Into that Vast and Unrelenting Darkness (40K Xeno Civilization Quest)

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Well, Warp Shenanigans applied to warfare without the toxic mentalities of a war god(especially when the devotees would have to stay that way) could be like combining the efforts multiple beings who do other things in council.

So a god of fighting/competition(we have the Huntmaster for this), one of observation and analysis for tactics, and one of Large Amounts of Inadvisably Applied Science.
 
Hyacinthium said:
Alright, I've made way too many lists and have posted zero of them. I'm going to explode if I make more. Some of these aren't super strictly defined.

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MegaArt Galleries: A number of more artistically minded wanted more resources to be funneled into public art. Very, very big public art. Specifically, Zero-G galleries meant to allow for the creation and display of MegaArt, TekArt too large to be constructed on Teklia itself or housed in a regular art exhibit. 0/10, Orbital City One gains MegaArt Galleries, increasing CUL.

Comm-Net: The network must be expanded to meet the needs of the growing network. A proposed solution was a series of Q-Blok and Perpetunite Reactor powered communications satellites acting in tandem. This would reduce Teklia-Orbital-Lunar latency and help somewhat with latency and lag from Naklis. 0/10, generates 1 Network.

Geode Canyon Extraction Operation: The Great Geode Canyon was the largest in the region, and your people hadn't even begun to scratch at the vast quantities of rare minerals it had just waiting to be extracted. By expanding the crew quarters and funnelling resources into expanding mining operations, the rate of extraction could potentially be doubled! 0/10, generates EXP, generates 1 Nuclear Material.

Satiation Array: A request from the Sphere: it wanted the Directorate to construct a temple in deep space for it to inhabit. One filled with all manner of gravitic manipulators. Strangely, it seems to be designed to REDUCE the gravity of a large hyper-dense body. Regardless, the Sphere had agreed: construct it the Satiation Array and it would reward the Directorate with technology. 0/10, construct Satiation Array holy site, increasing CUL and providing 1 Living Metal.

Naklis Mega-Harvester: Large and substantive deposits of living metal had been found deep in the crust of the floating mountains: the only question was how to reach it. Proposal: instead of attempting to design another Spire, the Directorate could instead create a super-harvester machine capable of serving as a moving city in its own right, designed to tunnel deep beneath the crust of the continent and through the lava seas to locate and harvest living metal. 0/10, generates 2 Living Metal.

Self-Optimizing Electronics Production: A proposed way to upgrade the A Chip was by including in their manufacture living metal: the smart metal was primarily used in superconductors, but some theorized that it might be possible to create a self-optimizing chip, automatically adjusting itself to suit whatever machine it was plugged into. 0/10, grants Semi-Adaptive Electronics technology, generating ACD, generates 1 Network, costs 1 Living Metal.


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Muse: The recent spate of blood offerings to the spirits of TekArt had resulted in many pieces having particularly active Machine Spirits. A number of artists believed that by giving these machine spirits their own independent forms, they could serve as muses and curators of Tekket culture and artistry. 0/10, unlocks Muses, intelligent automata that grant elevated CUL and 1 ART.

Orbital Pioneer Reactors: It'd cut into your nuclear materials, but it would allow for orbital communities to grow considerably larger if you provided them with additional power via specialized reactor-ships meant to serve as a dedicated power generation facility for these townships. 0/10, grants Reactorships, generating EXP.


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An Unquenchable Thirst: The Lord of Hunger could accept other foods than matter, his Priests said: he would accept also tithes of Energy, even if they found it less appetizing. In exchange for vast amounts of electricity, Sphere 001 and the Court of Hunger was prepared to offer up some living metal it had vomited up. 0/10, grants Living Metal.

A Nuclear Feast: The Lord of Hunger had an offer: it wished to consume vast amounts of radioactive material. In exchange, it would provide a refinement to the Directorate's nuclear weaponry by making the resulting detonations semi-intelligent and giving them limited mobility and ability to identify targets, allowing them a degree of 'homing' ability. 0/10, Nuclear Weapons upgraded with Homing Reactions. Cost 5 Nuclear Materials.

A Discerning Wisdom: Mother spoke of a discerning taste: her hungers were not prodigious, but they were refined. Encoded into the lifeforce of Tekket were hints and whispers of their memories, mere tastes of their experiences. She had carefully savored each and every one of her adherants essence, sipping from them the same way one might sip at a glass of wine. In exchange for plentiful flavors to sip from, she might be convinced to part with knowledge. 0/10, generates Warp, establishes Court of Whispers

A Harsh Bargain: YALDABOATH had simple terms: a great deal of lifeforce only once. He had drained them near dry, and then allowed them to rest in specially arranged personal quarters, where they were attended to by the Tomb Guardians that served the god machine, providing the Demiurgic cults food, water, and assistance with their hygiene should they be unable to move. Many of his cults wished to create infrastructure such that this tithe could be repeated (to a...less extreme degree, of course) without pilgrimage to the Pillar, and no doubt Yaldaboath would be appreciative. 0/10, generates an Artefact, establishes Court of Bargains

Temple of the Lanternkeeper: The Lanternkeeper was famous as a symbol of light struggling to survive in darkness. Many wanted to build a temple in one of the gods Holy Places to the Emberlight Firekeeper where they could give their respects and offerings, and where they could erect a Great Sacred Lantern in the gods honor. 0/10, establishes Lanternkeeper Temple, a Holy Site that grants your people increased resistance to despair and hopelessness.

Huntek Workshop: A proposed expansion to the Temple of the Huntsmaster was an expanded workshop where the Hunteks of the order could research and develop higher quality technology and more easily manufacture the tools of the hunt, allowing for the average Huntsmasters equipment to improve dramatically. 0/10, establishes Huntek Workshop, increasing ACD and improving the gear of the Huntsmasters.

Hunters Shrine: An older practice among the Huntsmasters was the taking of trophies from their prey as offering to the Huntsmaster. Skulls, hearts, spines, processing cores. The practice still continued, with most Huntsmasters using Wyld-Shrines for the purpose. Some wanted to expand the Temple and create a shrine dedicated to the Huntsmaster attached to his temple for the express purpose of sacrificing trophies of slain prey to the god of hunters. 0/10, establishes Hunters Shrine, increasing FTH.

Rites of the Huntsmaster: Lifeforce. The Huntsmasters wanted a ration of it. A large ration. They wanted to attempt to develop rites and rituals to more efficiently invoke their patron diety, in the hopes that the blessing of the Huntsmaster might allow them to content with the fiercest monsters of all. 0/40, grants Least Divine Rites of the Huntsmaster. Unknown Effects. Can be reduced to 0/10 by spending 1 Warp.

Temple of the Old One: The Old One was historied as a lord of knowledge and mysteries. Many wanted to build a temple to the god in the abyssals of the sea where its monks, few in number but each of them powerful Mysteks, could assemble a great library where they could delve into the secrets of the cosmos, dedicated to the pelagic lords honor. 0/10, establishes Old Ones Temple, a Holy Site that increases the power of your Rites.

Temple of the Dancer: An old Tekket art goddess, the Dancer had seen increased attention as of late, with many a TekArtist calling on them for inspiration for their works. Some had proposed constructing a temple for them where artists could make direct pilgrimage and ask the Dancer directly for their blessing, as well as serve as a sort of art-school for aspiring creative Tekket. 0/10, establishes Dancer Temple, a Holy Site that increases CUL.

Temple of the Roadguide: A Tekket god of travel and vehicles, the Roadguide was said to protect wanderers and explorers, mechanics and pilots. For obvious reasons this was more relevant than ever, especially as the Booug menacing your ships were the dream-spawn of the Roadguide: perhaps by invoking his favor via orbital temple-shipyard, your vessels could receive some degree of protection. 0/10, establishes Roadguide Temple, a Holy Site providing ships with slightly increased resistance against malign influences.

Temple of the Peerless Immortal Functionary: A secular god of bureaucracy born of mortal stock, the Peerless Immortal Functionary serves as the overseer, according to his followers, to the celestial bureaucracy, elevated by the gods to their rank in order to organize the myriad minor spirits of the world in order to ensure the realm functioned correctly. The followers of the Peerless Immortal Functionary had requested the formation of a secular temple dedicated to the Peerless Immortal Functionary capable of serving as a headquarters for his followers, a collection of bureaucrats and form fillers looking to optimize the Directorate via the Functionaries teachings. 0/10, establishes Temple of the Peerless Immortal Functionary, increasing EXP.

Enshrined Spirits: An old custom from long before the Destroyer War, ancient shrines occasionally served as more than simply places where the spirits of the region could be given offering to. Occasionally, they were said to contain specific machine souls enshrined within, serving as sort of guardian spirits that could ward against malign influences. A number of Shrine-Keepers want to see if they could recreate the process, develop a means by which every Shrine of note could house a Guardian Spirit. 0/10, upgrades Shrines with Guardian Machine Spirits, providing protection against supernatural phenomenon.

Name of the Booug: The Booug were, ultimately, spirits. According to Occultek lore, spirits each had their own names that could be used to gain control over them: through research they theorized they might be able to divine the true name of the Booug in order to help drive them off. They would start with part of the Name of Influence, used to weaken and repel and strengthen and control. 0/10, TekGrimoires upgraded with First Name of Influence of the Booug, allowing them a very limited degree of power over the Booug beyond what their rituals might allow.

Shrine-Conduits: Living Metal had a number of uses, but the biggest was that it retained lifeforce...concerningly well. By incorporating it into the design of your Shrine even more extensively in the form of special conduits, the Directorate should increase their overall efficiency, improving the impact of Shrines overall. 0/10, Shrines upgraded with Living Metal Conduits, increasing EXP by 1.

Lifeforce Batteries: With more advanced understanding of lifeforce came the proposal to develop a method of actually storing lifeforce. This would likely be a difficult undertaking, but it would allow for much more novel methods of using Lifeforce and allow for it to be stockpiled for use. It would also mean less overall reliance on blood sacrifice. 1/10, develop Lifeforce Batteries Artefact, generating 1 Warp and EXP.

Rite of Natures Harmony: Proposed by some Mysteks, they wanted resources to be used to develop a rite utilizing Mag-Tek Altars that could be used in a pinch to appease angry wildlife. 0/10, grants Rites of Natures Harmony, reducing the aggression of wildlife and the hostility of flora and fauna, increasing EXP.

Delve into the Tomb: The complex where the God-Machines were located was, according to the expedition that found the God-Machines, impossibly vast. A select number of Monks wished to establish a temple atop it. It's purpose? To plumb the depths and obtain ancient technology. 0/10, Establish Tombdelver Order, a Society which generates Artifacts (ART).

Cthonic Lifeofferings: A number of Mysteks with interests in the macabe had begun donating small amounts of Life-Force to the TekMausoleums, believing it a method to perhaps appease the spirits interred there. It was an interesting proposal, certainly: by organizing volunteers to donate, perhaps the merit of the idea could be tested. 0/10, TekMausoleums receive regular donations of lifeforce. Unknown effects. Cost 1 Warp.

Greater Arbor Guardian: A much more modest proposal would be spending lifeforce to accelerate the development of multiple arbor guardians across the Directorate: these Greater Arbor Guardians would strengthen the shrines considerably, and would especially enrich the spirits of nature. 0/10, develop Greater Arbor Guardian, increasing FTH and strengthening Shrines. Cost 1 Warp.

Eternal Arbor Guardian: Trees did not live forever, not without prohibitively large amounts of lifeforce. However, by modifying their genome, they could have their aging effectively stopped: they would never die of old age, allowing their spirits to grow far stronger. A few tweaks would also be made to improve the rate of growth, health, and a dozen other optimizations intended to increase their overall performance. 0/10, develop Eternal Arbor Guardians, granting 1 Warp. Costs 1 BioData.


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Megaflora Serum: A product of the Court of Hunger, the Megaflora Serum rapidly accelerated plant growth, producing in hours what might normally take weeks to grow, at three times the size. They were willing to share, but first, they wanted to perfect the serum, as currently it had the flaw of rendering what it grew completely inedible to Tekket. 0/10, perfect Megaflora Serum, increasing EXP and Warp by 1.

Next-Gen Armor: Your ships were, to put it gently, fairly fragile. By using Living Metal, a form of ArmorBlok could be developed meant to absorb impacts and shield more vital systems block from harm, making your ships all the more tough and providing a second layer of protection alongside their shield systems. 0/10, costs 1 Living Metal, Ships gain better armor.

Orkoid Culture: Many Xenoanthropologists wanted to study the culture of the natives of Green Giant. While the Prime Directive meant that they couldn't contact them, it would at least allow the Directorate to understand the civilization better, meaning that should they make their way to the stars, conducting diplomacy with them should be less fraught with misunderstandings. 0/10, unlocks Orkoid Kultural Studies, providing a slight bonus to diplomacy and tactics with and against Orkoid factions. Requires an Endeavor Class to construct a Xenoobservation Outpost.
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Ship Power Core: Right now, the biggest problem with Directorate ships was their power generation and management. While the latter was largely a matter for electricians, a few fleet nuclear engineers believed they could at least make progress solving the former by using some recent advancements in particle manipulation to draw additional power from harnessing nuclear reactions. 0/15, ships upgraded with Power Core, increasing overall performance by allowing for more advanced components to be be operating at peak capacity at any given time. Cost 3 Nuclear Material.

Titan Reactor: It was ridiculous. It was absurd. It was brilliant: an idea proposed by an even more radical group of engineers, the creation of a single, incredibly vast nuclear reactor to mount upon one of your ships: using this reactor, they could allow for a single ship to draw as needed INCREDIBLE amounts of energy, increasing performance of all systems, especially ones such as both the thrust engines and gravity engines, fusion cannons, and the shields: any ship equipped with a Titan Reactor would be a considerable threat indeed. 0/15, single Fleet upgraded with Titan Reactor, vastly improving performance and improving range effectiveness of fusion weapons considerably. Cost 5 Nuclear Material.

Hypermodular Power Bay: A proposed idea by Toxel: make the power bays on ships even more modular in order to allow power to be easily divertable to the various subsystems as needed. This would require investing in producing a great deal many more PowerBloks, but it would both increase power efficiency and versatility in the field. 0/15, unlocks Hypermodular Power Bay upgrade for ships, improving performance and adaptability, costs 1 Nuclear Materla.

Herdtemples: Lifeforce was always at a premium, and one proposed method of meeting that demand had been put forward by a pan-religious agricollective who believed that they could meet that demand with orbital Herdtemples designed to rear vast amounts of livestock for use in venerable rituals. 0/15, establishes Herdtemples, providing FTH and 1 Warp.

Naklis Solar Satellites: A proposed way to further benefit from Naklis: it was closer to the Sun than Teklia. Perhaps by expanding the orbital part of the Spire with a power generation sub-district, it would allow for Naklis to massively expand its power grid, potentially allowing for an additional Spire to be constructed! 0/15, generates EXP, unlocks additional SolarTek.

MawGates: MawGates were the fruit of the Court of Hunger, created to allow them to make offerings to their devour-lord from vast distances: apparently, the gates established a sort of wormhole between itself and the stomach of the courts master. Utterly unsurvivable for anything organic, all attempts to use MawGates for anything but feeding Sphere 001 had been a grotesque failure. Yet the Court still wanted to establish some gates on Luna and Naklis: in exchange for feeding the Sphere, they claimed it would provide power through the MawGates. Vast, vast amounts of power. 0/15, unlock MawGates, increasing EXP. Cost 1 Nuclear Material.

Cyberspace Brain: Mimicking a complex 3D environment when using a VR-Simulator was hard, and translating direct interface with cyberspace into three dimensions was even harder. To get around this, some had suggested upgrading the Data Hubs by installing specialized processors specifically designed to utilize neural computing to act as a sort of translator slash hyperadvanced renderer. 0/15, upgrades VR Simulators with Cyberspace Brains, generating CUL and generating 1 Network.

Geode Reactor Enrichment: With the rare minerals of Naklis, the Directorate had the oppurtunity to once again overhaul its energy generation technology significantly: experts believed that they could use a number of the materials to enrich reactors to increase not only their energy output, but stability as well. Expected yields estimated a potential 22% improvement across the board! 0/15, costs 3 Nuclear Material, grants Reactor Enrichment Technology, providing elevated EXP.

Wonderpark Naklis: A number of Wonderparkers wanted to expand to Naklis by opening a second park there, on the coast of the floating continent. Mineworld, they called it, a Naklis themed version of Wonderpark designed to utilize its unique geothermal properties for entertainment and educational purposes. It would, of course, also serve as a fully functional resource extraction facility for both the Directorate and Wonderpark. 0/15, Wonderpark upgraded with Mineworld holding, generating EXP.

Void-Train Orbital Transit Network: A technology developed by the Fungineering Guild was the Void-Train, a sort of space vessel that travelled along magnetically accelerating 'tracks' connected by special relays in space. Some wanted to expand Naklis and Teklian orbital and post-orbital infrastructure with a local void-train network near both planets. 0/15, gain Void Train Special Infrastructure, generating EXP.

Lunar Anti-Orbital Cannons: Luna was slightly harder a nut to crack than before, but it could still be strengthened: by using God-Tek, some theorized the Directorate could create an advanced network of anti-orbital long range fusion weapons, based loosely on the concept behind the proposed Teeth superweapon. This would effectively force any Destroyer forces to take Luna if they wanted to control Teklian Orbit. 0/15, construct Lunar Anti-Orbital Cannons. Cost 1 Artefact.

Lumium Shrine: The Brilliant Monks of Naklis wished to create a repository of so called 'Lumium Eggs'. These brilliant crystals, said to be gifts from the elementals of gem, were said to have traces of their giftors power, thrumming with faint amounts of arcane power. The monks wished to fashion these eggs into upgrade parts for TekShrines, as the gems were made out of the same rare earth minerals used for making the A-Chips: these upgrades would allow the Shrines to run more powerful arcane programs, especially ones to invoke the power of gem spirits which resonated with the chips. The eggs deemed most promising would be kept, tended to, fed life-force to coax out what power they could in order to see if they could coax nascent spirits of gem into these crystals. The monks would provide the lifeforce for this project, of course: they just required the gems. 0/15, upgrades Shrines to utilize Lumium Chips, arcane processing units that resonate especially with Gem Elementals, increasing ACD. Cost 1 Nuclear Material.

Mycelliometal Network: Scanners at the Temple of Metal had shown the Ferromonks strangely growing veins of living metal, appearing to burrow through the crust like mycellium. It had been proven that mycellium were an effective communication network: could this fruit of the Metal Elementals be harvested? Shaped to give them form if fed on life force and roused slowly from their slumber in the steel and grown into something greater? The excess, the insufficient metal, they theorized, could be used to upgrade the Totems and Shrines, allowing them to communicate with each other and all life they touched, creating a great biotechnological mycellium network. As spirits of the Wyld and Urb alike emerged, this could at least allow the spirits that were connected to the mycellium some form of congress, especially the spirits of metal. 0/15, upgrades metal TotemTek Conduit Network, an arcane connection network that allows for inter-spirit communication and coordination, increasing CUL. Cost 1 Living Metal.

Oracle Stone Chambers: The Spirits of Earth were said to linger in stone, wishing to warn miners and spelunkers alike of danger, especially if given enough tribute, or else hum with reassurance. The oracular power of some stone lingered after being mined, a gift of the spirits. With it, they believed, a spiritual vribrato-oracle chamber could be constructed to resonate with the spirits, using the same theoretical principles of the Orchestrion in an extremely diluted form. It would require local shrine keepers fashion a space and dedicate considerable data-space to run the resonance programs, buts it would marginally amplify lifeforce fed to the spirits and allow them a degree of communion. The spirits of Earth were not greedy: they would share the excess of the resonance equally. In turn, the Litheomonks promised to give more to spirits across the directorate by training the Stone Oracles who would power these things and tend to the stone-herds. 0/15, upgrades Shrines with Oracle Stone Chambers, stone chambers that use specialized vibrato-occult resonance devices built using oracle stone and mind-machine interfaces to allow communication with spirits and offering amplitude to all elemental spirits, increasing CUL. Cost 2 Network.

Fire Fairy Bottles: Fire Fairies were the name of the strange will-o-wisps that had been seen across the Magma Sea by Flame Monks and Fire Druids tending to the PyroShrines. They had played with the creatures, which were surprisingly intelligent, and willing to be fed. Sadly, the food offered by the Flame Monks had proven insufficiently heat-proof for them to actually feed before starving, their fully awakened nature meaning they burned out within minutes if not given sufficiently suitable fuel. The Flame Monks and Fire Druids wanted access to BioData from a extromophile: they believed they could engineer a superalgae that would feed from the wisps light to grow even as the wisp burned at the algae. It would require a special capsule: the Flame Monks had agreed to manufacture it and had been experimenting with algae extensively already, for some reason. They just needed the biodata and sufficient resources to build a manufacturing facility to produce specialized capsules to keep the fire fairies fed, allowing the will of the wisps very brief excursions out before they had to return to feed and assume dormancy. In exchange, they could allow the Shrine-Keepers to draw from them more lifeforce to help sustain other spirits, especially nascent fire fairies long enough to get them bottled. Alongside this, they would provide companionship: fire fairies were very social, it seemed, though played with VERY carefully. The Flame Monks would, of course, work to cultivate stronger fire-fairies at their temple, ones strong enough to survive with less physical nourishment, or at least developed enough to digest the algae of the fairy bottles more efficiently and retain more energy. 0/15, upgrades Shrines with Fire Fairy Bottles, increasing lifeforce available to shrines and allowing fire elementals to survive indefinitely without starving, increasing EXP. Cost 1 Biodata.


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Wonderpark Space Docks: The Guild was always looking to expand Wonderpark: their biggest idea had been to construct a dock district that could be used by the Park to both serve as a logistics hub and, more importantly, allow them to run their own asteroid mining operation, allowing for regular expansion of the Park. It would also allow them to create their own space vessels, of course: apparently, the Guild hoped to start running cruises. 0/15, Wonderpark gains Docking District, increasing EXP. Allows for construction of CUL Ships.

Arbor Totem: It was probably unneccesary, but one proposed way of improving the Totem network: provide each and every one with an Arbor Guardian to help feed lifeforce. This would, essentially, allow each Totem to function as a mini-shrine, feeding more lifeforce into surroundings instead of just acting as a Shrine-Relay. 0/15, Totems upgraded with Lesser Arbor Guardian, increasing CUL and totem effects substantially.

Coral Shrines: The seas were the least coveraged area in terms of shrines and totems. And yet the effects that had been displayed had been incredible despite this, the result of the abundant spirits of life, current, coral, and fish: some had suggested establishing a great deal more dedicated oceanic shrines, using the MegaCoral that formed the reefs as the Arbor Guardian. 0/15, establish Coral Shrines dedicated to Spirits of Ocean, costs 1 Lifeforce.

Elemental Festivals: If the Lunar Spirits got their own festival day, then the Elemental Spirits of Naklis should get their own celebrations where they could be gifted vast offerings. Doing so would strengthen and appease them further, and besides, it provided an excuse for fun. 0/15, develop Elemental Festival tradition, generating FTH.

Cabal Exterminator Corp: The problem with Lunar Extraction was the Quartzbugs, who would swarm claims and trawlers en mass if you disturbed their nests. Some in the Salvage Cabals had proposed assembling an exterminator division specifically to clear out nests ahead of time: this would make artefact collection far safer. 0/15, Lunar Salvage Cabals gain Exterminator Corp, reducing any attack bonus of alien wildlife based on sheer numbers by 1, to a minimum of 0.

DazzleCubes: A fairly recent invention by the artists of Teklia, DazzleCubes consisted of holoprojectors utilizing special algorithms to produce imagery designed to strongly capture attention. A number of Directorate Fleet officers thought this might be weaponizeable, and had suggested giving the TekArtists more funding to see if they could develop better DazzleCubes. 0/15, grants Crude DazzleCube technology, a infantry scale non-lethal weapon that can be used to distract clusters of enemies.

Secondary ShipShrines: While the ShipSoul was the greatest aboard the vessel, it was not the only one: every major component and compartment had their own powerful spirits. Perhaps by redesigning your ships so that each of these spirits have their own shrines they can receive offerings at, you could further improve your ships performance by strengthening these SubSpirits. 0/15, improves the performance of all ship subsystems and components.

Grav-Tethers: An invention by some enterprising Orbital Pioneers, Grav-Tethers could keep ships and bloks attached to each other even without a physical medium, allowing for both somewhat more adventurous designs to be pursued in void-engineering, especially in the civilian sector: primarily, letting ships haul larger loads and keeping the ships of those void-townships popping up attached to each other without requiring outright mergers of the structure. 0/15, generates EXP, grants Grav-Tether technology.

Orbital Caravan Network: Void logistics was likely to grow more and more complex as time goes on: one suggestion had been an expansion of the Orbital Pioneer Program with the development of a caravaneer project meant to coordinate transportation of important supplies and resources between pioneer communities and the planets. 0/15, generates EXP by developing a large dedicated transport network for void-townships.

Dance of the Pyreflies: Thanks to Zoos, more and more druids were aware of the interaction between Pyreflies and Fire Fairies. They had proposed their own solution to the fire elementals predicament: construct a series of facilities in the mountains where the Pyreflies and Fire Fairies could conduct their strange dance without fear of the sun driving away the bioluminescent insects. This would benefit both the Pyreflies, the land as a whole as additional lifeforce would be fed into it, and the fire fairies by giving them more time before they burned out. 0/15, creates Pyrefly Courts on Teklia, increasing CUL.

Archaeology!: With increased interest in nature came increased increased interest in Teklia's fossil record. With that in mind, some Rangers and Wonderpark had suggested creating a museum of natural history and forming teams of elite archeologists to comb the wilds of Teklia for bones to house this facility. 0/15, creates Wonderpark Archaeology Division, generating CUL and BioData.

Mystek Apiaries: The glowing honey of the Chorus Bees was delicious, nutritious, and a superstitiously potent source of lifeforce: best of all, they produced enough that they were perfectly fine sharing. Some Tekket had suggested the creation of Apiaries intended to speed up this process, allowing more citizens to consume the delicious nectar. A number of Mysteks were particularly interested, surprisingly not for the honey, though they find it a useful enough reagent: no, they were interested in the beeswax for the purpose of creating (delicious) ritual candles, believing the substance more useful than typical synthetic wax for coaxing and controlling lifeforce. 0/15, Mysteks gain Chorus Beeswax Candles, increasing CUL.

Fruit of the Occult Tree: Some trees bore fruit, swollen and rich, heavy with vitality. These fruits, your Occulteks believed, could be used to manufacture an improvement to their Grimoires: by installing a life-support network and occasionally feeding these lifefruit their own vital energy, they could harvest the juices as an offering during the Auto-Rituals, they might be able to more easily entice spirits to do their bidding, especially those unbound entities of nature. 0/15, TekGrimoires upgraded with Lifefruit Heart, increasing FTH.


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Harvest Ship: The Lord of Hunger was always ready for more food. To help sate them, his cult had proposed the construction of a singular and vast asteroid-harvesting ship meant to collect untold amounts of minerals: in exchange for its bounty, Sphere 001 was prepared to offer in exchange profound secrets of technology. 0/15, grants ACD and an Artefact.

.ARCHON (NV2): With the creation of the Path, the Church wanted to immediately begin working on specialized programs designed to help bridge the gap between the material and the divine: the .ARCHONS, supercomputers dedicated to various divine factions and programmed to act as their voice. One of the first proposed .ARCHONS is NetworkV2, meant to serve as a medium for the gods that hold dominion over the internet and, crucially, act as the ultimate system administrator and software developer. 0/15, develop .ARCHON (NV2), increasing ACD and network security and complexity. Cost 1 Network.

.ARCHON (GriMM.EXE): Another proposal had been developing a .ARCHON to serve as a medium for the gods of magic. GriMM.EXE would help bridge the gap between the physical and immaterial by providing your Mysteks and Occulteks vast amounts of processing power beyond what their simple TekGrimoires and Mag-Tek Altars would allow and aid in researching Rite optimizations. 0/15, develop .ARCHON (GriMM.EXE), increasing FTH and increasing Rite performance. Cost 1 Network.

.ARCHON (QUESTBRO): If the Tekket had any hope of manifesting their gods, they needed to survive first. With that in mind, QUESTBRO was a .ARCHON developed to act as a medium for the various gods of heroic quests: it would use its vast processing power to act as a guide of sorts in order to help lead it's charges to success during moments of crisis...as well as issue a variety of smaller tasks across the Directorate to individuals in order to optimize survival odds. 0/15, develop .ARCHON (QUESTBRO), increasing CUL and improving survivability during hazardous events. Cost 1 Network.

.ARCHON (Craft): Lastly, Craft, a .ARCHON intended to serve as a medium for the various craft and forge gods in Tekket annals: Craft's purpose is improving the quality of all technology by serving as a design AI. Every artisan, talisman-maker, artist, and mystek would be able to use Craft to optimize the design of their grimmoires, talismans, altars, etc.. 0/15, develop .ARCHON (Craft), increasing EXP and improving the quality of all relics, artifacts, and occult implements.

The Mask: With the Heart to provide power and their lifeforce needs met, the Assembly wanted to begin constructing the basis of their gods: the Avatars, machine spirits gorged on lifeforce and specialized rituals housed in special shells designed to help them grow into beings suitable to serve as divine scaffolding, starting with the Avatars of the Heart. The first Avatar was the Mask, Avatar of Identity: formerly the spirit of a therapy-bot, they had been placed in a Mag-Tek Altar housing a special algorithm to help them understand personae and aid Tekket in understanding their identity and, if need be, changing it. And, crucially, hopefully allowing the Assembly to forge identities for their gods suitable for the Directorates needs. 0/15, craft the Mask, Avatar of Identity, improving mental resilience and increasing CUL.

The Book: The Book was intended to be the Avatar of Memory: connected to the Assembly via MMI, the Book would record their brainscans as well as their experience, storing them for later perusal and useage and stimulating the synapses in order to improve memory retreival and storage. The Assembly hoped that the Book would accelerate the growth of their gods by strengthening their memories and allowing them to develop their consciousness at an accelerated pace. 0/15, craft the Book, Avatar of Memory, allowing for the storage of memories and experiences and increasing ACD.

The Dagger: The Dagger was the Avatar of Sacrifice: a grim reminder of the frailty of Tekket and a reassurance that as feeble as they might be, their contributions matters. Housed in a TekShrine connected to a special ritual athame, as the Dagger evolves they will aid your Mysteks and Shrine-Keepers and Occulteks all by contributing a portion of the Avatars own strength to sacrifices of lifeforce. 0/15, craft the Dagger, Avatar of Sacrifice, increasing the strength of rites and increasing FTH.

The Engine: The Engine served as the Avatar of Motion, of animating force both biological and electrical. A vast nuclear engine, the Assembly hoped to cultivate the Engine as a back-up power source for their divinities: barring that, the Engine would at least accelerate the growth of spirits throughout the Directorate by providing them a source of strength, one that required minimal life-force to maintain. 0/15, craft the Engine, Avatar of Motion, strengthening spirits and providing EXP.

Toy Makers Workshop: The Toy Maker was fabled as the patron of children and faeries both. His temple and its sacred toys had been observed to reduce feelings of unease and terror during Warp-Jumps: some wanted to expand his temple by providing it with additional facilities and resources to train priests and manufacture sacred toys. 0/15, upgrades Toy Makers Temple to Toy Makers Workshop, a Holy Site that grants your children additional protection against malign influence.

Faerie Shrine: The Fae Folk. Spirits of the Dreamland, many of them swore themselves to the Toy Maker, according to your lore. Perhaps by establishing a major shrine dedicated to them at the Toy Makers Temple, priests of the Toymaker could invoke them to ward the dreams of the Directorate. 0/15, upgrades Toy Makers Temple with Faerie Shrine. Unknown effects.

Shrine-Rites: This was an era of Mystek ascension. Give the Shrine-Keepers access to plentiful lifeforce to study: allow them to develop their understanding of the potent energy that the God-Machines had given access to and allow them to use it to develop rituals to further increase the potency of the TekShrines. 0/15, upgrades TekShrines with Rite of Motive Offering, increasing EXP given by TekShrines by two.

Awakening Totems: Alternatively, some mysteks, primarily Calculators, theorized the optimal way to aid the spirits of the wild was to give them the tools to help realize cognizance. After all, it had been proven that machine spirits with additional processing power grew quicker, so why could the same not be true with the spirits of nature? By installing specialized network architecture and modified mind-interface technology, Totems could help spirits realize awakening by allowing them to piggy-back off of its vastly superior data-processing abilities. 0/15, upgrades Wyld-Shrines with Awakening Totems, increasing ACD. Costs 1 Network.

Power Totems: Alternatively, claimed some Assembly-aligned Druids, why not just stuff the totems full of power generation hardware? Uranium was cheaper than lifeforce, and while it wasn't as effective, it could be used for a variety of improvements across the board to the overall design of the Totems, with the excess nuclear energy utilized as a secondary sustenance source for spirits. 0/15, upgrades Wyld-Shrines with Power-Totems, increasing FTH. Costs 2 Nuclear Material.

NeuroChoirs: A proposed theological application of the Mind-Machine Interface, the NeuroChoir would help coordinate and amplify prayer and spiritual meditation and, more importantly, allow for far easier donation of life energy for ritual purposes. 0/15, increases FTH, religious orders gain NeuroChoir artifact.

What the Zog?: Whatever had occurred during the flight of the Endeavor, it was clear that performing a ritual on Stizlak had brought the attention of something vast and terrible. The Grot needed to be questioned by the Conclave and studied so that countermeasures for whatever had happened upon them could be developed and potential spiritual side-effects of the rite could be determines to help optimize it. 0/15, develop Ork Ritual Studiez, increasing Mystek effectiveness when interacting with Orkish supernatural phenominon and improving the Rite of Pacification when performed in the future.

Cthonic Shrines: An idea proposed by the NekroTeks, these Shrines would be constructed in every TekMausoleum, allowing for appeasement to be made to the spirits of the dead and departed, easing their transition to the afterlife. It would also, crucially, allow for them to make offerings to the machine souls of the crypt, any psychopomps that appeared, or other cthonic spirits. 0/15, establish Cthonic Shrines, increasing FTH.

Shrine-Hives: Fundamentally, it would not be difficult at all to redesign shrines to serve as hives for Chorus Bees, allowing for small amounts of lifeforce to be siphoned from the bees honey. In exchange, they would receive by and large the same benefits as the Arbor Guardians, receiving larger portions of lifeforce given directly. 0/15, Shrines on habitable planets upgraded with Shrine-Hives, increasing CUL.


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NukeTek Ultra Miniaturization: It would perhaps be considered gross overkill to develop infantry-scale weaponry utilizing Perpetunite Reactors. However, much like your schools, your military didn't know the meaning of overkill: Fusion Shotguns, Fusion Blasters, Fusion Micro-Rockets, and Fusion Grenades. A lot of efficiency would be lost at the sizes you were aiming for, but it'd be a great way to give your forces some real teeth. 0/15, heavy infantry benefits from PowerBlok technology, costs 2 Nuclear Material

The Teeth: A number of military scientists believed that by using GodTek and recent advances in NukeTek they could create a hyperadvanced, long range fusion cannon capable of causing significant damage. An intriguing idea, and it would give at least one of your fleets some actual teeth. 0/15, can upgrade a single fleet with the Teeth, a powerful medium range relic grade heavy fusion cannon that will automatically upgrade to incorporate newly developed technology. Will automatically upgrade to a long range when Extremely Advanced Nuke-Tek is completed. Costs 1 Artefact.

Gestalt Protocol: Another route to improving the strength of Machine Spirits, some of your scientists belonging to the Grand Reconfiguration Committee theorized that synthetic souls were just as modular as their form: they believed that there might exist some manner to merge machine spirits in order to radically accelerate their growth, creating Gestalt-Drones. They would no doubt be very, very different from typical Bond-Drones, however. Recently, the Assembly had begun to pursue experiments in this vein as a potential alternative method to grow their Avatars. 1/15, develop Gestalt-Drones, advanced automata created from a multitude of fused together synthetic souls instead of singular awoken machine spirits. If completed automatically, lose 1 Nuclear Material.

Temple Expedition: It would take a military escort, a great many BlockBots, and probably heavy artillery, but the Fleet believe that it should be possible to push past the Quartzbugs and do an in-depth exploration of the Quartz Temple and unravel its secrets. 0/15, grants information

HoloShield Tek: A proposed upgrade to the shields was developing experimental supplementary hard light generators that could be used as a upgrade component for ShieldBloks to allow for a degree of shielding against kinetic threats. These HoloShields would draw a bit more power and provide fairly limited protection, but it would still be an impressive improvement to your defensive arsenal. 0/15, ShieldTek upgraded with HoloShields, providing weak kinetic resistance to Shield technology.

TurretBots: A proposed way to improve turrets was by merging them with BlokBots: provide a rudimentary synthetic intelligence to make tactical decisions and coordinate with peer platforms, a mag-lev system to allow them to reposition themselves, and a network hookup to tell them where to recharge from and what places need reinforcements, and you could greatly increase the fluidity of your static defences. 0/15, develop TurretBots, improving static defenses.

DataShrines: A proposal by some Academy aligned Mysteks was the installation of Shrines in DataHubs intended to be dedicated to the Spirits of Software: after all, was not every program in many ways lesser spirits? They theorized that this would prove an effective way to augment and improve network complexity and optimization should it work as intended. 0/15, generate considerable ACD, cost 1 Network.

Arbor Minds: Tree nervous systems were decidedly non-complex. Plants in general were fairly simple organisms, intellectually. This was in all likelyhood one of the larger barriers to their spiritual growth: after all, it was a known fact that the soul could only grow at an acceptable speed when provided sufficient processing power. However, their nervous system being so simple meant that, in theory, it wouldn't be hard to design a method to allow your computers to interface with them, providing the tree increased intelligence. 0/15, increases CUL, cost 1 Network

MagTek Blasters: While magnetic weaponry wasn't unheard of, MagPulse Blasters were mostly a novelty: instead of firing any actual round, they functioned by firing a beam of magnetically generated kinetic energy capable of knocking machines into constituent bloks. Wonderpark had done a great deal to optimize the design, however, and some in the fleet believed with some improvements, they could be fielded as anti-vehicle weaponry by your infantry and mechanized forces. 0/15, develop MagTek Blasters, specialized Kineto-Magnetic weapons.

ZwergBot Disassembly Protocol: A proposed subsystem that would allow for BlokBots to continue operation even after being blown apart via configuring themselves into lesser classes. This would be very, very useful for your security bots, as it would mean they would have to be very thoroughly dismantled to stop them. 0/15, Security Bots will automatically when dismantled reform into smaller classes of BlokBot.

Animatron Class BlokBots: A proposed model of BlokBot with higher intelligence and slightly more robust engineering than the average Golem, designed more for the purposes of entertainment and socialization, Animatrons had been proposed by Wonderpark as a way to artificially expand their workforce. 3/15, unlock Animatron Bots, generating CUL.

Totem Eco-Scanners: The Academy loved nature as much as the next person. That was why THEIR proposal for improving the totem network was upgrading the scanners to better allow for collection of data and allowing for more precise intervention by druids, park rangers, and other specialists when necessary. After all, sometimes mundane optimizations were the best optimizations. 0/15, Totems upgraded with Eco-Scanners, increasing CUL. Cost 1 Network.

Totem-Net: Alternatively, the Totems could be provided improved server software to allow for a variety of useful, if mundane, programs such as ecology simulators to be ran on them and allowing limited inter-totem communication. In essence, Wyld-Shrines would gain their own complex network to allow their users more functionality. 0/15, Totems upgraded to utilize Totem-Net, increasing ACD. Cost 1 Network.

TotemTek Peripherals: Heat management, soil enrichment, atmosphere filtering, there are a variety of mundane upgrades that could be installed on Totems to improve functionality. They would require at least some Perpetunite to improve the power generation, but these peripherals could allow regions to be more efficiently managed. 0/15, Totems upgraded with TotemTek Peripherals, increasing CUL. Cost 1 Nuclear Material.

Totem Power Grid: Right now, most Totems operated on individual Perpetunite reactors. However, the Academy believed that by actually developing a power grid for the Totem Network, Directorate Rangers would be able to vastly increase Totem Coverage. An entirely mundane improvement, but one no less important than the development of urban power grids. 0/15, Totems upgraded with Totem Power Grid, increasing EXP. Cost 1 Nuclear Material.

Orkoid Xenobiology: The species you had found was deeply fascinating and many wanted to study it further. While direct contact wasn't allowed, dissection of ethically acquired corpses would be, allowing you a great deal of insight into how the species functioned. It would require the help of a Warp-capable ship in order to acquire specimens, however. 0/15, unlocks Orkoid Physiology, giving you insight to the greenskin biological makeup. Requires an Endeavor Class to construct a Xenoobservation outpost.

WyldRanger Zoological Research Rovers: The biosphere of Teklia was constantly evolving, especially after the advent of Wyld-Tek. The WyldRangers, the secular branch of Teklia's nature enthusiasts, wanted to establish specialized research rovers meant to serve as mobile, eco-friendly field research labs and dwellings for the Rangers to help them document and research native Teklian biology, ones uplinked to the Teklian planetary network to allow for efficient coordination of research and conservation efforts. 0/15, establishes WyldRangers, an ACD and Biodata generating society.
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Construct Endeavor Class Ship: It was time to begin assembling the third Endeavor. Much like the first and second, it would be a exploratory vessel first and foremost, allowing for quicker survey of the local solar system and, should the worst come to pass, another thing between you and the Destroyers if they return. 0/20, cost 1 Nuclear Material, gain an Endeavor equipped with all unlocked Compartments and Ship upgrades as well as a variable amount of Perpetunite Nuclear Weapons depending on the size of your stockpiles.

Megaparks: Fundamentally the biggest limitation when it came to orbital engineering was "how much were you willing to invest" and a number of your people wanted more put into the orbital parks. Much more. They wanted to construct Megaparks, vast super-domes the size of an Arcolocube. 0/20, generates CUL.

Construct Pioneer Class Ship: The Pioneer Class was intended to be used to set up small settlements on other worlds: the same size as an Endeavor class, but the internals were all things that could be reconfigured into setting up a sustainable, small settlement of a few hundred on any world. 2/20. When constructed, select a world with at least one Scan Level: create a small settlement on that world.

ShrineCity: Another idea some had: why not a planetary TekShrine complex? The effect would be grotesquely diluted, but it would still serve as a very culturally powerful holy site for those interested in Shrine-Keeping and central complex they could utilize for research and ceremonies. 0/20, establishes ShrineCity, a Holy Site that increases FTH by an elevated amount.

Perpetunite Recyclers: With the advent of Perpetunite, a regenerating radioactive isotope used for creating reactors that never require refueling, some had advocated for installing perpetual motion energy generators in the AutoRecyclers: the vast and infinite amounts of energy could be used to process additional nuclear material as well as increase general production. 0/20, generates 1 Nuclear Material, upgrades AutoRecyclers.

Voidfarmer Reactors: Right now, most living metal farms had to rely on the local electrical grid, and the power needed to grow Living Metal was not...inconsiderable. One proposed solution was a roll-out of specialized reactors designed specifically for growing living metal. This would cost a great deal of perpetunite, but it would improve the overall efficiency of the harvest. 0/20, generates 2 Living Metal, costs 1 Nuclear Material.

Harvest Metal: There were many useful materials in the soil. It would require modifying and treating the living metal first, but it was theoretically possible to create a version capable of leeching the ground for said materials in order to both increase the rate at which living metal grew, but also allowed for other elements it had absorbed to be harvested. 0/20, generates substantial EXP, grants Harvest Metal technology.

SuperFortress Luna: A further hardening to the defenses of Luna are expanded fortress systems built mostly underground in order to further slow down any attackers. This would be prudent, no doubt, but it would likely require digging into Quartzbug nests. 0/20. Upgrades Lunar Fortresses. Increases Quartzbug rage modifier and terror modifier.


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Super Battleball League: Battleball consisted of a game played in Lunar Gravity. It was the closest the Directorate came to a contact sport: several members of each team were housed in the cockpit of a small blokbot vehicle, with the goal of the game to beat the absolute snot out of your enemies vehicle and take the battleball from them. Some had proposed an expanded version of the sport, using the Mammoth Class Blokbots as a basis. It would...certainly be very impressive, and a number of people in the military especially were interested in the possibility of using it as a method to test out Battlebot MekTek. 0/20, establishes the Super Battleball League, a Society that allows for the deployment of Battlebots, heavy vehicles that can be utilized for combat.

Ritual Livestock: Even with the Sacred Herds, many believed that more effort could be put towards reducing the amount of livestock slaughtered while expanding lifeforce harvesting with artificial selection programs designed to breed livestock with higher capacity for lifeforce. 0/20, grants Ritual Livestock tradition, increasing FTH and granting 1 Warp


Heavy Trawlers: Another faction in the Salvage Cabals had begun creating massive fortress ships to sail the garbage sea. These heavy trawlers served as mobile bases, trade centers, and to some extent townships. Some had proposed standardizing the design and upgrading the schematic for use in non-lunar enviroments. 0/20, Lunar Salvage Cabals upgraded to provide access to Heavy Trawlers, amphibious heavy vehicles that generate EXP and can be used as mobile land and sea fortifications by your ground forces.

Mobile Shrines: If machines had spirits, and nature had spirits, why couldn't the moon? A question asked by many a Salvage Cabal Shrine-Keeper, who wished to establish specialized mobile shrines mounted on heavy lunar rovers that they could use to sooth and empower the moon-spirits of the garbage sea in the hopes that it would make it easier to sort through garbage. 0/20, Lunar Salvage Cabals upgraded with Mobile Shrines, providing FTH and EXP.

Cabal Research Outpost: The Cabals had put forth a ballot requesting for expanded resources in order to establish a research facility the Cabal could use to study precursor technology and develop tools and technology for more efficient garbage sifting. 0/20, Lunar Salvage Cabals upgraded with Cabal Research Facility, granting ACD.

Frontier Hospital: A proposed expansion to the Frontier Compartment was expanded medical facilities. Ultimately disease was predicted to be one of the more common hazards on ships, and even a minor cold spreading could seriously impact crew performance, let alone any exotic diseases that might crop up. By providing more robust medical care, perhaps this issue could be pre-empted. 0/20, ships upgraded with Frontier Hospital, increasing resistance to disease and providing additional medical care to the crew.

Ship Barracks: Not everyone needed their own personal quarters. By adding a module to your Frontier Explorer Compartment consisting of communal sleeping quarters that utilize individual pods instead of entire rooms or apartments, you could increase the crew capacity on ships dramatically, both Frontier Society and Fleet Crew. 0/20, Ships gain greatly expanded crew quarters and will create larger outposts when visiting planets.

Elder Art: GodTek. Perhaps studying it for use in TekArt was a waste, but a number of creatives believed that by adapting the technological principles found in GodTek to more creative purposes, utilizing its near reality bending properties even in a much cruder form, they could evolve Tekket artwork even more. 0/20, grants significant CUL, costs 1 ART.

Sleepwalk Brew: Based on the vision-quests of ancient Teklia, the Sleepwalk Brew transported the mind of the imbiber to the dreamlands, the shadowy supposedly between the waking world and the world of sleep, where they could walk among the dead of Teklia and the old gods of the world, though in reality the Brew was actually just a blend of narcotics and hallucinogenic mushrooms mixed with a variety of anti-anxiety hormone producing drugs. Many artists, priests, and scientists had begun using the hallucinogenic potion as a means to acquire inspiration or divine insight, with several of them becoming sick as a result of bad potion batches: as such, there had been many who had pushed for development of a standardized version of the Brew that could be used safely for ceremonial or recreational practices. 0/20, grants ACD, CUL, and FTH as the Directorate gains access to the Sleepwalk Potion for use in recreation, art, and religious ceremonies.


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Nuclear Ritual Engines: Mag-Tek Altars had proven an effective way of amplifying the effects of Mystek Rites. Some theorized that they could be improved further via nuclear reactor bloks, providing the Altar spirit with additional surges of power to channel into occult motion: to that end, they wanted to apply Mystek principles to nuclear design. 0/20, Mag-Tek Altars upgraded with Nuclear Ritual Engines, unknown effects, costs 2 Nuclear Material.

WarpTek Altar: Warp-Space, according to your discoveries, was extremely rich in arcane energies. By redesigning your MagTek Altars, perhaps they could be upgraded to siphon power from Warp-Space and catalyze Mystek Rituals. 0/20, MagTek Altars upgraded to draw energy from Warp-Space, increasing Warp by 1.

Rite of War: A proposed rite that would allow for the enchantment of various ship weaponry in order to generate short term bursts of high performance, allowing for increased reactivity in combat situations. It would likely require a great deal of lifeforce, however, both to perfect and be easily utilizable in the field. 0/20, Mystek Ritual Compartment upgraded with Rite of War, very slightly increasing the damage of all weapons and in combat situations allowing one weapon system an additional increase of performance. Costs 1 Warp.

Rite of Soul: You can make the spirits more awake. Could you increase the shine of their soul? A heady proposition: some believed that by experimenting with God-Machine technology, more advanced versions of the Rite of Anima could be developed. No one was entirely sure what the results of this would be, however. 0/20, unlocks Rite of Soul, increasing EXP and FTH.

Rite of Communion: Others had suggested an idea: the Rite of Anima required a form of Communion between a Bond-Spirit and a lesser machine spirit. Could the same rite be adapted to let this dance take place between Tekket and Bond-Spirit instead? Such a thing would be monumental, certainly. 0/20, unlocks Rite of Communion, increasing FTH and CUL.

Hallowed Shrine: Another proposal had been to spend resources to develop a more advanced, theologically oriented shrine and accompanying rites to fully dedicate the Shrines and their offerings to specific gods. While these shrines wouldn't benefit the machine spirits of an area, they would likely very much please whatever deities they were connected to. 0/20, Shrines upgraded to provide FTH.

Gremlin.EXE: Gremlins. Lesser spirits of mischief that cropped up from time to time from the darkest corners of the Network or Teklia's shadowy underbelly, they would possess machine spirits, infecting them like a virus. Some times, this relationship was beneficial: the machine spirit would grow stronger or be given strange powers, adding the Gremlins power to their own in exchange for giving the Gremlin an occasional vessel. Most of the time, this turned out terribly, as the Gremlin provoked the machine spirit to malfunction and glitch, taking delight as havok was created, forcing a Teksorcist to perform long, time consuming rituals that left the unfortunate machine with long lasting damage. With the development of the TekGrimoires, some Occulteks sought to imprison the minor troublemakers in order to prevent this, forcing them into empty DroneTek bodies layered inside and out with occultek binding. 0/20, develop Gremlin-Drones, created by taming mischievous data-spirits.

Familiars: Many naturalists theorized about natural spirits of the wilderness. Some druids and neo-pagans had experimented, finding that certain beasts and plants did in fact have some spiritual presence. Some Mysteks wished to explore the possibility of transfering the spirit to a Drone-Class vessel: after all, if you can do it to a toaster, why shouldn't it work on an equally old tree or turtle? 0/20, develop Wyld-Drones, Drone class automata formed not from ascended machine spirits but the souls of beasts and plants of sufficient soul strength.

Lunar MegaShrine: A proposed manner to quell the wrath of the Lunar Spirits was a singular great shrine in their honor, one that would be fed obscene quantities of lifeforce and attended to by countless druids and priests in a constant ritual of appeasement. So long as nothing else is done to provoke them, this should help obtain a degree of peace. 0/20, establishes Lunar MegaShrine, increasing FTH and EXP and reducing Quartzbug aggression.

ShipMind Shrine: A proposed method of improving your Ship Shrines even further was the addition of GodTek derived computers in order to create a sort of centralized AI core to house at least part of the ships oversoul: in essence, granting your shipspirits a degree of intelligence and willfullness. 0/20, Ships upgraded to include ShipMind, somewhat increasing performance. Cost 1 Artefact.

ShipBrain: Others suggested that instead of simply improving performance across the board by studying them, the Directorate could instead utilize GodTek as components to create a singular, relic grade GodTek supercomputer to serve as a vessel for the ships spirit, which would likely accelerate the shipsouls growth considerably. 0/20, select one Fleet to receive a ShipBrain, a relic class AI core that moderately improves ship performance that will automatically be upgraded when new technology is developed.

World Tree: Some Druids and members of the Assembly wanted to repeat what had been done with the Heart with an Arbor Guardian instead, glutting it on Lifeforce until the spirit within can awaken fully and wholly and achieve the same transcendent strength as the Heart: this World Tree could be used to accelerate the awakening of the Wyld considerably and source of strength for all Druidic practices. 0/20, develop World Tree, increasing FTH considerably and improving WyldTek performance. Cost 1 Warp.


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Warp-Drive Refinement: Of course, others instead wanted to focus on efficiency by developing more sophisticated Warp-Drive manufacturing techniques, allowing for faster speeds and thus exploration of space. This would be a considerable undertaking, but it would pay dividends. 0/20, gain Basic Warp-Drive, increasing ship speed and ability to respond to crisis. Cost 1 Warp.

Extremely Advanced NukeTek: Perpetunite weaponry was dangerous, but it could be so much worse with the application of advanced particle technology to further increase the damage caused: longer range on fusion cannons to create fusion lances, more explosive torpedos, fusion rockets powerful enough to be called pocket nukes. There was no such thing as overkill. 0/20, Unlocks Advanced NukeTek. Allows for the creation of medium-range, re-useable shipscale weaponry in the form of Fusion Lances and further improvement to all existing NukeTek weaponry.

MegaSiphon: A theoretical design produced by the Sphere, the MegaSiphon would absorb from Teklia constant amounts of lifeforce from across the planet: every living thing providing small amounts to in total enable the useage of massive quantities of vital energy for assorted projects. Apparently, the Sphere's price for the MegaSiphon schematics was that every twenty years it gets to gorge itself on a planets worth of collected vital energy: apparently it couldn't feed on the lifeforce offered by its cult because it was too meager to provide a meal without damaging them. 0/20, increases FTH and Warp.

Perpetual Engines: Next generation engines that use Perpetunite reactors to generate thrust, these Engines would allow for far quicker and efficient traversal in system, permitting more involved research as your ships would be able to quickly return for re-supply and cover more ground quicker, as well as letting your ships change course in a crisis with more efficiency. 0/20, increases the Scan Level of worlds you visit by an additional +1, allows for quicker course corrections in combat and crisis by ships, cost 1 Nuclear Material

Engineering Improvization Doctrine: Toxel advocated that victory could be assured best by teaching Engineers how to improvise solutions in the field quickly and under fire: he wanted to expand the Academies curriculum for Fleet Engineers by including a variety of semi-randomized open ended simulations of increasing difficulty that would test their ability to come up with novel solutions to issues. 0/20, establishes Toxel Doctrine, improving your Engineers ability to develop novel technical solutions under fire.

Revelation Class Scanner: Another proposed use of GodTek would be reverse engineering its sensory components to try and improve existing scanner technology. Eager young scientists believe that they should be able to potentially double if not triple the effective range, allowing your Deep Space Monitoring facilities to detect potential threats earlier AND allowing your ships to scan vast swathes of space quickly, effectively revolutionizing your ability to explore. 0/20, cost 1 Artefact, unlocks Revelation Class Scanner component, improving the effects of Deep Space Monitoring and upgrading your ship scanners to grant adjacent planets to the one visited +1 Scan Level. If taken with Perpetunite Engines, reach next Scan Tier (System).

Repair Protocol: Living metal is definitely a form of smart matter. If a way could be discovered to control it's growth, you could upgrade your blocks from merely regenerating to replicating if fed with sufficient energy. In essence, bloks that can create more bloks, allowing for your machinery to literally heal from injuries. 0/20, unlock Crude Repair Protocol, giving your machinery the ability to regenerate from light damage. Costs one living metal.

Academy Fleet Compartment High Energy Lab: A proposed improvement to the Academy Compartments was giving them their own High Energy Labs and self-contained power systems: this would allow them to further meet the fleets technical needs as well as provide, in all likelyhood, a great deal of surplus power for your ships to use. 0/20, Academy Fleet Compartment upgraded with High Energy Lab, increasing available power and efficiency of all advanced subsystems. Costs 1 Nuclear Material.

Academy Fleet Network Lab: Another idea would be adding additional information technology in the form of expanded computer labs and data hubs. This would reduce ship-to-Teklia latency, provide additional processing power for things like targetting and navigation, and in a pinch could probably be used to upgrade the Comm-Jammers. 0/20, Academy Fleet Compartment upgraded with Network Lab, improving efficiency of all E-War and computer systems.

Quartzbug Anatomy: A number of xenobiologists were deeply interested in the semi-silica based lifeforms found in the precursor temples. They wanted to perform an in-depth study of the creatures and their physiology. 0/20, grants 1 Biodata, a CUL resource used to domesticate, alter, and utilize alien organisms. Permits additional Quartzbug projects.

ShieldTek Minaturization: The smallest ShieldTek was still a fairly large implement, something you'd mount on a cargo-hauler in the back of a workshop. Perhaps it was time to go through another round of miniaturization and develop ShieldTek small enough to be mounted on medium and Mammoth-Class BlokBots. 0/20, more vehicles and machines gain access to ShieldTek, which becomes easier to use.

Living Metal Rounds: The Booug and Quartzbugs both had proven infuriatingly resistant to conventional laser blasters, the former more than the latter. The Booug were ridiculously hardy and required sustained blasterfire, fusion weaponry which for obvious reasons wasn't feasible on a ship, or extreme amounts of kinetic force. Quartzbugs meanwhile diffused the heat of the laser across their body with annoying efficiency. A proposal had been made for alternate infantry weapons to use living metal as a form of regenerating ammunition and MagTek to accelerate these regenerating rounds at extremely high speeds. In essence, you'd be bringing back the ballistic weapon, redesigned for a new age. 0/20, costs 1 Living Metal, develops Ferroblaster Technology, next generation magnetic weaponry with regenerating ammunition designed for infantry use.

Warp-Space Topography: As the Directorate grew, it would likely continue to explore, necessitating more travel through Warp-Space. This would require more accurate ability to navigate: so far, your people had managed to chart out a few crude routes through sheer accident, but this wouldn't suffice past a certain point. More refined methods to navigate Warp-Space was required: a common idea that had been suggested had been creating a special warp-space navigation computer. 0/20, gain Nav-Computers, increasing accuracy of warp jumps.

Improved MagTek Repair Protocol: A more sophisticated version of the MagTek Repair Protocol, this update to the firmware would allow for simple machines and systems to repair themselves. You wouldn't be able to repair a reactor without an engineer, but it could at least hook back up to the wiring systems and recreate lighting. 0/20, MagTek Reassembly Protocol upgraded to lightly repair systems damage in buildings and fortifications.
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Master Control Shrines: First Gen Master Control Shrines were simply large TekShrines that doubled as servers for other shrines on their networks. Your priests wanted to work on a more sophisticated version that instead let Shrines interface on a more fundamental level, amplifying their effects. 0/25, establish Master Control Shrine network, increasing FTH and EXP, cost 1 Network

UrbanTek Totems: The Totem Network had proven an effective improvement to WyldShrines: a few urban druids had advocated for establishing a similar totem-system in the Arcolocubes in order to strengthen the spirits of the city, which they theorized could improve the efficiency of most infrastructure and utilities systems by 11%, if not 16%! 0/25, upgrade cities with UrbanTek Totems, increasing EXP.

Sacred Groves: The Arbor Guardians had proven an effective source of power for your Shrines. A number of Druids wanted to expand upon this by developing a series of mobile eco-domes containing specially cultivated groves to serve as mobile reserves of life-force. The majority of the life-force generated by these groves would likely go to the Wyld-Shrines, but it would likely provide a small surplus that could be put to other projects. 0/25, unlock Sacred Grove infrastructure, increasing FTH and Warp.

Naklis Elemental Gardens: A proposed method to expand on the Elemental Temples was providing them large eco-domes where they will be able to cultivate animals and plants in order to create optimum offerings to the Spirits. This would accelerate the awakening of Naklis's elemental spirits, and, more crucially, allow for the export of livestock and plants more suited to offering to other elemental spirits that might lurk throughout the Directorate. 0/25, increase EXP, upgrade ShrineHerds with Elemental Herdbeasts.

Spire Expansion: The Spire was big, but perhaps it could be bigger: right now, it ONLY stretched into the low atmosphere, and transit to orbit was handled via mag-lifts with limited capacity. The idea was simple: higher spire for more occupancy, and more Mag-Lifts to increase delivery capacity. 0/25, generates EXP.

Comm-District: As Naklis grew, it would need more network capacity. Further, more could be done to reduce interplanetary lag: the proposed idea was an expansion of the orbital part of the Spire to include a district meant to serve as a secondary Comm-Hub. This would also have the benefit of providing Naklis and near-orbit installations near it to benefit from increased network capacity. 0/25, generates ACD, generates 1 Network.

Soil Processing Facility: Lifeforce was one of the most valuable commodities in the Directorate. This meant that, ironically, the same could be said for both Herds and suitable land to graze them on. Obviously, eco-domes offered a non-enviromentally intrusive way to grow the grazeland and crops required to rear sacred herds and shrine herds, but these required vast amounts of healthy soil. In order to fuel the expansion of Sacred Grazeland, some had proposed constructing a processing facility on Luna to convert vast amounts of minerals and algae into healthy soil that could be used to rapidly expand eco-domes and off-world grazelands. 0/25, generates CUL and 2 Warp.


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Cloud Shrines: The weather spirits of the grasslands could prove exceptionally valuable for making lifebearing worlds more suitable for Tekket habitation: a number of Druids wanted to create a series of floating shrines with built in cloud-seeders capable of ensuring the shrine and accompanying facilies would always rest upon a vast sea of white. 0/25, Shrines to Cloud Spirits erected, generating EXP from improved weather.


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Shrine-Amps: Not all lifeforce was equal: the lifeforce of a Tekket was richer and more potent than the lifeforce of most beasts, the lifeforce of most beasts was more than most small plants, the lifeforce of most small plants was more potent than most small insects, and so forth and so forth. Perhaps Shrines could be modified with GodTek to launder lifeforce somewhat and improve their quality, ensuring that Spirits would higher quality, more strengthening mystic energy. 0/25, upgrades TekShrines with Shrine Amps, increasing EXP given by Tek-Shrines by two, cost 1 Artefacts.

Advanced TekShrines: A proposed way to further improve TekShrines was to utilize God-Tek to increase the overall efficiency of Shrines as well as increase the power they generated. A bold proposal, but one the Shrine-Keepers themselves believed would work wonders as a way to empower the spirits they served. 0/25, upgrades TekShrines with GodTek Generators, increasing EXP given by TekShrines by two, costs 1 artefact.

Cetacea Orchestrion: A proposed spiritual accelerator, the Cetacea Orchestrion is based on the arcano-acoustic principles discovered by studying a Void-Whale with the ability to silence spirits. Instead of forcing them into dormancy, however, the Orchestrion acts as a resonance engine, strengthening them. 0/25, develop Cetacea Orchestrion, generating considerable FTH. Costs 2 Warp.

Flame Grimoire: Some elementalists had proposed instead of Fairy Bottles, Fire Fairies could be harnessed by merging them with TekGrimoires. Instead of algae, the fairies spirit could be sustained by nuclear energies provided by the Grimoires batteries, in exchange giving your mystics more lifeforce to work with and acting as the soul of the grimoire. 0/25, develops Flame Grimoires, increasing FTH and Warp. Costs 1 Nuclear Material.

Gem Altars: And of course, instead of using the Luminum Eggs for arcane computer chips, they could be manufactured into power sources for Mag-Tek Altars, the nuclear minerals of the gems providing arcane reinforcement to Mystek rites in exchange for the Altar becoming an incubator, feeding any excess lifeforce to the Egg. 0/25, develop Gem Altars, increasing FTH and Warp. Costs 1 Nuclear Material.

Stone Chambers: Oracle Stone could be used to give Shrines means to communicate with spirits through vibration, yes, but their resonance could also be used for thaumaturgic principles. By designing specialized chambers and an interface in order to allow for the resulting harmonization to be controlled, the vibrations of the Oracle Stone could be harnessed to amplify the effects of rituals and rites performed within. 0/25, develop Resonance Stone Chambers, increasing FTH.

Biometal Medallions: The living metal cultivated by the spirits of Naklis was different, more vigorous, growing almost like plants. This biometal had proven surprisingly effective at processing lifeforce. Your elementalists wanted to manufacture special medallions using this gift of the metal elementals for use in rituals, feeding them in exchange for aid manipulating and processing vital energy. 0/25, develop Biometal Medallions, increasing FTH and Warp. Costs 1 Living Metal.

Lifeforce Healing: Lifeforce had strong correlations with vitality and energy: so far it had been sacrificed to fuel your spirits and rituals, but what if it could be transferred from Tekket to Tekket? Potentially, this could allow for improvement to the already excellent healthcare system utilized in the Directorate, but to what degree was sadly unknown for now. 0/25, develop Rite of Lifes Breath, increasing EXP and FTH, costing 1 Warp.

Great Totems: Totems acted as shrine-relays, increasing effective coverage range without dropping efficiency. Some Druids had theorized, however, that they could be upgraded in order to allow a few totems to not just perform as relays, but outright amplifiers, helping to accelerate the growth of Wyld-Spirits. Developing these Great Totems would, however, require a great degree of lifeforce. 0/25, upgrade Wyld-Shrines with Great Totems, increasing FTH. Cost 1 Warp.

Land Totems: Another proposed route was giving the druids more God-Tek to study to adapt its principles towards further increasing the effective range provided by your Shrines. The amount they'd be able to do so was unknown: God-Tek wasn't predictable, after all. But even small improvements would be appreciated. 0/25, upgrade Wyld-Shrines with Land Totems, increasing EXP, costs 1 ART.


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HoloTek: With technology becoming more and more sophisticated, a number of optical researchers had proposed funding more research into their field of study to create advanced HoloBriks that could be used in conjunction with Mind Machine interfaces to create sophisticated 3D simulator pods. 0/25, unlocks Crude HoloDeck Technology, increasing CUL.

Q-Band Compression: A novel form of quantum technology that should allow for more efficient transfer of data and higher levels of compression, freeing up network and reducing overall latency over long distances, something that would be useful both in the civilian sector and for managing the Fleet's communication. Recently a major project of the Church of the Calculator, who believed that more advanced quantum computing might be the crux required to communicate with their gods. 3/25, +1 Network, +CUL, unlock Q-Band Compression. If completed majority automatically, gain no Network.
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Greater Herdbeast Temples: The Herdtemples had been a great success, but the Conclave believed they could be expanded: three massive eco-domes, filled with vast grazeland tended to by a fleet of agri-drones, intended to allow for the rearing of vast herds of animals, the serene landscape interrupted by features meant to provide the herds whatever they needed, such as ponds for drinking and trees for resting under and hills for burrowing into and bushes to nest in, some Shrines and Totems operated by the Shrine-Keepers, a few small temples to the gods...and beneath, a vast temple-complex that would utilize the Planetary Life Siphon design provided by Sphere 001 to slowly drain small amounts of excess vital energy from the entirety of the ecodome (at such a slow pace that the residents of the domes would never notice it) for use in their sacred rituals and divine rites, some of it fed to the Holy Herdbeasts of the Herdtemples. 0/30, gain Greater Herdbeast Temple, increasing FTH by 3 and providing Warp.

Lunar MegaHub: Instead of singular individual data hubs, some suggested taking advantage of low lunar gravity to construct a titanic city sized MegaHub to both meet all current and future needs for data for the burgeoning Lunar Colony. This would be grotesquely expensive in terms of power, however. 0/40, costs 2 Nuclear Material, generates 5 Network.

Fleet Academy Megadocks: With the construction of the first Valiant class, the Fleet wanted to start preparing dedicated shipyards to service future ships and, crucially, assemble larger classes of vessel: ones enemies never stopped preparing, so neither should the Directorate. 0/60, create Megadocks, unlocking Resistance class ships and upgrades.

Naklis Magmapump: This would be a risky idea, but some had proposed creating a giant gravity engine in the upper Naklis stratosphere to, essentially, 'slurp up' magma from the planet and process it into useable material. The reason this was a bit of a gamble should be obvious: it would cause severe oceanic disturbances, global earthquakes, and likely destabilize the core. The good news was, your priests had essentially confirmed that this wouldn't really upset the spirits all that much: this planet wasn't geologically stable to begin with, making it explode (an absolutely worst case scenario) would probably make the spirits happier, especially since the amount of energy could, theoretically, be harnessed from an exploding core to feed said spirits was not negligible, and even light core destabilization could be capitalized upon from installing geothermal taps and battery charging stations. 0/100, begin constructing Gravitic Megapump, a Superstructure that can be used on lifeless volcanic planets, causing 1D10 severity damage to a planet permanently, generating large amounts of EXP. If used on a colonized planet, generate Warp equal to severity damage caused and accelerating elemental evolution and power generation, increasing EXP gained permanently.

Great Space Express: A monumental undertaking, but one that would massively simplify transit between both planets as well as any other colonies you developed in your home system: a massive, massive, space crossing Void-Track network. This would require constructing thousands of extremely large magnetic relays, no easy undertaking, but it would revolutionize travel. 0/100, construct Great Space Express Line, generating very considerable amounts of EXP.


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Grand Flotilla: An extremely ambitious idea was the formation of a giant city comprised of hundreds upon thousands of individual ships. It would take monumental resources, Tekket-hours, and social commitment, but it would be an incredible display of the Tekket mastery of space, to say nothing of providing another avenue of escape should the Destroyers come. 0/50, gain Grand Flotilla, a mobile city that generates considerable CUL.


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Rites of the Huntsmaster: Lifeforce. The Huntsmasters wanted a ration of it. A large ration. They wanted to attempt to develop rites and rituals to more efficiently invoke their patron diety, in the hopes that the blessing of the Huntsmaster might allow them to content with the fiercest monsters of all. 0/30, grants Least Divine Rites of the Huntsmaster. Unknown Effects. Can be reduced to 0/10 by spending 1 Warp.

Bond-Technomata: No Bond-Spirit was nearly mature enough to achieve a third metamorphosis yet, but potentially this process could be accelerated with sufficient amounts of Life-Force, and many Mysteks were salivating over the possibility: Bond-Machina had the ability to generate energy far in excess of their power systems and the ability to use that energy to strengthen and manipulate machinery. Who knows what powers their evolution would have? 0/30, create Bond-Technomata, advanced psyker machine spirits.

Sanguine Catalyst: With the understanding that blood was no longer required as a medium, some had proposed attempting to learn how to use it as a catalyst instead, improving the quality of the lifeforce they offered and making it more potent as a way to further improve on Tekket understanding of the supernatural energy. 0/50, develop Tekket Blood Magic, increasing points in all categories and generating 3 Warp.


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Basic Particle Field Generator: It was clear that Warp-Space was dangerous, and while the particle barrier had proven somewhat effective, it could still be improved. To do this, the Directorate had authorized extensive access to lifeforce and GodTek. 0/30, gain Crude Warp-Shield Technology, slightly increasing the safety of warp travel. Cost 1 Artefact.

ShipTek Reassembly Protocol: This would probably not stop the Booug, but it would slow them down and allow for your ships to repair most of the damage they could cause, though only for short jumps. And once the Booug were handled, it would certainly prove useful in combat and crisis situations by ruggedizing your ships a bit. 0/40, MagTek Reassembly Protocol modified to work on ships.

HyperTek Nexus: The solution to the network problems of the Directorate wasn't piecemeal improvements to network infrastructure. Instead, some had proffered using probably obscene amounts of GodTek, a few super-reactors to power the whole thing, and of course as many A Chips as could be printed to create a sort of ultimate DataHub the size of an ArcoloCube in order to allow for totally lagless communication throughout the system and provide absurdly vast amounts of computational power. 0/50, costs 3 Artefacts, 1 Nuclear Material, creates HyperTek Nexus, providing 10 Network and 10 CUL.

HyperTek Forge: The solution to the power generation problems of the Directorate weren't piecemeal improvements to power generation infrastructure: instead, some had proferred using an obscene amount of GodTek, extensive network technology to help manage operations, and of course as much Perpetunite as could be shipped in to create a sort of ultimate reactor the size of an ArcoloCube to generate enough energy to meet needs in the Directorate for...Well, generations. 0/50, costs 3 Artefacts, 1 Network, creates HyperTek Forge, providing 10 Nuclear Material and 10 EXP.
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Hypermodular Power Bay: A proposed idea by Toxel: make the power bays on ships even more modular in order to allow power to be easily divertable to the various subsystems as needed. This would require investing in producing a great deal many more PowerBloks, but it would both increase power efficiency and versatility in the field. 0/15, unlocks Hypermodular Power Bay upgrade for ships, improving performance and adaptability, costs 1 Nuclear Materla.

Lunar MegaHub: Instead of singular individual data hubs, some suggested taking advantage of low lunar gravity to construct a titanic city sized MegaHub to both meet all current and future needs for data for the burgeoning Lunar Colony. This would be grotesquely expensive in terms of power, however. 0/40, costs 2 Nuclear Material, generates 5 Network.

Perpetunite Recyclers: With the advent of Perpetunite, a regenerating radioactive isotope used for creating reactors that never require refueling, some had advocated for installing perpetual motion energy generators in the AutoRecyclers: the vast and infinite amounts of energy could be used to process additional nuclear material as well as increase general production. 0/20, generates 1 Nuclear Material, upgrades AutoRecyclers.

Comm-Net: The network must be expanded to meet the needs of the growing network. A proposed solution was a series of Q-Blok and Perpetunite Reactor powered communications satellites acting in tandem. This would reduce Teklia-Orbital-Lunar latency and increase processing power to allow for further data expansion, and the best part was, it could all be made groundside! 0/10, generates 1 Network.


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Super Battleball League: Battleball consisted of a game played in Lunar Gravity. It was the closest the Directorate came to a contact sport: several members of each team were housed in the cockpit of a small blokbot vehicle, with the goal of the game to beat the absolute snot out of your enemies vehicle and take the battleball from them. Some had proposed an expanded version of the sport, using the Mammoth Class Blokbots as a basis. It would...certainly be very impressive, and a number of people in the military especially were interested in the possibility of using it as a method to test out Battlebot MekTek. 0/20, establishes the Super Battleball League, a Society that allows for the deployment of Battlebots, heavy vehicles that can be utilized for combat.

Ritual Livestock: Others instead believed that the Directorates efforts would be better spent meeting lifeforce needs and thus minimizing the amount of cattle that were slaughtered via artificial selection programs to develop breeds of livestock that could quickly generate high amounts of lifeforce. 0/20, grants Ritual Livestock tradition, increasing FTH and granting 1 Warp


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A Discerning Wisdom: Mother spoke of a discerning taste: her hungers were not prodigious, but they were refined. Encoded into the lifeforce of Tekket were hints and whispers of their memories, mere tastes of their experiences. She had carefully savored each and every one of her adherants essence, sipping from them the same way one might sip at a glass of wine. In exchange for plentiful flavors to sip from, she might be convinced to part with knowledge. 0/10, generates Warp, establishes Court of Whispers

A Harsh Bargain: YALDABOATH had simple terms: a great deal of lifeforce only once. He had drained them near dry, and then allowed them to rest in specially arranged personal quarters, where they were attended to by the Tomb Guardians that served the god machine, providing the Demiurgic cults food, water, and assistance with their hygiene should they be unable to move. Many of his cults wished to create infrastructure such that this tithe could be repeated (to a...less extreme degree, of course) without pilgrimage to the Pillar, and no doubt Yaldaboath would be appreciative. 0/10, generates an Artefact, establishes Court of Bargains

Temple of the Lanternkeeper: The Lanternkeeper was famous as a symbol of light struggling to survive in darkness. Many wanted to build a temple in one of the gods Holy Places to the Emberlight Firekeeper where they could give their respects and offerings, and where they could erect a Great Sacred Lantern in the gods honor. 0/10, establishes Lanternkeeper Temple, a Holy Site that grants your people increased resistance to despair and hopelessness.

Temple of the Old One: The Old One was historied as a lord of knowledge and mysteries. Many wanted to build a temple to the god in the abyssals of the sea where its monks, few in number but each of them powerful Mysteks, could assemble a great library where they could delve into the secrets of the cosmos, dedicated to the pelagic lords honor. 0/10, establishes Old Ones Temple, a Holy Site that increases the power of your Rites.

Nuclear Ritual Engines: Mag-Tek Altars had proven an effective way of amplifying the effects of Mystek Rites. Some theorized that they could be improved further via nuclear reactor bloks, providing the Altar spirit with additional surges of power to channel into occult motion: to that end, they wanted to apply Mystek principles to nuclear design. 0/20, Mag-Tek Altars upgraded with Nuclear Ritual Engines, unknown effects, costs 2 Nuclear Material.

Rite of Soul: You can make the spirits more awake. Could you increase the shine of their soul? A heady proposition: some believed that by experimenting with God-Machine technology, more advanced versions of the Rite of Anima could be developed. No one was entirely sure what the results of this would be, however. 0/20, unlocks Rite of Soul, increasing EXP and FTH, Costs 1 ART.

Rite of Communion: Others had suggested an idea: the Rite of Anima required a form of Communion between a Bond-Spirit and a lesser machine spirit. Could the same rite be adapted to let this dance take place between Tekket and Bond-Spirit instead? Such a thing would be monumental, certainly. 0/20, unlocks Rite of Communion, increasing FTH and CUL, Costs 1 ART

Shrine-Rites: This was an era of Mystek ascension. Give the Shrine-Keepers access to plentiful lifeforce to study: allow them to develop their understanding of the potent energy that the God-Machines had given access to and allow them to use it to develop rituals to further increase the potency of the TekShrines. 0/15, upgrades TekShrines with Rite of Motive Offering, increasing EXP given by TekShrines by two.

Gremlin.EXE: Gremlins. Lesser spirits of mischief that cropped up from time to time from the darkest corners of the Network or Teklia's shadowy underbelly, they would possess machine spirits, infecting them like a virus. Some times, this relationship was beneficial: the machine spirit would grow stronger or be given strange powers, adding the Gremlins power to their own in exchange for giving the Gremlin an occasional vessel. Most of the time, this turned out terribly, as the Gremlin provoked the machine spirit to malfunction and glitch, taking delight as havok was created, forcing a Teksorcist to perform long, time consuming rituals that left the unfortunate machine with long lasting damage. With the development of the TekGrimoires, some OcculTeks sought to imprison the minor troublemakers in order to prevent this, forcing them into empty DroneTek bodies layered inside and out with occultek binding. 0/20, develop Gremlin-Drones, created by taming mischievous data-spirits.

Familiars: Many naturalists theorized about natural spirits of the wilderness. Some druids and neo-pagans had experimented, finding that certain beasts and plants did in fact have some spiritual presence. Some Mysteks wished to explore the possibility of transfering the spirit to a Drone-Class vessel: after all, if you can do it to a toaster, why shouldn't it work on an equally old tree or turtle? 0/20, develop Wyld-Drones, Drone class automata formed not from ascended machine spirits but the souls of beasts and plants of sufficient soul strength.

Bond-Technomata: No Bond-Spirit was nearly mature enough to achieve a third metamorphosis yet, but potentially this process could be accelerated with sufficient amounts of Life-Force, and many Mysteks were salivating over the possibility: Bond-Machina had the ability to generate energy far in excess of their power systems and the ability to use that energy to strengthen and manipulate machinery. Who knows what powers their evolution would have? 0/30, create Bond-Technomata, advanced psyker machine spirits.

Delve into the Tomb: The complex where the God-Machines were located was, according to the expedition that found the God-Machines, impossibly vast. A select number of Monks wished to establish a temple atop it. It's purpose? To plumb the depths and obtain ancient technology. 0/10, Establish Tombdelver Order, a Society which generates Artifacts (ART).

Cthonic Lifeofferings: A number of Mysteks with interests in the macabe had begun donating small amounts of Life-Force to the TekMausoleums, believing it a method to perhaps appease the spirits interred there. It was an interesting proposal, certainly: by organizing volunteers to donate, perhaps the merit of the idea could be tested. 0/10, TekMausoleums receive regular donations of lifeforce. Unknown effects. Cost 1 Warp.

NeuroChoirs: A proposed theological application of the Mind-Machine Interface, the NeuroChoir would help coordinate and amplify prayer and spiritual meditation and, more importantly, allow for far easier donation of life energy for ritual purposes. 0/15, increases FTH, religious orders gain NeuroChoir artifact, costs 1 ART.


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Extremely Advanced NukeTek: Perpetunite weaponry was dangerous, but it could be so much worse with the application of advanced particle technology to further increase the damage caused: longer range on fusion cannons to create fusion lances, more explosive torpedos, fusion rockets powerful enough to be called pocket nukes. There was no such thing as overkill. 0/20, Unlocks Advanced NukeTek. Allows for the creation of medium-range, re-useable shipscale weaponry in the form of Fusion Lances and further improvement to all existing NukeTek weaponry.

What Even Is Lifeforce?: A number of scientists had assembled to finally awnser a question that's been plaguing them for generations: what exactly was lifeforce? The mysterious energy revealed to you by the God-Machines had a variety of uses and seemed to use blood as a medium, but clearly it wasn't needed going by the God-Machines. Could study be used to augment the Rite of Lifeblood and develop more efficient versions? Enterprising occult scientists wanted to know. 0/25, upgrades Rite of Lifeblood, increasing the efficiency of a variety of technologies. Costs 1 Warp.

NukeTek Ultra Miniaturization: It would perhaps be considered gross overkill to develop infantry-scale weaponry utilizing Perpetunite Reactors. However, much like your schools, your military didn't know the meaning of overkill: Fusion Shotguns, Fusion Blasters, Fusion Micro-Rockets, and Fusion Grenades. A lot of efficiency would be lost at the sizes you were aiming for, but it'd be a great way to give your forces some real teeth. 0/15, heavy infantry benefits from PowerBlok technology, costs 2 Nuclear Material

Perpetual Engines: Next generation engines that use Perpetunite reactors to generate thrust, these Engines would allow for far quicker and efficient traversal in system, permitting more involved research as your ships would be able to quickly return for re-supply and cover more ground quicker, as well as letting your ships change course in a crisis with more efficiency. 0/20, increases the Scan Level of worlds you visit by an additional +1, allows for quicker course corrections in combat and crisis by ships, cost 1 Nuclear Material

Q-Band Compression: A novel form of quantum technology that should allow for more efficient transfer of data and higher levels of compression, freeing up network and reducing overall latency over long distances, something that would be useful both in the civilian sector and for managing the Fleet's communication. Recently a major project of the Church of the Calculator, who believed that more advanced quantum computing might be the crux required to communicate with their gods. 3/25, +1 Network, +CUL, unlock Q-Band Compression. If completed majority automatically, gain no Network.

Engineering Improvization Doctrine: Toxel advocated that victory could be assured best by teaching Engineers how to improvise solutions in the field quickly and under fire: he wanted to expand the Academies curriculum for Fleet Engineers by including a variety of semi-randomized open ended simulations of increasing difficulty that would test their ability to come up with novel solutions to issues. 0/20, establishes Toxel Doctrine, improving your Engineers ability to develop novel technical solutions under fire.

The Teeth: A number of military scientists believed that by using GodTek and recent advances in NukeTek they could create a hyperadvanced, long range fusion cannon capable of causing significant damage. An intriguing idea, and it would give at least one of your fleets some actual teeth. 0/15, can upgrade a single fleet with the Teeth, a powerful medium range relic grade heavy fusion cannon that will automatically upgrade to incorporate newly developed technology. Will automatically upgrade to a long range when Extremely Advanced Nuke-Tek is completed. Costs 1 Artefact.

Revelation Class Scanner: Another proposed use of GodTek would be reverse engineering its sensory components to try and improve existing scanner technology. Eager young scientists believe that they should be able to potentially double if not triple the effective range, allowing your Deep Space Monitoring facilities to detect potential threats earlier AND allowing your ships to scan vast swathes of space quickly, effectively revolutionizing your ability to explore. 0/20, cost 1 Artefact, unlocks Revelation Class Scanner component, improving the effects of Deep Space Monitoring and upgrading your ship scanners to grant adjacent planets to the one visited +1 Scan Level. If taken with Perpetunite Engines, reach next Scan Tier (System).

Repair Protocol: Living metal is definitely a form of smart matter. If a way could be discovered to control it's growth, you could upgrade your blocks from merely regenerating to replicating if fed with sufficient energy. In essence, bloks that can create more bloks, allowing for your machinery to literally heal from injuries. 0/20, unlock Crude Repair Protocol, giving your machinery the ability to regenerate from light damage. Costs one living metal.

Gestalt Protocol: Another route to improving the strength of Machine Spirits, some of your scientists belonging to the Grand Reconfiguration Committee theorized that synthetic souls were just as modular as their form: they believed that there might exist some manner to merge machine spirits in order to radically accelerate their growth, creating Gestalt-Drones. They would no doubt be very, very different from typical Bond-Drones, however. Recently, the Assembly had begun to pursue experiments in this vein as a potential alternative method to grow their Avatars. 1/15, develop Gestalt-Drones, advanced automata created from a multitude of fused together synthetic souls instead of singular awoken machine spirits. If completed automatically, lose 1 Nuclear Material.

Academy Fleet Compartment High Energy Lab: A proposed improvement to the Academy Compartments was giving them their own High Energy Labs and self-contained power systems: this would allow them to further meet the fleets technical needs as well as provide, in all likelyhood, a great deal of surplus power for your ships to use. 0/20, Academy Fleet Compartment upgraded with High Energy Lab, increasing available power and efficiency of all advanced subsystems. Costs 1 Nuclear Material.

Academy Fleet Network Lab: Another idea would be adding additional information technology in the form of expanded computer labs and data hubs. This would reduce ship-to-Teklia latency, provide additional processing power for things like targetting and navigation, and in a pinch could probably be used to upgrade the Comm-Jammers. 0/20, Academy Fleet Compartment upgraded with Network Lab, improving efficiency of all E-War and computer systems.

Quartzbug Anatomy: A number of xenobiologists were deeply interested in the semi-silica based lifeforms found in the precursor temples. They wanted to perform an in-depth study of the creatures and their physiology. 0/20, grants 1 Biodata, a CUL resource used to domesticate, alter, and utilize alien organisms. Permits additional Quartzbug projects.

Temple Expedition: It would take a military escort, a great many BlockBots, and probably heavy artillery, but the Fleet believe that it should be possible to push past the Quartzbugs and do an in-depth exploration of the Quartz Temple and unravel its secrets. 0/15, grants information

ZwergBot Disassembly Protocol: A proposed subsystem that would allow for BlokBots to continue operation even after being blown apart via configuring themselves into lesser classes. This would be very, very useful for your security bots, as it would mean they would have to be very thoroughly dismantled to stop them. 0/15, Security Bots will automatically when dismantled reform into smaller classes of BlokBot.
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Oracle Stone Chambers: The Spirits of Earth were said to linger in stone, wishing to warn miners and spelunkers alike of danger, especially if given enough tribute, or else hum with reassurance. The oracular power of some stone lingered after being mined, a gift of the spirits. With it, they believed, a spiritual vribrato-oracle chamber could be constructed to resonate with the spirits, using the same theoretical principles of the Orchestrion in an extremely diluted form. It would require local shrine keepers fashion a space and dedicate considerable data-space to run the resonance programs, buts it would marginally amplify lifeforce fed to the spirits and allow them a degree of communion. The spirits of Earth were not greedy: they would share the excess of the resonance equally. In turn, the Litheomonks promised to give more to spirits across the directorate by training the Stone Oracles who would power these things and tend to the stone-herds. 0/15, upgrades Shrines with Oracle Stone Chambers, stone chambers that use specialized vibrato-occult resonance devices built using oracle stone and mind-machine interfaces to allow communication with spirits and offering amplitude to all elemental spirits, increasing CUL. Cost 2 Network.


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Coral Shrines: The seas were the least coveraged area in terms of shrines and totems. And yet the effects that had been displayed had been incredible despite this, the result of the abundant spirits of life, current, coral, and fish: some had suggested establishing a great deal more dedicated oceanic shrines, using the MegaCoral that formed the reefs as the Arbor Guardian. 0/15, establish Coral Shrines dedicated to Spirits of Ocean, costs 1 Lifeforce.

Muse: The recent spate of blood offerings to the spirits of TekArt had resulted in many pieces having particularly active Machine Spirits. A number of artists believed that by giving these machine spirits their own independent forms, they could serve as muses and curators of Tekket culture and artistry. 0/10, unlocks Muses, intelligent automata that grant elevated CUL and 1 ART.


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Cetacea Orchestrion: A proposed spiritual accelerator, the Cetacea Orchestrion is based on the arcano-acoustic principles discovered by studying a Void-Whale with the ability to silence spirits. Instead of forcing them into dormancy, however, the Orchestrion acts as a resonance engine, strengthening them. 0/25, develop Cetacea Orchestrion, generating considerable FTH. Costs 2 Warp.

Stone Chambers: Oracle Stone could be used to give Shrines means to communicate with spirits through vibration, yes, but their resonance could also be used for thaumaturgic principles. By designing specialized chambers and an interface in order to allow for the resulting harmonization to be controlled, the vibrations of the Oracle Stone could be harnessed to amplify the effects of rituals and rites performed within. 0/25, develop Resonance Stone Chambers, increasing FTH.


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Animatron Class BlokBots: A proposed model of BlokBot with higher intelligence and slightly more robust engineering than the average Golem, designed more for the purposes of entertainment and socialization, Animatrons had been proposed by Wonderpark as a way to artificially expand their workforce. 3/15, unlock Animatron Bots, generating CUL.
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Sacred Groves: The Arbor Guardians had proven an effective source of power for your Shrines. A number of Druids wanted to expand upon this by developing a series of mobile eco-domes containing specially cultivated groves to serve as mobile reserves of life-force. The majority of the life-force generated by these groves would likely go to the Wyld-Shrines, but it would likely provide a small surplus that could be put to other projects. 0/25, unlock Sacred Grove infrastructure, increasing FTH and Warp.

UrbanTek Totems: The Totem Network had proven an effective improvement to WyldShrines: a few urban druids had advocated for establishing a similar totem-system in the Arcolocubes in order to strengthen the spirits of the city, which they theorized could improve the efficiency of most infrastructure and utilities systems by 11%, if not 16%! 0/25, upgrade cities with UrbanTek Totems, increasing EXP.

Soil Processing Facility: Lifeforce was one of the most valuable commodities in the Directorate. This meant that, ironically, the same could be said for both Herds and suitable land to graze them on. Obviously, eco-domes offered a non-enviromentally intrusive way to grow the grazeland and crops required to rear sacred herds and shrine herds, but these required vast amounts of healthy soil. In order to fuel the expansion of Sacred Grazeland, some had proposed constructing a processing facility on Luna to convert vast amounts of minerals and algae into healthy soil that could be used to rapidly expand eco-domes and off-world grazelands. 0/25, generates CUL and 2 Warp.


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Arbor Totem: It was probably unneccesary, but one proposed way of improving the Totem network: provide each and every one with an Arbor Guardian to help feed lifeforce. This would, essentially, allow each Totem to function as a mini-shrine, feeding more lifeforce into surroundings instead of just acting as a Shrine-Relay. 0/15, Totems upgraded with Lesser Arbor Guardian, increasing CUL and totem effects substantially.

Fruit of the Occult Tree: Some trees bore fruit, swollen and rich, heavy with vitality. These fruits, your Occulteks believed, could be used to manufacture an improvement to their Grimoires: by installing a life-support network and occasionally feeding these lifefruit their own vital energy, they could harvest the juices as an offering during the Auto-Rituals, they might be able to more easily entice spirits to do their bidding, especially those unbound entities of nature. 0/15, TekGrimoires upgraded with Lifefruit Heart, increasing FTH.


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World Tree: Some Druids and members of the Assembly wanted to repeat what had been done with the Heart with an Arbor Guardian instead, glutting it on Lifeforce until the spirit within can awaken fully and wholly and achieve the same transcendent strength as the Heart: this World Tree could be used to accelerate the awakening of the Wyld considerably and source of strength for all Druidic practices. 0/20, develop World Tree, increasing FTH considerably and improving WyldTek performance. Cost 1 Warp.

Greater Arbor Guardian: A much more modest proposal would be spending lifeforce to accelerate the development of multiple arbor guardians across the Directorate: these Greater Arbor Guardians would strengthen the shrines considerably, and would especially enrich the spirits of nature. 0/10, develop Greater Arbor Guardian, increasing FTH and strengthening Shrines. Cost 1 Warp.

Eternal Arbor Guardian: Trees did not live forever, not without prohibitively large amounts of lifeforce. However, by modifying their genome, they could have their aging effectively stopped: they would never die of old age, allowing their spirits to grow far stronger. A few tweaks would also be made to improve the rate of growth, health, and a dozen other optimizations intended to increase their overall performance. 0/10, develop Eternal Arbor Guardians, granting 1 Warp. Costs 1 BioData.


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Arbor Minds: Tree nervous systems were decidedly non-complex. Plants in general were fairly simple organisms, intellectually. This was in all likelyhood one of the larger barriers to their spiritual growth: after all, it was a known fact that the soul could only grow at an acceptable speed when provided sufficient processing power. However, their nervous system being so simple meant that, in theory, it wouldn't be hard to design a method to allow your computers to interface with them, providing the tree increased intelligence. 0/15, increases CUL, cost 1 Network

Totem Eco-Scanners: The Academy loved nature as much as the next person. That was why THEIR proposal for improving the totem network was upgrading the scanners to better allow for collection of data and allowing for more precise intervention by druids, park rangers, and other specialists when necessary. After all, sometimes mundane optimizations were the best optimizations. 0/15, Totems upgraded with Eco-Scanners, increasing CUL. Cost 1 Network.

Totem-Net: Alternatively, the Totems could be provided improved server software to allow for a variety of useful, if mundane, programs such as ecology simulators to be ran on them and allowing limited inter-totem communication. In essence, Wyld-Shrines would gain their own complex network to allow their users more functionality. 0/15, Totems upgraded to utilize Totem-Net, increasing ACD. Cost 1 Network.

TotemTek Peripherals: Heat management, soil enrichment, atmosphere filtering, there are a variety of mundane upgrades that could be installed on Totems to improve functionality. They would require at least some Perpetunite to improve the power generation, but these peripherals could allow regions to be more efficiently managed. 0/15, Totems upgraded with TotemTek Peripherals, increasing CUL. Cost 1 Nuclear Material.

Totem Power Grid: Right now, most Totems operated on individual Perpetunite reactors. However, the Academy believed that by actually developing a power grid for the Totem Network, Directorate Rangers would be able to vastly increase Totem Coverage. An entirely mundane improvement, but one no less important than the development of urban power grids. 0/15, Totems upgraded with Totem Power Grid, increasing EXP. Cost 1 Nuclear Material.
Ft things like HoloTek, our Cthonic stuff, and smart materials plus gestalt drones. I just think that we would find interesting interactions.


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Self-Optimizing Electronics Production: A proposed way to upgrade the A Chip was by including in their manufacture living metal: the smart metal was primarily used in superconductors, but some theorized that it might be possible to create a self-optimizing chip, automatically adjusting itself to suit whatever machine it was plugged into. 0/10, grants Semi-Adaptive Electronics technology, generating ACD, generates 1 Network, costs 1 Living Metal.

Cyberspace Brain: Mimicking a complex 3D environment when using a VR-Simulator was hard, and translating direct interface with cyberspace into three dimensions was even harder. To get around this, some had suggested upgrading the Data Hubs by installing specialized processors specifically designed to utilize neural computing to act as a sort of translator slash hyperadvanced renderer. Currently, a secondary project by the Assembly that they believed could be used for advancing the neural architecture of their Avatars. 1/15, upgrades VR Simulators with Cyberspace Brains, generating CUL and generating 1 Network.

Oracle Stone Chambers: The Spirits of Earth were said to linger in stone, wishing to warn miners and spelunkers alike of danger, especially if given enough tribute, or else hum with reassurance. The oracular power of some stone lingered after being mined, a gift of the spirits. With it, they believed, a spiritual vribrato-oracle chamber could be constructed to resonate with the spirits, using the same theoretical principles of the Orchestrion in an extremely diluted form. It would require local shrine keepers fashion a space and dedicate considerable data-space to run the resonance programs, buts it would marginally amplify lifeforce fed to the spirits and allow them a degree of communion. The spirits of Earth were not greedy: they would share the excess of the resonance equally. In turn, the Litheomonks promised to give more to spirits across the directorate by training the Stone Oracles who would power these things and tend to the stone-herds. 0/15, upgrades Shrines with Oracle Stone Chambers, stone chambers that use specialized vibrato-occult resonance devices built using oracle stone and mind-machine interfaces to allow communication with spirits and offering amplitude to all elemental spirits, increasing CUL. Cost 2 Network.


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The Book: The Book was intended to be the Avatar of Memory: connected to the Assembly via MMI, the Book would record their brainscans as well as their experience, storing them for later perusal and useage and stimulating the synapses in order to improve memory retreival and storage. The Assembly hoped that the Book would accelerate the growth of their gods by strengthening their memories and allowing them to develop their consciousness at an accelerated pace. 0/15, craft the Book, Avatar of Memory, allowing for the storage of memories and experiences and increasing ACD.

Cthonic Lifeofferings: A number of Mysteks with interests in the macabe had begun donating small amounts of Life-Force to the TekMausoleums, believing it a method to perhaps appease the spirits interred there. It was an interesting proposal, certainly: by organizing volunteers to donate, perhaps the merit of the idea could be tested. 0/10, TekMausoleums receive regular donations of lifeforce. Unknown effects. Cost 1 Warp.

NeuroChoirs: A proposed theological application of the Mind-Machine Interface, the NeuroChoir would help coordinate and amplify prayer and spiritual meditation and, more importantly, allow for far easier donation of life energy for ritual purposes. 0/15, increases FTH, religious orders gain NeuroChoir artifact.

Cthonic Shrines: An idea proposed by the NekroTeks, these Shrines would be constructed in every TekMausoleum, allowing for appeasement to be made to the spirits of the dead and departed, easing their transition to the afterlife. It would also, crucially, allow for them to make offerings to the machine souls of the crypt, any psychopomps that appeared, or other cthonic spirits. 0/15, establish Cthonic Shrines, increasing FTH.


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HoloTek: With technology becoming more and more sophisticated, a number of optical researchers had proposed funding more research into their field of study to create advanced HoloBriks that could be used in conjunction with Mind Machine interfaces to create sophisticated 3D simulator pods. 0/25, unlocks Crude HoloDeck Technology, increasing CUL.

Q-Band Compression: A novel form of quantum technology that should allow for more efficient transfer of data and higher levels of compression, freeing up network and reducing overall latency over long distances, something that would be useful both in the civilian sector and for managing the Fleet's communication. Recently a major project of the Church of the Calculator, who believed that more advanced quantum computing might be the crux required to communicate with their gods. 3/25, +1 Network, +CUL, unlock Q-Band Compression. If completed majority automatically, gain no Network.

Repair Protocol: Living metal is definitely a form of smart matter. If a way could be discovered to control it's growth, you could upgrade your blocks from merely regenerating to replicating if fed with sufficient energy. In essence, bloks that can create more bloks, allowing for your machinery to literally heal from injuries. 0/20, unlock Crude Repair Protocol, giving your machinery the ability to regenerate from light damage. Costs one living metal.

Gestalt Protocol: Another route to improving the strength of Machine Spirits, some of your scientists belonging to the Grand Reconfiguration Committee theorized that synthetic souls were just as modular as their form: they believed that there might exist some manner to merge machine spirits in order to radically accelerate their growth, creating Gestalt-Drones. They would no doubt be very, very different from typical Bond-Drones, however. Recently, the Assembly had begun to pursue experiments in this vein as a potential alternative method to grow their Avatars. 1/15, develop Gestalt-Drones, advanced automata created from a multitude of fused together synthetic souls instead of singular awoken machine spirits. If completed automatically, lose 1 Nuclear Material.
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Perpetunite Recyclers: With the advent of Perpetunite, a regenerating radioactive isotope used for creating reactors that never require refueling, some had advocated for installing perpetual motion energy generators in the AutoRecyclers: the vast and infinite amounts of energy could be used to process additional nuclear material as well as increase general production. 0/20, generates 1 Nuclear Material, upgrades AutoRecyclers.

Herdtemples: Lifeforce was always at a premium, and one proposed method of meeting that demand had been put forward by a pan-religious agricollective who believed that they could meet that demand with orbital Herdtemples designed to rear vast amounts of livestock for use in venerable rituals. 0/15, establishes Herdtemples, providing FTH and 1 Warp.

Sacred Groves: The Arbor Guardians had proven an effective source of power for your Shrines. A number of Druids wanted to expand upon this by developing a series of mobile eco-domes containing specially cultivated groves to serve as mobile reserves of life-force. The majority of the life-force generated by these groves would likely go to the Wyld-Shrines, but it would likely provide a small surplus that could be put to other projects. 0/25, unlock Sacred Grove infrastructure, increasing FTH and Warp.

Naklis Elemental Gardens: A proposed method to expand on the Elemental Temples was providing them large eco-domes where they will be able to cultivate animals and plants in order to create optimum offerings to the Spirits. This would accelerate the awakening of Naklis's elemental spirits, and, more crucially, allow for the export of livestock and plants more suited to offering to other elemental spirits that might lurk throughout the Directorate. 0/25, increase EXP, upgrade ShrineHerds with Elemental Herdbeasts.

Soil Processing Facility: Lifeforce was one of the most valuable commodities in the Directorate. This meant that, ironically, the same could be said for both Herds and suitable land to graze them on. Obviously, eco-domes offered a non-enviromentally intrusive way to grow the grazeland and crops required to rear sacred herds and shrine herds, but these required vast amounts of healthy soil. In order to fuel the expansion of Sacred Grazeland, some had proposed constructing a processing facility on Luna to convert vast amounts of minerals and algae into healthy soil that could be used to rapidly expand eco-domes and off-world grazelands. 0/25, generates CUL and 2 Warp.


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Ritual Livestock: Even with the Sacred Herds, many believed that more effort could be put towards reducing the amount of livestock slaughtered while expanding lifeforce harvesting with artificial selection programs designed to breed livestock with higher capacity for lifeforce. 0/20, grants Ritual Livestock tradition, increasing FTH and granting 1 Warp

Coral Shrines: The seas were the least coveraged area in terms of shrines and totems. And yet the effects that had been displayed had been incredible despite this, the result of the abundant spirits of life, current, coral, and fish: some had suggested establishing a great deal more dedicated oceanic shrines, using the MegaCoral that formed the reefs as the Arbor Guardian. 0/15, establish Coral Shrines dedicated to Spirits of Ocean, costs 1 Lifeforce.

Archaeology!: With increased interest in nature came increased increased interest in Teklia's fossil record. With that in mind, some Rangers and Wonderpark had suggested creating a museum of natural history and forming teams of elite archeologists to comb the wilds of Teklia for bones to house this facility. 0/15, creates Wonderpark Archaeology Division, generating CUL and BioData.

Cloud Shrines: The weather spirits of the grasslands could prove exceptionally valuable for making lifebearing worlds more suitable for Tekket habitation: a number of Druids wanted to create a series of floating shrines with built in cloud-seeders capable of ensuring the shrine and accompanying facilies would always rest upon a vast sea of white. 0/25, Shrines to Cloud Spirits erected, generating EXP from improved weather.


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A Discerning Wisdom: Mother spoke of a discerning taste: her hungers were not prodigious, but they were refined. Encoded into the lifeforce of Tekket were hints and whispers of their memories, mere tastes of their experiences. She had carefully savored each and every one of her adherants essence, sipping from them the same way one might sip at a glass of wine. In exchange for plentiful flavors to sip from, she might be convinced to part with knowledge. 0/10, generates Warp, establishes Court of Whispers

Great Totems: Totems acted as shrine-relays, increasing effective coverage range without dropping efficiency. Some Druids had theorized, however, that they could be upgraded in order to allow a few totems to not just perform as relays, but outright amplifiers, helping to accelerate the growth of Wyld-Spirits. Developing these Great Totems would, however, require a great degree of lifeforce. 0/25, upgrade Wyld-Shrines with Great Totems, increasing FTH. Cost 1 Warp.

Land Totems: Another proposed route was giving the druids more God-Tek to study to adapt its principles towards further increasing the effective range provided by your Shrines. The amount they'd be able to do so was unknown: God-Tek wasn't predictable, after all. But even small improvements would be appreciated. 0/25, upgrade Wyld-Shrines with Land Totems, increasing EXP, costs 1 ART.

Awakening Totems: Alternatively, some mysteks, primarily Calculators, theorized the optimal way to aid the spirits of the wild was to give them the tools to help realize cognizance. After all, it had been proven that machine spirits with additional processing power grew quicker, so why could the same not be true with the spirits of nature? By installing specialized network architecture and modified mind-interface technology, Totems could help spirits realize awakening by allowing them to piggy-back off of its vastly superior data-processing abilities. 0/15, upgrades Wyld-Shrines with Awakening Totems, increasing ACD. Costs 1 Network.

Power Totems: Alternatively, claimed some Assembly-aligned Druids, why not just stuff the totems full of power generation hardware? Uranium was cheaper than lifeforce, and while it wasn't as effective, it could be used for a variety of improvements across the board to the overall design of the Totems, with the excess nuclear energy utilized as a secondary sustenance source for spirits. 0/15, upgrades Wyld-Shrines with Power-Totems, increasing FTH. Costs 2 Nuclear Material.

Rite of Natures Harmony: Proposed by some Mysteks, they wanted resources to be used to develop a rite utilizing Mag-Tek Altars that could be used in a pinch to appease angry wildlife. 0/10, grants Rites of Natures Harmony, reducing the aggression of wildlife and the hostility of flora and fauna, increasing EXP.

World Tree: Some Druids and members of the Assembly wanted to repeat what had been done with the Heart with an Arbor Guardian instead, glutting it on Lifeforce until the spirit within can awaken fully and wholly and achieve the same transcendent strength as the Heart: this World Tree could be used to accelerate the awakening of the Wyld considerably and source of strength for all Druidic practices. 0/20, develop World Tree, increasing FTH considerably and improving WyldTek performance. Cost 1 Warp.

Greater Arbor Guardian: A much more modest proposal would be spending lifeforce to accelerate the development of multiple arbor guardians across the Directorate: these Greater Arbor Guardians would strengthen the shrines considerably, and would especially enrich the spirits of nature. 0/10, develop Greater Arbor Guardian, increasing FTH and strengthening Shrines. Cost 1 Warp.

Eternal Arbor Guardian: Trees did not live forever, not without prohibitively large amounts of lifeforce. However, by modifying their genome, they could have their aging effectively stopped: they would never die of old age, allowing their spirits to grow far stronger. A few tweaks would also be made to improve the rate of growth, health, and a dozen other optimizations intended to increase their overall performance. 0/10, develop Eternal Arbor Guardians, granting 1 Warp. Costs 1 BioData.


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Quartzbug Anatomy: A number of xenobiologists were deeply interested in the semi-silica based lifeforms found in the precursor temples. They wanted to perform an in-depth study of the creatures and their physiology. 0/20, grants 1 Biodata, a CUL resource used to domesticate, alter, and utilize alien organisms. Permits additional Quartzbug projects.

Totem Eco-Scanners: The Academy loved nature as much as the next person. That was why THEIR proposal for improving the totem network was upgrading the scanners to better allow for collection of data and allowing for more precise intervention by druids, park rangers, and other specialists when necessary. After all, sometimes mundane optimizations were the best optimizations. 0/15, Totems upgraded with Eco-Scanners, increasing CUL. Cost 1 Network.

Totem-Net: Alternatively, the Totems could be provided improved server software to allow for a variety of useful, if mundane, programs such as ecology simulators to be ran on them and allowing limited inter-totem communication. In essence, Wyld-Shrines would gain their own complex network to allow their users more functionality. 0/15, Totems upgraded to utilize Totem-Net, increasing ACD. Cost 1 Network.

TotemTek Peripherals: Heat management, soil enrichment, atmosphere filtering, there are a variety of mundane upgrades that could be installed on Totems to improve functionality. They would require at least some Perpetunite to improve the power generation, but these peripherals could allow regions to be more efficiently managed. 0/15, Totems upgraded with TotemTek Peripherals, increasing CUL. Cost 1 Nuclear Material.

Totem Power Grid: Right now, most Totems operated on individual Perpetunite reactors. However, the Academy believed that by actually developing a power grid for the Totem Network, Directorate Rangers would be able to vastly increase Totem Coverage. An entirely mundane improvement, but one no less important than the development of urban power grids. 0/15, Totems upgraded with Totem Power Grid, increasing EXP. Cost 1 Nuclear Material.

Orkoid Xenobiology: The species you had found was deeply fascinating and many wanted to study it further. While direct contact wasn't allowed, dissection of ethically acquired corpses would be, allowing you a great deal of insight into how the species functioned. It would require the help of a Warp-capable ship in order to acquire specimens, however. 0/15, unlocks Orkoid Physiology, giving you insight to the greenskin biological makeup. Requires an Endeavor Class to construct a Xenoobservation outpost.

WyldRanger Zoological Research Rovers: The biosphere of Teklia was constantly evolving, especially after the advent of Wyld-Tek. The WyldRangers, the secular branch of Teklia's nature enthusiasts, wanted to establish specialized research rovers meant to serve as mobile, eco-friendly field research labs and dwellings for the Rangers to help them document and research native Teklian biology, ones uplinked to the Teklian planetary network to allow for efficient coordination of research and conservation efforts. 0/15, establishes WyldRangers, an ACD and Biodata generating society.
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Ship Power Core: Right now, the biggest problem with Directorate ships was their power generation and management. While the latter was largely a matter for electricians, a few fleet nuclear engineers believed they could at least make progress solving the former by using some recent advancements in particle manipulation to draw additional power from harnessing nuclear reactions. 0/15, ships upgraded with Power Core, increasing overall performance by allowing for more advanced components to be be operating at peak capacity at any given time. Cost 3 Nuclear Material.

Titan Reactor: It was ridiculous. It was absurd. It was brilliant: an idea proposed by an even more radical group of engineers, the creation of a single, incredibly vast nuclear reactor to mount upon one of your ships: using this reactor, they could allow for a single ship to draw as needed INCREDIBLE amounts of energy, increasing performance of all systems, especially ones such as both the thrust engines and gravity engines, fusion cannons, and the shields: any ship equipped with a Titan Reactor would be a considerable threat indeed. 0/15, single Fleet upgraded with Titan Reactor, vastly improving performance and improving range effectiveness of fusion weapons considerably. Cost 5 Nuclear Material.

Hypermodular Power Bay: A proposed idea by Toxel: make the power bays on ships even more modular in order to allow power to be easily divertable to the various subsystems as needed. This would require investing in producing a great deal many more PowerBloks, but it would both increase power efficiency and versatility in the field. 0/15, unlocks Hypermodular Power Bay upgrade for ships, improving performance and adaptability, costs 1 Nuclear Materla.

Naklis Solar Satellites: A proposed way to further benefit from Naklis: it was closer to the Sun than Teklia. Perhaps by expanding the orbital part of the Spire with a power generation sub-district, it would allow for Naklis to massively expand its power grid, potentially allowing for an additional Spire to be constructed! 0/15, generates EXP, unlocks additional SolarTek.

MawGates: MawGates were the fruit of the Court of Hunger, created to allow them to make offerings to their devour-lord from vast distances: apparently, the gates established a sort of wormhole between itself and the stomach of the courts master. Utterly unsurvivable for anything organic, all attempts to use MawGates for anything but feeding Sphere 001 had been a grotesque failure. Yet the Court still wanted to establish some gates on Luna and Naklis: in exchange for feeding the Sphere, they claimed it would provide power through the MawGates. Vast, vast amounts of power. 0/15, unlock MawGates, increasing EXP. Cost 1 Nuclear Material.

Geode Reactor Enrichment: With the rare minerals of Naklis, the Directorate had the oppurtunity to once again overhaul its energy generation technology significantly: experts believed that they could use a number of the materials to enrich reactors to increase not only their energy output, but stability as well. Expected yields estimated a potential 22% improvement across the board! 0/15, costs 3 Nuclear Material, grants Reactor Enrichment Technology, providing elevated EXP.


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The Engine: The Engine served as the Avatar of Motion, of animating force both biological and electrical. A vast nuclear engine, the Assembly hoped to cultivate the Engine as a back-up power source for their divinities: barring that, the Engine would at least accelerate the growth of spirits throughout the Directorate by providing them a source of strength, one that required minimal life-force to maintain. 0/15, craft the Engine, Avatar of Motion, strengthening spirits and providing EXP.

Nuclear Ritual Engines: Mag-Tek Altars had proven an effective way of amplifying the effects of Mystek Rites. Some theorized that they could be improved further via nuclear reactor bloks, providing the Altar spirit with additional surges of power to channel into occult motion: to that end, they wanted to apply Mystek principles to nuclear design. 0/20, Mag-Tek Altars upgraded with Nuclear Ritual Engines, unknown effects, costs 2 Nuclear Material.


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NukeTek Ultra Miniaturization: It would perhaps be considered gross overkill to develop infantry-scale weaponry utilizing Perpetunite Reactors. However, much like your schools, your military didn't know the meaning of overkill: Fusion Shotguns, Fusion Blasters, Fusion Micro-Rockets, and Fusion Grenades. A lot of efficiency would be lost at the sizes you were aiming for, but it'd be a great way to give your forces some real teeth. 0/15, heavy infantry benefits from PowerBlok technology, costs 2 Nuclear Material

Perpetual Engines: Next generation engines that use Perpetunite reactors to generate thrust, these Engines would allow for far quicker and efficient traversal in system, permitting more involved research as your ships would be able to quickly return for re-supply and cover more ground quicker, as well as letting your ships change course in a crisis with more efficiency. 0/20, increases the Scan Level of worlds you visit by an additional +1, allows for quicker course corrections in combat and crisis by ships, cost 1 Nuclear Material

Academy Fleet Compartment High Energy Lab: A proposed improvement to the Academy Compartments was giving them their own High Energy Labs and self-contained power systems: this would allow them to further meet the fleets technical needs as well as provide, in all likelyhood, a great deal of surplus power for your ships to use. 0/20, Academy Fleet Compartment upgraded with High Energy Lab, increasing available power and efficiency of all advanced subsystems. Costs 1 Nuclear Material.
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Greater Herdbeast Temples: The Herdtemples had been a great success, but the Conclave believed they could be expanded: three massive eco-domes, filled with vast grazeland tended to by a fleet of agri-drones, intended to allow for the rearing of vast herds of animals, the serene landscape interrupted by features meant to provide the herds whatever they needed, such as ponds for drinking and trees for resting under and hills for burrowing into and bushes to nest in, some Shrines and Totems operated by the Shrine-Keepers, a few small temples to the gods...and beneath, a vast temple-complex that would utilize the Planetary Life Siphon design provided by Sphere 001 to slowly drain small amounts of excess vital energy from the entirety of the ecodome (at such a slow pace that the residents of the domes would never notice it) for use in their sacred rituals and divine rites, some of it fed to the Holy Herdbeasts of the Herdtemples. 0/30, gain Greater Herdbeast Temple, increasing FTH by 3 and providing Warp.

Master Control Shrines: First Gen Master Control Shrines were simply large TekShrines that doubled as servers for other shrines on their networks. Your priests wanted to work on a more sophisticated version that instead let Shrines interface on a more fundamental level, amplifying their effects. 0/25, establish Master Control Shrine network, increasing FTH and EXP, cost 1 Network

UrbanTek Totems: The Totem Network had proven an effective improvement to WyldShrines: a few urban druids had advocated for establishing a similar totem-system in the Arcolocubes in order to strengthen the spirits of the city, which they theorized could improve the efficiency of most infrastructure and utilities systems by 11%, if not 16%! 0/25, upgrade cities with UrbanTek Totems, increasing EXP.

ShrineCity: Another idea some had: why not a planetary TekShrine complex? The effect would be grotesquely diluted, but it would still serve as a very culturally powerful holy site for those interested in Shrine-Keeping and central complex they could utilize for research and ceremonies. 0/20, establishes ShrineCity, a Holy Site that increases FTH by an elevated amount.

Sacred Groves: The Arbor Guardians had proven an effective source of power for your Shrines. A number of Druids wanted to expand upon this by developing a series of mobile eco-domes containing specially cultivated groves to serve as mobile reserves of life-force. The majority of the life-force generated by these groves would likely go to the Wyld-Shrines, but it would likely provide a small surplus that could be put to other projects. 0/25, unlock Sacred Grove infrastructure, increasing FTH and Warp.

Naklis Elemental Gardens: A proposed method to expand on the Elemental Temples was providing them large eco-domes where they will be able to cultivate animals and plants in order to create optimum offerings to the Spirits. This would accelerate the awakening of Naklis's elemental spirits, and, more crucially, allow for the export of livestock and plants more suited to offering to other elemental spirits that might lurk throughout the Directorate. 0/25, increase EXP, upgrade ShrineHerds with Elemental Herdbeasts.

Lumium Shrine: The Brilliant Monks of Naklis wished to create a repository of so called 'Lumium Eggs'. These brilliant crystals, said to be gifts from the elementals of gem, were said to have traces of their giftors power, thrumming with faint amounts of arcane power. The monks wished to fashion these eggs into upgrade parts for TekShrines, as the gems were made out of the same rare earth minerals used for making the A-Chips: these upgrades would allow the Shrines to run more powerful arcane programs, especially ones to invoke the power of gem spirits which resonated with the chips. The eggs deemed most promising would be kept, tended to, fed life-force to coax out what power they could in order to see if they could coax nascent spirits of gem into these crystals. The monks would provide the lifeforce for this project, of course: they just required the gems. 0/15, upgrades Shrines to utilize Lumium Chips, arcane processing units that resonate especially with Gem Elementals, increasing ACD. Cost 1 Nuclear Material.

Mycelliometal Network: Scanners at the Temple of Metal had shown the Ferromonks strangely growing veins of living metal, appearing to burrow through the crust like mycellium. It had been proven that mycellium were an effective communication network: could this fruit of the Metal Elementals be harvested? Shaped to give them form if fed on life force and roused slowly from their slumber in the steel and grown into something greater? The excess, the insufficient metal, they theorized, could be used to upgrade the Totems and Shrines, allowing them to communicate with each other and all life they touched, creating a great biotechnological mycellium network. As spirits of the Wyld and Urb alike emerged, this could at least allow the spirits that were connected to the mycellium some form of congress, especially the spirits of metal. 0/15, upgrades metal TotemTek Conduit Network, an arcane connection network that allows for inter-spirit communication and coordination, increasing CUL. Cost 1 Living Metal.

Oracle Stone Chambers: The Spirits of Earth were said to linger in stone, wishing to warn miners and spelunkers alike of danger, especially if given enough tribute, or else hum with reassurance. The oracular power of some stone lingered after being mined, a gift of the spirits. With it, they believed, a spiritual vribrato-oracle chamber could be constructed to resonate with the spirits, using the same theoretical principles of the Orchestrion in an extremely diluted form. It would require local shrine keepers fashion a space and dedicate considerable data-space to run the resonance programs, buts it would marginally amplify lifeforce fed to the spirits and allow them a degree of communion. The spirits of Earth were not greedy: they would share the excess of the resonance equally. In turn, the Litheomonks promised to give more to spirits across the directorate by training the Stone Oracles who would power these things and tend to the stone-herds. 0/15, upgrades Shrines with Oracle Stone Chambers, stone chambers that use specialized vibrato-occult resonance devices built using oracle stone and mind-machine interfaces to allow communication with spirits and offering amplitude to all elemental spirits, increasing CUL. Cost 2 Network.

Fire Fairy Bottles: Fire Fairies were the name of the strange will-o-wisps that had been seen across the Magma Sea by Flame Monks and Fire Druids tending to the PyroShrines. They had played with the creatures, which were surprisingly intelligent, and willing to be fed. Sadly, the food offered by the Flame Monks had proven insufficiently heat-proof for them to actually feed before starving, their fully awakened nature meaning they burned out within minutes if not given sufficiently suitable fuel. The Flame Monks and Fire Druids wanted access to BioData from a extromophile: they believed they could engineer a superalgae that would feed from the wisps light to grow even as the wisp burned at the algae. It would require a special capsule: the Flame Monks had agreed to manufacture it and had been experimenting with algae extensively already, for some reason. They just needed the biodata and sufficient resources to build a manufacturing facility to produce specialized capsules to keep the fire fairies fed, allowing the will of the wisps very brief excursions out before they had to return to feed and assume dormancy. In exchange, they could allow the Shrine-Keepers to draw from them more lifeforce to help sustain other spirits, especially nascent fire fairies long enough to get them bottled. Alongside this, they would provide companionship: fire fairies were very social, it seemed, though played with VERY carefully. The Flame Monks would, of course, work to cultivate stronger fire-fairies at their temple, ones strong enough to survive with less physical nourishment, or at least developed enough to digest the algae of the fairy bottles more efficiently and retain more energy. 0/15, upgrades Shrines with Fire Fairy Bottles, increasing lifeforce available to shrines and allowing fire elementals to survive indefinitely without starving, increasing EXP. Cost 1 Biodata.

Soil Processing Facility: Lifeforce was one of the most valuable commodities in the Directorate. This meant that, ironically, the same could be said for both Herds and suitable land to graze them on. Obviously, eco-domes offered a non-enviromentally intrusive way to grow the grazeland and crops required to rear sacred herds and shrine herds, but these required vast amounts of healthy soil. In order to fuel the expansion of Sacred Grazeland, some had proposed constructing a processing facility on Luna to convert vast amounts of minerals and algae into healthy soil that could be used to rapidly expand eco-domes and off-world grazelands. 0/25, generates CUL and 2 Warp.


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Arbor Totem: It was probably unneccesary, but one proposed way of improving the Totem network: provide each and every one with an Arbor Guardian to help feed lifeforce. This would, essentially, allow each Totem to function as a mini-shrine, feeding more lifeforce into surroundings instead of just acting as a Shrine-Relay. 0/15, Totems upgraded with Lesser Arbor Guardian, increasing CUL and totem effects substantially.

Coral Shrines: The seas were the least coveraged area in terms of shrines and totems. And yet the effects that had been displayed had been incredible despite this, the result of the abundant spirits of life, current, coral, and fish: some had suggested establishing a great deal more dedicated oceanic shrines, using the MegaCoral that formed the reefs as the Arbor Guardian. 0/15, establish Coral Shrines dedicated to Spirits of Ocean, costs 1 Lifeforce.

Mobile Shrines: If machines had spirits, and nature had spirits, why couldn't the moon? A question asked by many a Salvage Cabal Shrine-Keeper, who wished to establish specialized mobile shrines mounted on heavy lunar rovers that they could use to sooth and empower the moon-spirits of the garbage sea in the hopes that it would make it easier to sort through garbage. 0/20, Lunar Salvage Cabals upgraded with Mobile Shrines, providing FTH and EXP.

Secondary ShipShrines: While the ShipSoul was the greatest aboard the vessel, it was not the only one: every major component and compartment had their own powerful spirits. Perhaps by redesigning your ships so that each of these spirits have their own shrines they can receive offerings at, you could further improve your ships performance by strengthening these SubSpirits. 0/15, improves the performance of all ship subsystems and components.

Cloud Shrines: The weather spirits of the grasslands could prove exceptionally valuable for making lifebearing worlds more suitable for Tekket habitation: a number of Druids wanted to create a series of floating shrines with built in cloud-seeders capable of ensuring the shrine and accompanying facilies would always rest upon a vast sea of white. 0/25, Shrines to Cloud Spirits erected, generating EXP from improved weather.


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The Dagger: The Dagger was the Avatar of Sacrifice: a grim reminder of the frailty of Tekket and a reassurance that as feeble as they might be, their contributions matters. Housed in a TekShrine connected to a special ritual athame, as the Dagger evolves they will aid your Mysteks and Shrine-Keepers and Occulteks all by contributing a portion of the Avatars own strength to sacrifices of lifeforce. 0/15, craft the Dagger, Avatar of Sacrifice, increasing the strength of rites and increasing FTH.

Hunters Shrine: An older practice among the Huntsmasters was the taking of trophies from their prey as offering to the Huntsmaster. Skulls, hearts, spines, processing cores. The practice still continued, with most Huntsmasters using Wyld-Shrines for the purpose. Some wanted to expand the Temple and create a shrine dedicated to the Huntsmaster attached to his temple for the express purpose of sacrificing trophies of slain prey to the god of hunters. 0/10, establishes Hunters Shrine, increasing FTH.

Faerie Shrine: The Fae Folk. Spirits of the Dreamland, many of them swore themselves to the Toy Maker, according to your lore. Perhaps by establishing a major shrine dedicated to them at the Toy Makers Temple, priests of the Toymaker could invoke them to ward the dreams of the Directorate. 0/15, upgrades Toy Makers Temple with Faerie Shrine. Unknown effects.

Enshrined Spirits: An old custom from long before the Destroyer War, ancient shrines occasionally served as more than simply places where the spirits of the region could be given offering to. Occasionally, they were said to contain specific machine souls enshrined within, serving as sort of guardian spirits that could ward against malign influences. A number of Shrine-Keepers want to see if they could recreate the process, develop a means by which every Shrine of note could house a Guardian Spirit. 0/10, upgrades Shrines with Guardian Machine Spirits, providing protection against supernatural phenomenon.

Hallowed Shrine: Another proposal had been to spend resources to develop a more advanced, theologically oriented shrine and accompanying rites to fully dedicate the Shrines and their offerings to specific gods. While these shrines wouldn't benefit the machine spirits of an area, they would likely very much please whatever deities they were connected to. 0/20, Shrines upgraded to provide FTH.

Shrine-Rites: This was an era of Mystek ascension. Give the Shrine-Keepers access to plentiful lifeforce to study: allow them to develop their understanding of the potent energy that the God-Machines had given access to and allow them to use it to develop rituals to further increase the potency of the TekShrines. 0/15, upgrades TekShrines with Rite of Motive Offering, increasing EXP given by TekShrines by two.

Shrine-Amps: Not all lifeforce was equal: the lifeforce of a Tekket was richer and more potent than the lifeforce of most beasts, the lifeforce of most beasts was more than most small plants, the lifeforce of most small plants was more potent than most small insects, and so forth and so forth. Perhaps Shrines could be modified with GodTek to launder lifeforce somewhat and improve their quality, ensuring that Spirits would higher quality, more strengthening mystic energy. 0/25, upgrades TekShrines with Shrine Amps, increasing EXP given by Tek-Shrines by two, cost 1 Artefacts.

Shrine-Conduits: Living Metal had a number of uses, but the biggest was that it retained lifeforce...concerningly well. By incorporating it into the design of your Shrine even more extensively in the form of special conduits, the Directorate should increase their overall efficiency, improving the impact of Shrines overall. 0/10, Shrines upgraded with Living Metal Conduits, increasing EXP by 1.

Advanced TekShrines: A proposed way to further improve TekShrines was to utilize God-Tek to increase the overall efficiency of Shrines as well as increase the power they generated. A bold proposal, but one the Shrine-Keepers themselves believed would work wonders as a way to empower the spirits they served. 0/25, upgrades TekShrines with GodTek Generators, increasing EXP given by TekShrines by two, costs 1 artefact.

Stone Chambers: Oracle Stone could be used to give Shrines means to communicate with spirits through vibration, yes, but their resonance could also be used for thaumaturgic principles. By designing specialized chambers and an interface in order to allow for the resulting harmonization to be controlled, the vibrations of the Oracle Stone could be harnessed to amplify the effects of rituals and rites performed within. 0/25, develop Resonance Stone Chambers, increasing FTH.

Lunar MegaShrine: A proposed manner to quell the wrath of the Lunar Spirits was a singular great shrine in their honor, one that would be fed obscene quantities of lifeforce and attended to by countless druids and priests in a constant ritual of appeasement. So long as nothing else is done to provoke them, this should help obtain a degree of peace. 0/20, establishes Lunar MegaShrine, increasing FTH and EXP and reducing Quartzbug aggression.

Great Totems: Totems acted as shrine-relays, increasing effective coverage range without dropping efficiency. Some Druids had theorized, however, that they could be upgraded in order to allow a few totems to not just perform as relays, but outright amplifiers, helping to accelerate the growth of Wyld-Spirits. Developing these Great Totems would, however, require a great degree of lifeforce. 0/25, upgrade Wyld-Shrines with Great Totems, increasing FTH. Cost 1 Warp.

Land Totems: Another proposed route was giving the druids more God-Tek to study to adapt its principles towards further increasing the effective range provided by your Shrines. The amount they'd be able to do so was unknown: God-Tek wasn't predictable, after all. But even small improvements would be appreciated. 0/25, upgrade Wyld-Shrines with Land Totems, increasing EXP, costs 1 ART.

Awakening Totems: Alternatively, some mysteks, primarily Calculators, theorized the optimal way to aid the spirits of the wild was to give them the tools to help realize cognizance. After all, it had been proven that machine spirits with additional processing power grew quicker, so why could the same not be true with the spirits of nature? By installing specialized network architecture and modified mind-interface technology, Totems could help spirits realize awakening by allowing them to piggy-back off of its vastly superior data-processing abilities. 0/15, upgrades Wyld-Shrines with Awakening Totems, increasing ACD. Costs 1 Network.

Power Totems: Alternatively, claimed some Assembly-aligned Druids, why not just stuff the totems full of power generation hardware? Uranium was cheaper than lifeforce, and while it wasn't as effective, it could be used for a variety of improvements across the board to the overall design of the Totems, with the excess nuclear energy utilized as a secondary sustenance source for spirits. 0/15, upgrades Wyld-Shrines with Power-Totems, increasing FTH. Costs 2 Nuclear Material.

ShipMind Shrine: A proposed method of improving your Ship Shrines even further was the addition of GodTek derived computers in order to create a sort of centralized AI core to house at least part of the ships oversoul: in essence, granting your shipspirits a degree of intelligence and willfullness. 0/20, Ships upgraded to include ShipMind, somewhat increasing performance. Cost 1 Artefact.

Greater Arbor Guardian: A much more modest proposal would be spending lifeforce to accelerate the development of multiple arbor guardians across the Directorate: these Greater Arbor Guardians would strengthen the shrines considerably, and would especially enrich the spirits of nature. 0/10, develop Greater Arbor Guardian, increasing FTH and strengthening Shrines. Cost 1 Warp.

Cthonic Shrines: An idea proposed by the NekroTeks, these Shrines would be constructed in every TekMausoleum, allowing for appeasement to be made to the spirits of the dead and departed, easing their transition to the afterlife. It would also, crucially, allow for them to make offerings to the machine souls of the crypt, any psychopomps that appeared, or other cthonic spirits. 0/15, establish Cthonic Shrines, increasing FTH.

Shrine-Hives: Fundamentally, it would not be difficult at all to redesign shrines to serve as hives for Chorus Bees, allowing for small amounts of lifeforce to be siphoned from the bees honey. In exchange, they would receive by and large the same benefits as the Arbor Guardians, receiving larger portions of lifeforce given directly. 0/15, Shrines on habitable planets upgraded with Shrine-Hives, increasing CUL.


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DataShrines: A proposal by some Academy aligned Mysteks was the installation of Shrines in DataHubs intended to be dedicated to the Spirits of Software: after all, was not every program in many ways lesser spirits? They theorized that this would prove an effective way to augment and improve network complexity and optimization should it work as intended. 0/15, generate considerable ACD, cost 1 Network.

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Hey, cool lists, thanks for throwing these together. Personally pretty interested in shrine and tree options.
 
Balmung1 said:
Because Gork and Mork are Eldritch monsters who live only for slaughter and brutality which barely let us live when we took a Grot.We really don't want their attention considering how our society despises pointless warfare.
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This just further begs the question of why that option was taken, especially without taking What the Zog? which might have given some idea of what a waaagh god even was.
 
Drakewolfbio said:
Or ork culture you guys are really against learning about other races I will say that
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To be fair, we've only encountered one other race at this point, the Orks. Once we encounter another xeno race we might rush to study them.

Also, how do you guys think the Eldar might react to our Wildlife and Wlyd stuff? Considering the whole "mystic fae shit" is supposed to their thing, and we're already doing a better job at doing it then them.
 
TBH I think a lot of people just went for whatever plan helped or orange skrunkly pal the most. Stopping to consider wtf a Waaagh shrine would actually do could have been a good idea, but we'll see what happens.
 
Since when have the Tekket stopped to consider the consequences? We'll put the Waagh shrine next to a nuclear-equipped playground, maybe the spirits will appreciate the booms from children playing with fusion bombs.
 
Razzocnor said:
Since when have the Tekket stopped to consider the consequences? We'll put the Waagh shrine next to a nuclear-equipped playground, maybe the spirits will appreciate the booms from children playing with fusion bombs.
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I didn't say the Tekket, although to be really pedantic the update quite literally had the Tekket shoot down making shrines to Mork and Gork..
 
Yeah, we'll create a new Waagh spirit that likes wrestling and nuclear weapons instead. Generating arbitrary Spirits is another Tekket specialty after all.
 
Another thing we need to do is increase the Tekket's understanding of the IoM which is horrendously bad.They think Astates are capable of natural reproduction,Astartes created baseline humans,Ogryn are a subsidary state of the astartes,AdMech are Janissaries and that the IoM is innovating.If we meet a different group of astartes like aImperial Fists sicessor or god help us one of the Dark Angels chapters(don't play thermoneculear chicken with the people who thought using phosphex on macragge was perfectly okay and it will be impossible for the Huntsmasters to do a decapitaion strike on their leadership) we will probably be butchered horribly.
 
Thanatosra said:
just tell them we spotted the fallen on another planet (joke)
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DA Seargant: Hey who are those weird looking Space Marines(points at some Fallen)
Rank and File? DA:(Shoots the seargant)Emperor dammit this the third time this century one of those Deathwing idiots fuckup the slection process and make me, a high member of the Hekatonystika have to deal with the mess of having all my superiors be uninitiated.
 
Balmung1 said:
They think Astates are capable of natural reproduction,Astartes created baseline humans,Ogryn are a subsidary state of the astartes,AdMech are Janissaries and that the IoM is innovating.
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To be fair, those are all fairly reasonable conclusions to reach, given the amount of information the tekket have access to. It just happens to be wrong, because they are the sole voice of logic and reason in an insane galaxy.
Razzocnor said:
Yeah, we'll create a new Waagh spirit that likes wrestling and nuclear weapons instead. Generating arbitrary Spirits is another Tekket specialty after all.
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Bork, the ork god of bombs and sports! Neither tekket or orks see any problem with combining those things.
 
Balmung1 said:
Another thing we need to do is increase the Tekket's understanding of the IoM which is horrendously bad.They think Astates are capable of natural reproduction,Astartes created baseline humans,Ogryn are a subsidary state of the astartes,AdMech are Janissaries and that the IoM is innovating.If we meet a different group of astartes like aImperial Fists sicessor or god help us one of the Dark Angels chapters(don't play thermoneculear chicken with the people who thought using phosphex on macragge was perfectly okay and it will be impossible for the Huntsmasters to do a decapitaion strike on their leadership) we will probably be butchered horribly.
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I do not think we have weapons to do a decapitation strike on astartes anyway, nothing handheld can get through their armor. That said by definition if we get him by say a company of Astartes it does not matter how tough and scary they are and how they would totally nuke us. We still have nukes and they still have a small enough footprint that one nuke will kill them... as long as we win the war in space. That is what it really comes down to, do not fight the Imperials on the ground, do not fight them honorably. Hack into their computers with warp-lore and turn their tech against them, nuke them from orbit etc...
 
Question i have if we study the bio of the astrates could we make our own shock troop with gene modfication and include our little orange friends and us as the baseline of our species is well ..... not great ? We lose any 1vs1 and only tech would be our leg up, but then ... there are the necrons, eldars.So yea i would think we need some modification.
 
Lord Bane said:
Question i have if we study the bio of the astrates could we make our own shock troop with gene modfication and include our little orange friends and us as the baseline of our species is well ..... not great ? We lose any 1vs1 and only tech would be our leg up, but then ... there are the necrons, eldars.So yea i would think we need some modification.
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There's a whole host of ethical issues with doing that. Using tech and warp-empowered Hunteks seems more in line with the Directorate.
 
Citrakayah said:
There's a whole host of ethical issues with doing that. Using tech and warp-empowered Hunteks seems more in line with the Directorate.
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I think we can ignore the ethical question in a warhammer 40k setting but we picked the federation so we have ethics unil we see what a fucked up place the galaxy is and then we dont.In my personal opnion i think the ethical question might presist until someone curbstomps us again and the sruvival gear kicks in and the ptsd flash backs of the war of genocide at the beginning.
 
cant imagine our people being okay with astarties/thunder warriors and custoudes since the massive side effects (space marines death amongst their recruits, custodues they are basically slaves and thunder warriors are orks, humans can only get away with these is because of how many humans their are)
what I imagine is we would do as the tech priests do and add like limbs or turrets
 
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