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Renamed plasma to phoron#23

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Plasma (the material) is now called phoron. Most text in the game that mentions plasma by name is changed to reflect this. Plasma "gas" is referred to as "plasmic phoron" (or "plasma" or "phoron" depending on the context). Terms such as "plasmafire" and "plasma burn" are unchanged, as well as other contexts where "plasma" would make sense as referring to the state of matter (such as the popup for the result of making phlogiston).

Also I made a teeny tiny tweak to the name of the "water vapor gas miner" to just make it the "water vapor miner" to both keep it consistent with "phoron plasma miner" and avoid the weird psuedo-tautology that "vapor gas" is.

Why / Balance

Phoron was a name that some SS13 servers called the substance known as plasma on servers like /tg/station. When a lot of the core concepts of SS13 made its way over to SS14, "plasma" was the name that the team stuck with over "phoron" (though some references in the code to it remain, mainly in sprites brought over from SS13 servers that use the term).

I personally believe that "phoron" really sells the sci-fi wonder-material vibe it's going for (as opposed to... just the name of a state of matter that doesn't even apply to it in two out of the three states it can be in), and when I brought up this sentiment in #lore, a lot of other people in the community seemed to agree. I'm PRing this now rather than later because the sooner we commit to it, the easier it's going to be to maintain consistently.

Also I asked and @Gtheglorious said I could do it.

Technical details

FTL- and YAMLmaxxing.

Media

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  • I have read and am following the Pull Request and Changelog Guidelines.
  • I have added media to this PR or it does not require an in-game showcase.
  • If I am porting something, I have done my best to respect the appropriate licenses associated with the presented changes.

License

MIT

Breaking changes

N/A.

Changelog

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  • tweak: Plasma (the material) is now referred to as phoron in several different item names, descriptions, guidebook entries, and tips.
  • tweak: The water vapor gas miner is now just called the water vapor miner.

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