Psychic droner

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Psychic droner

Psychic droner

An archotech device transmitting the thoughts of a mad superintelligence. It generates a massive psychic drone tuned to one gender and affecting a whole region of the planet. People of that gender will be disturbed by the effect, reducing their mood and possibly driving them insane. The effect is modulated by an individual's psychic sensitivity.

Base Stats

Type
BuildingMechanoid cluster
HP
1500
Flammability
0%

Building

Size
6 × 6
Placeable
False
Passability
impassable
Cover Effectiveness
75%
Blocks Wind
True
Destroy yield
Steel 60 + Component 1 + Plasteel 10 + Steel slag chunk 4

Psychic droners are mechanoid cluster and quest condition causers that inflict a psychic drone in a 10 world-tile radius.

Summary

Psychic droners inflict a medium psychic drone in a 10 world-tile radius, whether it be the player's colony or on an event map. This reduces mood of a specific gender by −22, which is then multiplied by Psychic Sensitivity. Unlike crashed psychic ships, the severity does not escalate over time, nor will it cause animals to go mad.

The effects of multiple psychic droner buildings can stack, unlike the psychic ship.

Analysis

Treat psychic droners like you would a crashed psychic ship, except that it doesn't escalate. Depending on how well mood is throughout your colony, the droner can range from a manageable threat to an immediate priority to destroy.

If mood is critically low, then consider using lavish meals or drugs like beer, smokeleaf, and yayo. A psychic foil helmet can mitigate the effects of the drone. If the psychic drone only affects a small portion of your colony, then this building is less important to take out. In these cases, it can be mitigated by pampering the few affected by the drone.