For The Want Of A Techbase: Attack On Titan (The Shallow)
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For The Want Of A Techbase: Attack On Titan
Sadly, none of these perks are available to Joe, but I was inspired by the AOT soundtrack of the last chapter.
Also wasn't entirely satisfied with this, but it's back.
Will be doing a short series of omakes in this vein.
It had all started with a small mote from the capstone domain. It had been named Veteran, and had come with victorian-ish military memories. I had suddenly grown older by 16 years, but with all my healing tech and potions knowledge, it wasn't really an issue.
Then I got a decent mote from the crafting skills constellation, Engineer. Veteran, like the other capstones, pushed Engineer further, and gave me a useful fiat effect. As long as I invested time into experimenting with something, I could find ways to upgrade it. This was most useful with SSS. In fact, my duplicates and I had been blitzing through upgrades to the base, me having just when I connected to a perk with resonance with Veteran and Engineer.
Titan Researcher.
This was something on the scale of my Chimera knowledge. I understood so much. Titans, their properties, how to make them, how to make the ingredients to make them, so so much…
It also came with two other tiny motes, all of which the first explained perfectly. First, I was suddenly an Eldian, meaning I also had access to Paths, which I understood the mechanics of.
"Uh… So…"
I let out a shaky breath and looked to the duplicates. "So same protocols as Chimera, this has its uses…"
"This is literally just making titans."
"No, we have paths. They run between all Eldian Souls. Right now we're the only Eldian, so we're the only co-ordinate, but theoretically with That Undefinable Thing…"
I nodded, a slight smile on my lips at the thought "Omniversal Transportation."
The first nodded "Paths defy time and space, they're seriously useful. But yeah… the rest of this knowledge can… lets just not touch it."
The second piped up "I mean the super-soldier shit is impressive, like total control of your entire body."
I shook my head, flicking the elegant red hair framing my face. Finding out Workaholic could trigger and triple my hair length in certain situations was not a fun discovery, it had allowed the duplicates to push their barber skills to the edge, and with all my longjevity and style perks, the hair remained looking good as if fixed by hairspray, and until it was modified again, it would stay that way. So the hair I flicked away fell right back into place. "The last upgrades were enough. Let's just finish the baseupgrades, then experiment with Paths."
I loved Engineer's fiat-upgrade ability. I just had to play a bit with the oven and boom! Of course, it used all my knowledge, no matter how ethical or feasable, so I had to remind myself that certain things were off the table. Of course, the idea of incorporating That Undefinable Thing to suck spiritual energy from me via paths, to enhance the food cooked as if by Elven Enchantment was interesting but absolutely ridiculous. Finding ways to remotely pour spiritual energy into things however, not a bad idea.
Engineer also had an interesting synnergy with The Arcane Craft, allowing me to find insights into the art as I experimented with it, which was the most useful element of it. It had slight reverse-engineering capabilities, to a degree I had to know what I was upgrading, and it was honestly among my greatest perks.
I glanced at the biological vault and sighed. It had to be biological, so it could contain an Eldian soul, which wasn't too hard to build. I looked at the health-potion in the vault, and sighed. One of the duplicates activated the mechanism and the health potion disintagrated into golden lighrning, sucked into the paths. A second later it appeared randomly midair, in the middle of the room and fell the to the ground. The only thing that saved it was the fact that I had created that glass.
I frowned "The hell?"
The other duplicates smiled, their mentality allowing them to put things together quickly "No, no! This makes sense… Where is our soul located?"
"What?"
The first smiled wider "Where is our soul located? We share the same soul, and it's not in super-position or anything."
"…Oh. Yeah it would be between all of us… It's a little off-center though..?"
"We programmed it to go to our hand, where would it be if we were standing there?"
"In my hand. How the fuck do we do this then?"
"Well you know with Transmutation we know there is Soul, Spirit, and body. The duplication potion seems to make extra spirits and bodies, so we're going to need to get the matter to pass through the spirit to the desired body."
"That's gonna be an amalgam of transmutation, paths, and cybertronian subdimensional physics, am I missing anything?"
"No. I think that's it. But since we need to connect to the spirit…"
"Implants or Tattoos, yeah, I know. Tattoo will be the best option."
"I get that you don't wanna fuck up your body, but if we do tattoos you ping and clap, or we can just have you ping. Just let us extend the implant a bit, much easier."
"We could incorporate electronics into the tattoo, to make it cycle automaticly."
"Then it's an implant."
I shuddered "…FINE."
"We'll be gentle, it's uncomfortable but we need to be smart about this."
"Yeah, yeah, I get it. Let's get this over with."
I layed down onto the divine surgery bed in the medical bay. For implants to connect to the spirit, they needed to connect to nerves, and that meant my existing implant was perfect. It was basically a transmutation cricle made from crystals that would reflect and refract in just the right way when light shone in. It wasn't actually that complicated. I then felt the first cut along my scalp.
I landed before Kaiser. "So, how does it feel to be the Gesellschaft's little bitch-boy?"
Kaiser would've spat any drink he was drinking, but he had none so he just froze, and I laughed. With a ping from my implant, golden lightning crashed down onto me, and flowed around my whole body, following my nerveous system. Large plates of metal and thick cords of wiring grew around me, and suddenly I was in my Nazi-Buster.
It was a special mode of my Motoroid made for heavy hitters, which the empire had in spades. The sheilds were omnidimensional mass effects that would stop all projectiles dead. I had a bunch of nonlethal and Celestial Bronze armaments, but I had a surprise for capes. A surgical laser that would relfect off their eyes and cut off the parts of their brain that connected to their passenger.
Kaiser was still frozen, but his lips managed to utter a single word. "Shit."
Sadly, none of these perks are available to Joe, but I was inspired by the AOT soundtrack of the last chapter.
Also wasn't entirely satisfied with this, but it's back.
Will be doing a short series of omakes in this vein.
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Veteran (Attack On Titan) (200CP)
Capstone booster for the Soldier and Warrior backgrounds. Add 1d8+15 years to your age. Choose two of your skills to upgrade as the focus of your career. You have years of experience working, fighting, and honing your skills. You've climbed the ranks of your organization, and while you're not the one calling the shots you have a significant amount of experience and influence among your colleagues.
Engineer (Attack On Titan) (300CP)
Even if you keep humanity trapped behind walls, you can't snuff out the drive for innovation. You can take an intricate machine like vertical maneuvering equipment and play around with it, modifying and upgrading its mechanisms like the blades, gas propellant, and grappling cords.
Veteran experience: You don't need a base machine to work with anymore, you have enough experience to design your own inventions from the ground up. You can pull fields like weaponry and travel technology ahead by leaps and bounds just by tinkering away in your workshop. However, you should know the interior MPs keep a close eye on any new technologies, and will hear about an invention that breaks the mold even as far out as Shiganshina District. You'd better keep a tight lid on any groundbreaking work you do within the Walls if you don't want to disappear one night.
Titan Researcher (Attack On Titan) (300CP)
Perhaps you're a student of Hange Zoë, or an aspiring member of Marley's Titan Society? Either way you know much more about Titan science than the average person. This has given you insights into their behavior, both avoiding and manipulating their movements as well as staying just out of reach, as well as the ability to modify weapons to be more effective against them.
Veteran experience: You're one of the leading experts in Titan science. You have in-depth knowledge of Titan biology, Eldian genetics, and the mechanics of paths. You could tell someone was of Eldian descent through a blood test, replicate Titan spinal fluid with mundane materials, and even conduct experiments similar to those that created the Ackerman clan.
Subject of Ymir (Attack On Titan) (0CP)
Commonly known as Eldians after the empire they ruled over in the past, Subjects of Ymir are the descendants of the original Titan Ymir Fritz. As a Subject of Ymir, you'll be transformed into a Pure Titan if you're injected with Titan spinal fluid. You're also able to inherit one of the Nine Titan powers by consuming the spinal fluid of a deceased former wielder, most often done as a Pure Titan. The population of Paradis is almost entirely Eldians, but outside the island they're hated and discriminated against.
Paths (Attack On Titan) (0CP)
All Subjects of Ymir are connected by paths, regardless of the distance between them. Paths are used to create and repair Titan bodies when a transformation is triggered, to pass down the power of the Nine Titans and the memories of former inheritors, to pass down skills and instincts among the Ackerman family, and to control all Titans and Subjects of Ymir with the power of the Founding Titan. All paths cross at one coordinate, the Founding Titan, in the dimension where Ymir Fritz endlessly toils away to build the bodies of the Titans.
Capstone booster for the Soldier and Warrior backgrounds. Add 1d8+15 years to your age. Choose two of your skills to upgrade as the focus of your career. You have years of experience working, fighting, and honing your skills. You've climbed the ranks of your organization, and while you're not the one calling the shots you have a significant amount of experience and influence among your colleagues.
Engineer (Attack On Titan) (300CP)
Even if you keep humanity trapped behind walls, you can't snuff out the drive for innovation. You can take an intricate machine like vertical maneuvering equipment and play around with it, modifying and upgrading its mechanisms like the blades, gas propellant, and grappling cords.
Veteran experience: You don't need a base machine to work with anymore, you have enough experience to design your own inventions from the ground up. You can pull fields like weaponry and travel technology ahead by leaps and bounds just by tinkering away in your workshop. However, you should know the interior MPs keep a close eye on any new technologies, and will hear about an invention that breaks the mold even as far out as Shiganshina District. You'd better keep a tight lid on any groundbreaking work you do within the Walls if you don't want to disappear one night.
Titan Researcher (Attack On Titan) (300CP)
Perhaps you're a student of Hange Zoë, or an aspiring member of Marley's Titan Society? Either way you know much more about Titan science than the average person. This has given you insights into their behavior, both avoiding and manipulating their movements as well as staying just out of reach, as well as the ability to modify weapons to be more effective against them.
Veteran experience: You're one of the leading experts in Titan science. You have in-depth knowledge of Titan biology, Eldian genetics, and the mechanics of paths. You could tell someone was of Eldian descent through a blood test, replicate Titan spinal fluid with mundane materials, and even conduct experiments similar to those that created the Ackerman clan.
Subject of Ymir (Attack On Titan) (0CP)
Commonly known as Eldians after the empire they ruled over in the past, Subjects of Ymir are the descendants of the original Titan Ymir Fritz. As a Subject of Ymir, you'll be transformed into a Pure Titan if you're injected with Titan spinal fluid. You're also able to inherit one of the Nine Titan powers by consuming the spinal fluid of a deceased former wielder, most often done as a Pure Titan. The population of Paradis is almost entirely Eldians, but outside the island they're hated and discriminated against.
Paths (Attack On Titan) (0CP)
All Subjects of Ymir are connected by paths, regardless of the distance between them. Paths are used to create and repair Titan bodies when a transformation is triggered, to pass down the power of the Nine Titans and the memories of former inheritors, to pass down skills and instincts among the Ackerman family, and to control all Titans and Subjects of Ymir with the power of the Founding Titan. All paths cross at one coordinate, the Founding Titan, in the dimension where Ymir Fritz endlessly toils away to build the bodies of the Titans.
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It had all started with a small mote from the capstone domain. It had been named Veteran, and had come with victorian-ish military memories. I had suddenly grown older by 16 years, but with all my healing tech and potions knowledge, it wasn't really an issue.
Then I got a decent mote from the crafting skills constellation, Engineer. Veteran, like the other capstones, pushed Engineer further, and gave me a useful fiat effect. As long as I invested time into experimenting with something, I could find ways to upgrade it. This was most useful with SSS. In fact, my duplicates and I had been blitzing through upgrades to the base, me having just when I connected to a perk with resonance with Veteran and Engineer.
Titan Researcher.
This was something on the scale of my Chimera knowledge. I understood so much. Titans, their properties, how to make them, how to make the ingredients to make them, so so much…
It also came with two other tiny motes, all of which the first explained perfectly. First, I was suddenly an Eldian, meaning I also had access to Paths, which I understood the mechanics of.
"Uh… So…"
I let out a shaky breath and looked to the duplicates. "So same protocols as Chimera, this has its uses…"
"This is literally just making titans."
"No, we have paths. They run between all Eldian Souls. Right now we're the only Eldian, so we're the only co-ordinate, but theoretically with That Undefinable Thing…"
I nodded, a slight smile on my lips at the thought "Omniversal Transportation."
The first nodded "Paths defy time and space, they're seriously useful. But yeah… the rest of this knowledge can… lets just not touch it."
The second piped up "I mean the super-soldier shit is impressive, like total control of your entire body."
I shook my head, flicking the elegant red hair framing my face. Finding out Workaholic could trigger and triple my hair length in certain situations was not a fun discovery, it had allowed the duplicates to push their barber skills to the edge, and with all my longjevity and style perks, the hair remained looking good as if fixed by hairspray, and until it was modified again, it would stay that way. So the hair I flicked away fell right back into place. "The last upgrades were enough. Let's just finish the baseupgrades, then experiment with Paths."
I loved Engineer's fiat-upgrade ability. I just had to play a bit with the oven and boom! Of course, it used all my knowledge, no matter how ethical or feasable, so I had to remind myself that certain things were off the table. Of course, the idea of incorporating That Undefinable Thing to suck spiritual energy from me via paths, to enhance the food cooked as if by Elven Enchantment was interesting but absolutely ridiculous. Finding ways to remotely pour spiritual energy into things however, not a bad idea.
Engineer also had an interesting synnergy with The Arcane Craft, allowing me to find insights into the art as I experimented with it, which was the most useful element of it. It had slight reverse-engineering capabilities, to a degree I had to know what I was upgrading, and it was honestly among my greatest perks.
------
I glanced at the biological vault and sighed. It had to be biological, so it could contain an Eldian soul, which wasn't too hard to build. I looked at the health-potion in the vault, and sighed. One of the duplicates activated the mechanism and the health potion disintagrated into golden lighrning, sucked into the paths. A second later it appeared randomly midair, in the middle of the room and fell the to the ground. The only thing that saved it was the fact that I had created that glass.
I frowned "The hell?"
The other duplicates smiled, their mentality allowing them to put things together quickly "No, no! This makes sense… Where is our soul located?"
"What?"
The first smiled wider "Where is our soul located? We share the same soul, and it's not in super-position or anything."
"…Oh. Yeah it would be between all of us… It's a little off-center though..?"
"We programmed it to go to our hand, where would it be if we were standing there?"
"In my hand. How the fuck do we do this then?"
"Well you know with Transmutation we know there is Soul, Spirit, and body. The duplication potion seems to make extra spirits and bodies, so we're going to need to get the matter to pass through the spirit to the desired body."
"That's gonna be an amalgam of transmutation, paths, and cybertronian subdimensional physics, am I missing anything?"
"No. I think that's it. But since we need to connect to the spirit…"
"Implants or Tattoos, yeah, I know. Tattoo will be the best option."
"I get that you don't wanna fuck up your body, but if we do tattoos you ping and clap, or we can just have you ping. Just let us extend the implant a bit, much easier."
"We could incorporate electronics into the tattoo, to make it cycle automaticly."
"Then it's an implant."
I shuddered "…FINE."
"We'll be gentle, it's uncomfortable but we need to be smart about this."
"Yeah, yeah, I get it. Let's get this over with."
I layed down onto the divine surgery bed in the medical bay. For implants to connect to the spirit, they needed to connect to nerves, and that meant my existing implant was perfect. It was basically a transmutation cricle made from crystals that would reflect and refract in just the right way when light shone in. It wasn't actually that complicated. I then felt the first cut along my scalp.
------
I landed before Kaiser. "So, how does it feel to be the Gesellschaft's little bitch-boy?"
Kaiser would've spat any drink he was drinking, but he had none so he just froze, and I laughed. With a ping from my implant, golden lightning crashed down onto me, and flowed around my whole body, following my nerveous system. Large plates of metal and thick cords of wiring grew around me, and suddenly I was in my Nazi-Buster.
It was a special mode of my Motoroid made for heavy hitters, which the empire had in spades. The sheilds were omnidimensional mass effects that would stop all projectiles dead. I had a bunch of nonlethal and Celestial Bronze armaments, but I had a surprise for capes. A surgical laser that would relfect off their eyes and cut off the parts of their brain that connected to their passenger.
Kaiser was still frozen, but his lips managed to utter a single word. "Shit."
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