More machines to the AI core.

[Wisecrack34]

Sub-station repairs perhaps shouldn't take cycles but require a shell or bot to go fix it. I dislike the idea of self-repairing wiring and always find it annoying that the AI can override cut door lines given time as it is. (And I play a fair amount of AI!)

That seems a lot better and ties in quite nicely to my goal of these "generators" being defended by Cyborgs and Shells

Perhaps departmental cameras would be camera networks - like the bot camera network. When one goes down, the network is disabled and the AI cannot view it.

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Essentially, disabling the cameras would indirectly weaken the AI, because it would either be blind in that area, or sacrifice some of its power to be able to see the area.

I think this would give a great reason for these generators being scattered around the station, having a camera server in each department would serve AS the cycle generators, giving Shells and Cyborgs more duties to perform during a rouge event than "kill da crew"