So most of us know that when the hijack timer ends, the Almayer is supposed to well, fall into the colony so i was thinking about how to do that as a mechanic and give a sense of urgency to the marines even after a xenomorph minor and the doom that waits the xenos after a major. (A similar warning would be given to the xenos but it would be the Queen Mother)
First of all ARES would warn about the Ship Integrity, lets say it is 20 minutes until the Hijack ends, so at 100% Ship Integrity ARES would warn : “The Ship Integrity is at 100%, you have 20 minutes until it crashes into the colony”, it would also give a warn message at 50%, 10% and 1% follow the same template with how long the marines have left.
Once ship Integrity reaches 0%, the game would roll the usual byond pick, between Upper Ship and Lower Ship, mid ship would always be destroyed, the one rolled would “survive” the crash and all the others would be instant deleted with all the marines or xenos there, the one that “survived” would have all mobs inside of it stunned to the ground and a series of big HE and Incendiary explosions would happen in all parts of the ship, most of the xenos would perish including humans, perhaps if the Queen is lucky or a Crusher is lucky enough they would survive.
After the explosions, that ship part would crash into any place of that colony that is not underground roof, gibbing anyone that is in their way, the ladders would be turned into broken ladders and the stairs would be deleted, this would always happens no matter what given enough time unless the ship goes through self destruction.
Note: I was thinking about trying to make something similar myself but most of stuff that is in the idea is an unknown field in Byond for me, so i will leave it for anyone interested.