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== REPAIR Personnel ==
== REPAIR Personnel ==
REPAIR personnel are mainly female due to the necessities involved with the [[RM Nanomachines|REPAIR Multipurpose (RM) Nanomachines]] that are used to resist Machina infection. Potential conscripts are scouted using mandatory population-wide testing for RM compatibility. Due to the necessity of the RM Nanomachines for protection of personnel from [[M2 Nanomachines]], RM compatibility heavily influences the prospects of a conscript's service. Once conscripted and properly indoctrinated, REPAIR personnel are assigned their positions and tasks within REPAIR's hierarchy according to the areas of service they are most likely to excel at. Because of this, REPAIR conscripts women with RM potential and requisitions research from established scientists if needed. When a member of REPAIR is assigned a new position they are augmented in accordance with the needs of the new position, becoming more augmented as they advance. Again, this has the effect of creating the personnel they need rather than having to look for members of the population with the skills they need. From the position they are assigned to, the member's Rank is established.
REPAIR personnel are mainly female due to the necessities involved with the [[RM Nanomachines|REPAIR Multipurpose (RM) Nanomachines]] that are used to resist Machina infection. Potential conscripts are scouted using mandatory population-wide testing for RM compatibility. Due to the necessity of the RM Nanomachines for protection of personnel from [[M2 Nanomachines]], RM compatibility heavily influences the prospects of a conscript's service. Once conscripted and properly indoctrinated, REPAIR personnel are assigned their positions and tasks within REPAIR's hierarchy according to the areas of service they are most likely to excel at. Because of this, REPAIR conscripts women with RM potential and requisitions research from established scientists if needed. When a member of REPAIR is assigned a new position they are augmented in accordance with the needs of the new position, becoming more augmented as they advance. Again, this has the effect of creating the personnel they need rather than having to look for members of the population with the skills they need. From the position they are assigned to, the member's Rank is established.
All REPAIR personnel receive basic weapons training and are proficient shooters with at least the basic [[REPAIR Weaponry|REPAIR Weapons]]. This means, in theory, that REPAIR research personnel can address containment breaches or defend themselves from targeted attacks if they are found, but it is sometimes difficult for non-combat REPAIR personnel to practice marksmanship or keep their combat software updated and compatible with their bodies.
== REPAIR Ranks ==
== REPAIR Ranks ==
=== Rank A ===
=== Rank A ===
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.
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.
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', otherwise known as Project DOMINATE. The first successful Agent from Project DOMINATE, Agent Miranda, achieved 80% cybernetic replacement, with the remaining organic tissues modified accordingly to regulate her RM.
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.
==== 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 ==
=== 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.'''
=== 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.'''