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Duties: Blood is fuel. Drain brains and complete your objectives.

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Mindflayers are IPCs who bonded with a swarm of nanomachines. The swarm possesses the power to extract and use the brain-energy from sapient beings. They are antagonists who actively seek out crewmembers and drain them for the goal of strengthening themselves and completing their objectives. Their powers can be inhibited by a Nanite Pacifier implant, which can be ordered at any Nanotrasen supply department or made from a protolathe if the research level requirements are met. These powers can range from teleporting between consoles, using an arm as a grappling hook, or upgrading their health - all based on the abilities they unlock. The presence of a mindflayer can be confirmed by feeding an IPC who has drained brainwaves "Conductive Lube".

Beginning Assimilation

As a mindflayer, you drain victims of their brainwaves, converting the waves into usable swarms. The swarms can be used to unlock new abilities, passive effects, and to upgrade existing effects and abilities. You can drain brainwaves from victims by targeting their head (or torso, if your victim is an IPC) on harm intent with an empty hand. To drain their victim, a mindflayer must stun their victim (through use of their swarmprod or other stunning weapons) and immobilize them for the duration of the draining. After a short time you will start draining their brainwaves.

Draining brainwaves will inflict a small amount of lasting brain damage every second. This will affect how many swarms you can harvest from the victim. To maximize swarm gain, purchase passives that increase your draining speed, or feed the victim mannitol or liquid solder beforehand.

Innate Powers

You start with two abilities (apart from your upgrade menu): Swarmprod and Quick Reboot.

• The Swarmprod is a stunprod that you can extend from your arm. It stuns people when they are hit, and immediately knocks them down. The swarmprod recharges automatically and upgrading the ability increases the rate at which it recharges.
• The Quick Reboot clears all stuns and heals you for a small amount. Upgrading the ability reduces the ability's cooldown, increases the ability's duration, and the healing received by casting the ability.

Name	Upgrade cost	Cooldown	Description
Swarmprod	50/50	30 Seconds	Has 4 charges. Two charges are needed to stun fully. Can be used to stun targets. Automatically recharges enough for one hit per 40 seconds. Upgrading increases the rate of charge.
Quick Reboot	75/100/125	30 Seconds	Removes any and all stuns. Removes 100 stamina damage. Heals brute damage and burn damage. Upgrade reduces cooldown, increases amount of healing, and extends healing time by 2 seconds.

Specializations

Abilities are divided into a few categories: The Passive Abilities, Infiltrator Subclass Abilities, and Destroyer Subclass Abilities.

• Passives are always available for purchase; while the subclasses only have a few abilities available per stage.
• If you purchase an ability from the highest stage you can purchase, the next stage will unlock.
• Every subclass has an ultimate ability in the final stage, called a "Capstone". This ranges from immortality for a short time to draining people at tenfold the speed.

Passive Abilities

Name	Unlock	Upgrade cost	Description
Armored Plating	30	30/30	Increases armor by 5. Upgrades increase armor by another 5.
Fluid Feet	30	30	Mute your footsteps. Upgrade gives noslip.
Internal Faraday Cage	40	60	Resist EMP effects. Upgrade makes you completely immune to EMPs.
Insulated Chassis	30	N/A	Become immune to basic shocks.
Replicating Nanites	50	50/50	Gain a passive repairing effect. Upgrade increases healing by 1 brute and burn per tick.
Enhanced Optical Sensitivity	40	60	Gives you nightvision. Upgrade gives you thermal vision.
Swarm Absorption Efficiency	50	100/150	Increases amount of swarms drained per second by 50%. Upgrades increases draining rate by a further 50%.
Reinforced Joints	50	N/A	Prevents your limbs from falling off due to damage.
Telescopic Eyes	50	N/A	Allows you to use your eyes as a scope, increasing your viewing range.
Internal Nanite Application	40	40	Slowly repair damage done to your organs. Upgrade doubles the repair rate.

Active Abilities

As a Mindflayer, you have two specialization paths with their own abilities. You are not restricted to one path, and are able to purchase abilities from both paths if you have the required swarms, with the only exceptions to this being the final abilities for each path. Below is a table of the active abilities and the relevant information.

Intruder

Name Stage Unlock Upgrade cost Description Camfecting Bug 1 50 65/80/95 Allows us to cast a hack to a computers webcam. Alt-click the spell to access all your hacked computer webcams. Upgrades increase the amount of computers you can hack by 6. Traceroute 2 125 150/175 Allows us to cast a mark to almost any machine with a screen. To recall us to this machine, cast this next to a different machine. To check your current mark: Alt click. Flesh Facsimile 2 80 80/80 Allows us to rearrange our surface to resemble someone we see. Enhanced Voice Mod N/A N/A N/A Allows for the configuration of our vocal modulator to sound like a different person. We can as well amplify our voice slightly. Comes for free with Flesh Facsimile Destructive Interference 2 80 40/40/40 Allows us to toggle a close-range radio jamming signal. Upgrades increase the signal's range, with the final upgrade making us invisible to silicons. Integrated Access Tuner 3 Given upon reaching tier 3 in the Intruder tree. N/A Allows us to hack any door remotely. Has a range of 10 tiles. Heat Sink 3 75 75/75 Vent our used coolant to raise our attacker's body temperature while disorienting them. Silicon Administrative Access 3 150 N/A Allows us to charge our hand with a mass of nanites, that hijacks cyborgs lawsets. Perfect Symbiosis 4 400 N/A Increases the amount of swarms drained per second by tenfold.

Destroyer

Name Stage Unlock Upgrade cost Description Laser Arm Augmentation 1 75 75/75 Allows us to melt our hand away, replacing it with the barrel of a laser gun. Upgrading it recharges the internal power cell faster. Integrated Shrapnel Cannon 1 50 75/100 Allows us to melt our hand away, replacing it with a makeshift cannon that shoots 3 pieces of shrapnel in a spread. Upgrading it reduces the time needed for us to recycle scrap into ammo, and the final level increases the magazine by 1. Badassery 2 50 N/A Makes us more badass, allowing us to dual wield guns with no penalty, alongside other benefits. Integrated Grappling Mechanism 2 75 75/75 Allows us to shoot out our arm attached by a cable. We will drag ourself over to wherever or whoever it hits. Quicksilver Form 2 100 100/100 Allows us to transmute our physical form, letting us phase through glass and non-solid objects. After upgrading once, we also deflect projectiles shot at us. After upgrading a second time, the duration of the effect is doubled. Crystalized Firewall 3 Given upon reaching tier 3 in the Destroyer tree. 100 Allows us to create a wall between two points. The wall is fragile and only allows ourselves to pass through. Upgrading doubles the health of the walls. Overclock 3 125 125/125 Allows us to move and attack faster, at the cost of putting extra strain on our motors and heating us up a dangerous amount. Upgrading this improves our heat sinks, making us heat up slower. Torque Enhancer 3 75 75/75 Allows us to deal more damage with our unarmed strikes. Upgrades allows us to deal more damage with our fists. T.E.R.M.I.N.A.T.O.R. Form 4 250 300/350 Allows us, for a short time, to become unable to die or be slowed down by pain. This will not heal us however, and we will die when the duration ends if we are damaged critically enough.

Containing Mindflayers

Now you've got to figure out how to contain one, should you ever need to. Your first step should either to be to either order the 'Mindflayer Pacification Kit' from a Supply Shuttle Console, or to head over to Robotics to see if the relevant 'Nanite pacificer' implant is printable.

When you obtain the implant, you'll need Robotics to perform surgery on them for the implant to be put in. Afterwards, they'll still be a Mindflayer at heart, but most of their abilities are pacified and they are now containable. When the pacification implant is in, Mindflayers retain their passive abilities, but lose all of their active abilities. After the implant is put into them, move them to permanent imprisonment as if you were handling a normal Enemy of the Corporation (EoC).

Mindflayers still remain antagonists after the implant is put in, and they should be treated as such. The implant can be removed by any other bad actors aboard the station, allowing them to regain their lost abilities.

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