By Henrik Andren (henrika@ludd.luth.se)
"Thank you ensign," he replied, mostly by standard reaction. He was seated besides his console, over viewing his crew. Twelve men on the bridge, but an uncountable number of engineers, gunners, scientists, entertainers, cryo field operators and even priests were under his command. But for the priests he couldn't know; 'the Cult' always seemed to have some kind of second thoughts by their actions. Well, he leaned back in his armchair and again fell back to his drowsy slumber. He never slept, his personal force instructors had since long taught him how to rest in hyperzone and therefore was always awake, even thought he could still sink back in deep thoughts momentarily. Soon their mission would be ended, and they could return to the fleetbase of Cygnius #5.
"I sense you want something.", said the young Mrrshan by his side.
How tired he was of the priest telling him his thought. But he blamed it on the fact that he was quite young and wasn't quite familiar with starship etiquette.
"Yes, I want to come home, to see my family again.", he answered, "Don't you?"
"No, my mission is my life.", the priest answered back.
The captain sighed to himself and continued his train of thoughts, ignoring the probing mind of the young scholar. Suddenly the intercom sprang to life.
"This is engineering section HD-0 02; we might have a slight problem here," a metallic voice came from the speaker.
The captain sprang to attention and snapped the interlink. He could see how the priest strained his ears to hear the conversation.
"Explain.", he said shortly, ignoring the spying youngster.
"It seems like the hyperspace aggregates are unstable via the quadruploid interface and the hyper signature detector/calibrator, and..."
The captain interrupted him. Meklars, he thought, always technical details. "And the point is?" he asked.
"Something is entering the engines and loading them with some kind of unknown particles." was the reply, and the captain could hear how worried his engineer was.
"Communications, send out emergency call 2B." he shouted to the Jugginto by the communication panel. The whole bridge turned to him.
"The hyperspace aggregates are overloading; we may have to abandon ship," he explained. "Quick now, sensors, scan for non-hostile planets. Communications, send a distress call, magnitude 4. Navigation, set course for the planet. Security, calm the crewmen." He said the orders in a quick but not stressing pace, meaning it was an emergency, but everyone should keep calm.
"Priest, call your mentor and say that I request his help." he said as he turned to the priest beside him.
"You can't request anything from a master of the Cult." he said outraged. Before he stopped, the doors to the bridge opened, and in stepped Cha'dracul'na, the high master of the Cult present on the ship.
"He did right by requesting my assistance. Some of us have already foreseen this event, and I am most willing to help." He hissed to the young Mrrshan, "Step aside."
He floated into the room, seated in a levitating chair and gently slid in position by the captain. He was a Cygnan as the captain, but they had had their differences for a long time.
Suddenly the intercom bleeped again. The captain talked for a moment, then he said.
"It seems that there is an emergency, I want everyone here to volunteer to sacrifice themselves." One of the scanner operators stepped up and walked away.
"Excellent, we will be remembered."
The young Mrrshan looked worried, but stayed seated.
"You may go if you wish." the Grand master said. "Or do you think I am not capable of helping the captain on my own."
"Of course not." he answered and quickly walked after the others.
"Communications, call abandon ship. Man the escape pods. Engineering, do you read me." the captain continued.
"Loud and clear captain." the Meklar, loyal to his post, answered.
"How many of your crew stayed?" the captain asked.
"197 out of 230." he said "But 44 more have signed on."
"Excellent, try to hold of the explosion as long as you can."
"We may be able to buy us 199,724552 cassions captain."
"Do your best." the captain said.
"I always do that." was the bitter remark, but the captain knew that.
"Captain, our signal is blocked by hyperspace fields." the communicator said.
"What! Send a radio message." the captain said, "And get me in touch with Lechroon."
"At once, sir."
"Give him the following message: You are now in charge of the colony on this planet, your orders are: Try to survive; make no contact with inhabitants, try to contact us."
"Message sent."
"Excellent. How is the evacuation going?" he asked his security officer.
"Out of 180, 0 capsules launched." was the reply.
"Too few." the captain muttered "Many will die today."
He leaned back and watched the evacuation on the monitor. Then he leaned over to the grand master of force and asked.
"Why did you stay, it is nothing you can do."
The grand master smiled wryly.
"I have kept everyone calm, and those bones of mine would not survive down there." was his hissing reply.
"Well, let us settle our differences here and now then." the captain said. "We may have had our struggles, but we have also beaten the Hivemind lots of times."
"We have our memories, youngster." the 30 0 years old man answered.
And then the Cassiopeian spaceship 'Callisto' exploded in a ball of flame; only a few survivors ever managed to land on earth.
This is a document from the automatic log that was sent out of the ship until the bitter end. One of the most well known media for the earthen Cassiopeians.
The Hivemind is a species consisting of sentient insects, named Seltorians. Their nickname comes from their ability to link their minds together, to form hyper intelligent communities. Each Seltorian is stupid. But higher ranked Seltorians can connect their _?_ and become more intelligent. This means that the more Seltorians there are, the more intelligent they will act. A Seltorian completely cut off from its comrades would only rummage around, or go into a berzerker frenzy, they have even been reported to die of loneliness. High commanders know what their soldiers think, and can therefore use group tactics efficiently. The link seems to weaken with length from source to linker, and with the age of the linker. Their community is also split up in different species, all tailor made for their work. Everyone is completely loyal to their superiors, and would work until they dropped if commanded to do so, which is not unusual. The greatest ones are the leaders; it is they who focus and link all the thoughts from their loyals. They have developed grotesque heads to literally hold their and others thoughts. To be able to interact with human society, they have also developed humanoid insectoids. They appear human, but usually act with little regard of other things than the Hivemind, but as their leaders are very intelligent, they know how to melt in with human society. The neighbour next door, who usually walks around in the garden with a wide hat on him, working for the community, could be a Hivemind spy.
On earth the Cygnans have some underwater research stations where they are not yet in any danger of discovery. They had one in the Bermuda triangle, but as the shipping through the area increased they first tried to scare them away with defence systems, but as the humans got interested in the disappearances they had to move. The Cygnans are talkative and interested in humans, which they have kidnapped on occasions and examined, usually clearing their memories after and sending them back. The silencers don't like this but the Cygnans are allowed to continued as they need more information about us to be able to hide among us. The Cygnan "kidnappers" co-operates with The Silencers.
Appearance: The Cygnans are not strongly built, as their homeworld has low gravity, but are instead very agile. They have thick grey skin, especially adapted to water and cold, because the ocean bottom always is around four degrees Celsius. A complicated array of decompression bladders allow them to rise and dive deep without sustaining decompression injuries or diving illness. They also have a number of gills on their chest, allowing them to breathe both water and air. The gills have also been mutated to not take up dangerous substances and give them an ability to constantly breathe in.
Mutation: The Cygnan's gills and anatomy allow them to dive freely in water; they can even swim at great speeds, far beyond any humans. They also have good eyesight because of their large black eyes, and good hearing, giving them a -2 difficulty on perception rolls. This however is a drawback in loud or light areas, as they can get a difficulty of up to +4 on perception rolls.
Camouflage: The Cygnans take use of their medical skills, and research on humans, to create living tissues. They resemble human skin and anatomy and the Cygnans dress in them. This gives them a adequate camouflage among humans. But they tend to dry up and die, having to be replaced. This process is also more rapid if the Cygnan can't give them their need in _?_. Wounds also tend to damage the masks, and therefore subtract one from humanness for every wound the Cygnan gets. But the masks heal as much as the Cygnan.
Humanness: 6, subtract one for every month and one for every damage the character has.
Technology: Medicine, 4 others. The Cygnans have had a long experience with medicine and the Cygnan doctors are well known throughout the galaxy.
Force: Sense, 1 others. The Cygnans have for a long time known how to use their eyes with the force to increase their sight and other senses.
Appearance: The Jugginto are plastic creatures, capable of changing their bodies in different shapes. This is used on their homeworld to flow in between rocks and out the other way, and the ability to manipulate things.
Mutation: The Jugginto main ability is their skill copying the appearances of other things. They can for example take the shape and colour of a chest, cupboard or even human. This requires an Appearance + Performance roll, the number of successes deciding humanness, and difficulty varies by the difficulty of the object. For example a safe or other fixed furniture is around 4, a couch_?_ is around 2 and such a complex thing as an animal or human around 8. No moving parts, like the inertia in a clock or gun can't be copied. But of course the pendulums movements can be copied. This transformation takes around a quarter of an hour to metamorph fully, to do it faster means that the task becomes more difficult.
Camouflage: The Jugginto camouflages themselves by copying humans. They have a special human which have been trained to look like, and this form they can always take in a matter of minutes. But as the special form is exhausting to hold this shape for long, therefore they lose one point of humanness every hour, if they do not spend one willpower point that hour. They may regain their shape after resting for half the time they were human.
Humanness: 4, subtract one for every hour; this process can be halted for one hour by spending one willpower. They may regain the shape after half the time they were in the shape.
Technology: Materials, 2 others. The Juggintos have always been close to the material around them and therefore are the best of the Cassiopeians in this area.
Force: Body, 3 others. The Juggintos control of their bodies are well known, some of the best force users in body have studied under Jugginto teachers. The fifth form of body mean that the Jugginto also can take the form of gaseous substances, floating around in the air.
Appearance: The Meklar's bodies are different for each Meklar, as they usually engineer, construct and rebuild themselves. But usually they are quite humanoid, with two to eight arms, usually equipped with different tools and objects. When a Meklar dies his brain may be intact and if he is put into a new body he will survive. But the shock this gives him forces him to take their nature as demeanour and take another nature. This to reflect the psychic change inclined by death.
Mutation: The Meklar's greatest advantage is their mechanical bodies which are usually fitted with huge amounts of cybernetics. This is why they get an extra three dots in the cybernetic background from start. The trouble is that they do not heal; instead they have to repair themselves, more of this later.
Camouflage: The Meklar camouflage themselves by creating humanoid bodies, which with the right makeup look human. But their minds are more difficult to camouflage, because they are usually pretty cold and calculating. If they are damaged they also lose one humanness, which is not given back if they are repaired. They have to remodel their human-like body separately. Which is also described later.
Humanness: 4, subtract one for every wound the character gets.
Technology: Mechanics, 5 others. The Meklar have always mastered mechanics, and also know the Cygnan tech by heart.
Force: None. But Meklars can learn force.
The Mrrshans are a people whose history is much more forceful than any other of the Cassiopeian union. Therefore they usually serve as guards or soldiers. But they are also renown for their technical knowledge.
Appearance: The Mrrshans are predators, and one of the best on their planet. They have powerful jaws and long claws on feet and hands. They also are equipped with two small extra arms, usually folded up by the sides of their upper abdomen. Those are used to hold prey in close combat. Their skin is light green to dark brown in colour, and they have prominent boning around their head, neck, shoulders and chest which grows bigger with age. They do not have any ears on the sides of their heads, but instead have two tunnel looking slots on top of their head, which goes down on each side of their necks. This gives them very accurate hearing forward. Their sides are watched by their eyes, which are located on the sides of their heads, and are able to watch both forward and backwards.
Mutation: The ability which is mostly connected to the Mrrshans is their extremely quick reflexes. They have reaction times which is greatly below human average, and therefore may subtract four form the difficulty of every initiative rolls, naturally this can't get the difficulty below two.
Camouflage: The Mrrshans use special cloning apparatus and body reformations to make their bodies humanoid. Therefore they get no minuses when damaged, but they still look strange if they have a low humanness. But their bodies tend to take back their original shape; therefore they must treat themselves with hormones and other medicals to stay in shape. But the humanness still deteriorates. Subtract one humanness for every week without treatment, or one humanness for every month if the character is treated. They have to visit a genetics lab and take use of the special machinery in there. Rules for that can be read later.
Humanness: 6, minus one for every week without treatment, or one for every month with.
Technology: Genetical engineering, 3 others. The Mrrshans are well respected for their knowledge with modulation bodies, in which field they even are more capable than the technical geniuses the Meklar.
Force: Body, 2 others. Some of the Mrrshans are masters in fight, and therefore they have learned to take full use of their bodies to achieve even greater speed and agility.
The Zanirion is perhaps the most integrated in human society, because they have always known how to hide themselves among others. Therefore they control many high officials and so on, giving the Cassiopeian union the power they need to stay hidden.
Appearance: The Zanirion mostly resemble trilobites. They have six sturdy legs with strong climbing claws. The small body is perhaps the size of a hand, half closed, and coloured in dark brown and red. The head is perhaps the most interesting bodypart, as they have the ability to drill into a victim, to take control of its movement and thoughts. This is a painless process due to the special design of the head, and it is hard to be aware of the Zanirion until it controls you.
Mutation: The Zanirion have the ability to take control of people by fastening on the base of their necks. There they probe for the brain and take control of the victim. If a Zanirion controlled body is killed, the Zanirion may survive, if the Zanirion itself wasn't damaged. The Zanirions body has one in all physical attributes, but it can still withstand seven injuries, due to its shelled body.
Camouflage: The Zanirion takes possession of other creatures, and interacts via them. When a Zanirion has successfully sneaked up on a victim, it makes contact with the brain, and overpowers it with the control force. Then the Zanirion fasten its body and lets it interact with its victim's. The Zanirion body starts with a humanness six lower that its original score, but this value then increases with one each week to the Zanirion's original. This reflects how the Zanirion learns more about its victim, and that his body is more covered by the victims flesh.
Humanness: 8, minus six in the beginning, but increases with one each week it possesses it's victim.
Technology: None, but they may learn. The Zenarions have never been very much interested in technology, and therefore their knowledge is sparse.
Force: Control, 4 others. The Juggintos capability of control is infamous throughout the Cassiopeian union, but they are great manipulators of force in other fields as well.
| X | Totally alien both in mind and body. Mutations are fully visible |
| * | A humanoid body, but nothing more; speaks no human language. Mutations are fully visible |
| ** | Can only speak a few words, with an alien dialect. No face or details. Mutations can only be seen at close range. |
| *** | Recommended: trenchcoat, shades and a wide hat. Can speak but with difficulty. Mutation can only be seen at close inspection in good light. |
| **** | Looks strange, behaves strange, strange dialect. Mutations are not visible, unless closely examined by knowing personnel. |
| ***** | Can manage a medical exam. Mutations are not visible unless activated. |
| ****** | Could manage a psychological exam. Mutations are not visible unless activated. |
| ******* | Can fool close friends. Mutations only visible activated. |
| ******** | Can have sexual relations with humans. Mutations have halved efficiency. |
| ********* | Could manage a surgical examination. The mutations do not work. Can be seen as microscopical regressions. |
| ********** | Completely human. The mutations are non-existent |
The trouble with humanity is that it becomes harder to use the species mutation.
* Construction: This is the basic skill of architecture. To build ordinary facilities, such as skytowers, and underground secret bases, undetectable on radar or other deep scanning probes. With this skill you can construct the huge underwater or underground facilities that the Cassiopeians use to hide their secret labs in.
** Powerplant engineering: The complicated structure of a matter / antimatter powerplant needs the most exact calculations. This is necessary as the energy given is so high, so high even that the plant easily could explode. To make it safe it requires a multitude of safety regulators.
*** Starship construction: The construction of starships is vital to the surviving of a space exploring race but as the knowledge disappears the council has been distressed. Without the knowledge of starship building, they are truly abandoned, so they have tried to rediscover and remember the old skills of starship construction. But new designs are necessary to develop beyond the hyperfield.
**** Beanstalk architecture: The knowledge of construction of orbital facilities is nearly easier than spaceships, but to have an uninterrupted communication between them and the planet is difficult. This is when the beanstalk comes in. A gigantic beanstalk that stretches from the base, down through the atmosphere and is connected to the earth. The construction of such an object is of course of great difficulty.
***** Terraforming technology: This is the advanced knowledge of creating habitable planets from nearly habitable ones. The process takes thousands of years and has to be closely supervised by the Terraforming engineer. But the knowledge is essential to the colonisation of space.
* Supercomputers: The alien super mainframes are what they call outdated. Those are the machines who human engineers have wet dreams about. They are superfast, have gigantic memories, and do not require much energy to work. But they are mostly based on similar technologies as the human computers, and can therefore be easily constructed by the materials available on earth.
** Nanocomputers: A Nanocomputers is what is also called a machinery computer. They are created by very small moving parts, and of course also electric. They are microscopic, and are much more energy conserving than the supercomputers. The drawback is that they do not have long lifespans. Therefore they are usually built by many replaceable parts, which makes them easier to maintain. Those computers are used when space and energy is the limiting factors, as in small tools or cybernetics.
*** Cybercomputers: A step towards intelligent that proved easier was to access the problem the other way. If they could not take the computers to intelligence, then they had to bring intelligence to the computers. By the use of medical research they soon succeeded in linking a brain to a computer. This led to a lot of knowledge regarding artificial intelligence, which could later be used to create true computerised brains, and later intelligent software. The trouble with cybercomputers is that the controlling brain has a tendency to get mad after some twenty years, and also to age and die. Even though the brain is properly treated by doctors and psychologists they do not grow older than maybe 800 years.
**** AI:s: Even though certain humans claim that artificial intelligence will never be able to be achieved above the logical level, the Cassiopeians can prove them incorrect. It is merely another development in computers, not based on binary counting, but comparison. Every logical and random event is compared, to use the best one. They are also self-learning, which means they learn which solution is the best, and if the AI get into another similar situation, it will used learned facts to be able to act correctly. The most famous AI on earth is the leader of the Meklar, MMPX-112.
***** Hyperlinked computers: The computer science also won on the development of hyperspace. Because of the difference in time a calculation in hyperspace always takes no time. Soon a mainframe was built that could move its calculations into hyperspace, calculate them there, and then retrieve them. The only trouble is that the mathematical rules of hyperspace is different than ours, so the results have to be remodelled after our space. This is the time consuming part of the calculation. Another spin-off from this research is that you can tap into different computer systems, and therefore access them even if there is no external access. This can be used to create the biggest parallel processor in the universe. Of course this is also used to hack into computer terminals around the world. This has of course leads to some disputes with the Virtual Adepts, as the Cassiopeians hacked into their systems.
* Superconductors: The technology of superconductors that operate in room temperature was discovered a long time ago by the Cassiopeian scientists. They discovered that the crystal order was best built in super high gravity environments, and so they soon took gravity generators to use. Now the technology is widespread. Although superconductive cables are difficult to produce, much could be obtained from the gigantic factories spread though Cassiopeian space. On earth it is a completely other matter.
** Anti-matter: To handle anti-matter is a difficult problem, as matter and anti-matter transform into high energy gamma radiation when exposured to each other. But the anti-matter can be kept in specific containers. But this technology mostly means how to create and take use of anti-matter and the energies that could be obtained by the use of it.
*** Superheavy elements: The superheavy elements are such famous atoms as the Elerium-115, Argandium-127 and so on. Those elements are created in specific accelerators, that construct the atoms. Many of the atoms deteriorate quickly, but with some luck a small percentage survives and proves stable. But the stability is of course limited.
**** Superstoragers: This was an important breakthrough in the development of hyperdrives. The enormous energy output needed to move a ship into hyperspace was hard to achieve with the spaceship's reactors alone. But by the development of superstoragers, a sort of battery capacitor, made it possible to store huge amounts of energy, and then let it out in a quicker rate. This is necessary to power the energy consuming hyperspace aggregates. This meant that the ships could get smaller, and faster. Even small battleships could be of Hyperspace capability, if they could recharge at a mothership.
***** Hyperspace particles: The science of hyperspace particles is extremely complex because of the different nature of hyperspace. Few people can really grasp the idea of how they work. But this science is perhaps the most researched one on earth, because of the hyperspace field, it is such particles that hold the aliens stuck on earth.
* Radiation: This is useful when controlling electromagnetic radiation. With this you can focus rays into beams, or use it to do other things. New methods are found out on a weekly basis, as electromagnetic radiation can be used to so many things.
** Magnetic/Electric: To control magnetic or electric fields is somewhat tougher, but can be done by special instrument. Magnetic energies were early used to create flying saucers, but the discovery of the gravitational field proved less energy consuming than to lift crafts by use of the planet's own magnetic field. This technology is also used to try and repel the magnetic fields creating the Aurora Borealis, but so far only limited successes have been achieved.
*** Power plant operations: To operate a matter/anti-matter power plant is difficult. Therefore the operators are highly rated professionals, who have studied a lot to achieve this level of knowledge. The operation requires precise use of both radiation and magnetic/electric fields, but once they are achieved you can have an enormous output of energy. This skill can also be used to operate the simpler and less dangerous fusion reactors. But they do not have the same energy output as much energy are used to heat up the plasma. This is not necessary with matter/anti-matter as you can have the energy output you wish, whenever you wish.
**** Transmitting: The trouble of transmitting energy has always been a problem. One solution was superconductive cables, but you can't draw them through space. The development of hyperspace communicators made it possible to transmit energy though hyperspace; the losses are still great, but many people have great hopes for it in the future. Research is being made on earth, but not in such a large scale as it needs.
***** Hyperenergy: Based on the research of transmitting energy via hyperspace has led to the hypothesis that you can tap hyperspace itself on energy. This research has great resources, as it could prove viable to the defeat of the Seltorians. Thoughts about a superweapon, being able to send out deadly bursts of hyperenergy on attacking foes are also useful. Maybe the war will soon move completely into hyperspace. Some sceptics claim that such a draining of hyperspace could prove disastrous, as they do not know the links between realspace and hyperspace.
* Particle deflectors: The first real field technology developed was particle fields. When any mass tries to penetrate the field, it is attacked by a force of high energy photons, which forces it to go another way. Instead of hitting the object, it is repelled in another direction.
** Cloaking devices: Another one of the military's efforts was cloaking devices to be able to construct a field which rotated all beams around it, efficiently cloaking everything inside. The first cloaking devices only cleared an area from sensor outputs; this worked fine in the beginning, but soon the sensors learned to see the cleared areas of space. This technology was not usable on planets either, because a black area seem to attract attention. But soon the technology was better, being able to duplicate the areas behind the object, giving them a non-appearing status. There even exist duplicating fields, which creates a picture instead of hiding something.
*** Gravity: The fields to affect gravity was another important breakthrough in field science. By dispatching the gravitons around the field the Cassiopeians were able to create weightless objects, such as flying saucers. One of the drawbacks was the fact that the surrounding gravitons tend to break up into photons, emitting light and maybe a whining sound.
**** Stasis: The stasis field is a bubble in which time passes very slowly. An object in a stasis field could be there for thousands of years, and still not have aged more than a couple of months. This is used to storage very unstable or radioactive elements. What is believed to happen is that the stasis field moves its interia to hyperspace, and gets it back with repeating intervals from the time it was put in. Sometimes the object has also aged quickly, or been terribly mutated into other shapes. Organic tissue also has a sensitivity, similar to hyperspace sensitivity but nothing has still been able to be monitored from the inertia of a stasis field, as no observations could take so little time. This means that the theories are still untested.
*****Hyperfields: The stasis field is perking on the edge of hyperspace, creating a passageway between them but Hyperfields are really used in hyperspace. The development was first issued by the military, to be able to make hyperspace cloaking devices but this seemed very difficult. Now the research is based on stopping the aggressive Sol hyperparticles to invade the hyperspace aggregates and force them to overload. This is so the Cassiopeians can return home.
The skills of genetic engineering among the Cassiopeian races is much greater than ours. One of the biggest breakthroughs is the development of fast growth cloning. In special cylinders with the right mixture of different substances, the growth can be accelerated. This environment at first tried to copy the environment in the womb, but soon the technology achieved even quicker results. This has also lead to the development of the regeneration tank, as bodies can be quickly healed, without scars, in such an environment, and with the same genes.
* Duplicate organs: The Cassiopeians can regrow any organ, except for neural ones, in special machines. But they at least need a part of that organ.
** DNA-engineering: This level of skill makes you able to create DNA out of a blueprint, with the special DNA-weavers. With this skill you do not even need a part of the object for cloning, only a printout or a piece of its DNA. You can also make your own DNA.
*** Fast growth cloning: With this level you can operate the advanced cloning chambers. Mix the correct liquids, and make them grow your required specimen.
**** Create mutation: With this skill you can implement mutations into a foster, even in fully grown creatures. Even though the mutations then have to be looked after, to see if it mutates correctly. You can give someone completely new sets of organic tissue, and even working organs, like wings or gills. Even though that still is difficult.
***** Create lifeform: Life is the creation of god, someone said. So also in the Cygnan world. It was when the Cult has lost almost all of it's power to the scientists that this technology could be researched in. To create a lifeform is one of the most difficult things you can try. This requires that you have full knowledge of the ecology in which you want to implement it. Then you have to design the genes, create them, test, redesign, recreate, retest, and so on, until the specimen has the required capabilities.
* Robots: The Cassiopeian robots are not extremely highly developed in comparison with human, but they can take usage in their special materials and computers, to create robots that are highly advanced. A robot factory linked to an AI is a most useful tool, as the AI has full control of the complete factory, and can create anything it is ordered too. Of course there exist ghost stories of such self-producing factories gone wild. Another useful thing about robots is that they are not affected by the same things that kill Cassiopeians or other organisms, therefore they usually take such missions as cleaning up radioactive or dangerous places.
** Exosuits:The use of external machinery that reads the moment of the body, and enhances it is still very useful. This technology has been widespread in loading bays and by the military. Sometimes exosuits are also linked to cybernetic implants, to allow a quicker and more accurate reading of the body's movements.
*** Androids: This is a step beyond robots. An android is a nearly exact replica of a living organism, but made by robotic parts. This gives it the same mobility and flexibility as a living organism, but such things as breathing or weakness is of course removed from the design. Androids are also usable as spies, as they can be built in almost any shape. The drawback is that such a design is hard and expensive to construct, and usually a normal robot can do the same task.
**** Reconstructive machinery: This is the mechanical equivalent to smart materials. This is a machine that can respond to outer stimuli, and react accordingly. Now I do not talk about pressing a button, but if a projectile hits any place of the surface, the machinery itself will move harder plates in the way, maybe even covering up the hole. This ability is very useful in space battle, as a hole can prove devastating. The machinery can even be built in such a way as it reacts logically to the stimuli, not requiring a computer, but a computer is of course always good to have linked to it.
***** Morphic machinery: This is the most advanced machinery yet developed. By the use of nanomachinery, small machinery and special alloys, it is possible to make a machine out of a morphic mass (like the bad terminator in T2). This machinery is usually fitted with a computer or link to a computer, which is needed to control the advanced mechanics of the body. Then the machine can be moulded into any shape desired; of course smaller moving parts are unnecessary, as the body can do the major tasks anyway. It is composed by strong magnetic fields, and usually has a magnetic shielding not be disturbed. Some morphic machines can even change the texture, colour and feel or the surface, imitating such things as human skin, or clothing.
* Plastics: This is the knowledge of creating and inventing different polymers. Alien plastics are widely spread. Some are harder than steel; others are lighter than aluminium; others are flexible as rubber and some are conductive. In short, they have a wide variety of uses and specifications.
** Alloys: Alien alloys are also tailor made, with just the right mixture of the correct metals. There even exists alloys with non-metal components; they are also grouped under alloys. The alloy technology went back as plastics really came through, but soon it was learned that the alloys still meant a great deal to construction. Alloys have a hardness never achieved by humans, and they can also be superlight or liquid or have any other important aspect.
*** Smart materials: The Cassiopeians have great knowledge in what is called smart materials, materials which react to outer stimulus. For example there exist metals that if they are _?_ they create a harder and thicker surface by themselves. There also exist metals that regain other forms if electricity is conducted though them, or if exposured to heat or cold.
**** Crystal metals: The invention that meant the most to the survival of metals is the creation of crystal steels. It was discovered that steel, and other alloys, together with other compounds, could regain a crystal structure. This meant that the metal not only grew somewhat lighter, but much stronger. Some objects even have the ability to regain its old form completely when not affected by forces.
***** Pikocomposed materials: It was the discoveries of pikobots and crystal steel that made it possible to create pikocomposed materials. They are the cutting edge of material science. Pikocomposed materials are build atom by atom, instead of mixing metals and hope that they fall in the right places. This makes it possible to construct materials with exactly the correct abilities, such as super hardness.
* Surgery: Alien surgery is far more advanced than what we know now. They mostly apply microbots to probe the inside of the patient to remove or treat injuries. The most used tool with this skill is the automed.
** Neurosurgery: The surgery of the nervous system is more advanced than simple organic surgery. But then the effects can be so much better. With this skill you can treat such things as brain damage, Alzheimers and such. This technology even applies to the construction of nervous systems, including reconstruction of the brain.
*** Cybernetic interfaces: To connect the cybernetic machines to the nervous system you have to know a bit more than to simply grow nerves with each other. This skill is mostly used to 'trim' the equipment, and shows that you are capable of that.
**** Bionics: The more advanced form of cybernetics is bionetics. With this you can install complicated organic tissues, which helps the body in different ways. This is the knowledge to how to apply those to existing nerves, and to make the body adapt the organ without killing it, or the contrary, that the organ kills it's host.
***** Body reanimation: Wen you have reached this level of knowledge, you can get dead creatures to start living again. Of course you cannot make destroyed or dead tissue live again, but you can replace it. You can also do such incredible things as brain replacements.
* Nanomechanics: The first thing to be learnt is nanomechanics. This is necessary when understanding the nanomechanical world. This level represents theoretical knowledge about nanomechanics, and the ability to create simple things as moving parts or levers.
** Nanomachinery: This is the creation of generators, motors and more advanced moving parts. Now the scientist can build the machines necessary to control and drive other nanomachinery.
*** Create nanobots: Nanobots are small independent nanofactories. Capable of travelling around on their own, constructing other nanobots or repairing things. They work somewhat like living cells, but are made of mechanical parts rather than living tissue.
**** Advanced nanobots: Those nanobots can also be fitted with nanocomputers, or be controlled by the outside, via radiowave patterns or chemical substances. They can even have an own limited intelligence, but no real AI capability.
***** Pikomachinery: This represents the cutting edge of nanomachinery. When nanobots are build of extremely small mechanical devises, pikomachinery is made by some very few atoms. They are placed in such a structure that they catalyse different reactions, thus giving them the same abilities as nanobots, but they are a lot smaller.
* Communications: The most basic usage of scanner technology is to create realspace communicators. These are compact communicators with a very quick and interference-free communication. This knowledge represents both simple handheld communicators and around the word relay stations.
** Energy scanners: The field scanner is the simplest form of scanners. They pick up information on magnetic or radioactive energy and relay them to the user. They can also measure gravitation and electric charges.
*** Life form scanners: All life emits signals; the basic ones are chemical substances such as smell and carbon dioxide, but also electric signals, and wave patterns in hyperspace. The life form scanner picks up such things, processes them, and relays to the user facts about lifeforms.
**** Mind scanners: A more complex machine than the mind is hard to find. But the very sensitive mindscanners pick up the small chemical and electrical discharges in the brain, as well as hyperspace patterns of thoughts. This knowledge is usually operated by interrogators, being a very useful tool when separating truths from lies. It is also usable to determine the intelligence of a new species.
***** Hyperspace scanners: These are the most complex scanners available. Hyperspace is hard to reach, and hyperspace particles seldom interact with realspace. Therefore hyperspace scanners usually are partially moved into hyperspace, to be able to monitor the movements and ripples of hyperspace. Those scanners initially served a military purpose, namely to spot incoming vehicles before they appeared, being able to attack them when they are weak.
* Strengthen: This force allows you to manage incredible feats of strength, as hurling a man through a concrete wall. System: You may add Body to your strength total whenever you wish.
** Heal self: With this force you may turn your concentration inwards and speed up the healing processes enormously. You have to sit and rest for one hour to do this. System: Roll Body + Medicine against a difficulty of 8. Each success allows you to heal one health level.
*** Quickness: This force represents the supreme speed with which some aliens react. However, it takes one turn to evoke those effects. System: Roll Body + Brawl against a difficulty of 7. Each success gives you an extra action to perform any time during the battle. You may not do more extra actions than your dexterity in any single round. It takes one turn of concentration to evoke those effects.
**** Toughness: With this force you can call upon an extreme toughness to survive in dangerous situations. It is this force that makes it possible for aliens to take multiple gun wounds and fall from a high building, and still attack the hero in the movie. System: You may add your score in body to the number of soak dices you can use when damaged. You can also sustain as many wound levels above bruised that you have dots in body.
***** Metamorph: This is the ability that Jugginto already possess; therefore they have reach such mastery in this force that they can also transform themselves into a gas form, and float away as they wish by means of telekinetic powers. They also have much easier to copy non-humanoid objects. System: Roll Body + Expression against a difficulty that varies according to how you try to look. To copy a human of the same size has a difficulty of 6. But this may be higher if you try to make a copy of a specific human. The number of successes is the time, in hours, that this shape can be held, before you have to spend a willpower to try again. If no willpower is spent, then you retain your original shape within half an hour. You can also spend successes to increase any physical attribute, or appearance. One success can also be spent to move 2 dots between any physical attribute or appearance. Only Jugginto can still copy objects, but you can make yourself fit in narrow quarters.
* Motoric control: With this ability you are able to force the victim to do one or more motoric actions, as pressing a button or hitting someone. Of course you have to touch the person, if you can reach his spine or head this is of course more easy. The victim knows what's happening and can resist. System: Roll Control + Investigation against a difficulty of the victims willpower. Each success gives you control over one action. The difficulty is increased by three if you do not have contact with the spine or head (i.e. with the nervous system). The victim may spend one willpower to resist one action. The controller does not need to touch the victim as the commands are done, but they have to be done simultaneously.
** Mind control: This allows you to change the patterns of a persons thoughts. He will think the ideas and plans is his own. Cassiopeians usually use this force to hide their presence, and make humans do as their wish. System: Roll Control + Subterfuge against a difficulty of the victims willpower. One success enables the controller to change the outcome in instant unimportant decisions, like which drink to order. With five successes the controller may change the victims personality and thoughts to suit his needs.
*** Telephatic command: With this force you no longer have to touch the victim, but can affect him within a distance. System: Roll Control + Persuasion against a difficulty of the victims willpower. If the victims know what is happening he may try to resist with a willpower roll against a difficulty of 5. Each success allows you to
**** Telepathic control: This allows the controller to take full control over a victim. The drawback is that the controller can't take control over too many victims a time. System: Roll Control + Leadership against a difficulty of the victims willpower. For each roll the controller can control up to successes victims. For example, if a controller already controls a victim, and wish to take control of another victim, he has to score at least two successes. If a controller, who controls three victims, wish to control another, and only scores two successes, he may only choose two victims to take control of.
* Concentrate: This is used to focus your mind on one skill. System: Roll Mind + Performance against a difficulty of 7. Each success gives you that number of dots in any desired skill. This lasts for a scene. One of the drawbacks is that you can only concentrate on one skill at the time.
** Rest: Sleep has always been disturbing. By the use of this force, its user are able to go on without feeling sleepy or needing to sleep. System: Roll Mind + Survival against a difficulty of 6. Each success allows you to nullify 3 hours of sleep (Aliens have adapted to the 8 hour sleep of humans). Three successes meaning that you do not have to sleep.
*** Read mind: The force of mind is not only deployed with your own mind, but you can affect other minds as well. Read mind means that you can read the thoughts of a person. System: Roll Mind + Emphaty against a difficulty of 6. The number of successes show how much of the person is uncovered. If the victim knows what is going on he may resist with a willpower roll against a difficulty of 7.
**** Mindspeak: With this force you can communicate with another mind. The one affected will feel this as another voice speaking in his mind. You can also read what he is thinking for the moment, at least his outer thoughts. But he may try to resist. It is also easier to persuade people this way, as they might consider the thoughts their own, but this is not as powerful as complete control. System: Roll Mind + Intimidation against a difficulty of 6. The number of successes needed are affected by range. The victim may also try to resist, with a willpower roll against a difficulty of 7. Each success lowering the score by one.
***** Change mind: This is one of the most powerful mind tools that are available. With this force you are able to wrap someone's thought as you wish. This is very useful when persuading people, or making them forget. On many occasions this has saved Cassiopeian bases from discovery, as masters of mind have made them think that this is nothing, or that they are mad. System: Roll Mind + Subterfuge against a difficulty of the subjects willpower. The effects of this force is hard to feel, therefore no resistance roll may be used. One success means that you can make the victim feel nervous, or bored or anything. More successes makes it possible to make greater changes. With five successes you can change the complete personality and beliefs. With three successes you may choose a new demeanour for the victim, and with five both a new demeanour and nature. If you wish to be free from the effects, you have to spend an equal amount of willpower to the successes of the Change mind.
* Disturbance: By inciting different understreams in the opponent's mind, you try to disturb him, give him a headache or a muscular spasm. System: Roll Mindbattle + Streetwise against a difficulty of 7. For each success you may subtract one dice from the opponents dice pool. The effect lasts for one turn. Of course you can do other actions, but that requires that you split your dice pool.
** Incite delirium: With this force you can affect the persons nervous system, giving him illusions. You cannot control this feeling so much; it is rather the victims fears and phobias that you call forth. The victim might, for example, feel sudden changes in temperature, or see differently coloured spots before his eyes, or anything like that. System: Roll Mindbattle + Emphaty against a difficulty of 6. The more successes you score, the more real the delirium is, and the longer it stays. One success might only make the person feel hot or cold. But five successes makes him see and feel his worst phobias. For example, a Vampire sees the sun, a Werewolf becomes consumed by a Wyrm-beast. Each success gives deliriums for one round. Due to the disturbing nature of delirium, each success removes one dice from the victim's dice-pool, for as long as the effect lasts. But such illusions can induce rotschreck or frenzy.
*** Destroy memory: This force is used to destroy memories, wipe them clean and remove them forever. This is a lengthy and difficult procedure, and has to be done with precise skill, otherwise too much may be removed. This effect has also been used in mind combat, wiping the opponent clean. System: Roll Mindbattle + Subterfuge against a difficulty that varies according to what you are trying to achieve. If you merely try to wipe someone clean, the difficulty is 4, but if you try to remove a specific memory the difficulty may be 7, or maybe even 8. The victim may try to resist with a willpower roll against a difficulty of 6. This is a continuos task, ending when you have scored a number of successes equal to or greater than the victims willpower. Then the memory is completely wiped out. A battle wipe works in the same way, but then you hit every memory you can get, not destroying it completely. Each success lets you temporarily remove two dots of a chosen ability. The victim will be able to roll one regain roll after each sleeping period which means that he may roll a number of dice equal to the lost dice in each skill + 1, against a difficulty of five. Each success means that he regains one dot in the ability.
**** Mental shield: This force is very useful when dealing with mindbattle. It is not an attack, but a defence. It is meant to block away any attack against ones mind. This is done by letting the attack slide by outside the brain which means that the user is also immune to passive mind skills. System: Roll Mindbattle + Expression against a difficulty of 6. The number of successes is the number of automatic successes you have on any resistance roll against any power that affects your mind. You may still roll your resistance score, but add this to your result. This includes not only mindbattle and other mind forces, but also the Mages mind sphere and Vampires dominate and such. The effect lasts for one scene.
***** Brainkill: This is the most devastating attack that can be made with mindbattle. It is even worse than destroy memory, as it does not affect what the brain holds, but the brain itself. Killing of parts of it. System: Roll Mindbattle + Leadership against a difficulty of 7. Each success lets you subtract one willpower score from the victim permanently. It also allows you to subtract successes dots from the victim's mental attributes. No attribute can fall to zero before the others have reached one. The first attribute to fall to zero is perception, meaning that the victim lose all sensory contact with the outer world. The second attribute is wits, transforming the victim into a vegetable, i.e. he cannot act on his own accord and is completely lame. When intelligence reaches zero the brain is completely dead, and the body has to be linked to a machine to survive. If willpower reaches zero the victim becomes a mindless zombie.
* IR/UV: This force allows you to see both in the ultraviolet and infrared spectrum of sight giving you a limited heat vision, and allowing you to use ultraviolet lamps, rather than normal, which are undetectable by humans. System: Roll Sense + Alertness to spot things, rather than Perception + Alertness. The difficulty may vary, for example to spot a human in a dark room (the human's infrared radiation that is) has a difficulty of 7. To spot a vampire in the same room has a difficulty of 9, (Vampires do not radiate much heat).
** Sonar: Now you have the ability to hear ultrasounds, and sending out such sounds. This makes it possible for you to "see" by hearing reflecting sounds. You can also communicate with others in this matter, and can hear others using sonar. System: Roll Sense + Investigation to "see" things. The difficulty varies depending on the size of the target, and how much disturbing noise there is. Another sonar can hinder you from seeing things. The difficulty is also higher if there is a lot of objects in the air, like scraps of paper or snow.
*** Electromagnetic Sight: When you have reached this level of sense you can see all types of electromagnetic radiation from radio waves to gamma rays. Your senses are also improved, and you are no longer blinded by strong light; you can also see in much less light than usual. System: Roll Sense + Science to see things. The difficulty may vary, but remember that you are no longer blinded by other sources of energy. Even if you stand in the middle of a great field of radio waves, you can spot normal light as easily as always. The difficulty to see a human's IR output in a dark room is now a difficulty of 5, and to do the same thing with a Vampire is around 7.
**** Sense Minds: This is a very powerful sense force. Now you start to turn your gaze inwards, instead of outwards, and can feel presence, rather than see it. The easiest thing to feel is patterns of thought, as they create ripples in hyperspace, detectable by the sensitive. System: Roll Sense + Empathy to spot someone. The difficulty may vary, but remember that even vampires emit thought pattern and can be spotted as easily as humans. Smaller minds can be more difficult to feel. For example, to sense a human that tries to sneak up your back is 6, because the humans thoughts is directed towards you. If the human would have been sitting behind you in a restaurant, ignoring you, the difficulty would have been 9, partially because of the background "noise".
***** Matter Sense: This is the ultimate art of inward gaze. Now, not only minds are sensed, but also all matter around you. You can feel the density and composition of every material near you. System: Roll Sense + Engineering against a difficulty, varying depending on the size and density of the target. To sense and identify a gas is around difficulty 8, supposing you know which gas it is, for example Intelligence + Science. A liquid around difficulty 6, and a metal around 4. This also varies according to size. To spot a nail in the wall lies around 7 but to see a wooden plug in a wooden wall lies around 9.
* Switch: This force lets you move small movable object, like a light-switch or a button. Even though this is not very powerful, it can prove very usable. This can also be usable to gear a car, or remove the parking brake. System: Roll Telekinesis + Computers against a difficulty of 4. This difficulty can change if the object manipulated is big, or is hard to move. Only one success is needed, but many can make it possible to switch quicker, if that is necessary.
** Manipulate: This force allows a greater manipulation of many devices. Like making an engine turn, or to open a lock without the key. You can also use this to affect electronically devices, like opening an electronic lock. System: Roll Telekinesis + Mechanics against a difficulty of 5. But this difficulty may wary according to which kind of object you are handling, and how well you know how it works. To open a normal, seven cylinder lock may be a difficulty of 6 but skipping the procedures in a computer that accesses the security ROM, may have a difficulty of 9, and require more successes.
*** Move: This is the ability mostly associated with Telekinesis, the ability to move things through air. The objects can be rotated and levitated, or even fly at high speed. System: Roll Telekinesis + Zero-G movement against a difficulty according to the weight of the object. I recommend that you use the required strength to lift it, then add 2. The number of successes shows how well you can handle the object, spin it in the air, and strike persons.
**** Reshape matter: With this level of expertise you learn that objects do not have a specific appearance, but is rather a reflection from its hyperspace shadow. A shadow you have learned to manipulate. Now you can wrap a object in any shape you like. This does not require that you bend it, but you change its appearance to whatever you wish. This means that if you bend an icetap into a knot, the icetap does not break, but ties itself nicely together. System: Roll Telekinesis + Expression against a difficulty of 6. The successes shows how well the transformation proceeded. One success only deforms the object, while five makes it exactly as you wanted it. The storyteller may increase the difficulty if he thinks that the object you are trying to make is very complex. For example a perfect replica of a dollar note from a piece of paper has a difficulty of 8 and a usable handgun from a ashtray of iron may have a difficulty of 9 or even 10, and you also need ammunition.
***** Teleport: This allows you to move yourself, or anything else, to another location, via hyperspace. Moving living matter can be very dangerous though. System: Roll Telekinesis + Dodge against a difficulty of 7 for yourself, 8 for another dead object, and 9 for another living object. The difficulty can also vary according to the size of a object. To move an elephant has a difficulty of at least 10 for example. A living creature can also resist, by rolling willpower against a difficulty of 6. If the successes of this roll is greater then the teleportaion successes, nothing will happen. If you botch a teleportation, you will show up somewhere else, or in the same spot, with a number of aggravated damages; at least as many as your botch "successes."
Armour plating: This is an extremely durable and thick skin. The higher levels are even fire proof, or acid secure. Each dot adds one to your soak total.
| Dots | Protects against |
| * | Normal damage (like falling, gunshots, lead pipes) |
| ** | Extreme heat and all above |
| *** | Fire and all above |
| **** | Acid and all above |
| ***** | Radiation and all above |
Built in tools: Each dot allows you to have one built in tool, or a high technology. But of course that technology has to be bought or constructed with technology points as well.
Drug injector: This device can inject drugs directly in you blood vessels and anyplace other they are needed. It also monitors you activities and can insert antidotes for many drugs and diseases. By this means it can increase your stamina with its own level. You may also have one type of drug for each level that you can inject at any time you wish.
Extra strength: Each dot adds one to your effective strength.
Impulse accelerator: Each dot gives you one extra initiative dice.
Internal computer: This is an internal database that feeds you information. This means that you will get the database level in any knowledge skill. The maximum skill level the database can give you in any skill is the number of dots you have in this Implant. Each database can be bought from the beginning with one freebie point per dot. You can of course also program your own databases, but this requires an Intelligence + Computers roll against a difficulty of 5. The numbers of successes means that the database is programmed to that level. This level may not exceed the number of dots you have in the appropriate knowledge. If someone else feeds you with information, which means that the maximum level is his numbers of dots in the knowledge, the difficulty of the Intelligence + Computers roll is 7.
Internal supply apparatus: This is a series of operations in which you replace, duplicate or toughen the internal organs. This means that you for every dot can ignore one wound penalty. You can also sustain this much extra damage above the original three under incapacitated.
Secret compartments: The number of dots decide how big secret compartments you have.
| Dots | Size |
| * | Extremely small (Cigarette lighter) |
| ** | Very small (Diskette) |
| *** | Small (Hand grenade) |
| **** | Large (Gun) |
| ***** | Very Large (Small firearm) |
Virtual Reality interface: Each dot gives you one extra dice when handling computers, or hacking into software. If anyone wants to do cyberspace rules, please send them to me.
Automed: Automed is short for Automated Medical Portable Bed. It is a foldable bed with a cover. It can contain an injured patient, which can be treated in various manners. You can hold a dead person alive for one hour for each success on a Intelligence + Medicine roll against a difficulty of 9. This may be enough to get the patient to a regeneration tank. You can also do surgery in the field with this, and heal a person's wounds that way. The automed is equipped with a multi-user interface, which gives you fingertip control over a lot of functions; this means that you can perform surgery which normally requires many persons alone.
Technology: 5
Mechanics: 2
Medicine: 3
Gamma rifle: The gamma rifle is the latest in military design. It uses advanced sensors and computers to calculate an interference course of a lot of gamma rays of different frequencies. This means that the gamma rays pass through armour, to the interference point, where it blasts a small area with a lot of energy, melting the surrounding material to plasma. The effects of this weapon means that armour and walls are nearly ineffective against it. The gamma rifle is usually also equipped with a powerful life form scanner, that allows it to spot life forms on the other side of walls, and shooting them down. All this energy is stored in a small superstoragers, mounted behind the handle. This superstorager only has enough energy for 8 shots. The gamma rifle is as big as a normal rifle.
The gamma rifle does 8 points of damage, but you may not soak with your armour. It can also shoot through walls.
Technology: 9
Elements: 4
Sensors: 3
Computers: 2
Gauss rifle: This is an old, but still effective, alien weapon design. This rifle propels small, magnetically charged projectiles with high speed. The calibre is very small, but the rate of fire is so impressive that it simply slices the victim apart. There is no such thing as single fire on a gauss gun. The shells are caseless and have a long reach. They are also armour piercing because of their small size. The gauss rifle is about as big as a submachine gun even though it has a long barrel.
The gauss rifle does 2 points of damage per success scored. It also ignores the first two points of armour you have.
Technology: 4
Energy: 2
Mechanics: 2
Life form scanner: This is a standard scanner, made to detect moving living creatures. It also has a small computer, to help display the results, and to filter out static.
To detect someone, roll Perception + Computers against a difficulty of 7. The roll and difficulty may vary, according to conditions.
Technology: 4
Computers: 1
Sensors: 3
Flying saucer: Only a few of those technological achievements exist on earth, and they are closely monitored by the silencers. They fly by creating a zero gravity field around them, and propels itself by jet streams. It is also equipped with cloaking devices, rendering it invisible. Flying saucers are very agile in the air, and can land in almost any condition; it can also work under water. It is not extremely quick, and does approximately mach 2,5 at best. It can also reach orbit, but there the hyperspace particles of earth hinder it to go any further. Many Cassiopeians have tried though, but the saucers exploded.
Technology: 18
Architecture: 3
Computers: 2
Energy: 3
Fields: 3 + 2
Materials: 2
Sensors: 3
Micro medbots: These are the cutting art of Cassiopeian medical abilities. Small nanobots enter the bloodstream, to do their intended work, for example to operate a clogged blood vessel, or to heal a broken bone. They can also do brain surgery, and are very useful in neurosurgery.
If you have micro medbots inside you, you are able to heal one health level per day.
Technology: 9
Medicine: 5
Nanotechnology: 4
Personal cloaking device: This is the most lightweight cloaking device available today. It is a harness which you strap on. The controls are placed in front of the belt, easily accessible. It has an active lifetime of 8 hours, and can easily be recharged in any earthling socket.
This device subtract four difficulty levels from any stealth rolls. At least when considering sight.
Technology: 7
Computers: 2
Fields: 2
Sensors: 3