Honor Guard QoL

[Syndro101]

About the pull request

• Adds an Honor Guard equipment vendor to CIC Armory, taking the place of the old safe.
• Slightly changes CIC Armory to be less cramped if multiple people are going in or out.
• Fixes some tiling issues and misplaced semiotics, mainly near the research area.

Explain why it's good for the game

With Honor Guards no longer restricted to Commanding Officers, their potential use has expanded, as such I think the antiquated safe and kit loadout is in need of replacement.

Letting Honor Guard Candidates gear up with a vendor in CIC saves quite a lot of time, which can usually be the difference between making a drop and missing it.

One of the current issues is that the safe is only openable by the Commanding Officer... who isn't always in a round. This leads to the awkward practice of shooting the damn thing until it breaks™, which both takes time, potential IFF and concerned radio messages from the rest of the crew.

I've also noticed that when Honor Guards are called upon, quite a few are less than intrigued to step up, I believe that a varied selection in loadout will bring more interest to the role and generally be more fun for those occupying the role.

Regarding map changes

The changes are overall very minor, the CIC armory has had its shutter widened by 1 tile, which is useful if you have 2 Staff Officers gearing up at the same time.

I fixed some outdated tiles near research that belonged to the old ladders, along with the semiotics that were never removed.

Ditto as above for the CL's office, northern maintenance door.

I edited some layers on some items in CIC and moved clutter around, you'd likely never notice.

If you do want to see all the changes, look at checks for mapbot.

Regarding balance

The only thing this allows for balance-wise is more than 2 legitimate honor guards. However, I highly doubt this will be an issue as:

1. The MP department usually is not staffed enough to realistically supply more than 2 Honor Guards.
2. It's typically quite frowned upon to bring more than 2 Honor Guards, as the CO (or XO now) having their own personal kill-team is... a bit much.
3. Having half the department deploy compromises its ability to keep the ship safe, which can violate Standard Operating Procedure.
4. The Vendor is locked behind shutters in CIC which no normal MP can open.
5. Carrying the guns the vendor supplies as an MP, without being an Honor Guard is against Standard Operating Procedure, unless security level is higher than green.
6. Military Police would just get all of this from Requisitions anyway and have been doing so for years, this just makes gearing up faster.
7. AP ammo is expensive pointwise, with only 2 spare mags being able to be purchased at the cost of a mag-harness, you choose.
8. I've run out of things to put here.

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Changelog

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add: added a vendor for MP Honor Guards
mapadd: added an Honor Guard Vendor to CIC Armory
maptweak: tweaked CIC Armories to be less cramped, fixed some misplaced tiling and semiotics
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