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title: Protean technical docs

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# Protean technical docs

## Species type

### Species clothing

### Species organs
 - [ ] Magical "no organs"
 - [ ] Redirect organ damage to self
 - showing up on analyzer as synthetic, showing up on hud as synthetic, showing up on examine as warped/charred metal/wiring instead.
   - for balance reasons on main as funny as it is we can't have secret proteans/synthetics, examining should IMMEDIATELY tell people what base species someone is if their face/skin is uncovered (human, synthetic, slime, plasmaman, etc)?
   - or we can just do this if it actually becomes a problem, and hope damage description is good enough
 - limb status beyond synthetic: organic, synthetic, and nanoform bodyparts.
   - potential refactors to take/heal damage to have the "heal robotic/organic bodyparts" be a flag instead of booleans, for future support for whatever the fuck we have later

## Protean software

#### Integrated nanite components
 - [ ] system to process materials into nanites?
 - probably better off using a refactory organ for that, maybe having a little bit stored.
 - not using nanite components anymore, too troublesome
 
### UI panel
 - [ ] Base panel holder (LetterN)
 - [ ] upgrades/more programs can be done using disks

