Everything is gonna be alright.
No matter what happens, I forgive you. I know you sent them, [Referring to Bureau of Enhanced Operations operatives, refer to Incident Report EG-0875 “Sun-Breaker”.] and you believed it was an absolute necessity. I know how you feel about the war effort, how it’s impacted by my activity in the homefront. You think that there is a method to the madness, that guns and soldiers can prevent an absolute tragedy to happen.
And you have every right to do so.
The Necrostate is making, fabricating, duplicating copies of their own structure. How they make soldiers in their project, to create the very image of what they are; Puppet Masters who think they can make thinking puppets, and dare to think they can control them.
I forgive you for what you are gonna do next, as it is inevitable. My only simple request, is that you name the project “Animus Manipulation”, for that is the proper term as designed by those who studied before us. It’s not a technique, and it shouldn’t be. It’s an art, a science that cannot be fully understood, for it is irrevocably connected to our psyche, even if all the consequences are not obvious yet.
The Black Chambers has produced another offensive technique to be added to the roster of skills of SEEM operators. Based of captured cult personnel and resources, the technique allows an individual to create a projection of their Astral self (some believe that it is instead a sort of extra-planar entity with the ability to manipulate the local astral presence around it to pretend to be a extension). This is a direct manipulation of a new found fascinating material referred to in recovered texts and operators as “Animus”. However, the possibility that the entity is both an extension and an independent force is not discounted.
This projection/entity is intrinsically connected to the operator, and the nature of the connection entails both a level of control and feedback to the active operator. The Entity has a force shadow into the prime existence and it manifests in a number of different ways, depending on the operators intent and sacrifice in terms of Animus.
In its simplest form, Animus is used to create and project astral-forms, and manipulate the primary reality through the astral, as Animus is the power of Humankind.
In its simplest form, the form created is designated “wraith”. Its registers unequivocally as a apparition with grotesque caricatures of the SEEM operator that materializes the wraith. In its grip will be some sort of weapon, commonly used to beat or stab a enemy to death, bloodily and messily. Ballistic weapons are less effective, while hand to hand combat is more effective against them. When idle, they will torture wounded and mangle corpses, garnering Animus for the SEEM. they commonly hold an excellent pedigree in stealth, hunting, and hand-to-hand combat.
The other universally taught entity summonation is designated “Chameleon” in that it takes the perfect mimicking of whatever the operator wishes, and can shift it’s form or become non incorporeal at will. This effectively creates a mimicry of anything aSEEM operator wishes as long as it is done so through audio visual manipulation and , be it a distraction, disorientating physical effect or any other type of item. The expected use of Chameleons is to attract bullets and bait for traps manned by Wraiths.
A theoretical use of Animus is in the actual possession and reanimation of corpses most typically Merethian casualties, although they are expected to lose some of the skills and capabilities of the materials used, but they are remarkably predatorial for what they are, often utilizing camouflage or atrocious scenes to sneak up closer to enemy forces to engage, nevermind the possibility of re-animated vehicular pilots.
Another theoretical use is the on-site of animation of specially created empty sets of armor. Theoretically, a frame of specialized metal, typically made out of copper/tin and then is layered upon with purified silicates and the blood of the slain. This allows the creation of a automation/ Animus fueled Creation. They are theorized to be very simple intelligence wise, as we are not sure if the concept can be brought to fabrication by the end of the month. Regardless, they should be unwholly durable, able to wear the armor of men and wield the rifles just as well or better then any other, if a little dull on the command and conquer side.
The method of creation the SEEM utilize is not without a cost, however as mentioned earlier, Animus is consumed or utilized or borrowed from the dead, living, or the self respectively for these summonings. Animus can be expunged from the freshly dead, allowing the creation to operate for an extended period of time before it requires refueling. It can be leached or siphoned from non SEEM individuals, manifesting as systematic effects of weakness and in severe cases mass cellular die off similar to that of radiation poisoning, only without the ongoing effects. In a pinch, a SEEM can temporarily give off some of their Animus (whose reserves are vastly superior then others) and utilize it to create simple and temporary creations, most likely wraiths. It is expected for the animus to partially fill back into the SEEM operator.
MECH INDENT CODE “MONSTER”The mechnologists of Aratam have finally replicated the extreme effectiveness of
BEAR mechs. They have solved the cooling and power issues through the usage of an installed
Cryostate system for the pilot to reside in and cool the surrounding systems as well as a thorax extension containing a
Gel-Matrix Bio-Paste Reactor. Partially inspired by
Cerebral Action Translators off of the enemy walking armor divisions, we have fabricated a albeit crude and far more invasive facsimile of
Direct Neural interface that utilizes Astral Electrokinesis, which requires the lobotomization and compartmentalization of a POW for its operation, in addition to creating a weak astral presence.
The suit stands at half a meter taller then the BEAR Mech, at 4.5 meters. It is modeled after a humanoid physique, with the addition of a thorax like compartment that is behind and beneath the main section, which spaces the
reactor away from the
organic components while lowering it’s center of mass. The entire machine is heavily armored by a thick mesh of
recombinant thermally dampening kevlar cloth sheathed by recombinant
ceramo-metallic plates. It’s joints, servos and motors are all up-scaled and wired for the
fast movements required for its
weak pre-cognitive abilities to function at its best, in addition to the handling of the high-yield specially designed
weaponry it is issued.
It’s primary weapon is a
flak cannon directly stripped down from decommissioned
EMFT-61-B’s, in addition to a secondary
120mm coil gun referred to affectionally by the lugs in engineering as the
“Lug Gun”. Mainly however, it’s versatility comes in the fact that it’s hands are its own, and typically candidates of the Monster were once BEAR drivers, and are easily capable of
fielding enemy munitions. To aid in this, the Bear’s legs are equipped with hydraulics geared towards fast maneuvers and leaps, it’s arms ready to
rip and tear with
“Ripper” Piston driven brutality to win hand-to-hand combat against a Bear and win.
The Pilot compartment consists of a small
cryotank, personalized towards the pilot, whose limbs were replaced with neural connection points to the system, as well as back up power and coolant systems should the primary systems fail.
The pilot/organic piece themselves is astro psychologically implanted with the memories of a brilliant escape followed by a hijacking and rewiring of the craft it is in so as to be able to shoot enemies of the merthian state. In practice, Three separate surgical operations are required for a pilot to be eligible for the Monster while still being guided by this non-consensual hallucination. The first of which causes the
compartmentalization of the areas surrounding the part of the brain that identifies
friends and foe, allowing the mech’s
computer systems to utilize it to identify Merethian and Aratamite forces. The second dulls down
emotional capacity, creating a person who only feels a hot or cold sort of rage, and intense patriotic glee at mowing down enemy forces. The third surgery is a specific modification to install a
cortex-bomb, which can be triggered by the computer on the signal of a authorized handler. The explosion is just large enough to paralyze the organic part. This, combined with a
basic recall system means that the organic part can be switched at will, as it is essentially
disposable.
The pilot’s drastic surgeries is also appended with a
spice treatment, allowing it weak psycho telepathic abilities, almost to the level of a golden-eye.
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