Cortical stacks for Vox

[MissKay1994]

About the PR

There's not a lot unique about Vox, and a common topic with Vox players is the fact that instead of a regular brain, they have a cortical stack. This is not the case currently in SS14, and so I decided it's about time someone actually PR's Vox having their cortical stack/vox brain. Discussion with a few people made them see excited to see this being done.

The Vox stack is unique in this, in that fact is does not require an MMI to be inserted into a borg.

Why / Balance

The only major changes this brings are the ability to directly insert a vox stack directly into a borg.

Technical details

There's not much code change, just sprites and a new organ (OrganVoxBrain)

Media

2025-01-13.05-18-28.mp4

Requirements

• I have read and am following the Pull Request and Changelog Guidelines.
• I have added media to this PR or it does not require an ingame showcase.

Breaking changes

N/A

Changelog
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• add: Vox now have cortical stacks.
• tweak: Vox now no longer require an MMI

[github-actions]

RSI Diff Bot; head commit 30408de merging into 9d5ef57
This PR makes changes to 1 or more RSIs. Here is a summary of all changes:

Resources/Textures/Mobs/Species/Vox/organs.rsi

State	Old	New	Status
brain			Added

Edit: diff updated after 30408de

[Errant-4]

I'm generally in favor of the idea, but there are some technical issues

-This is slightly unfair since Role Types were merged just a two days ago, but: Nothing handles changing the role type of these brains to Silicon when they are put into the borg body, so it simply does not happen. (For borged crew, this is based on being inserted into an MMI) It's not yet literally a Rule, that what you see on your Character screen is the role you are, but is a reasonable player reaction. This will possibly become an explicit rule in the near future.
Thus, this would more or less mean that borged vox were not required/allowed to follow their laws, since they are not actually Silicon

-The vox stack can be placed in an MMI. Not sure if this is intended or not, since it DOES give them the additional ability to talk even without a borg body, but is otherwise a bit strange/misleading, especially with the lack of in-game signaling that it is possible to directly put them in a borg

[Errant-4]

The simplest way to resolve this would probably be if the player got a new silicon mind role when they are gibbed and the vox brain entity spawns, but that's a slightly negligent solution. It would only work because there is no way to come back from being gibbed - for now. If it was possible to put the brain into a new organic body, it would need additional code to then lose that silicon mindrole.
Emagged borg body interactions work normally on this brain, except of course that they revert to their pre-borg role type when removed from an emagged body, instead of reverting to silicon.

[MissKay1994]

-The vox stack can be placed in an MMI. Not sure if this is intended or not, since it DOES give them the additional ability to talk even without a borg body, but is otherwise a bit strange/misleading, especially with the lack of in-game signaling that it is possible to directly put them in a borg

This is not actually something that can be fixed by me. This is an issue with the C# code for MMI's. I tried to add a blacklist to MMI's and it threw a huge fit about there being a whitelist and a blacklist while loading. The MMI needs to have code that rejects the BorgBrain component because all the checks of borg stuff are done in the C# code.

I will work on the mind role stuff and see what I can do to try to make the vox stack silicon in a borg chassis.