Since the flavor seems to be that the radiation kills the crew but doesn't damage the ship.

They could be made radiation immune, or given a tag that allows them to be radioactive but not die from it (and also protects them from neuroplague).

the_shrike 1 Apr 2015:

Real Men shouldn't die from radiation....

More seriously, radiation can damage electronic gear, but it would be nice if the better autons (300D and up) automatically got radiation-proofing, regardless of what armor is fitted. There's a small bug that allows "cleaning" an auton in the constellation, but I'm about to write a ticket for that.

Edit: Done! (http://ministry.kronosaur.com/record.hexm?id=1612) (Only with slashes, which the ministry currently removes)

george moromisato 3 Apr 2015:

Makes sense to me.

george moromisato 6 Sep 2020:

Starting in 1.9 Beta 3, autons, Luminous ships, and CDM ships cannot be killed by either radiation or neuroplague.

We've defined two new properties to tag such ships:

  • core.noBiologicalEffects
  • core.noRadiationDeath

Note: In the case of radiation, the object still becomes irradiated, but never dies from it.