New Species Idea: Nucleation (AKA Supermatter People)
Created by: icantthinkofanameritenow
I got this from looking at another SS13 wiki. Given all the talk about race variety, I took a look at it and saw it might have potential for a race that plays genuinely differently.
The lore (if anyone cares about it) is simple enough- they were humans exposed to supermatter radiation in a way that's causing them to start turning into supermatter themselves.
Pros and cons from their origin server (feel free to modify) +Can handle supermatter without being disintegrated, and also immune to hallucinations from supermatter. +Do not breathe, feel pain, or catch viruses. +Are healed by radiation. -Chemicals of any type have no effect at all on them. Only radiation can heal them. -Cannot be cloned, use robotic limbs, or be put in MMIs. -Increased vulnerability to all damage. -Produces a small explosion on death, akin to a much weaker supermatter delamination. (Possibly modify it so it only produces radiation, as opposed to a breach?)
Posts >>124767531 and >124766426 have some potentially interesting mechanics that would make it into a form of "glass cannon", but I don't know how viable they might be. At the very least, I support the idea that suicides shouldn't trigger the death explosion for obvious reasons (read: shitters selecting nucleation, then blowing themselves up in arrivals or somewhere equally populated). Decapitation or using the gibber probably shouldn't do so either in my opinion.
Anyway, if you guys have any further tweaks that could be done to make them playable I'm all ears. I also found a basic sprite for them, if that helps. (sprite is at http://wiki.apollo-community.org/index.php?title=File:Generic_nucleation.png)