So; putting this together, what would a full transhuman package look like. I'm sticking to what I think could be reverse engineered and turned into an augmentation process by a genetor.
Mega Attributes (x7): to get from the average rating of 2 to the max of 8 for all 3 Attributes plus adding three health levels
Longevity (x2): to get quadruple lifespan
Exalted Healing: to recover from injuries quickly without scarring and not be at danger of bleeding to death
Selective Conception: to control conception
Extra Speed (x2): to be able to move, think, and generally act significantly faster than a human can
Darksight: To see in the dark
Immunity (Disease)
Immunity (Poison)
Immunity (Radiation)
For the comedically high total of 17 uses of VEE+SPF.
Now for the best outcome, you'd want to apply this entire package of mutations to several people, spanning genders. VEE granted mutations manifest in a way that ensures they play nicely with other mutations the target already have, meaning that the whole set isn't less than the sum of its parts or worse, and incompatible, as might be the case with genetor augments derived from mutations applied to different people.
I wonder if the task we give people in return for a mutation is to allow invasive examination and collaborate in study of its effects by a Genetor, and keep giving new versions of that task for each incremental mutation that we add. That would advance our goals and, if we're responsible, be something we should do anyway before mass deploying augmentations based on it. Even if this is possible, I'm not sure how long the period of study would need to be to count as a sufficient task, as that's the interval at which we could bestow mutations.
Then, when the full package is in place, we use the second purchase of FDA to derive a blueprint for a single coherent genetor augmentation representing the combination of all the mutations. That package can then be rolled out more broadly than we could ever manage with VEE.
I will be disallowing Brain eating for the MC and Circle members. It would completely break Progression's back. Same but for different reasons with regards to NPC.
I do not track xp other than what you grant NPCs and even otherwise? NPCs can only learn attribute/abilities/willpower and need training time for it. They need tutours for anything beyond 3 dots, even Willpower. So I generally abstract away the xp requirements by seeing if they performed the minimum time needed to learn it.
So long story short, brain eating is being disallowed outside of special cases for the reason that it creates WAY too much work and book keeping.
Just on this, would Berserker, Spirit Ties, and (a limited set of) Garou Gifts be Ok? Whether for Circlemates or for elite followers?
Giving people inherent supernatural energy pools even if they aren't Essence so they don't need to draw directly on the Warp for power seems like a big deal - particularly as it seems like it might have synergy with Sorcery and Faith related rituals - using Gnosis to power them rather than just Willpower.
As an aside, getting a large population of Navigators (possibly making Lorgar one and seeing if that propagates to his geneseed) is a pretty high priority imo. Putting aside their utility in space travel (and how getting them in our debt would make breaking their monopoly much easier) navigators are immune to infohazards and have a fair variety of potent daemon hunting techniques, in terms of tracking, debuffs, defense and attack.
I'm a bit cautious about hooking Lorgar directly into the Navigator collective; although him becoming the Paternova would be interesting.
The fact that he's already a psyker would be interesting, as psyker-navigators seem either unknown, very rare, or to lead to the kind of Navigator that are locked in the basement for study and not allowed out.
I wonder if we need to meet a Navigator before we can bestow the Warp Eye - or if we have, as the Archmagos probably had one with him.
