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Random encounter:
Your scans pick up a crashed spaceship on a moon.
If you chose to investigate, you find that the ship was carrying some kind of .. pets? Almost all of them are dead, but you find a surviving pet and take it back to your ship. A moment of carelessness causes the pet to escape on your ship...
Pets could be cats, tribbles, mogwai(gremlins), facehuggers(aliens), critters, etc. Some might fetch you a nice load of scrap, others cause damage to your ship, use a crew member as a host (killing them to spawn a hostile mantis or slug) or eat a crew member, unless you happen to have a teleporter to beam them on that rebel scout trying to FTL away

I wanna make a mod of this now In fact, should this be moved to mod development as a mod request? Events are fairly easy for a modest to change.

The only way to do this with the mod tools we currently have available would be to create one or more dummy augments with names like "Ship's Cat". You could modify events so that a reasonable number of them will have some option that having the ship's cat enables for you, and create a couple of events that let you gain a pet. Gaining a random pet could result in most of the effects you describe.

Adding a sprite or any realtime effects isn't feasible with the mod tools currently available, sadly.

If I was gonna add a pet outside of an event, I would resprite the ghosts (assuming that's possible) to look like some sort of creature.