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==== Marionette System ====
==== Marionette System ====
'''Certain Rank A Agents are selected to be accompanied by Marionettes. These are essentially mindless clones of the Agent in question, grown around their cybernetics and controlled by the Agent as extensions of their own body. They lack any ability to think, instead possessing only motor and sensory cortices and the usual on-board computers in order to interpret and carry out the signals coming from the Agent's own brain. They supply the Agent with all their sensory information as well. The result is a great increase in the Agent's capability, but there is a risk that a Marionette could be attacked by Machina and not disconnected from the Agent's mind quickly enough, causing her to experience any pain or sexual assault that the Marionette might be subjected to. If a Marionette were to become corrupted, the lack of a brain will prevent proper [[Machina Development|Machina development]] from taking place. If a Queen wanted to commit the resources, she could complete a corrupted Marionette, but there's almost no payoff to such a project. As with corrupting any pure clones they may encounter, the Machina as a whole do not gain anything new from such beings, whose genomes are known and their minds are initially bare of new information.'''
== Specialist Augmentations and Programs ==
== Specialist Augmentations and Programs ==
=== Project FEMBOI ===
=== Project FEMBOI ===
There is a very-high-importance project within REPAIR called the Biological Overhaul Initiative, which developed the Fractional Enhancement Method to alter males to such an extent that they can safely be augmented with RM Nanomachines and possibly become Agents. It is commonly referred to as Project FEMBOI (Fractional Enhancement Method, Biological Overhaul Initiative), and at this stage only a very small handful of males have been successfully treated by these custom-tailored, highly-experimental procedures being developed by the program for each experimental subject. The successful experiments result in male REPAIR personnel who are sufficiently 'female' enough in terms of their body chemistry and other factors, which prevents the RM Nanomachines within them from malfunctioning. The lesser, male Agents created by the program are still a welcome asset to REPAIR commanders, who use them for lower-priority missions such as scouting. This leaves more capable, and valuable, female Agents free to perform more important missions such as disruptive raids.
'''There is a very-high-importance project within REPAIR called the Biological Overhaul Initiative, which developed the Fractional Enhancement Method to alter males to such an extent that they can safely be augmented with RM Nanomachines and possibly become Agents. It is commonly referred to as Project FEMBOI (Fractional Enhancement Method, Biological Overhaul Initiative), and at this stage only a very small handful of males have been successfully treated by these custom-tailored, highly-experimental procedures being developed by the program for each experimental subject. The successful experiments result in male REPAIR personnel who are sufficiently 'female' enough in terms of their body chemistry and other factors, which prevents the RM Nanomachines within them from malfunctioning. The lesser, male Agents created by the program are still a welcome asset to REPAIR commanders, who use them for lower-priority missions such as scouting. This leaves more capable, and valuable, female Agents free to perform more important missions such as disruptive raids.'''
=== DANIELIS 7 ===
=== DANIELIS 7 ===
The mega-corp DANGUN, seeking any edge it can get over the juggernaut that is URIS Industries, also entered into developmental partnership with REPAIR. Its first program was designed to improve the effectiveness of Rank B Agents, and weaken URIS' influence on REPAIR by lessening the need for Rank A Agents, which URIS has exclusive access to. The project is called 'DANIELIS 7' and the key innovations of it are the addition of animalistic cybernetics, neural pathways, and networking together the participating Rank B Agents. Such Agents are outfitted with agility and lethality increasing cybernetics, such as digitigrade legs for enhanced running and jumping, feline and canine-style cybernetic ears containing sensor suites, or pop-out thermal blades along with neural enhancements to fight Machina in melee. While alone these modifications may be of dubious effectiveness, the Agents are appropriately programmed with matching animal instincts and networked together to form a pack of hunters capable of taking down Machina more effectively.
'''The mega-corp DANGUN, seeking any edge it can get over the juggernaut that is URIS Industries, also entered into developmental partnership with REPAIR. Its first program was designed to improve the effectiveness of Rank B Agents, and weaken URIS' influence on REPAIR by lessening the need for Rank A Agents, which URIS has exclusive access to. The project is called 'DANIELIS 7' and the key innovations of it are the addition of animalistic cybernetics, neural pathways, and networking together the participating Rank B Agents. Such Agents are outfitted with agility and lethality increasing cybernetics, such as digitigrade legs for enhanced running and jumping, feline and canine-style cybernetic ears containing sensor suites, or pop-out thermal blades along with neural enhancements to fight Machina in melee. While alone these modifications may be of dubious effectiveness, the Agents are appropriately programmed with matching animal instincts and networked together to form a pack of hunters capable of taking down Machina more effectively.'''