The question of the capture of aliens and civilians

[leha]

Is it possible to capture alien robots, symbiotes and civilians in the game?
I would like to understand whether the process is worth the torture or is it useless?

You can stun and put a civilian in a backpack, but then he disappears. And it does not count towards the mission.

Edited September 29 by leha

[leha]

You can stun and put the symbiote in a backpack, but it still dies.
It is possible to stun the symbiont last in the battle, but the mission ends with his death.
Is there a theoretical possibility to take the symbiote captive in the game?

I really want to capture them live  

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Don't see how that'd be possible as they die a couple rounds after being deployed by default.  They're specifically created to have a lifespan measured in seconds realistically just to harass and tangle opponents.

[leha]

It would be great to hear a comment from the developers on this. Is it—even theoretically—possible to capture the aliens and civilians in question?

I mean, I’ve tried some pretty crazy capture methods, but nothing works. Symbionts die. Robots explode. Civilians just get marked as "rescued." Still, I’m curious

Why couldn't my soldiers bring a canister of saline solution along on a mission and stuff a stunned symbiont inside? Just pickle it in there for a few turns. If the mission ends while it's in there, you could capture it and bring it back to base for research (think of the movie "Aliens"). After all, if a symbiont can be stunned, that implies it goes into a coma—meaning its vital functions slow down. So, you could just rush it over to the lab for study

It’s the same deal with the robots. Surely they have a button somewhere (readers from the USSR will get this reference)? Or a screw you could just unscrew to disable them without an explosion