had none. The android would be assigned some random objectives, but they wouldn’t have to follow them.

Their weapons would come from a weapon pool similar to lings. They would get to a few abilities from a list of augments. I’ll toss a few ideas for abilities at the bottom. Basically, they use energy everytime they activate an ability, and can charge similar to ethereals/ninjas. Basically, lings but robo themed. If their energy reaches 0 they power down, unable to move or use any of their abilities. Can still use non robo limb, and talk.

Possible abilities.

Thermal eyes - Self explanatory, use electricity while active
Discharge - At the cost of a lot of energy, release an electric blast which shocks everyone around them (people with insuls wouldn’t drop)
Magnetic Pulse - At the cost of a lot of energy, manipulate the gravitational fields of everything around them, sending them flying (robo repulse)
Stun Arm - Channel electricity through their arm, shocking whoever they touch next
Arm Blade - Reshape the micro bots (or whatever sci fi term we wanna use) in their arm to create a robo themed arm blade.
Laser Arm - Channel a high amount of energy into the palms of their hands, discharging it in concentrated bursts. While active constantly drains energy, and uses a decent amount with every shot.
Restorative Nanites - Releases a strain of healing nanites into their body upon purchase, and heals them on command for some energy price.
Camouflage Nanobots - Yaya sci fi shit its camo

Obviously it sounds really OP for a ghost role, but since a single EMP can shut them down they might be balanced? Idk. Just something cool I’ve had on my mind for a while, nice and space/future themed.

[oranges]

ling but shit and mid round

just like ling

[gallowsCalibrator]

I'm not the biggest fan of ling myself, yeah. I do like this idea, though! At least, I think it has potential. Maybe give it a more clear, distinct focus from other antags, like an emphasis on disguises or interacting with equipment & technology? I have a few thoughts there, though I'm still unsure of 'em. I like the appearing in maintenance intro, for sure, at least. What kind of objectives do you think these Androids would get?

EDIT: Thinking on this a bit more, I had an idea. What if this was some kind of bizarre malf+changeling hybrid? With less emphasis on combat and more on sabotage. Androids could be emphasized as being more synthetic, and could have abilities related to hijacking station equipment and machinery- shunting around through wires and data networks, using machinery to create bodies or other effects, things like that.