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# LUMENS

Fragile jellyfish people with very particular medical needs.

WTF DO THEY LOOK LIKE

Jellyfish in the general shape of Bay Adherents. (with bell and tentacle customization) Their hardsuits resemble Adherents a lot more.

# GAMEPLAY SHIT

They can equip themselves with ~~ripoff modsuits~~ species specific hardsuits that also act as back storage. These hardsuits come in several varieties (civilian, engineering, security, etc). If any other species tries to use these hardsuits they are horribly crunched, Vox especially. ~~You know what it's like to have an exoskeleton enter you?~~
They only have head, belt, and back slots. When they spawn their belt is taken up by an "anti-gravity girdle" that allows them (and other species) to float. If they take it off, they are forced into resting (which is just them laying on the floor.) 
The anti-gravity girdle basically forces anyone who wears it into zero gravity.
They can tablecrawl and hide under tables due to having No Bones(tm).
They can ventcrawl too, but only while not wearing anything and even then only fairly slowly
Lumens can only heal by immersing themselves in saline-glucose solution. This heals both brute and burn damage. Toxin and suffocation is handled differently (more on that later.) Most conventional medicine (but not sutures or meshes!) harms them.
They can poison people by punching them, which injects the target with 1u of Lumen Venom. This venom deals 0.25 toxin damage per cycle and paralyzes people for one second every cycle. It depletes at 0.5 units per cycle.
They do not have any cybernetic replacements available (due to their jellyfish-like biology), but they can slowly regrow their organs and limbs (even if dead!) with Rezadone. They can be revived with Rezadone as well.
They are not affected much by blunt damage, but piercing and sharp damage FUCKS THEM UP. No, really, a kitchen knife can delimb them in 1-2 hits.
Then again they have ten limbs (and four arms). They can't hold bulky items with one hand either so begone with holding 2 duffel bags

# FUNNY SPECIES ITEMS

A lumen RCD that uses biogenerator fuel to place organic walls (jelly walls), windows (jelly membrane), floors (jelly floor), and Lumen-only airlocks (jelly orifices). Lumens are much more biotech-oriented and construct organic ships with unique power methods. (I'll explain when my writing juice replenishes.)
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They have to feed their ships with nutriment. They can also construct a plasma digester
This nutriment is transferred through every wall and floor
Basically, if you have something making enough power in one room the other weird flesh thingos will work
You can also attach an APC to a lumen room to make traditional electricity
You can convert electricity to lumen power too which means YES, you can make parasite ships or cyborg ships

this is very unfinished lol post ideas in #loredev