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[Happy Demon]

Well, as I said. It depends if Kevak goes the extra mile.
The masks can work off one filter, or require several. It's all about how Kevak does it.

As for the carapace armor, sure, go ahead. I just went a bit too deep into the topic.
You can just use ceramic plating, it has high durability and low weight.
I kinda enjoyed reading Wikipedia and looking around too much, so I ended up bloating my post with info.

As for stretching, it's possible it would have to have less stretch than denim, but my point is: It'd be like stiff pants, but still pants, while it wont stretch, it will bend.
You can't have comfort and protection, there's always a compromise. Unless you go into the exotic stuff, like power armor with air condition, fluffy padding, and an integrated beer dispenser.

[Andres]

As for the carapace armor, sure, go ahead. I just went a bit too deep into the topic.
You can just use ceramic plating, it has high durability and low weight.
I kinda enjoyed reading Wikipedia and looking around too much, so I ended up bloating my post with info.

As for stretching, it's possible it would have to have less stretch than denim, but my point is: It'd be like stiff pants, but still pants, while it wont stretch, it will bend.
You can't have comfort and protection, there's always a compromise. Unless you go into the exotic stuff, like power armor with air condition, fluffy padding, and an integrated beer dispenser.

Edited my post. You may or may not want to have another look at it.

You can't have comfort and protection, there's always a compromise. Unless you go into the exotic stuff, like power armor with air condition, fluffy padding, and an integrated beer dispenser.

Doesn't power armour require the former two accessories you mentioned? PA needs a way to keep the armour cool or the user will get boiled alive and it needs to be padded so the user can survive explosions and such.

[Happy Demon]

Yeah, sorta noticed the edit in the middle of writing that post, but I was getting a bit incoherent after writing for a while, and decided to post anyway.

Actually, despite what people say, air condition isn't a requirement.
Even medieval plate armor was hell to wear, it's thick clothes with steel plates covering them.
But I'm sure if power armor became a thing, pretty much everyone would dedicate some of the power just for ventilation systems, because happy soldiers are willing soldiers.

But I said air condition and fluffy padding. In other words, more than necessary, things which go from practical to luxury.

[Lenglon]

Yeah, sorta noticed the edit in the middle of writing that post, but I was getting a bit incoherent after writing for a while, and decided to post anyway.

Actually, despite what people say, air condition isn't a requirement.
Even medieval plate armor was hell to wear, it's thick clothes with steel plates covering them.
But I'm sure if power armor became a thing, pretty much everyone would dedicate some of the power just for ventilation systems, because happy soldiers are willing soldiers.

But I said air condition and fluffy padding. In other words, more than necessary, things which go from practical to luxury.

Padding on that kind of armor is not optional. if you don't have it the motion of the armor causes massive chafing to the soldier inside, and after a single full day of wear they aren't going to be able to function effectively. and ventilation or other thermal management systems are again not optional. the medieval plate armor you're talking about was hell to wear, and it was primarily used in European countries, which are generally very cool and moist. there's a reason that they had to remove a lot of their armor during the crusades, it wasn't for comfort, it was because if they didn't they would quite literally collapse from the heat. ever been in 120+ degree weather?

power armor, especially in a space-age-setting, has every reason to have a fully-climate-controlled system with the ability to seal itself off from the outside temporarilly. ship boarding actions are going to have to deal with the ship's internal defenses, and since every spaceship that doesn't suck is going to have sealable bulkheads and internal climate control, they ARE going to be sealed in a room that is made as hostile to stay in as possible with the ship's standard systems. like by routing freshly heated engine coolant there, or venting the atmostphere, or attempting to deep freeze it. this is especially true if the boarder and boarded have differing native environments, with their comfortable tempature levels being extremely different, because then they don't even have to work hard or make it hostile to themselves to make it hostile to the boarder, just have some being from a desert planet turn the regular heater on and laugh as her opponents cook to death and she's simply a little warm.

[Happy Demon]

I never said padding was optional. I said fluffy padding was a luxury.
Well, I guess I'm wrong on the ventilation part, it is required.

[Andres]

I never said padding was optional. I said fluffy padding was a luxury.

Just a misunderstanding, then.

3147. Third Millennium.

Fourth millenium. 0-999 was first, 1,000-1999 was second, 2000-2999 is third, 3,000-4,999 will be fourth.

[~Neri]

Sorry for general delay, been fixing sleep schedule.

[Happy Demon]

Sorry for general delay, been fixing sleep schedule.

About damn time, too.

[Andres]

Kevak, what's taking so long? You should've fixed your sleep schedule by now.

[~Neri]

Dealing with irl stuff. Irl comes first. Patience.

[lawastooshort]

I am away for a week, if you happen to start this in that time.

If not, well, best of luck with sorting your irl stuff out dude.

[~Neri]

Alrighty! Lets get this on the road. Gonna check which characters I haven't plopped in the OP yet and do so/state what needs fixing and then turn this into the OOC thread before making the IC thread.

[Lenglon]

YAY!

[~Neri]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Kar Mercant
Race: Human
Gender: Male

Skills:
Maintenance (Mundane)
Standard infantry weapons (+/-3)
Hand to hand combat (+1)
General tech use (+/-1)
Persuasion (-2 full bonus applied)
Fear resistance (+3 full bonus applied)
Inspiring speech (-3 full bonus applied)
Not being a filthy heretic xeno mutant dickish psychic traitorous Abominable Intelligence (+99 full bonus applies)


Weapons:
Lasgun
-Charge pack (60/60), recharged via electrical socket/sunlight
-Blast charger: Focuses the entirety of a charge pack into a single shot. Power-inefficient, permanently ruins the charge pack, and chance of damaging the gun
-Single/burst(3-shot)/full-auto
-Very reliable
Laspistol
-Charge pack (30/30), recharged via electrical socket/sunlight
-Blast charger: Focuses the entirety of a charge pack into a single shot. Power-inefficient, permanently ruins the charge pack, and chance of damaging the gun
-Single/burst(3-shot)/full-auto
-Very reliable
Knife with carbon-coated edge, high durability
2 HE grenades
2 AT grenades

Equipment:
Charge pouches, contains 8 lasgun charge packs and 4 laspistol charge packs
Body nanoweave (low concentration)/plasteel armour: high protection against penetrative shots, good protection against energy weapons
-Computer+battery (20/20, recharged via electrical socket/sunlight): When the nanoweave is struck, it becomes rigid and unyielding, significantly increasing protection
Helmet
-Comm-system
-Voice caster
-Air filter
-HUD: aside from standard features, it highlights enemies and filters out useless information
-Mounted flashlight
Backpack (light metal lining)
High amount of space credits
Mind shield (under helmet): Nullifies weak telepathic attacks/probes/etc. and dulls strong ones


Bioaugments:
Physical stature
-Physical stature 2
--Kin of giants: Increases height to 2.7 metres (body proportions stay the same), allows for more bioaugments to be fitted in the body
Physical capability
-Physical capability 2
--Physical capability 3: Armour-like bones, sub-dermal armour (like a 'second skin'), fat stores increased amounts of energy, increased muscle density and strength (strength boost allows lifting of 2 tons with great effort, +/-6 to strength, speed, etc.), tripled calorie requirements, greatly increased body weight
Neural rewiring: Improved reaction speeds (+/-1)
Brainpower: Bonus to everything that requires thinking (combat, diplomacy, strategic planning, etc. +2/-1) (synergy with Physical stature), provides no additional resistance to alcohol, mind attacks, etc.
Biocoil (spine): Massive power generation and capacity (300/300, +50 every turn), improved reaction speeds (synergy with neural rewiring) (+/-1), grants magnetic levitation
Electromuscle: Increased electrical charge (synergy with biocoil and Physical stature/capability) (60/60, +10 every turn), can charge weapons and equipment even if not designed for that kind of energy-acquisition
-Electromuscle 2.0: Improved capacity and intensity of generated electrical currents and allows them to be projected at range (synergy with biocoil and Physical stature/capability) (20 metre ranged attack, 60/60, +10 every turn)
Magnoadrenaline gland: Improved reaction speed (+/-1), keeps the body awake and at peak condition for hours on end, small chance of side-effects if used constantly (20% per three days of heavy usage)
-Mega-adrenal gland: Improves positive effects of magnoadrenaline (+/-1), magnoadrenaline needs to be used twice as long for chance of side-effects
Echolocation (ear and throat augment): Greatly increased general hearing range and precision (+/3), blindsight
Sensory package: Massively improved taste, touch, smell, sight, and hearing (+/-3 to aforementioned senses)
Anti-tox gland: Poison resistance (+3) , disease resistance (+3), slightly lowers chance of side-effects from use of magnoadrenaline (-5%)
-Poisondrinker organ: Neuters effects of nearly all toxins, allows breathing of poisonous air, drinking fouled water, and eating most forms of biological matter without any ill effects. Protects from just poison too (+3)
Pheromonal gland: +/-1 when diplomancing humans
Subdermal blades (forearms): bone-like material, heals when damaged
Autosanguine gland: Accelerates healing, closes and heals small wounds in minutes. Protected by tough, redundant flesh
-Regenerator organ: Nasty cuts healed in seconds, grizzly wounds or broken bones in minutes, and limbs regenerated in days. Quite taxing depending on level of injury. Protected by tough, redundant flesh
Nanoweave hair (~2.4m long): Made of biological nanoweave equivalent. Allows for fine manipulation of the hair as if they were tiny limbs. Capable of crushing medium armour if all hairs are used and length is kept
Lifespan (~750 years)
Attractiveness
-Attractiveness 2
--Attractiveness 3
---Attractiveness 4: The peak of what can be achieved without going somewhere uncanny


Status:

Couple things need fixing with this.

Attractiveness
-Attractiveness 2
--Attractiveness 3
---Attractiveness 4: The peak of what can be achieved without going somewhere uncanny

This would be targeted towards specific species/mindsets. Physical attraction is very very very finnicky.

Autosanguine gland: Accelerates healing, closes and heals small wounds in minutes. Protected by tough, redundant flesh
-Regenerator organ: Nasty cuts healed in seconds, grizzly wounds or broken bones in minutes, and limbs regenerated in days. Quite taxing depending on level of injury. Protected by tough, redundant flesh

This is a military grade set of regeneration augs. You better have a daaamn good reason for them backstorywise or they're nixed.

Pheromonal gland: +/-1 when diplomancing humans

Pheromones don't work like that. Humans aren't responsive to pheromones because they flat out don't function in the biology or have any form of receptors

-Poisondrinker organ: Neuters effects of nearly all toxins, allows breathing of poisonous air, drinking fouled water, and eating most forms of biological matter without any ill effects. Protects from just poison too (+3)

No. Not even military grade would allow negation of Class 3 Hazardous Agents. Toxins are so heavily varied in function, makeup, and route of harm that you can't really negate them all.

Magnoadrenaline gland: Improved reaction speed (+/-1), keeps the body awake and at peak condition for hours on end, small chance of side-effects if used constantly (20% per three days of heavy usage)
-Mega-adrenal gland: Improves positive effects of magnoadrenaline (+/-1), magnoadrenaline needs to be used twice as long for chance of side-effects

This isn't how adrenaline works. Making an organ to amplify effects also doesn't work. That isn't how hormones work. Expect ODing very easily.

Biocoil (spine): Massive power generation and capacity (300/300, +50 every turn), improved reaction speeds (synergy with neural rewiring) (+/-1), grants magnetic levitation
Electromuscle: Increased electrical charge (synergy with biocoil and Physical stature/capability) (60/60, +10 every turn), can charge weapons and equipment even if not designed for that kind of energy-acquisition
-Electromuscle 2.0: Improved capacity and intensity of generated electrical currents and allows them to be projected at range (synergy with biocoil and Physical stature/capability) (20 metre ranged attack, 60/60, +10 every turn)

This makes exactly zero sense from a scientific perspective. Production of sufficient energy to fire a laser weapon via muscles alone would normally cause total destruction of biological tissue. Expect extreme levels of internal burns and scarring that cannot be healed from regen organs cause said organs will suffer the same levels of internal damage. That or nix it.

Brainpower: Bonus to everything that requires thinking (combat, diplomacy, strategic planning, etc. +2/-1) (synergy with Physical stature), provides no additional resistance to alcohol, mind attacks, etc.

Makes more sense to just have a computer lodged in your brain. Having a larger capacity to think is not = to intelligence relating to concrete things.

Nanoweave hair (~2.4m long): Made of biological nanoweave equivalent. Allows for fine manipulation of the hair as if they were tiny limbs. Capable of crushing medium armour if all hairs are used and length is kept

No. Hair and physical pressure do not work like that. Ya'd need something along the lines of strands the thickness of a forearm.

[Andres]

Attractiveness
-Attractiveness 2
--Attractiveness 3
---Attractiveness 4: The peak of what can be achieved without going somewhere uncanny

This would be targeted towards specific species/mindsets. Physical attraction is very very very finnicky.

Targeted towards humans.

Autosanguine gland: Accelerates healing, closes and heals small wounds in minutes. Protected by tough, redundant flesh
-Regenerator organ: Nasty cuts healed in seconds, grizzly wounds or broken bones in minutes, and limbs regenerated in days. Quite taxing depending on level of injury. Protected by tough, redundant flesh

This is a military grade set of regeneration augs. You better have a daaamn good reason for them backstorywise or they're nixed.

He's military (just don't tell the others). That's a good reason for having military grade augs, right?

Pheromonal gland: +/-1 when diplomancing humans

Pheromones don't work like that. Humans aren't responsive to pheromones because they flat out don't function in the biology or have any form of receptors

Ok.

-Poisondrinker organ: Neuters effects of nearly all toxins, allows breathing of poisonous air, drinking fouled water, and eating most forms of biological matter without any ill effects. Protects from just poison too (+3)

No. Not even military grade would allow negation of Class 3 Hazardous Agents. Toxins are so heavily varied in function, makeup, and route of harm that you can't really negate them all.

What's the max I can get, then?

Magnoadrenaline gland: Improved reaction speed (+/-1), keeps the body awake and at peak condition for hours on end, small chance of side-effects if used constantly (20% per three days of heavy usage)
-Mega-adrenal gland: Improves positive effects of magnoadrenaline (+/-1), magnoadrenaline needs to be used twice as long for chance of side-effects

This isn't how adrenaline works. Making an organ to amplify effects also doesn't work. That isn't how hormones work. Expect ODing very easily.

It's not how adrenaline works, but that's because it's not adrenaline. Magnoadrenaline is just a name. The mega-adrenal gland isn't to make the magnoadrenaline work better, it's to alter the body so that it's more receptive to the magnoadrenaline and can more easily make it a part of its natural biology. The name "mega-adrenal" is kind of confusing I guess.

This makes exactly zero sense from a scientific perspective.

There is a guy who exists across multiple timelines simultaneously that have a very real chance of touching each-other, all without getting into magic. There is literally a hulk of walking iron. We have a pack of sentient hive mind kittens. Being able to do something tangentially similar to what eels do seems...well not mild in comparison but it certainly seems to fit in.

Production of sufficient energy to fire a laser weapon via muscles alone would normally cause total destruction of biological tissue. Expect extreme levels of internal burns and scarring that cannot be healed from regen organs cause said organs will suffer the same levels of internal damage. That or nix it.

Daww, but I really wanted to play an electro-priest...

Brainpower: Bonus to everything that requires thinking (combat, diplomacy, strategic planning, etc. +2/-1) (synergy with Physical stature), provides no additional resistance to alcohol, mind attacks, etc.

Makes more sense to just have a computer lodged in your brain. Having a larger capacity to think is not = to intelligence relating to concrete things.

It helps him learn, it helps him with stuff he's learned, and it helps where learning by rote isn't as useful (solving puzzles, for example). Basically like an ordinary genius, except not to such a high level.

Nanoweave hair (~2.4m long): Made of biological nanoweave equivalent. Allows for fine manipulation of the hair as if they were tiny limbs. Capable of crushing medium armour if all hairs are used and length is kept

No. Hair and physical pressure do not work like that. Ya'd need something along the lines of strands the thickness of a forearm.

I don't understand. You say the hair wouldn't work like that and then go on to say that it can totally work if it's thick enough. Individually the hairs are nothing, but bunch them all up together and you get your forearm thickness pretty easily.