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APIS AI Replacement

Introducing the Apis Prototype Intelligence System, or A.P.I.S. for short. This cute little bee gal is a bit eccentric, a bit sassy, and maybe even a bit *buggy* (hehehe). The Protectorate was prototyping this new AI model to replace those lousy S.A.I.L. units, but, well...I don't think it's going to be getting out of beta, seeing as the R&D facility is now a cloud of spacedust. No worries, I'm sure APIS will work *fine!*
APIS now comes with a Sleek, yellow, beefitting new radiomessage box for all radiomessages. I increased the text width from 218 or so to 300, and widended the box accordingly. As a result, you may want to install Center that Radio! because I didn't widen the text menu that the radiomessages sit on top of so it might look weird. This width increase means that only the egregiously long "Matter manipulator Module" speech fails to fit in the box, and very few messages need the last line (which clips out of the box a bit with my font). This unfortunately means APIS is sort of incompatible with any mods that change the radiomessage popup's sprite.
ALSO, APIS now has a few lines for various pickups, and she even has something special (and a bit long) to say if you complete the main story! I don't know if I'll update her further, the only other thing I really have in mind is an FU pack, but that would require me to install Frackin (which is effort, due to incompatibility in my mod list).
Hope you enjoy playing this mod, because I really enjoyed making it!

The science people did leave a warning in the manual (you weren't going to read it, were you?) that APIS's personality can be a bit much, and that due to the experimental nature of the AI, you will have to perform some assembly for her to work properly!

Firstly, you must be playing as a supported race. See below for supported races, and if you want a particular race added feel free to request it in the comments.
Secondly, you must install Scripted Artificial Intelligence Lattice, it's marked as required for this mod so the link is right there!
Thirdly, you need to actually craft the A.P.I.S. AI chip in the Scripted AIL terminal, and insert it! It requires one pixel, because waiting for an interface chip is for CHUMPS.

You might be wondering why the first one is necessary, since Scripted AI supports like, every race mod ever. This is because APIS extends beyond what Scripted AI does, by modifying the Radio Messages. Due to starbound limitations, Scripted AI cannot change the portrait used in radio messages, you must do this manually. APIS does this manually, and changes the radio message text like a certain other AI mod that changes the acronym to be the name of a species (I'm talking about AVIAN). The SAIL Chip allows me to shove most of the work of changing the interface onto chumps like you, and is the only way to actually achieve true compatibility with Scripted AI (which I imagine most people use)

I always thought SAIL was weird with how it existed in a quantum state of being an emotionless machine and a quirky guy who makes slanted jokes, and AVIAN tries too hard to be funny (in my opinion) so I wrote APIS to be funny sometimes and useful other times, while always preserving her witty and bee-ish personality.
APIS only replaces the vanilla radio messages, so she'll start talking like normal SAIL if you trigger any modded messages. Steam should show a collection on this page that contains all the addons I've made (including Extra Dungeons and ERM) but if it's not there, there's a link to it here

Vanilla Races (fulll)
Elithian Races: Avikan, Akkimari, Aegi, Trink, Droden
Avali (fulll)
Thaumoth (full)
Saturnians (full)
Kyterran (full)
Gallavoir
Nuu/Glutt
Arcanian/Gilten
Draconis
Lyru
Zoroark/Hisuian Zoroark
Scyphojel
Arachne
Felin
Pikachu*

*My SAIL terminal threw an error with this race installed, meaning it is missing support either from Custom SAIL or ztarbound/FU. They technically work, but you won't be able to utilize the APIS chip or (as a result) modify your SAIL terminal. However, all other features of APIS work normally

If you're wondering where APIS gets her fire profile pic, I used the combee sprites from https://sprites.pmdcollab.org/
The font in the screenshots shown is NOT part of the APIS mod, that's from a separate mod I uploaded to change the font. I changed my notepad++ text to use the starbound font while I was editing the files, so I can still promise that these lines look great in vanilla too. It's also not my font, I just modded it into SB.

Remember, APIS is experimental software not officially endorsed by the Terrene Protectorate Artificial Intelligence Bureau, any issues you encounter are not covered under your ship's warranty!