Faction Pet Balance

[lordsej]

About the PR

New Content

• Added the new faction pet Moffy and placed them on Halios
• Added a new prototype for Cappy’s organs
• Updated multiple hats to support pet equipping

Pet Balance & Feature Updates

• Rebalanced both faction pets
• Both pets can now speak and understand their respective faction language
  (Cappy's speech remains only meowing until given a Cognizine)
• Both pets now have access to:
• Shortband and broadband communication
• Space survival protections:
• Temperature immunity
• Pressure immunity
• Insulation
• Respirator support
• ShowRadar functionality (same behavior as Turbosnail)
• Surgery interactions
• Pulling items
• Faction Access
• Radio is blanced with Cappy having access to TSF and Moffy with Vanguard

Why / Balance

Faction pets are fun, add personality to their respective factions, and help encourage faction morale and RP. Currently, only TSF has a dedicated faction pet with Cappy, so this PR adds Moffy to give PDV their own mascot to accompany them into battle and inevitably die in glorious stupidity.

Previously, faction pets were unable to survive in space, which significantly limited their gameplay and RP potential. Cappy and Moffy have now been updated with space survival protections so they are more likely to become collateral damage during combat encounters and faction activities rather than simply dying to environmental hazards.

Additional communication features such as shortband, broadband, and faction chat access were added to improve interaction and RP opportunities between faction pets, their crews, and the wider community.

Surgery support was enabled for both pets primarily for gameplay interaction and comedic potential.

ShowRadar was also added to both Cappy and Moffy so they have better awareness of ongoing events, this is the same functionality already used by Turbosnail.

Media

Requirements

• I have read relevant guidelines/documentation to this PR found on our devwiki.
• I have added media to this PR or it does not require an ingame showcase.
• I can confirm this PR contains either no AI-generated content, or AI-generated content that meets our guidelines.

How to test

• Load into either Halcyon or Helios
• Interact with both Cappy and Moffy
• Verify that both pets can:
• Use radio communication (shortband, broadband, and faction channels)
• Survive in space environments
• Use the radar functionality
• Receive surgery interactions
• Pull items properly
  Confirm faction access works correctly:
• Cappy → TSF
• Moffy → Vanguard

Breaking changes

Changelog

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• add: Added Moffy, a new faction pet for PDV.
• tweak: Rebalanced faction pets for improved space survivability, enabled additional communication and faction radio options, and enabled surgery interactions.

[lordsej]

2nd attempt - this time submitted from a branch and not main. - just noticed MantasDab360 comment on previous auto closed attempt #4029 that Helios is being removed