"Ballast flora" plant

[neat sinew]

The idea is to be able to grow a plant that can grow on the submarine, like a ballast flora, which needs to be cut with a plasma cutter from time to time so that it doesn't harm the crew/ship.
And also similarly get resources from this plant.

[hearty ridge]

home growing ballast flora is already canon

[neat sinew]

It's not necessarily ballast flora, it could be, I don't know, toxic stuff that produces sulfuric acid.

[late quest]

Ivy of sorts

Or perhaps alien grapes. They grow on vines

Call it clown fruit as it messes with the sub and can pop with acid if drops

[hazy jasper]

Being able to harvest something useful from ballast flora would be a neat faustian bargain

[potent drift]

acid would make the most sense

[late quest]

Yeah definitely interesting

[neat sinew]

Yeah, but not from ballast flora, this must be from thing: you deliberately plant that, and you work with that

Also here can be dangerous plant for traitor mission :DD

[grim wagon]

what im reading here is people want variety in types of ballast flora, and have them give items if left in a parasitic-symbiotic state

perhaps one type can give you ingredients for explosives

and another can give you some kind of husk repellent similar to the cultists robes (not immunity, just repellent)

[grim wagon]

maybe you can "convince" the flora to stop being aggressive by not draining the ballast for x amount of minutes, players could make a circuit to ensure at least x% of ballast has water for the plant to be happy

and failure to do so could make the flora retaliate from broken trust (stronger attacks than normal), or just threat to its survival

[grim wagon]

this one could blow a hole in the side of the ballast to fill it with water

[grim wagon]

this one could emmit something that attracts husks to the sub (makes husk encounters more often)

and give any cultists on board "a strange sense of unease" through the same text that says "your muscles ache" and similar

[potent drift]

Cultivation of ballast flora is a canon thing

Though I don't think they keep them stored in ballast tanks for it

[grim wagon]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[hazy jasper]

There should never be a stable state with it though. Flora would continuously try to grow and consume power.

[hearty ridge]

just put it in a jar?

[potent drift]

Probably have it spread, but can be trimmed

Though there isn't any form of reliable acid protection in vanilla right

plus if its same growth speed as regular flora it would just be a pain

[grim wagon]

how so? should there not be anything you can do to the flora to artificially curb its growth rate?

you could harvest genes from a normal flora, then modify it with a research station perhaps
then grow your own modified flora

or "feed" it certain items to either satisfy it or poison it

[hollow perch]

Imagine it as an impostor mission