The Dead God
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To submit a long time idea I had about a Super Soldier Program - backed with a bunch of theoretical science - to serve Maliphant's, the IGBC's, and the Galaxies needs.
- Image Source: Here.
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: Locke
- Primary Source: Super Soldiers │ DARPA │ Dark Trooper │ SPARTAN-II │ Gene-Seed
- Manufacturer: Jaeger Solutions │
Darth Empyrean
- Affiliation: Closed-Market
- Model: The PRAETORIAN Program
- Modularity:
- Can be utilized by near-human species of any age - however, it works best with adolescent humans.
- Production: Limited
- Material: Various
- Cardiovascular System -
- Synthetic Aortic Arch Heart Network
- 2 Minitarized Accessory Hearts
- AU-3 "Ichor" Class Artificial Blood w/ Duralumin Vein Reinforcement
- Synthetic Aortic Arch Heart Network
- Digestive System -
- Phrik Mouth Reinforcement w/ Ivory Overlays
- Teeth / Jaw / Palate
- Modified Tongue
- Optimized to taste for poison, toxins, and even the age of biological material.
- Modified Olfactory Cleft
- Optimized for tracking, able to smell with higher fidelity and at longer ranges.
- Duralumin Trachea Reinforcement
- Synthetic Mucus Generation
- Modified Larynx
- Allows for modifiable voice, tone, and even 'throwing' the voice with ease.
- Synthetic 'Gizzard' w/ Ferroceramic Pellets
- Crushes otherwise inedible food.
- Reinforced Stomach Lining w/ Optimized Mucus Generation
- Liver Reinforcement w/ Optimized Synthesis Proteins & Metabolite Breakdown
- Actively processes poisons and toxins - including alcohol and foreign medicine.
- Reinforced Intestinal Lining w/ Synthetic Gut Microbes
- Phrik Mouth Reinforcement w/ Ivory Overlays
- Endocrine System -
- Augmented Hypothalamus
- Self-Controlled Sleep, Hunger, Body Temperature, and 'Connections'.
- Does not remove the need for these things, only one's sense of need.
- Self-Controlled Sleep, Hunger, Body Temperature, and 'Connections'.
- Optimized Pineal Gland
- Reduces the need for sleep, along with augmentations to bone growth.
- Emergency 'hibernation' when in a critical state - reducing body processes to a crawl.
- Synthetic Pituitary Gland w/ Supplementary Bio-Computer
- Optimized growth and metabolism.
- Optimized energy management, along with blood pressure 'override' for high-intensity situations.
- Emergency 'Pain Relief' Hormonal Release
- Highly Augmented Thyroid Gland
- Optimized muscular development is needed for augmentations to take.
- Self synthesizing growth hormone to increase the density of participant bones and muscle.
- Ferroceramic Optimized Parathyroid Glands
- Increases the strength and resilience of bones through natural reinforcement.
- Adrenal Overall
- Capable of expelling self-synthesized chemicals on par with high-grade combat stims - along with increasing the regenerative rate of tissue, bone, and muscle. Takes a long period of time to be used, and takes a considerable toll on the body overall.
- Synthetic Pancreas
- Optimized nutritional intake while also cutting down on waste.
- Augmented Hypothalamus
- Exocrine System -
- Reinforced Duralumin Woven Epidermis
- Ultrachrome Epideral Connections
- Allows for immediate 'connection' to armors with coinciding technologies - effectively making armor mobility a non-issue, amplified by powered armor systems.
- Optimized Melanin Delivery
- Increases the effectiveness and speed of 'tanning'. Protects from ultraviolet.
- Superconducting Dermis Nerve Reinforcement
- Optimized sensitivity - notably in the hands to feel details one normally couldn't.
- Temperature Regulating Hypodermis
- Iodine Producing Fat Cells offer moderate radiation protection.
- Lymphatic System -
- Optimized Lymphoid Organs
- In conjunction with the 'Ichor', allows for highly optimal attacks on foreign bodies.
- Synthetic Bone Marrow
- Capable of replicating 'Ichor' Blood, but at an extremely slow rate.
- Immune Overdrive
- Actively targets and destroys both rampant cells, and foreign bodies with prejudice.
- Optimized Lymphoid Organs
- Muscular System -
- Duralumin Fibre Enhanced Musculature
- Changes the tensile strength of muscles from .5MPa to 250Mpa - greatly increasing the limitations of muscles.
- Highly Improved Growth Rate
- Optimizes muscle growth to greatly increase muscle density.
- Lactase Removal Optimization
- Greatly increases the rate that lactic acid is removed from muscles.
- Duralumin Fibre Enhanced Musculature
- Nervous System -
- Ultrachrome Brain Neuron w/ Bio-Computer Parallel Computation
- Allows for extremely fast processing of information, along with triplet thought patterns to allow for optimized multitasking.
- Ultrachrome Fibrification
- Due to its superconducting nature, increases the rate of electrical signals through the body at an alarming rate. From the normal 320km/h rate to an astonishing 300k km/h rate. This brings reaction times on par with Masters of the Force and their precognition, though doesn't account for precognition.
- UltrachromeCerebellum Optimization
- Allows for significant balance improvements, along with instinctual combat protocols in emergencies.
- Optimized Hippocampus w/ Bio-Computer Storage
- Increases the theoretical limitations of memory, allows for eidetic memory, along with possible memory 'flashes' - uploading combat information the likes of Clones once had.
- Modified Retinal Nerves
- Allows for vision in low light environments, ultraviolet, infrared.
- In conjunction with ultrachrome fibrification of neural networks, allows for extremely quick responses to visual stimuli.
- Modified Aural System
- Allows for great resistance to motion sickness or disorientation.
- Optimizes hearing, allowing for filtration and long-distance 'orientation' to targets.
- Ultrachrome Brain Neuron w/ Bio-Computer Parallel Computation
- Respiratory System -
- Duralumin Reinforced Lower Trachea
- Allows for temporarily holding the breath in a vacuum.
- Middle/Inferior Synthetic Lung Reinforcement
- Allows Oxygenation in low O2 environments.
- Capable of oxygenation in toxic environments, with performance caveats.
- Artificial Rebreather
- Can allow for breathing underwater.
- Self-Synthesizing NaO3 Salt Capsules
- Emergency oxygen capable of allowing a PRAETORIAN to breathe for multiple hours before succumbing.
- Skeletal System -
- Phrik Based Ferroceramic Ossification
- Lines bone structures with naturally occurring veins of phrik, along with ferroceramic coating - making bones extremely difficult to break while also increasing the skeletal load capacity exceptionally.
- Phrik Based Ferroceramic Ossification
- Cybernetic Enhancements (Optional) -
- Hydra Implant w/ Cyberlink
- Highly advanced cybernetic attachment that allows direct injection into computer systems.
- Internal AI Connection w/ LK O.N.N. Brain Connections
- Selkie Impant
- Internal AR overlay to better assist with aiming, fighting, and data requirements when helmets are not an option.
- Syn Protection System
- Anti-Ion Epidural Layer
- Chiron Implant
- Optimized Flash Training at any point in development. Especially useful for emergency deployments to highly sensitive systems - such as deactivating mass fusion reactors before they become bombs.
- Hydra Implant w/ Cyberlink
- Miscellaneous Augmentations -
- Due to severe biochemical manipulations and the torturous nature of the augmentations, all PRAETORIANs who involve themselves in the program become Force Dead - for better, or for worse.
- Olympian -
- With bones reinforced with Phrik and muscle fibers lined with duralumin - the PRAETORIANs monsters in the world of lifting. Easily able to lift many times their body weight with ease - enabled by the massive amount of growth hormone injected through their various endocrine systems - they are comparative beasts. Those who have left the program become notorious for arm wrestling wookies, and fist fighting herglics.
- Acumen -
- Due to a highly selective screening process and the various bio-computers inserted in the brain, PRAETORIANs are capable of multiple thought patterns at once similar to cerean - though with a much smaller forehead. Add on their ultrachrome lined nervous networks and the speed at which they can think rivals Force Masters. This makes them extremely dangerous tacticians and combatants.
- Force Dead -
- While some might consider it a boon, the reality is that reducing the Force Potential of candidates through the process is a give and take. Highly midichlorian gifted individuals find themselves with a natural skill for various things, a very substantial likelihood to succeed following their intuition, and a variety of the benefits - training in the use of the Force being chief among them. The PRAETORIANs, instead, are trained to fight Force Sensitives, and in doing so require the Force Dead nature of their augmentations to give them an edge over the heart-squeezing, lightning-throwing, maniacs of the galaxy at large.
- Doctor, Doctor! -
- Can not be treated by conventional doctors or medicine, due to the high efficiency of the liver and various other organs. While traditional near-humans have a first pass effect closer to 30%, the PRAETORIAN have a first pass effect equaling closer to 98% - making them nearly impossible to treat without specialized medication, hospital equipment, or doctors who understand the extremely complicated physiology of one of the PRAETORIANs. Additionally, due to the highly optimized blood required for their operation - should they receive a wound(s) that do not heal quickly, they will be put into a state of hibernation, as they are unable to reproduce blood fast enough to compete with natural means - eventually leading to death if they are not brought to specialized doctors or given a specific transfusion soon enough.
- Genetic Instability -
- While most who survive the augmentation process can live even after their service - the reality is that PRAETORIANs are not meant to live long. Built for high intensity, highly dangerous environments; the long term effects of the program are not well known. Within combat mortality rates pushing 70% due to the environments they are deployed, those who do survive have a nearly 65% chance to develop severe and aggressive forms of cancer - if not their insides simply turning to mush after only a few years.
- PTSD -
- Despite the various hormonal blockers, regulators, and memory optimizations - the reality is that the process of even becoming a PRAETORIAN is extremely damaging to the psyche. While stimulants and blockers can be given to 'sedate' a PRAETORIAN, it is very easy for one to get into a flashback that could see him killing numerous around them - before being taken down by qualified professionals. This makes PRAETORIANs as feared by their allies as their enemies.
- Gigawatts -
- While the ultrachrome nerve endings make reactions instantaneous, they also come back with the dangerous downside of making the PRAETORIAN extremely susceptible to lightning-based attacks. Be it from Force Lightning or a Lightning Cannon, should lightning strike the PRAETORIAN it is a sure-fire way to cripple them - causing instant loss of consciousness and often death.
- Mechu Deru -
- Generally immune to minor ion disturbances, the cybernetics on board the PRAETORIANs are fully vulnerable to Mechu Deru afficianados without secondary defenses like Ysalamiri. This means that the systems, while great for utility, can be a severe backdoor into the mind of the super soldier - bypassing their force dead nature and laying harm where viable.
Following the repeated incursion of the Bryn’adul, Darth Maliphant realized that perhaps
Caulder Dune
was indeed correct in his assumption that the Galaxy would not soon deal with the threat as it was meant to. Knowing the danger they posed, Maliphant began to test scale models of bio-optimization on animals through Sith Alchemy and traditional splicing means before realizing that even greater threats still existed - for when the Bryn’adul fell, there were still a thousand Sith, a thousand Jedi, and unknown horrors all throughout the Galaxy. When the Sith Alchemist realized such, the PRAETORIAN program took on a new realization.
Caulder Dune
was indeed correct in his assumption that the Galaxy would not soon deal with the threat as it was meant to. Knowing the danger they posed, Maliphant began to test scale models of bio-optimization on animals through Sith Alchemy and traditional splicing means before realizing that even greater threats still existed - for when the Bryn’adul fell, there were still a thousand Sith, a thousand Jedi, and unknown horrors all throughout the Galaxy. When the Sith Alchemist realized such, the PRAETORIAN program took on a new realization.
While there were precursors for the PRAETORIAN program in the likes of the Those Feral Few or even The Everchosen, the PRAETORIAN program itself relies far less on the direct sith alchemization of its participants and rather the assisted manipulation of existing organelles through the complex algorithms of various X-02 AI - constantly churning out DNA adjusted organs, augmentations, and more to its subjects. This also had the secondary benefit of making them more resilient to things like Force Light from Jedi Masters - while also hoping to negate the Dark Side’s influence on the minds of already highly-trained killers.
Traditionally, the PRAETORIAN program goes through extremely stringent guidelines for choosing candidates. High on the list of successful participants are veteran special forces units, Mandalorians from various conflicts across the galaxy, bounty hunters who have made a significant name for themselves, those who failed out of BLACKGUARD but still kept up their prowess, and even the highly educated and trained minds from the finest colleges in the galaxy. It is these minds that serve as the backbone of PRAETORIAN, but they are not the only ones - as Maliphant has a darker side to the collection of the units.
Those with blacklisted histories, confidential program entry, and almost nothing known of them are children who show signs of gifted aptitude - either stolen away from homes deemed unfit for their skills or even bought from slavery. Maliphant, somewhat conflicted by such, sees it as a means of giving these children with no future something to be proud of - a future that could see them becoming some of the greatest soldiers, generals, and shakers in the galaxy; and those who would die had little to live for, to begin with. It is the children, entered into the program at the age of four, who take the augmentations the best - with both the highest rate of survival and the greatest post-augmentation results.
However, the process for augmentations - regardless of background, skill, wealth, or even fortitude - is a highly dangerous procedure few ever live through. While normally hidden from potential candidates who are warned only that it has a low rate of success, the program has a casualty rate of nearly 86.5% - where 48% of those are fatal. The others are permanently marred, either mentally, emotionally, or physically - leading to various paths from that point forward they can take. Nearly 75% commit suicide within a three year period of ‘flunking’ out.
For those lucky enough to survive, they are given a wide variety of educational programs to bring them into the body they earned. Flash training to better acclimates them to the speed and reactions the body offers which helps reduce the damage caused by first time experiences, along with working along side well known special forces instructors to ensure operational supremacy. These instructors are either flunked out candidates, or Ori’rammakade Mandalorians who found a highly profitable job in teaching the next generation of killers.
After only a few short years of training in a wide variety of environments ranging from space combat to highly sensitive force nexus - they are given a set of [REDACTED] armor and sent into various squads. Those who score highest are given to Maliphant himself to serve as his personal escort - the highest honor a PRAETORIAN can achieve, though at times the most dangerous. Graduating magna cum laude sees them sorted into various squads named after the various gods of the galaxy - thereafter sent on missions to contain rogue force users, collect dangerous artifacts, and infiltrate and destroy dangerous areas including Bryn’adul encampments and Sith Vessels.
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