Make Service Borg Great Again (or at least better)

Service Borg is basically a gimmick borg. All you can do is basically be a worse mobile version of the bartender, spam lolipops all over creation, and play the theme song of your favorite Chinese Cartoon with no actual effect on the crew.

Why don’t we make the service borg, into an actual, well, Service Borg? Advancements in Medborg technology now allow the Medborg to function as a chemist or a virologist.

I think its High time that we applied some advancements to the service borg to allow it to function as a Botanist / Junior Chef / and other roles besides just being a mobile beer keg or a jukebox on wheels.

Here’s my suggestions. Feel free to debate in the comments.

Things to Fix or Remove:

  1. Remove or Fix Razor (Currently this doesn’t even work, so there’s no point in a Service Borg even having it. Either Fix or Remove)

  2. Remove Lolipop Dispenser (Medborg has it, and its medicine)

  3. Remove Guitar (The synthesizer actually has a guitar option already, and unless you’re beating people with it, there’s no reason to have it).

  4. Remove Pen (Almost Never Used).

  5. Remove the Serving tray. Not as often used and a bit unwieldy.

Things to Add (Already existing):

  1. Medborg’s Beaker Ability (So that the Service borg can use the Bartending equipment to make more complex drinks). Note that this has been mentioned several times already on the forum.

  2. Peaceborg’s Cookie Dispenser (in Place of Lolipops, because it makes more sense for a service borg to be able to create food that isn’t also medicine). — If you do this, possibly compensate the peaceborg by giving the peace borg pepper spray or something.

  3. (Modified from a previous post) - Add Portable Seed Extractor And Plant Analyzer Modules -
    Service Borg can help Botany in this way.

Things to Add (Need to be Created):

  1. Add / Replace the service tray with a “Grabber” as was suggested in a previous post. This may need to be created. This potentially has similar functionality to Janiborg’s Bag?

  2. Junior Chef’s Knife module: Basically a butter knife so Service Borg can help the Chef.
    Bonus points if Service Borg gets an actual Chef’s knife when they get emagged.
    HEEERE’s BORGO! (Yes, that is a “The Shining” reference).

  3. EZ-Borg Oven Module: — “Those damn toasters” (Yes that’s a Battlestar Galactica Joke).
    –Basically a module with the functionality of a microwave / food processor / Recycler / Dish Drive, you’d select which mode you’d want to use (like an RCD).

Passive Traits and buffs:

  1. Add more languages for service borg to be able to speak (maybe not necessarily ALL, like the curator, but at least the common ones - Think C3PO)

  2. Expand the drinks the Borg can make with his shaker.

  3. Give the Service Borg the effects of the “Musician” quirk when playing music, which passively improves the mood of the Crew who hear it. Thereby giving you a reason to run around playing Chinese Cartoon theme songs.

  4. If the Chaplain hits you with a bible, Adds Holy Water to the ingredients in your shaker.

Bonus Points if when you get hit with a bible it displays the text: “Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.” Which is a quote from Dune.

Links to other threads with similar suggestions:

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making the service borg speak all languages would be cool

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Sounds cool.

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No. For 3 reasons;

  1. You can obtain similar results by blessing a beaker with of water.
  2. Borgs cannot/should not see cult/ghosts, so it’s pretty much pointless.
  3. It’s way too easy to acquire early (literally no reason to run to chaplain to get blessed) and having a mobile, infinite supply of holy water may make or break cult rounds.

We can only hope. Imagine if some of those suggestions got into the real thing.

he says, even though you can bless an entire high capacity water tank

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Some of the proposed Changes have been put in a PR and posted to Github.