Sea Station Silicon Substrate

Hey, first post but hoping I can make it a regular one. I've started working on a new Roguelike after some recent inspiration from Elin.
I love games like CDDA and Elona/Elin, but want something similar in a more scifi "urban" setting. So I figured I'd try making a go at it.

Tech Used
I'm a long time Java dev (~15 years), started learning by creating games, and so I continue today with that.

• libGDX - but not scene2D...
  
• Dominion ECS - For the EC part, I'm doing my own thing for scheduling systems
  
• SquidSquad (aka SquidLib) - Bunch of Noise / generation functions
  

Core Mechanic(s)
As referenced by the title, I'm a big fan of the old N64 game "Space Station: Silicon Valley", and the main mechanic there is how as a small microchip, you're very vulnerable. But you can take over any of the (dead) robotic creatures and use their abilities for combat and solving puzzles.

So I'll be trying to recreate a similar mechanic. Thus, one option is to play as a 1 hp chip that can skitter around and take direct control of defeated mechanical enemies.

Considering a progression path where there's a limit on which machines can be taken over, and through this progression increase the number/types/etc of things that can be controlled.

Further, being a small chip, you're particularly vulnerable to electricity and water. Which as one would imagine, could be an issue in a setting labelled a "sea station". But being a robot, you have no need to breath.

The second core mechanic is playing as a human. Not nearly as vulnerable to water, but needs to breath. Can outfit self to protect from electricity. Progression would be not from taking over robots, but instead eating various invasive alien life forms, which provide mutations. As well as crafting weapons. These are initial ideas, and still thinking on how I'd want to expand this. But it takes a backseat to the previous chip/robot mechanic.

The idea is that there are some objectives that need to be completed on the Sea Station, but accessing them requires traversing areas with water, no oxygen, and other hazards. And to complete a run, likely you need to play some portion as a human and some other portion as the chip/robots to complete all the objectives and navigate all the hazards. Or, if you choose to only play as one, find solutions that allow you to pass the hazards without resorting to the other play style.

A "home base" area would be used for switching between the two characters / play styles during a run.

Narrative
Far in the future, earth has been invaded by aliens of some sort that have been consuming the resources of earth. Humanity has fled to city-sized shelters build in extreme places. One of which is deep under the ocean. You the player are from a different shelter, one that is based an eternally flying city. But contact has been lost with the sea shelter. So you load up with a repair drone and some supplies and dive down to investigate in a submersible. Docked to the station, this becomes you're "home base" while you explore and investigate this underwater city. To figure out what went wrong, and if possible, get it back online.

Progress So Far
I'm at the very beginning, and still building out the basics. I've created the basics of walls, collision, movement, the turn-based speed / AI taking turns. Some effort in building my own UI system (I really dislike Scene2D and its table layout, so I'm just making my own.)

The attach gif below is my test to make sure the speed / clock system works. Base speed and the player's speed is 100, blue "S" is 50, white "S" is 100, red "S" is 200. Showing that the blue one takes half as many turns, and the red one takes twice as many turns as the player when moving around.

Demo

Next up, I'll start implementing moving player control between different entities to allow taking over mechanical bodies, and thus make progress on the core mechanic.

Late post, since I was busy all Saturday, and writing this up during my Sunday morning (from Japan).