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Controlled Hazards

You found it annoying that you couldn't use a hazard-spawn operation, because:
1) the enemy will resist it
2) its pretty useless in neutral areas
and especially 3) you too get disadvantages.

This mod aims to change the 3rd point. Secret Techs are immune to their respective hazards (Promethian to Geo-Thermical Hazard, Synthesis to Ion Storm Hazard). This includes Sector penalties for both units and colonies.
They also gain a small sector bonus (production/energy/knowledge/food, depending on the hazard) when researching the operations to spawn hazards and having annexed one (or spawned in your sector).

Since it is unfair, that Synthesis and Promethean do not have such an operation, and Heritor can only use theirs offensive, I decided to add three new operations for these techs. Mind you, that I have no experience in editing the strings and icons, so I used whatever things that are roughly similar, but good enough to distinguish them from the rest of the operations. I am sorry for the lack of my skills.

Edited packs:
HazardMarkers_Strategic (includes DLC3)


KNOWN ISSUES:
- the new operations look ugly and have misleading descriptions.
- you can use the operation to spawn multiple hazards of the same type in an area. I tried to forbid that, but haven't found a way.
- your units that are not Secret Tech units still suffer penalties. I hopes there was a way to give your units the Secret tech identity in battle when fighting with the respective Hazard present, but sadly this was not possible either.