Make Martian Ambassadors More Playable

[Mordent]

Maybe give them a goofy translation thing when they try to speak , rather than flat-out being mute. Or they could spawn with the telepathy mutation, as other martians seem to have all kinds of psychic powers and such.

I'd totally be okay with a goofy mutation on the condition that they hear all non-mutated speech (i.e. anyone but others with the mutation, so basically everyone except other martians) as if they had that mutation and mutated speech as normal.

Having telepathy as a free activated mutation would also work. Heck, make which one they get random.

Partially related, but I'd also be totally cool with "Martian" being another body type for the GeneTek machines (or perhaps some sort of half-Martian hybrid that can be used once the gene has been researched from a live Martian).