Chapter 8

Disclaimer this file deals with cybernetic prosthetics and fictional drugs. Because I need my science fix

Technical File

Listing of various combat and medicinal drugs classified at Gamma Level. Compounds only to be utilized by Tier 1 and Tier 2 operatives

Torpor- Coma inducing metabolic suspension compound

A specialized drug created from research into the bio chemistry of hibernating bears. Capable of placing body into near perfect state of suspended animation.

Primary Usage - In this state subject can survive horrific injuries and blood loss while body is repaired. Also it allows extensive augmentation surgery to be carried out while minimizing damage to body's systems. Additional unless counter agent is injected the subject will remain in this coma from eight months to up to two years. Subjects report that it feels they're dying before losing consciousness.

Psych Report- Lazarus syndrome.

A psychological condition affecting those who have been roused from suspended animation multiple times. Is most prevalent among those who suffered terrible injuries that would have ordinarily killed them if not for the torpor injection. Especially ones who had to undergo reconstructive surgery.

Symptoms can include

- Depression

- A seeming apathy about the possibility of death or others death.

- Periods of existential angst

- Diminished capacity for emotional expression

- Nightmares

- A Pychosomatic physical reaction to implanted cybernetics. Phantom limb syndrome. itching. Sores on the skin. Scarring.

- Increased cravings for certain foods. Such as Pizza strangely enough.

- Extremely vivid recall of events that occurred just prior to injecting Torpor. Sometimes manifesting as waking dreams.

- Apathy in regards to physical pain or bodily harm.

- Suicidal behaviour

Loquac- truth serum.

A intravenously injected serum that removes the ability for the human brain to filter what they are saying.

Primary Usage- Excellent as a truth serum. However the window for extracting pertinent information is small. Eventually the subject begins babbling incessantly on even the most utterly banal of topics. As one operative put it. "Sure it can get them to talk its getting them to shut up that is the problem."

Ardor- mentally debilitating aphrodisiac.

Extremely limited production compound. Only ever used by the cuckoo division of the Crowmother's espionage network. Imbibed by ingestion added to a liquid. Triple purpose drug. Diminishes risk assessment and impairs judgement. Increases sexual desire and tactile sensation. Creates low grade stimulation of pleasure centre's.

Primary usage- To help place businessmen, public officials and military officers into compromising situations leaving them open to coercion and blackmail.

Additional repeated use on a subject over a prolonged period involving the same 'handler' can create a state of emotional dependency upon the one administering the drug. Effective for long term spying operations involving operatives acting as the mistresses of targets.

Focus- Adrenal reflex stimulator.

Results in 23 to 37 % increase in reflexes, hand eye coordination, mental reaction time and acuity. Subjects have demonstrated improved accuracy while firing on the move. Some describe the effect as 'watching the rest of the world slow down.'

Primary usage- Used by soldiers in combat situations and firefights.

Additional. Focus is rapidly metabolized by the body. Usage involves continous drip feed from implant or armor medic system. Over abuse of Focus can result in feelings of euphoria and become addictive. The drug must not be used for any time period longer than eight minutes or the risk of addiction rises exponentially. Additional a minimum of thirty seven minutes must pass between each usage. Auto injector systems have built in timers to prevent overuse.

TRA – Anti cybernetic rejection drug.

Primary usage to prevent build up of glial cells at the connection points between nerve endings and attached cybernetic prosthesis.

Note- Cyber rejection is not universal. 37% experience a diminishing of functionality. Only 22% can experience outright rejection unless regularly medicated using TRA.

Dull- Pain suppressant.

Short term pain blocker. Can be applied as local or general. Does not diminish mental aptitude or limb movement. Must be used with caution pain is the bodies warning system. Overuse or carelessness can result in people unknowingly injuring themselves.

Panacea- Anti bacterial serum

An extremely powerful anti bacterial serum distilled from the immune systems of genetically altered komodo dragons. The komodo dragon is a creature with one of the most powerful immune systems on the planet. It in fact uses the deadly bacteria that live in its mouth to help it kill its prey. Chemical recreation of the compounds used by its lymph nodes can make black knight troopers immune to almost any natural or weaponised bacterium.

Black Knights Medical Database Classification level Omega.

Listing of augmetic surgeries employed on REDACTED code Name Death

Omega Clearance Patient Listing- Patient 022

Blood type-O

Cranial connecter pads.

Small subdermal implants on skull that improve efficiency of neurohelmet in monitoring brainwave activity. Improves piloting and response time in use of his personal REDACTED by 27%.

Full body Intra muscular nano cabling

Thin strands of myomer nanocable are carefully interwoven alongside and within the existing muscle tissue to result in a 59% increase in physical strength. Muscle tissue is made more resistant to tearing and bruising. The time taken to complete surgery allowing for breaks one month. During this time the subject is maintained in suspended animation and kept suspended in a sterile aerogel container.

Note the procedure increases the user's strength in proportion to the strength of their muscles. If there are two physically similar individuals with nanocabling and one has exercised to maintain more developed muscles that one will be stronger.

Ceramic lattice grafting on skeletal structure

Bones are rendered virtually unbreakable by laminating skeletal structure with lattice of specialized ceramic carbon bonds. The lattice is done so as to allow open gaps for the bone to still produce blood cells

Artificial superoxygenated blood

Created from Dr Ichima's research into the biochemical properties of bears. A bears blood supply can store far more oxygen than a humans allowing them to hibernate through winter with minimal respiration. By injection of a specialized hormone into the bone marrow blood cell production is stimulated giving the subject a massive increase in physical endurance levels and the amount of time they can go without having to take a breath. Allowing them to engage in extended physical activity without exhaustion for greater time spans than a normal human. The blood can also be produced in host bodies before being given to Black Knight troopers through blood transfusion.

Prosthetic right eye

Customised cyber eye with thermal/night vision, telescopic function, full data link up and processing capacity.

Patient 022 lost his right eye due to injuries sustained in operation MONGOOSE in Indonesia in 2013.

Improved sonic receptors.

Enhanced auditory receptors and analysis system attached to internal structure of both ears. Can be manipulated to increase volume of detected noises. Can also be used to filter and record different sounds.

Broadwave communicator and transmission device

Implanted in left shoulder and networked to prosthetic eye.

Haptic interfaces

Haptic interfaces are installed in the fingertips of both hands allowing the manipulation of 'mental' holograms generated by cyber eye and mask camera system.

Prosthetic Left arm and shoulder

Artificial arm with Myomer synthetic muscle cables and titanium steel bone frame.

300% increase in strength with safety limiters disabled. 150% increase in limb mobility and movement speed. Specialised pressure pads in arm and palm of hands allow subject to feel physical objects. A synthetic skin is worn over the arm it can be detatched if necessary by activating a chemical trigger that unseals the skins bonding with the synthetic muscle. The skin does not feel completely like normal skin. Patient 022's explanation in case people ask is that he severely burnt his arm as a child.

Patient 022 cut off his arm in order to avoid fatal REDACTED poisoning. This occurred at the Nanosato research facility, site of the CERN supercollider. To prevent Brittanians from seizing the facility Patient 022 demolished it by constructing a REDACTED. When activated it caused a REDACTED which completely destroyed the complex and everything within two hundred meters of the facility perimeter.

After being imbued with the power of REDACTED Patient 022's arm has developed an incredible elastic quality in the muscles allowing the arm to be rapidly extended and then contracted by a length of two meters.

Medidoc Internal health monitor.

Located in chest. Connected to several small devices and provides detailed medical information to subject. Controls emergency heart stimulator. As well as a device that can release the drug torpor to stabilize biology in event of both unconsciousness and extreme physical trauma.

Connects to armor computer allows for automatic or manual use of suit medical system.

Other medical information

A side effect of the prosthetic arm, bone grafting and intramuscle myomer cables is that Patient 022 is less buoyant than a man his size should be. While he will not sink he does require more physical exertion to keep his head above water unless he wears devices to compensate.

Notation on patient behavior.

The only pure cyber prosthesis used by patient 022 are those installed as a result of physical injury on the battlefield. He is of the opinion that cybernetic and other enhancement technologies should be used to improve and aid the natural body instead of simply replacing it with total cybernetic components. This places him amongst the majority of the conclave's scientists who believe in a more symbiotic man machine interface in regards to enhancing the troops. He maintains his body at peak efficiency through extensive physical exercise and training sessions with other enhanced troopers. He also practices meditation and mental exercises to improve his use of his implants and the body.

While he has made use of many of the gamma level drugs he has often showed a reluctance to use Dull unless the pain is in fact extremely debilitating. He seems to regard resisting pain as a test of mental fortitude.

On neural cybernetics.

The conclave has been successful in creating direct brain to computer hybridization in felines, canines and avians. However all attempts to create direct neural uplinks in primates have failed. Terminally. The closest they have come in humans is the neuro helmet a device that picks up the electromagnetic pulses in the brain associated with movement to maintain stabilization in a mechs gyros. It is also used in power armor to help the pilot move the limbs.

Authors note

Derain: Well we can finally see just how much hardware Luthur is packing hmm? Although he still has to work out and train to use it all to its full potential.

Kallen: Wow. So all that muscle isn't just cyborg ware.

Derain: I find the idea of cybernetics eliminating the need for exercise or self discipline troubling. Luthur may be a cyborg but he still earned his strength the hard way. The implants just raise the bar for him.

Luthur: Yeah but I think I got REDACTED an awful lot.

Derain: Think of it as an example of how secretive they've got to be in the Conclave. An organization that large can require a fair bit of record keeping. So you've got to be careful how much information is left on even the most mundane of documents if you don't want to reveal REDACTED. Awkward pause. "You see. Even I'm not immune to it."

Lelouch: We're getting in the area of mad science with some of this stuff.

Derain: Lets be clear there are lines in scientific development you cannot cross without being flipping evil. Non voluntary, uninformed human experimentation being one. Luther still offered Kenro a choice. It was a pretty crappy choice but he'd been about to kill him anyway and if Kenro had taken the painless option Luthur would have given it to him. The Conclave is not going to go that far. All of the augmentations and drugs they use have been extensively tested (some were even in development before the war) before they started using human volunteers. Of course when it comes to dead bodies and live animals they've done plenty of things that would have them arrested by nearly any court in the world. The crowborgs alone would have the RSPCA up in arms and we haven't even got to what they've done using cats.

Kallen: Those drugs are also pretty out there. What's with the Ardor?

Derain: Hey gaining intelligence in that way has been going on since the dawn of spying. The KGB in the cold war were possibly the most ruthless of them all. They had special camps where agents were trained in seduction and romancing people. A young married man working for an embassy has a night on the town with several amazing women. Next morning he's got a KGB control officer with the incriminating pictures that they won't show his wife in exchange for some help. Or a lonely and stressed female clerk in the state department who meets this really great guy. Sure he's interested in her work but it's not like he's a spy. Is it?

Kallen: That's cold.

Derain: The black knights aren't going to win just by pulling out their uber tech in every battle. Planning, preparation, intelligence and deception are needed for victory. As well as commitment. You think the spy corrupting a Brittanian officer is any less dedicated than the soldier on the battlefield?

Kallen: Grudgingly I see your point. Hey I notice Brannoth isn't back yet.

Derain: Generally he's only shows up in chapters where Suzaku's being a self righteous hypocrite.

Suzaku: Oh thank god.

Kallen: That's almost every time he turns up.