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Operating theatre where recipients undergo the procedure
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION- Intent: Create the first iteration of the surgical and chemical physiological augmentations administered to candidates as part of the ELITE Program.
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- Primary Source: Bio-engineering, Cloning, Cybernetics, Cybernetic Implants, Death Trooper Augmentations, Gene Therapy, Neural Interface Device, Mutant, Ragithian Human, Skeleton, Project: AFTERLIFE, Telomere Genotherapy.
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- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: Project: SILVERLIGHT
- Modularity: Yes (Rehabilitation for rejected augmentations).
- Production: Limited
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- Classification: Biochemical and Biomechanical Augmentation Procedure
- Size: Small
- Weight: Extremely Light
- Resistances (Optional): Not Applicable
- Chemical Procedure(s):
- Adrenalthermal Metabolase
- Adenoviral Telamerase Replacement Therapy
- Carbide Ceramic Ossification
- Myelinogenesis
- Myelinoplasty
- Myogenesis
- Myoplasty
- Neurofibrification
- Osteogenesis
- Osteoossification
- Genetic Procedure(s):
- Chondrocyte Augmentation
- Osteoblast Augmentation
- Osteoclast Augmentation
- Tenocyte Augmentation
- Surgical Procedure(s):
- Ceramic Osteoplasty
- Cardiovascularplasty
- Craniotomy
- Occipitarectomy
- Osteointegration
- Osteoplasty
- Penetrating Keratoplasty
- Thyrotomy
- Ceramic Osteoplasty: 4% probability of failure due to mutation and compromised bone marrow matrix from failed osteo-ceramic bonding resulting in Osteonecrosis.
- Myogenesis: 5% Probability that the chemical and surgical inducement of myogenesis and myoplasty results in fatal increase of muscular and cardiac volume.
- Neurofibrification: 12% probability that neurofibrification of dendrite tissue results in the acquisition of neurological disorders.
- Keratoplasty: 11% probability of rejection and detachment of the prosthetic retina resulting in blindness.
- Thyrotomy: 3.5% probability of implanted thyroid pellet release of somatropin results in the acquisition of elephantiasis.
- Body Mass Index: Mean
- ~27.3 BMI - (Post-Procedure, Female).
- ~30.0 BMI - (Post-Procedure, Male).
- Height: Mean
- 2.01 Meters/6'7"- (Post-Procedure, Female).
- 2.08 Meters/6'10" - (Post-Procedure, Male).
- Weight: Mean
- 110 Kilograms/242 Pounds - (Post Procedure, Female).
- 130 Kilograms/286 Pounds - (Post Procedure, Male).
- Lifespan: 500 Standard Years.
- Lifting Strength: Recipient Body Mass + 300%.
- Nerve Conduction Velocity: ~240-260 Meters Per Second.
- Reaction Time: ~5-7 Milliseconds (~300% Decrease).
- Resting Heart Rate: 40-60 Beats Per Minute
- Running Speed: 55-70km/h (34-43 MpH).
- Striking Strength: ~40,050N/4,083 Kilograms.
- Striking Velocity: ~26.7 MPS/96 KpH/59.7 MpH.
- Visual Acquity: 80/20 Vision (Average).
- Adenoviral Telamerase Replacement Therapy: Recipients like all ELITES has received Adenoviral Telamerase Replacement Therapy. The Telomeres, a compound structure on the end of the chromosome are engineered so that their cells divide perfectly every time, this means her biology is cellularly immortal but does not confer "true immortality" functionally it means that Recipients ages significantly slower than a baseline Human and that injuries that would permanently or temporarily disable a baseline Human can and will heal perfectly with exact flawless duplicates of the original damaged or destroyed cells being produced.
- Adrenalthermal Metabolase: The adrenal glands are modified to produce an Adrenalthermal Metabolase which enhances adrenal response in periods of physiological distress which leads to significantly higher adrenaline levels, disengaging the bodies safeguards in an attempt to avoid injury during physical exertion, reducing reaction time, allowing the subject to hit faster and harder.
- Ceramic Osteoplasty: Recipients' bones are laminated in an alloy of boron and carbide or "Boron Carbide" a substance that isn't reactive with mechanical properties which are exceptional with high hardness and high fracture toughness. The carbide due to its' chemical properties promote molecular and submolecular bonding at the bone-metallic boundary layer resulting in more efficient osteointegration between the two materials, the boron carbide is designed to be macro and micro-porous meaning the plates fused to Reece's skeleton have micro-holes to facilitate the fusing of bone and the boron carbide material by allowing new bone tissue to generate through these holes and to enable microcapillaries between the bones and circulatory system to continue to function and the bones to continue working as blood-producing structures. The entirety of Recipients' skeleton was 3D scanned with custom plates manufactured personally for Reece with the plates cut so as not to interfere with joint flexion. Each vertebra was clad in two pieces of boron carbide, one fitted from the outer and then inner spine through without cutting the spinal column. In short, Recipients' bones are practically indestructible and can tolerate forces that would outright obliterate baseline human bone tissue.
- Cardiovascularplasty: A bio-compatible electro-active polymer is implanted into the muscles of the Recipients' heart it is sensitive to the electrochemical potential of the sino-arterial node and helps regulate heartbeat. As the sino-arterial node creates an impulse that travels across the heart and causes the muscle to contract, the electro-active polymer also contracts to give the heart additional contraction force alleviating some of the mechanical stress on the heart to supply the muscles with sufficient blood. The heart thus has a higher cardiac output and slower resting heart rate and capable of pumping a greater volume of blood per beat than a baseline human heart. Due to the mechanical assistance, this ability allows the body to adapt to the higher physical stresses and greater supply of blood the muscles grow at an increased speed and enhance Recipients' endurance. All arteries leading to and from the heart are implanted with a high-tensile bio-compatible synthetic collagen weave allowing them to handle the higher volumes of blood flow with no adverse effects.
- Catalytic Thyroid Implant: The thyroid was implanted with a device that released Human Growth Hormone into the body stimulating and boosting the natural production and growth of skeletal and muscle tissue both fast and slow-twitch muscle fibres leading to significant gains of muscle mass and density. The Human Growth Hormone also targeted the body's osteoblasts assisting in the process of osteogenesis or new bone tissue strengthening the body's skeletal structure dramatically. The implantation of the cybernetic device led Recipients to quickly grow in height standing about an astonishing two metres tall. The implant also has the effect of promoting cellular regeneration and healing, although the implant also had side effects in regards to hormone production given the thyroid's nature and has left Recipients more aggressive and irritable when compared to pre-augmentation.
- Genetic Engineering: Particular engineering was paid to making a number of alterations to Recipients' biological processes to support the acceptance of the other augmentations, osteogenesis is altered through engineering made to the osteoclasts responsible for breaking down old or damaged bone material and osteoblasts were modified to function more efficiently and be able to process the boron carbide which is bonded to the skeleton. The further genetic alteration was made to the soft and connective tissues by modifying the chondrocyte cells which secrete cartilage within joints allowing them to produce new cartilage or repair damaged matrixes which is a function baseline human cells of this type do not perform. Tenocytes are modified to produce a tougher quadruple-helix protein complex formed into elongated fibres of collagen strengthening the connections between muscles and bone and stabilizes ligaments holding the joints together. All of these alterations allow the increased strength of bones and muscles to be offset by likewise strengthened connective tissues allowing Recipients to effectively leverage her immensely enhanced strength. The immune system is boosted and it is significantly harder for infections and diseases to take hold over their physiology with the healing response altered allowing Recipients to recover from injuries significantly more quickly compared to the baseline Human, Leukocytic co-protein complex and microfibre enspindelase leads to wounds suppression and near-instant blood clotting to vascular injuries and speed-up the healing process thereafter and minimising on the number of excess fibre clots which can lead to clot separation or detachments. Psycho-synthetic neural transmission gene responsible for learning and cognition markers are modified to allow for much faster learning speed, higher intelligence and better abstract and creative thinking.
- Myogenetic Injections: After being produced with the HGH thyroid implant Recipients received Myogenetic Injections, essentially intra-muscular injections containing a protein complex was administered which targeted the musculature's structure and increased the density of the muscle's connective tissues and fibres, meaning that even soft tissue structures such as tendons stronger and decreasing the time necessary for lactate recovery. Naturally-occurring proteins such as Myostatin are suppressed and overridden by the injections, Myostatin inhibits muscular tissue growth and keeps their size limited. The injections contain follistatin the natural inhibitor of Myostatin meaning that Recipients' muscles were permitting to grow significantly more powerful and larger than what is achievable for a normal human with duplication of the muscle fibres. Recipients is capable of feats of maximal and functional strength and endurance that cannot be matched even by lifelong trained baseline Human athletes and powerlifters. Recipients can lift in excess of approximately three times their own body mass.
- Ocular Implants: Recipients due to their extensive physiological augmentations possesses visual acuity several times better than average, capable of reading at eighty feet what normal humans can read at twenty. This was achieved through the surgical modification of the eyes' nerve and optical structures to optimise blood circulation to the retinas and other crucial bodies responsible for colour contrast perception and rod and cone maximal flexion and flexibility to reflect significantly more light into the focus point with exceptional scotopic vision that allows them to see in low-light conditions. The augmentation to the eyes is made even more effective through the removal of the natural organic lense and implantation with a bionic optical lens implant which is affixed to the muscle behind the iris and is perfect in terms of its' structure. One tactical advantage of this augmentation is that image magnification on the likes of telescopes is intensified for Recipients allowing for apparently post-Human precision and perception with the likes of Marksman weapons.
- Superconductive Nerve Fibres: There are significant modification and augmentation made to the Recipients' nervous system, the dendrites of the nerve cells in the Recipients' nervous system were infused with a nanoparticulate superconducting material which was then aligned into a fixed ultra-fine fibre within the fibres fixed into place with electromagnetic fields. The remaining dendrite plasma was then sculped back reducing the mass of organic material in favour of the superconductive fibres without sacrificing nerve cell axions or myelin sheaths creating a void of space between the spinal column and skeletal spine as the nervous system structures of the spinal cord have been sculpted for maximal efficiency. The augmentation is performed through the entirety of the central and peripheral nervous system excluding the brain. Genetic and molecular-level engineering is made to the ologedendricites and Schwann cells within the nervous system leading to the production of thicker Myelin Sheaths insulating the neural signals from interference and speeding up neural cell speed propagation even further. The result is reflexes that are three-hundred to five-hundred percent faster compared to the baseline human with mean nerve conduction velocity increase to 240-260 meters per second or as little as five milliseconds. Neural microphages are genetically modified to reduce ambient noise within the nervous system to allow for more broad and effective integration of cybernetic augmentation. Allowing if necessary for recipients to have significant amounts of their organs replaced by more efficient man-made counterparts.
- Algia: Unfortunately there is nothing about the recipients' physiology that dulls the sensory and peripheral nervous system's response to pain and when one considers the enhanced nerve conduction velocity the recipient experiences pain more quickly than a baseline Human. Reaction to painful stimuli could lead the recipient to throttle their striking power for example to prevent injury such as when striking a heavily armoured opponent so as to avoid pain. It also means that battlefield injuries such as puncture wounds can cripple the recipients.
- Failure Rates: This augmentation procedure while immensely powerful also has a staggering failure rate where "Failure" is defined as a partial or total rejection of one or more of the procedures, the rate is so high due to the highly invasive and surgical nature of the procedure. Rejection of the surgical procedures leads to a corresponding failure of chemical procedures as the different procedures are designed to support one another. Thereby leading to failed candidates to experience temporary or permanent disability. The possibility of failure for a candidate ranges from 50-56% with the prospect of total rehabilitation being about 80% with the remaining 20% being fatalities or sustained disability.
- Medical/Bio Scans: Their nature as a surgically and chemically augmented Human is easily and readily discernable through commonplace medical imaging and biological scans of their physiology with their bones being encased in a layer of boron graphite, polymer wrapped heart and nervous system structures through the spine occupying a volume much smaller than normal. This makes it difficult for recipients to conceal their nature making it nigh impossible for them to maintain a facade of baseline humanity on intensive scrutiny.
- Nerve Agents: Nothing in the procedure renders the recipient more resistant to the effect of nerve agents which are designed to target the nervous system, physical contact or inhalation of nerve agents is just as effective against the recipients of this procedure as it is against any other humanoid with a similar nervous system.
- Ocular Sharpness: Recipients' eyesight and colour perception is sharpened and enhanced to the point where looking upon deep ultraviolet purples or rich infrared reds can cause discomfort and even pain feedback through the structures of the eyes. Additionally, because light is focused more effectively through the focus point, Recipients can experience pain from intense light sources being shone into their eyes especially in dark settings. Meaning that in some situations Recipients may suffer flash blindness in situations where the effect on a baseline Human would be so severe or pronounced.
- One-way street: Due to the extremely invasive and surgical basis for much of the augmentation procedure it is extremely difficult or impossible to reverse the procedure without access to state-of-the-art medical equipment, detailed knowledge of the procedure and significant financial resources to expend in the creation of unmodified organic tissue of the subject not to mention a stored pre-augmentation DNA profile for the proposed candidate pre-procedure for which cloned tissue can be produced.
- Spinal Column: Crippling injuries to the spinal column which cause damage to the associated nerve tissue can threaten to paralyse the recipient, ergo they can be crippled by the destruction, damage or compression of individual vertebrae or the outright severing of the spinal column. This is a particular hazard in a combat environment where penetrating kinetic or directed energy wounds through the thorax or abdomen could strike the vertebrae or spinal column and damage it causing anything from extreme pain to paralysis.
Designed in co-operation between the Empire's Military Intelligence division and Apex Manufacturing, Project: SILVERLIGHT is a Biomechanical and Biochemical physiological augmentation procedure for Humans, specifically Humans who are at the onset of pubescence around thirteen to fourteen standard years of age due to the methodology and nature of applied augmentations which would result in fatality if applied to pre-pubescent or post-pubescent Humans. The benefit of this procedure broadly is that the augmentations continue to scale proportionally in effectiveness with age as the recipient's physiology is altered in pubescence and thus grows with the alterations. The resulting product is a Human whose physiological capabilities exceed that of those who were augmented under Apex Manufacturing's previous augmentation procedures of Project: AFTERLIFE and Project: REVENANT.
Project: SILVERLIGHT includes a variety of chemical, cybernetic, biological, genetic and surgical procedures that support one another with the primary augmentations being supported by a variety of secondary and tertiary augmentations. The first primary augmentation is a thyroid implant that consists of a small platinum pellet containing somatropin or "Human Growth Hormone" this is placed in the Thyroid gland and before all other augmentations to boost the growth of skeletal and muscle tissues, stimulating the growth of slow and fast-twitch muscle fibres. This results in significant gains in muscle mass and the increased production of Osteoblasts to boost osteogenesis or bone tissue formation to effectively strengthen the skeletal structure. The implant reaches maximum effect when implanted within the context of an intensive physical training regimen and complex high-protein high-calcium diet. Consequently, the recipients grow significantly in height and muscle mass but it can result in hormone irregularities causing increased aggression or docility along with a risk that sexual drive is reduced although it is worth noting it does not result in sterility. Complications of the Somatropin released into the recipient's body are minimal though there is an approximately 2% probability of contracting elephantiasis.
Secondly, after the Thyroid Implant has been successfully accepted by the Recipients the second primary augmentation is the intra-muscular injection of a protein complex targeting the muscles' intracellular molecular composition increasing muscular strength and endurance it increases the density of connective tissues and fibres making connecting tendons stronger and significantly reducing lactate recovery time. The intra-muscular injection overrides the naturally produced myostatin, myostatin is responsible for keeping muscles confined within a certain size and density inhibiting myogenesis. Overriding this protein is done by the injection of Follistatin which inhibits the production of Myostatin. Thereby removing the protein that inhibits muscle development allowing the recipient's muscle cells to produce, muscles grow significantly larger and more powerful than a baseline Human with duplication several times of the muscle fibres dramatically increasing muscle density. The recipient is capable of achieving feats of strength and endurance simply impossible for a baseline human regardless of their fitness with the recipient capable of achieving and maintaining a much higher level of functional strength and endurance than even life-long galactic Olympic trained athletes or power-lifters. Immediately after the augmentation, the recipient can lift approximately three times their own body mass. This primary augmentation causes significant pain with there being a 5% probability of a cardiac volume increase as the heart finds itself unable to provide sufficient blood flow and oxygen to keep them alive, it is only because of the supporting augmentations all do not fall to this date.
The third primary augmentation is performed to the occipital lobe of the brain of the recipient, focusing on visual acuity and colour perception. A surgical procedure is performed on the left cerebral hemisphere's capillaries to reverse the blood flow allowing more blood to reach the retinas of the eyes providing for greater resolution and the ability of the rods and cones of the eyes to achieve greater detection of light, colour and movement. The capillaries themselves are re-arranged allowing far more oxygen-rich blood to arrive at the Retinas, rather than de-oxygenated blood. The visual perception increase is incredible allowing the recipient to see in almost total darkness, see a higher resolution of detail and greater colour contrast perception. Furthermore, a secondary augmentation supporting this augmentation is a cybernetic bionic optical lens implant where the natural eyes' lens is removed and completely replaced with a subtle recipient-specific prosthetic is implanted and affixed to the iris' muscles. The bionic lens is optically perfect and focuses light at 400% greater efficiency ensuring that the recipient can read at eighty feet away what a baseline human can read at twenty feet away, providing superhuman visual perception. The third primary augmentation to the occipital lobe is supported even further by the fourth primary augmentation focusing on the recipient's nervous system.
Nerves have physical limitations due to the resistances present in the baseline Human physiology which dramatically slow the potential of nerve conduction velocity, the dendrites of the nerve cells which are responsible for propagating electro-chemical signals from neighbouring cells, to the cell nucleus. The recipients' dendrites are modified through the implementation of a nano-particulate superconducting material is then aligned into a fixed ultra-fine fibre within the dendrites with electro-magnetic fields, once the connection is completed the remaining dendrite plasma is sculped away reducing the overall mass of biological material in favour of superconductive fibres while preserving the nerve cells known as "Axons" and the associated Myelin Sheaths. Augmentation is performed in the central and peripheral nervous system with the notable exception of the brain itself. A genetic modification is made to the Ologodendrites and Schwann Cells within the nervous systems promoting the production of Myelin Sheaths in the nervous system thereby insulating the nerve cells and superconductive fibres preventing biological interference and increasing nerve signal propagation further. The result is a 300% decrease in reaction time to a mean typical of 5-7 Milliseconds with a nerve conduction velocity of about 240-260 Meters Per Second. The recipients become so fast at perceiving and acting within the world that under duress and the effects of Adrenaline they move in a perpetual "Bullet Time" Where the world appears to move 300% more slowly. There is about a 12% Probability of the acquisition of serious neurological disorders as a result of complication.
The fifth primary augmentation is one of the most significant and widespread, it is the carbide ceramic ossification of the skeleton it is a hardened ceramic material grafted directly onto the skeleton's surface. However, the consequences of the augmentation mean that other supporting secondary and tertiary augmentations are required to prevent disfigurement, disability or death. The selected material for the graft is an alloy of Boron and Carbide. Boron Carbide is used due to its' mechanical properties of high hardness and high toughness and almost non-existent reactivity to the biological processes of the body. The use of Boron Carbide means that no negative biological processes can arise of its use. The Boron Carbide has a very dark appearance causing the recipient's skeleton to take on a black and porous appearance. The use of carbide assists in biological integration as carbon as one of the most integral and active elements in the Human body and osteointegration is aided by the carbon's chemical activity allowing for bone and boron carbide bonding at the bone-metal boundary reducing the osteointegration and healing time significantly. The surgical procedure requires immense preparation with the recipient's entire skeleton 3D scanned with plates custom-fabricated to match the exact surface, shape and dimensions of the recipient's skeleton with openings at ends to allow the joints to continue to function. The boron carbide plates have micro and macro holes punched through it allowing the plates to anchor to the bones as new bone tissue grows into the plates locking them together. Additionally, the holes allow the micro-capillaries between the bones and circulatory system to continue functioning allowing the bones to continue to function as blood-producing organs. The ossification thus had to be limited to 3% of total bone mass, with the average recipient's total bone mass making up 15% of their total body mass. The total amount of ossification material is about 3.45 Kilograms.
The procedure is highly invasive with incisions made all across the recipient's body and starts with cutting the recipient open along the lasered incision vectors based along their own unique dimensions and proportions with muscles retracted and the upper-surface of bones removed with the ossification material then individually bonded to the skeleton fully-encasing the bone in the material. For the spine and associated vertebrae, all of the plates were designed in two sections and fitted from the outer spine and inner spine across several surgeries to prevent the accidental severing of the spinal column. There is about a 4% rate of complication with risk of mutation or a failure in the bone matrix resulting in Osteonecrosis. Over time, the connection between the bones and boron carbide strengthens. Secondary and tertiary augmentations are then made through genetic and biological procedures to prevent the connective tissues of the joints, muscles and bones from destroying themselves under the new mass. Osteogenesis within the recipients is modified by engineering to the Osteoclasts which are responsible for breaking down old and damaged bone material along with Osteoblasts which are responsible for laying down new bone material. They are engineered to be more efficient and function at an increased rate and to be able to process the Boron Carbide in the skeleton. Further engineering is performed on the Chondrocytes allowing them to produce new cartilage matrices rather than becoming trapped within it, allowing the recipient to continue producing Cartlidge into adulthood. Tenocytes are engineered to produce a quadruple helix protein complex into collagen strengthening the connections between muscle and bone along with stabilising ligaments holding the joints together. This offsets the new weight and power added by the other augmentations and allows all of the tissues to be held together at maximal exertion.
A neural interface device or brain-machine device is an interface that acts as a type of identify-friend-foe tag for Imperial forces with filaments of semi-conductors that interface with the cerebral cortex of the recipient. The DEADLIGHT neural interface for the ELITE Program is implanted within the brain tissue to passively monitor and actively interface with the cerebral cortex allowing thoughts to be translated into motion seamlessly as the filaments of semi-conductive material directly connects to the spinal column. The neural interface is almost entirely sub-cranial with no outward sign of its' implementation bar an "insert column" which is a metallic port that fits flush into the rear of the user's skull and is easily concealed by hair growth. The Neural Interface is used by the recipient to wirelessly input into compatible electronic systems. The semi-conducting filaments connect the midbrain, cerebellum and spinal cord allowing for increased and efficient speech, balance, gross and fine motor control and speech, it further decreases reaction time by essentially bypassing the branches of motor control nerves. Additionally, the neural interface device can be used for augmented reality purposes to simulate training environments and other scenarios, it can even be used with compatible software to sharpen or dull perception which can be used to reduce the potential impact of harmful psychological battlefield stimuli.
There is a necessity to increase the cardiovascular system in response to the newly increased demand for the supply of blood to the enhanced muscular system. A biologically compatible electro-active polymer is embedded into the muscles of the recipient's heart, the polymer deforms in shape when an electrical field is applied to it and is particularly sensitive to the electrical signal of the sino-arterial node which causes the heart to contract under normal conditions. When the sino-arterial node sends the electrical signal across the heart signalling for it to contract, the polymer is excited and provides significantly more contraction force providing additional mechanical force alleviating the stresses on the heart placed upon it by the augmentations. This results in symptoms similar to "athletes heart" where the recipients have a mean average resting heart rate of 40-60 beats per minute. The mechanical assistance allows the heart to pump greater volumes of blood per beat over time this effect causes physiological augmentation in of itself as the muscles and other tissues become accustomed to having a greater supply of blood increasing muscle growth and enhancing the already augmented endurance. Steps are taken to reinforce the recipient's arteries and veins with a synthetic collagen weave to prevent adverse effects from the increased blood-slow. The collagen weave allows the circulatory system to endure the increased volume of blood, the cardiac arteries are anchored to the heart with this weave to prevent separation under extreme impacts to the thorax or body.
Endurance is further augmented with the engineering of adrenalthermal metabolase enhancing the amount of adrenaline released from the adrenal glands in times of body alarm or physiological distress, this further drops reaction time and disabled the body's natural safety parameters allowing the recipients to hit even faster and harder along with lifting significantly heavier weights than their post-procedure baseline. Neural transmission Gene sequences responsible for cognition and intelligence are engineered leading to the recipient to experience faster learning, higher intelligence and superior abstract and creative thinking. Battlefield injuries are healed with greater efficiency with genetic alterations to the Leukocytes co-protein complex allowing microfibrification of vascular wounds which results in them being suppressed nearly instantly through clotting allowing bleeding injuries to be staunched with astonishing speed while minimising the number of fibred clots which narrow vascular structures and virtually eliminating the risk of blood clot detachment. Neural Microphages in the neural tissue are modified to reduce the electrical interference within the nervous system which reduces "ambient noise" in the nervous system to a minimum allowing for greater rates of acceptance for cybernetics.
There are a variety of miscellaneous but powerful genetic alterations, achieved through engineering and gene-splicing. Firstly, their telomeres are engineered so that their telomerase which protects DNA from damage or random mutation does not degrade, functionally what this means is that the recipient cells divide and copy themselves perfectly which prevents DNA degradation and mutation. Additionally, it means that injuries that would temporarily or permanently disable or kill a baseline Human in the former case can be healed completely with a full recovery and in the latter case be successfully revived with intensive medical treatment. The recipients' biology attains a state of cellular immortality, this does not mean they are immortal however it does provide the recipient's body ages significantly slower than a baseline human to the point where the average lifespan for a recipient of the procedure is five hundred standard years. Further genetic engineering is performed enabling them to be significantly more tolerant and resistant to diseases, viruses and bacteria with their immune system significantly augmented.
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