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Adds a Backgroud trait for having encountered changelings.

Why we need to add this

I hate getting ganked with clear context clues of lings for someone who knows them, without being able to IC-know to fight back until it's too late.

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🆑 STARLIGHT TEAM

  • add: Added Changeling encounter as a Background Trait.

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everything else needs wiki review. lemme bing them.

- [bold][color=#9819ff]Corporate Secrets[/color][/bold] are only known by high value members of the corporation. These are; All of Command, the Station AI, NanoTrasen Representative, Blue Shield Officer, Magistrate, NanoTrasen Career Trainer and all Central Command roles such as ERT, OPs, CBURN, etc. Corporate Secrets should be kept secret until it is necessary to reveal them, revealing them frivolously is frowned upon by Central Command.
- [bold][color=#f00000]Secure Knowledge[/color][/bold] is only known by members of Security, Internal Affairs Agents, and everyone who knows Corporate Secrets. This includes the Brig Medic, Warden, Security Cadets- all Security jobs. Secure Knowledge should be kept secret until necessary, but may be revealed in order to preserve Crew lives.
- [bold][color=#0af024]Background[/color][/bold] is a system that allows any characters to know specific pieces of ordinarily Metashielded knowledge. Every character may only have one Background, which is picked during Character Creation as a Trait and can not be changed mid-round or frequently at all. Your Background should reflect the life your character has lived, and act in complement to their characterization and backstory.
- [bold][color=#0af024]Background[/color][/bold] is a system that allows any characters to know specific pieces of ordinarily Metashielded knowledge. Every character may only have two Backgrounds, which is picked during Character Creation as a Trait and can not be changed mid-round or frequently at all. Your Background should reflect the life your character has lived, and act in complement to their characterization and backstory.

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???? you can still only have 1 background.

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2/2 traits

@starlightgithub starlightgithub Bot added the S: Awaiting Changes Status: Changes are required before another review can happen label Sep 2, 2026
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📝 Summary

Summary

Adds the ChangelingEncounter background trait for characters who previously encountered changelings.

  • Adds localized name and description text.
  • Registers the trait with zero cost and a BackgroundEffect.
  • Adds the ChangelingEncounterTraitBackground tag.
  • Updates the Metashield rules to allow two backgrounds per character.
  • Documents changeling awareness and reporting hollow-body locker discoveries to Security.
  • Adds the Romerol Disaster Survivor background clarification.

User impact

Characters with this background can recognize changeling-related warning signs and respond to possible attacks earlier. The trait also supports in-character reporting of relevant discoveries.

Risk areas

  • The two-background rule changes the available background configuration for all characters.
  • The trait grants specific knowledge about changelings and may affect roleplay and investigation balance.
  • The rules, prototype, tag, and localization entries must remain consistent.

Guideline gaps

  • The PR does not state why the trait belongs in Starlight rather than Shared.
  • The PR does not include a Starlight ownership comment or rationale.
  • The PR does not explain the design impact of allowing two backgrounds.
  • The PR does not document any breaking-change considerations for existing characters or background configurations.

Walkthrough

The pull request adds the Changeling Encounter background trait, its localization and tag, and rules text for selecting two backgrounds. It also corrects punctuation in the Romerol Disaster Survivor description.

Changes

Changeling Encounter Background

Layer / File(s) Summary
Define Changeling Encounter trait
Resources/Prototypes/_Starlight/Traits/background.yml, Resources/Locale/en-US/_Starlight/traits/background-traits.ftl, Resources/Prototypes/_Starlight/tags.yml
Adds the zero-cost ChangelingEncounter trait, its localized name and description, and the ChangelingEncounterTraitBackground tag.
Update Metashield rules
Resources/ServerInfo/Guidebook/ServerRules/RulesSL/Clarifications/Metashield.xml
Allows each character to have two backgrounds and corrects punctuation in the Romerol Disaster Survivor description.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 67332

The new Changeling Encounter background trait is localized and low-impact, but the updated rules currently state both that characters may have one and two backgrounds, which could lead to inconsistent player and moderator expectations. The documentation conflict should be corrected before merging, along with the requested ownership markers.

Suggested reviewers: starlighthost

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Title check ✅ Passed The title identifies the main change: adding a Changeling Encounter background. The parenthetical and emoji add noise but do not make the title unclear or unrelated.
Description check ✅ Passed The description explains that the pull request adds a background trait for characters who have encountered changelings and provides the gameplay rationale.
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@github-actions github-actions Bot added Changes: No C# Changes: Prototypes Changes: Guidebook size/S S: Needs Review Status: Requires additional reviews before being fully accepted. Not to be replaced by S: Approved. and removed S: Awaiting Changes Status: Changes are required before another review can happen labels Sep 2, 2026
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A Background that just denies an antag isn't good. The other ones relevant to antags only come into play after the antag is outed already, IE Romerol Survivor. This one lets you meta to avoid antags.

Also the logic given doesn't make sense, if you have enough clues to know to fight someone then they're being openly hostile, surely, so their status as ling or serial killer in maints doesn't matter just hit them with a toolbox if you get drugged or attacked.

You don't need special knowledge to know following some random into maints is a bad idea.

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Actionable comments posted: 2

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In
`@Resources/ServerInfo/Guidebook/ServerRules/RulesSL/Clarifications/Metashield.xml`:
- Line 13: Update the Backgrounds section’s introductory rule to state that each
character may have two Backgrounds and use “which are picked”; also change the
remaining conflicting one-Background limit to two so all rules consistently
reflect the new limit.
- Line 13: Add XML Starlight ownership markers around each changed block in the
Clarifications XML, including the Background block and the additional changed
blocks near the referenced locations. Use matching Starlight-start and
Starlight-end comments enclosing only the fork-owned content.
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  • Resources/Locale/en-US/_Starlight/traits/background-traits.ftl
  • Resources/Prototypes/_Starlight/Traits/background.yml
  • Resources/Prototypes/_Starlight/tags.yml
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@rhithebirdthing rhithebirdthing changed the title my first mald pr 🎊 changeling encounter background (my first mald pr 🎊) Sep 2, 2026
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fine whatever

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