REPAIR Program
REPAIR, formally known as the Revolutionary Enhancement Program: Augmentation for Immediate Response, is a small branch of the United Operations Forces specializing in combating Machina. They are mainly comprised of augmented researchers carrying out highly-classified anti-Machina research, and Agents who perform fast, decisive strikes against the Machina. These individuals all possess some compatibility with RM Nanomachines. This compatibility decides to what extent they can be augmented and what role they may perform in REPAIR.
REPAIR Personnel
REPAIR personnel are mainly female due to the necessities involved with the 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 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
Rank C
Rank C personnel consist of junior researchers and Agents-in-training.
REPAIR researchers are expected to perform research that may expose them to infection from M2 Nanomachines. Because of this, Rank C personnel are regularly given doses of RM Nanomachines, which will prevent infection from M2 Nanomachines to a certain extent as the RM Nanomachines find and attempt to mutually destroy M2 Nanomachines within the body. Due to their importance, these researchers are augmented with extensive cybernetics to assist with mental processing, networking, and physical coordination for critical work.
Rank C is sometimes assigned to Agents who are undergoing cybernetic augmentation gradually, perhaps due to low compatibility necessitating acclimation. These Agents may be deployed into non-combat roles in areas of conflict. As with senior researchers, they are given RM doses to prevent corruption from M2 Nanomachines to some extent, but as they are still in the process of being augmented it is often not possible to inoculate these Agents further. In-training Agents are not uniformly augmented. Rather, they are augmented with whatever their bodies can withstand at the present time as they are built-up into proper Agents.
Cybernetics comprise up to 25% of a Rank C member's body as a result of the above. Due to requiring RM compatibility, all members of Rank C are female.
Rank B
Rank B personnel consist of senior researchers and Agents. Rank B marks the beginning of REPAIR personnel who produce RM Nanomachines within their own bodies, acting as the source of RM Nanomachines for other, lesser members of REPAIR.
Senior researchers are expected to lead many junior researchers, often mentally assisting with their duties, and are expected to be exposed to hazardous amounts of M2 Nanomachines. Their cybernetics are focused on achieving peak processing ability as well as survivability, since Rank B non-combatants are often VIPs among REPAIR staff.
Basic Agents belong to Rank B. Their bodies feature extensive cybernetics to improve physical power and durability, allowing for the Agents to combat a Machina one-on-one, or lift and fire one of the many necessarily-oversized anti-Machina weapons in the REPAIR arsenal. These Agents will be equipped with cybernetics such as dermal armour, redundant organs, replacement of limbs, reinforcement of existing bones, and many more.
Both senior researchers and Agents create RM Nanomachines within their bodies. Normally, this is done by bio-augmentation procedures that modify the Rank B member's reproductive organs, especially the ovaries. As a result of these procedures, half of all Rank B members are female, while the other half are futanari. Many REPAIR personnel, especially most Agents, become a futanari as they decide they need a penis to ejaculate their RM for various reasons, such as weakening a Machina or quickly inoculating a subordinate. To become a futanari, the REPAIR personnel can choose to simply grow a penis and let their ovaries handle RM production, or they may choose to have either bio-modification or cybernetic modification to gain both a penis and external testicles to increase RM output.
Cybernetics comprise between 25% and 50% of a Rank B member's body as a result of the above. As stated above, Rank B is comprised of approximately 50/50 females and futanari.
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.
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 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.
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.
