Steve Holt
Just another pilot
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: A special device for Steven Holt
- Image Source: bionic-head-system-with-side-mounted-led
- Canon Link: None
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A
- Manufacturer: Steven Holt
- Affiliation:
Steve Holt
- Model: Exterior Coordination Booster. ECB.
- Modularity: No
- Production: Unique
- Material: Plastoid, electronic pieces.
- Classification: An external
- Size: Very Small,
- Weight: Very Light,
- Resistances (Optional):
- Energy (And other Blaster type weapons): Low
- Kinetic: Low
- Environment: Low
- Ion/EMP: High
- Hacking: Very high
- The Exterior Coordination booster is made up of System A and System B which are designed to operate mostly independently of each other except for that System A can send specific orders to System B.
- Especially designed to hook up to a type of wireless Scomp_link so he can hook up with systems usually limited to droids.
- System A: Sensors/External communication: There are sensors across the headpiece that are designed to pick up the signals from Steve’s brain. These can then be sent to other devices or cybernetics, thus allowing him to effectively control them via his own thoughts. Though this requires considerable practice to remember how to use. These sensors can only read from his brain, and can only send signals to other electronics such as the rest of the machine, or to other cybernetics or systems via a wireless interface. It cannot receive signals from anywhere but his own brain. Nor can it send any to his brain. The signals from his brain are turned directly into electronic form from a type of translator.
- System B: Brain Senders/Exterior sensors: Different pieces on the headpiece are senders that appear the same but are completely separate from the brain sensors. These senders retrieve information from the exterior sensors which can be hooked up to ships systems, cybernetics, and various other types of computer systems as long as he spends the time hooking up the wireless connection. They then send that information to specific parts of his brain so that he can recognize what he’s receiving and allows him a greater awareness of the systems he’s making use of. The system cannot receive information from him however, and can only receive information from exterior pieces, and is only changed via the signals from the Sensors/external communication system, not the sensors that it uses. This system does not have particularly strong senders to his brain, designed so it cannot overwhelm or endanger him in any way. However as a result, he may also miss the signals he’s expecting to get if he doesn’t remember to stay aware of them.
- Difficult to hack because of the complexity of the device and how the systems are set up mostly independently of each other with exclusivity of how they can influence or be influenced. The system is mostly hardware, not software, so changes mostly must be done in person. The exception is that the things that he’s using may be able to be hacked depending on their own designs.
- Allows Steve to read and utilize a great deal of electronic systems simultaneously. This can be done through built in wireless systems that can be connected to, or through remote connections such as a wireless version of a Scomp_link’s which are pre-hooked up just to send and receive from just from his ECB (limited by the 120 yard limitation).
- Cannot influence steve or be hacked to read his thoughts since it is designed to only read or send signals to specific parts, and since the only thing they’d receive is the orders that he sends to electronics, and the only thing they can send is information that can often be outright missed if the user isn’t aware of how the system works.
- Is fitted with Anti-EMP/ION weaponry so to avoid the system suddenly falling apart while using important machinery.
- Small enough to fit underneath most helmets.
- Although System B is very safe to use, this also means that if Steve is doing very bad at the moment he may not be able to use the system properly.
- System A suffers a similar issue in that the requirements to send signals to exterior equipment are very specific and as a result if Steve is exceptionally tired, or if someone else is using the system, it may not function as desired due to the difference between what they are trying to do and what it does do.
- Although designed to be durable to EMP and ION weaponry the piece provides no physical defense to his actual head. It may protect against a pocket knife from someone with the poorest of aims, but it provides next to no cover for his head nor is it designed to survive much direct impact.
- Some more tightly held helmets may require alteration for him to fit the system in them.
- There is a limitation on range. While the system can reach a good distance, only around 120 yards for full ability. Beyond that there’s a risk signals will be too weak to get information properly across. Although it could be connected to a second signal booster/receiver, that could create an entirely extra burden. This limitation may be improved by a ships sensors.
- The system can only transfer so much data to him, due to the un-intrusive nature of it. Much of the more complicated information has to be interpreted by Steve before he completely understands it. For things like cameras, he only has a limited “sense” of what the camera is perceiving, making things that rely on just heat or variations of a single color a more easy use as he has to receive less information. Additionally, the more information he has to receive, the more difficult it is to actually make use of it all.
Steve recognizes the superiority of electronics over his own organic body when it comes to reflexes and speed. However he was afraid to actually put anything in his head to boost his abilities, in spite of already having a cybernetic arm. Especially as, if he did, it’d require an entire surgery and system that he’d have to trust. Instead, Steve started working on an exterior version that would mimic the existence of boosted reflexes. The body might be limited, but if his thoughts were transferred directly to and from what he was working with, he could react and act far faster without having to rely on the limitations of muscles and nerves aside from his own brain. The ECB allows him to receive and send signals entirely independently of each other, the receiving system being unable to force information on Steve, and the sending system being only able to receive signals from steve. The system was made to be incapable of actually reading all his thoughts, only the actions he was telling it to recieve, which may actually take experience with the ECB to preform, and even the reception of signals by the brain takes some awareness of how they work, and can be ignored or completely missed by most users. Although much of its exterior is encased in plastoid, this doesn’t give it that much more protection, and the system can’t be expected to offer any defense against weapons for Steve. It could be broken fairly easily. Even just crushed in a determined childs hand. As a result when he uses it, he may wear a helmet over it. The system is fairly complex and designed to be almost impossible to hack, although it doesn’t necessarily prevent what it’s sending or receiving signals from being hacked anymore then they were before.
He also has made several wireless versions of Scomp_links which were made to just hook up to his head set. This was so that he can more easily hook himself up exclusively with a system, though it would require that the system either have a port for such a link, or another way for him to hook up his headset to it.
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