Adds the spiderbot fabricator: a machine R&D can build that allows ghosts to respawn as spiderbots

[brndd]

What this does

Adds the spiderbot fabricator: a new machine built by R&D that allows ghosts to spawn in it as spiderbots. It's similar to the MoMMI fabricator found on the derelict, except it makes spiderbots, requires metal sheets to work, and can actually be built by players. It can also be clicked by mice to turn themselves into a mouse-spiderbot, which is apparently a thing.

Right now it also looks exactly the same as the MoMMI fabricator:

Right now it's a machine board that requires Programming 4 and Engineering 4 to print out of the circuit imprinter, but no special materials. I am open to changing this so that it requires silver or gold or something to build on the protolathe if requested.

Why it's good

Someone mentioned on the Discord that letting the roboticist pre-build inactive borgs that ghosts can enter into at their leisure (similar to diona nymphs) would be a neat feature. I ran with that and made this instead, because

• This is slightly less of a free respawn to the roboticist himself, as spiderbots are pretty useless compared to a full cyborg or MoMMI, and require the assistance of someone with hands to be placed in a cyborg body.
• I wanted to give spiderbots some reason to exist. When's the last time anyone ever built one?

How it was tested

Did research, printed board, built machine, spawned in it as a ghost, clicked on it as a mouse.

Changelog

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• rscadd: R&D can now build the spiderbot fabricator: a machine that allows ghosts to respawn as spiderbots. It must be loaded with metal sheets to work. Build it by researching Programming 4 and Engineering 4 and printing the board from the circuit imprinter.

[SonixApache]

What kind of brain goes into it?

[brndd]

A posibrain, which means they get the red "Do not harm the station or its crew" text upon respawning for whatever that is worth.

[hacker-on-steroids]

it's a bit roundabout but spiderbots can already be posessed by ghosts: spawn as a mouse and then climb in
they get to speak common, too

[brndd]

Mice can't be made into cyborgs though.

[SonixApache]

A posibrain, which means they get the red "Do not harm the station or its crew" text upon respawning for whatever that is worth.

so... free posibrains?

[brndd]

so... free posibrains?

Yes, that's the idea. Though they're not free, they use 10 metal each.

The idea is that ghosts can use this to reincarnate into a posibrain at their leisure, but also get some kind of a body to go with it so they aren't completely helpless if there's no one to attend to them. If there's a roboticist around, the idea is that they remove the posibrain from the spiderbot and put it into something more useful.

[BoraHive]

Someone mentioned on the Discord that letting the roboticist pre-build inactive borgs that ghosts can enter into at their leisure (similar to diona nymphs) would be a neat feature.

https://ss13.moe/wiki/index.php?title=Guide_to_Robotics#Stationary_Assembly_MMIs
We have this already.