Changes

Personnel with exceptionally high tolerance to RM Nanomachines can be promoted as far as Rank A. Members of this Rank are either extremely important executives of REPAIR operations, such as heads of entire programs or bases, or they are elite Agents. In either event, the body of a Rank A member is more than 50% cybernetic, and approximately 80% of all members are futanari. This lack of human parts weakens the ability of the body to regulate the RM inside it, causing Rank A personnel to require frequent diagnostics and maintenance of their bodies. A team of cybernetic technicians and doctors are needed wherever Rank A personnel are stationed to carry out these maintenance overhauls.

Personnel with exceptionally high tolerance to RM Nanomachines can be promoted as far as Rank A. Members of this Rank are either extremely important executives of REPAIR operations, such as heads of entire programs or bases, or they are elite Agents. In either event, the body of a Rank A member is more than 50% cybernetic, and approximately 80% of all members are futanari. This lack of human parts weakens the ability of the body to regulate the RM inside it, causing Rank A personnel to require frequent diagnostics and maintenance of their bodies. A team of cybernetic technicians and doctors are needed wherever Rank A personnel are stationed to carry out these maintenance overhauls.

Their bodies often produce so much RM that their breath contains clouds of RM Nanomachines. Due to this, it is very difficult for Rank A personnel to mingle with unprotected humans. When leaving bases, Rank A personnel often need to wear gas masks and almost always wear their standard-issue suits beneath any other clothing. Another issue with Rank A personnel going out in public is that their minds are often permanently warped to some extent, due to the very high amounts of RM Nanomachines in their bodies. Rank A personnel experience decreased inhibitions, and high amounts of sexual exhibitionism and sometimes aggression. To the public, Rank A personnel would appear markedly perverted. As a result, it is much easier for Rank B personnel to deal with public affairs.

Historically, Rank A personnel were incapable of being augmented beyond 60% of their bodies being replaced, due to the instability of the RM with such little biology around them to moderate them. With the closing of the Jupiter campaign came a breakthrough in that area, derived by reverse-engineering an Agent, codenamed 'Icy White', who had been designed by the former director of REPAIR. When the director was lost, the remaining leadership of REPAIR did their best to study not just Icy White's cybernetics, but the altered biology and biotech that went into her creation. The result is a comprehensive overhaul program for those who are going beyond 50% cybernetics, dubbed the Deep Organic Modification, Intensive Nanomachine Application and Technological Evolution, or DOMINATE. The first successful Agent from Project DOMINATE, Agent Miranda, achieved 75% cybernetic replacement, with the remaining organic tissues modified accordingly to regulate her RM.

An important improvement to Rank A personnel is the ability to tolerate and use the cybernetics required to control the Marionette System. Inspired by the Machina, Rank A personnel, mainly Agents, utilize crude quantum entanglement communications to control remote bodies. These remote bodies are often cyborg clones of the Agent without an onboard brain, allowing the Agent to control them as extensions to their own bodies. The amount of Marionettes that a Rank A Agent can control varies greatly, based on the ability of the Agent's mind to withstand the mental strain.

Other problems for Rank A personnel exist, such as the fact that their bodies often produce so much RM that their breath contains clouds of RM Nanomachines. Due to this, it is very difficult for Rank A personnel to mingle with unprotected humans. When leaving bases, Rank A personnel often need to wear gas masks and almost always wear their standard-issue suits beneath any other clothing. Another issue with Rank A personnel is that their minds are often permanently warped to some extent, due to the very high amounts of RM Nanomachines in their bodies. Rank A personnel experience decreased inhibitions, and high amounts of sexual exhibitionism and sometimes aggression. To the public, Rank A personnel would appear markedly perverted. As a result, it is much easier for Rank B personnel to deal with public affairs.