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## About The Pull Request  Adds the **portable power storage unit** (5 megacells and cable) and the **power connector** (1 capacitor and cable), a two-part system for power storage that, together, are functionally identical to a standard SMES (with the ability to switch out the part that actually holds power). It's on the same research node as the SMES itself. Original idea and power connector sprite taken and slightly modified from vgstation-coders/vgstation13#4555. **The power connector is useless without the portable SMES and vice-versa.** <details><summary>How does it work?</summary> The **power connector** (on the left) is set up like any other regular SMES, but is functionally useless without a connected power unit. The capacitor decides maximum power transfer rate. The **portable power storage unit** (in the middle) is the part that actually holds power, taking five megacells (power capacity scales appropriate to cell capacity). It's functionally useless without a connected port, as it can't interact with powernets in any way on its own. To actually use both of these, after wiring up the power connector appropriately (as any other SMES), wrench the portable storage unit to the connector; the connector acts like a regular SMES, charging and discharging the portable unit in lieu of charging/discharging itself. If necessary, you can disconnect the portable unit afterwards, and bring it elsewhere with an assembled power connector. Disconnecting the portable storage unit in the same way you connected it (with a wrench) disables input and output on the connector, requiring the user to re-enable the controls after connecting another portable storage unit. </details> Also breaks up SMES attackby into different tool_acts. ## Why It's Good For The Game I think it could be neat for things like Lavaland field bases or player-built mini-stations; instead of building power generation on-site, you could charge a portable SMES and bring it over. Or you could set it up as a power reserve in the event engineering explodes. Sure, you could argue that someone could just build and rebuild a SMES or switch out the cells in it a bunch, but lugging around a whole thing feels cooler. ## Changelog 🆑 add: Portable power storage units and power connectors! Under the same research node as regular power storage units, and not mapped in anywhere. Build a connector and portable unit, wire the connector like a regular SMES, wrench the portable unit onto the connector, unwrench as needed. code: SMES attackby was broken up into several tool_acts instead of a big attackby chain. If something stops working in regards to using tools on SMESes, please file a bug report. /🆑 --------- Co-authored-by: Hatterhat <Hatterhat@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Ghom <42542238+Ghommie@users.noreply.github.com>