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[RAZ] Mal0 Race

There are a lot of moving parts in this mod. Let me know how it plays, if I missed some edge cases, or if something is broken. I likely need to tweak some things.

You can use this mod without Anomaly, but any Mal0 pawns will not have their abilities and of course the Anomaly Event won't be present.

This is a Humanoid Alien Race and Anomaly Entity mod loosely based on SCP-1471 (Mal0).
For gameplay raesons, this mod doesn't exactly follow the Mal0 lore on the wiki, but it should capture the general theme of the encounter.

• Adds a new custom HAR race, Mal0 to the game.
  
• Adds an entirely custom Anomaly event. Progressing through the event could allow you to get your very own playable Mal0 Pawn.
  
• Mal0 are powerful pawns and start with some strong abilities
  
• Adds a new Advanced Anomaly research task, which unlocks 2 new psychic rituals
  
• Adds a Naked Brutality starting scenario to start with a single Mal0 pawn if you don't want to go through the anomaly events to get your hands on one.

• The eyes will glow in the dark
  
• Bionic or Archotech implants will change the eye color
  
• Ears, eyes, and tails that visually disappear if destroyed

• Royalty Compatible
  
• Ideology Compatible
  
• Biotech Compatible
  
• Anomaly Compatible
  
• Likely incompatible with facial animation mods.
  
• I have not written a CE patch.

• Any performance mods that cleanup world pawns may cause a degraded experience with the custom Mal0 Anomaly event. When a pawn becomes bonded to the radio, I create a Mal0 world pawn and start keeping track of the relationship between the Mal0 entity and the bonded pawn. I use this relationship when choosing from a list of banes/boons that can occur. Friendlier relations leads to boons more often. However, if world pawns are routinely culled by a performance mod, then a new Mal0 entity will be generated periodically with a fresh relationship. The summoning ritual should still be able to get you a Mal0 pawn though.
  
• Any mods that heavily mess with spawning behavior such as Faction Blender could result in the Mal0 summoning ritual summoning a pawn of some other race instead.

See the Change Notes.