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Babbler Egg and Bait

Fixing issues with babblers and the babbler bait while adding a new feature, babbler egg trap hatching on threat proximity.

Issues fixed:
* Babblers canceling the current order (preventing most of them to climp on you unless really close)
* Babblers being frozen if asked to target an unreachable target from where they were with the bait
* Babblers not responding past a certain range
* Fixed lua errors with targets lacking the live mixin (no GetIsAlive() function)
* Fixed babblers moving toward the selected target, but then attacking something else

Improvements:
* Babbler bait speed increased
* Babbler bait will now issue a direct (and followed) move order on the first surface hit
* Babblers now acting as a pack by targeting the same entity (instead of 1 each, or being idle)
* Increase order range and drop range to ease to babbler egg placement and setup
* Adding unit status to the babbler egg (so you know when it's fully built)
* Ordering babblers to climp on an alien will work regardless of the distance (they will have to move toward you, this can take time but they will find you :) )

Babbler egg trap;
* Leave the babbler egg unbuilt, and it will hatch and attack any nearby threat or if damaged
* Firing the bait will force hatch the egg

Known unsolved vanilla issues:
* Babblers falling off the map.

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