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Smart Ballast Control

Formerly Irregular Ballast Fix, a recent Baro update finally fixed the issue at the root! But fret not, for I hear your cries- "Isn't this assembly useless now??"
Nay, for you see, this circuit has a purpose of its own, the vanilla ballasts may play nice with other hulls, but what about...
Other ballasts?

This circuit can be used to connect multiple hulls into a single "pool" of present water, even if those hulls are not actually one ballast. Think about it; You've got 14 ballasts about the size of a coffin each on your sub- no particular reason, that's just your MO- but alas! A ballast has been breached! Well look at that, your carefully calculated water fill levels are GARBAGE now! What are you to do but sink? ...
Well, I'll tell you what you do, you float right the ♥♥♥♥ on by like nothing even happened. Sinking? Never head of 'em! With all 14 of your ballasts connected as one, the rest will detect the sudden influx of water, and drain themselves to remain overall equal to the nav command, even if that means draining below what they should technically be at!

This is not the only use case. On a small shuttle with an airlock that comprises about 23% of the total volume? Don't listen to the people whining about laying your sub out better; they just want to destroy art. Instead, simply connect the airlock to the whole circuit, but- and this is the important part- don't add the volume of it to the multiplier. The area of the airlock will not be considered ballast space for the purpose of normal operation, but the water inside the airlock will be considered ballast water for the purpose of buoyancy calculations! The airlock fills, and the ballasts will drain to, once again, keep the whole sub at the correct buoyancy. Go wild! Connect the whole sub up in this way! Keep massive ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ballasts so that the sub is practically unsinkable! Or don't, I'm not your dad.


Legacy description below.

Do your ballasts look like they came from Loony Toons? Refuse to compromise your artistic direction for silly things like "functionality" and "a working submarine that actually responds to input?"
I've got the item assembly for you!

A series of components made to deal with the issues associated with unusually shaped ballasts made up of multiple hulls not filling properly, and a series of labels explaining it all.