Ah. That's actually a small enough adjustment that I wouldn't take away a build slot for it.
Omnitools also project multi-shape hard light constructs as tools and weapons and use Nanites and Powerfields to mine, manufacture and break down damn near anything. Omnigel. The major exception being armor plating and structural supports because it's typically made by mass effect fields super-compressing materials to resemble the common neutronium scifi Battleship armor.
I'll be honest, the mechanistic point of omnigel in the game eluded me. Yes, you could break down weapons and mods you didn't want, but then it was, IIRC, only used to repair the armor on the Mako, so… Anyway, omnigel is not an element I'm borrowing here.
As for omnitools creating weapons, that is something I definitely do not recall. Admittedly I only played the first Mass Effect game, so it might have been introduced in a later one and I'm not aware of it, but that aspect is not in my mental image of what omnitools do.
On the subject of Guardian Beasts. I know you said that merely publishing the Ritual Online would suffice for anyone who want to to try it, but unless we published the info on the Linker Core's and people got into a MRI craze rather than looking at us like we craze, that'd rely heavily on luck. Would releasing a traveling Device that automates scanning the populace, helping Scanned cast Guardian Beast and leaving basic contact info for us actually be objectionable?
That's not actually how Devices generally work. The only Device you could make that would have that degree of autonomy is a Unison Device, and they prefer to stick with one mage or group of mages. Possible, but I don't think it would last for long.
The reason I said you could release the information online is that the Guardian Beast ritual is that this is a spell that doesn't need a processing boost to cast, so it would be easily castable just giving it a try. PHO is made out to be the major site for cape info, and capes are a fact of life, so let's assume just for the sake of argument that it is as big a site as Wikipedia. Wikipedia has (rounding to a nice even number) 33.2 million users. We'll say one percent decide to follow the directions and test out the claim that you can manipulate a little-known energy field to turn your pet into a sentient warbeast/protector/companion, mostly because it takes them all of a minute and it won't hurt anything if nothing happens and humans by nature are a curious bunch. 68% of households have pets to use, and five percent of people have Linker Cores. If we crunch the numbers, that means over a thousand very surprised people just created Guardian Beasts. They shortly reply something to the effect of "holy crap it actually worked!", probably with pictures upon demand from posters who don't believe them, and bam, now the rest of the 99% tries it out, giving you a total of 100,000 Guardian Beasts, and everyone is now going to tell all their friends to try it out.
Honestly, it wouldn't even take a thousand testimonials. One success with subsequent picture proof would start the process of getting the Guardian Beast craze going.
The rescue teleporter. You kinda hinted that it would be useful for reasons we aren't aware of, and just in general it seems really potentially helpful? Emergency buttons are nice to have.
None of the reasons this is useful are ones you're unaware of. I was just asking because depending on which one you wanted, it would wind up being different things. Don't want you to ask for a teleporter, expect a rescue teleporter specifically, and get mad because I thought you meant an armory teleporter and gave you one.
Hmm. It might be better to get it made conventionally but can privateer make something like W40K Shock mauls. It should be relatively simple and while not safe the voltage can be cranked up or down as needed. Up to 11 for Kaiser, down to 1 for 'suggesting' someone sit down.
As far as I can tell, all this is is a stun baton. Yeah, those are super easy for Tim to make.
The problem is that the current Privateers would just crank it up and leave it there.
I think Jarrik meant Tim/Shipwright.
But seriously, a lot of the more tech-y functions I've shown Taylor use with Perfect Storm were inspired by omni-tools.
