Do you envy some monsters or animals like every human should? Do you want to fly smoothly, climb walls, hang to walls and whatnot? I have the solution! Take this automatic dissection lab (oh noes I don't want to dissect poptops - get ahead of you son) that will reasearch about how to give you these cool characteristics! It comes with a free installation on your spaceship! Wait, what did you say? You can't teleport animals with you on the starship? Well looks like the only way you have to bring them is to abduct them! Yes, I am proposing an abduction beam. (I clicked the post buttom by accident) You could abduct weak creatures (wether they are really weak or you make them weak) to study them more closely. You could have a small chance of finding something very nice. The drawback is that you would get no loot from the abducted creatures. You would have differend tiers of abducting lasers and dissecting laboratories. The best tier would allow you to reasearch nearly dead boss mobs to get really nifty gear. Here is an example of what you could get based on one of my precedent post in the thread "orbiral weapons". Poptops: Small chance to get an ability that makes buffs last longer.
Since I do not know what mobs there are, I cannot say. Another example: examining virorb could make a vaccine for this kind of virorb.
You're proposing an abduction beam which I don't think is particularly necessary since I'd prefer to capture NPCs, Monsters, or whatever else there is with my own two hands and maybe Chucklefish will even include multiple ways to do that. An abduction beam takes the challenge out of the capture, so even if it's higher-tech I don't feel like it should be a mechanic. Researching monsters can mean several different things, researching them so that you can splice them together in some kind of machine, crossbreeding, using them to make certain things like some kind of medicine. I think the last option may be a bit difficult given the randomly generated aspects but it's probably possible.
