John Locke
V U L K A N
- Intent: To create a cybernetic implant for use and sale by Locke and Key Mechanics
- Image Source(s): N/a
- Canon Link(s): N/a
- Permissions: N/a
- Link(s):
- Rebreather (wiki)
- Rebreather (wookie)
- Breath Control
- Pacemaker
- Manufacturer: Locke and Key Mechanics
- Affiliation: Locke and Key Mechanics
- Market Status: Closed Market
- Model: Aether Implant
- Modularity: Stored supplies can be changed depending on the user’s species
- Production: Mass-Produced
- Materials: Titanium | Sensor | Gas Supply
- Classification: Internal Implant
- Size: Average
- Weight: Average
- Resistances (Optional): This is an internal implant so it provides no resistances or protections against damage.
- Has an internal store of breathable gas.
- Allows the user to recycle their own breath to extend the time they can breathe without taking a breath.
- Hidden: As an internal implant there is absolutely no external sign that a user is equipped with the Aether Implant.
- Breath beyond breath: The Aether implant is a rebreather, a device that allows a user to cycle the breath in their lungs again and again. The small supply of breathable gas allows this rebreathing to be supplemented, allowing the user to last longer than they’d be expected to in hostile environments.
- Bloodhound: The implant contains environmental sensors that are able to detect most toxins and elements in the environment and will automatically activate the implant if hostile elements are detected along with sending the user a warning.
- Limited Supply: The rebreather contains the supplies for only a limited amount of breaths. On average, after an hour’s use, the supplies will be completely exhausted, if you haven’t found safety in that time the implant will deactivate leaving you at the mercy of the hostile elements in your environment. Once expended the supplies will regenerate as you breathe in a normal environment, but can take 2 hours to restore the supplies.
- Exertion: Any form of exercise, of exertion, will cause you to breathe faster, using up the limited supplies at a rapid pace.
- Slicing: If the implant is sliced into it can be activated or deactivated by a third party, and the safety systems can be disabled. You might not even know it’s been activated until an hour later when you suddenly can’t breathe in the middle of a crowd, surrounded by breathable air.
- Limited protection: While the Aether Implant can present chemicals or biological elements from getting into your lungs, your mouth and nose are still vulnerable. Under such circumstances, it will keep you moving and limit the exposure, not stop it entirely.
There was a force power John had observed in his interactions with users of the force, the ability to allow a Jedi or Sith to go long periods of time without breathing. Breath Control.
It allowed a force user to go into hostile environments without a bulky pressure suit, to survive gas attacks or being thrown into the water. And...John could see how that would be useful. That survivability, that sense of protection, so he decided to bring it to the masses.
It started with a bio-compatible case, similar to the pacemaker, made of titanium which will lie inert within the body. The case was filled with a pressurised gas container and the parts needed before it was implanting just above the lungs. From this location it could block the flow of air into and out of the lungs, allowing the user to survive environments and conditions they could not have normally.
The Aether Implant wasn’t a match for the power of the force, but for the none force user it was a useful way to enhance your capabilities.
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