Tech Review Gnashing Surge-Coral

[Kelos]

GNASHING SURGE-CORAL
ORGANIC MIND CONTROL CHIP

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MATERIALS

• Bio-Comp Interface
• Biocomputor

SPECIAL FEATURES

• Biological.
• Interfaced with via electromagnetic signals.

STRENGTHS

• Biotech, resilient to Electromagnetic damage.
• Neural network hijacking: Burrows into the spine and takes over organic systems.
• Long lifespan: Maintains itself by leaching off of the energy created by the host.
• Periodic loss of sentience when the coral is inserted. If it is removed properly sentience will return.
• Memory wiping: The memory of the host is effectively destroyed. If the coral can be removed, the sentient being will be a blank slate.

WEAKNESSES

• Must be ejected with the correct data input. If the coral is extracted forcefully the brain of the host is destroyed.
• Incapable of piercing armor.
• Can be resisted by Force Sensitives.
• Prolonged time before the memories of the host are lost. If the coral is removed within the first week to two weeks of insertion, memories will remain intact.
• Exposure to extreme cold will kill the coral. If the coral is killed quickly it will not have time to damage the host.
• The coral takes several minutes to latch onto the nervous system of a host. In this time it can be safely removed.
• Mind control effects take several days to kick in.

DESCRIPTION

Modified and grown by the Gnashing Palm, a black market criminal empire built on the back of biotechnology, the Gnashing Surge-Coral is an evolution of the Yorik-Kul created by the Yuuzhan Vong. The coral is inserted via mechanical means rather than by an Implanter, and the means of control are via electronic signal transmitted to the biocomputer grown within the biotech. The Gnashing Palm created this tech to be a means of creating an army of mindless drones, easily controlled by simple commands. It serves as both a means to quickly gather workers as well as punish those who gain the ire of the organization. While the coral is in control of the hosts system they are essentially non-sentient, forced to comply to commands provided via Bio-comp Interface. The coral can be removed by a specific deactivation signal. When it is the former host will regain their sentience, though their previous memories are destroyed in the process. If the coral is forcefully removed from the host it uses a kill-switch signal to render the brain of the host permanently damaged. It isn't perfect, however. Memory loss takes time to set in, one to two weeks depending on the individual. It cannot pierce armor, can be resisted by Force users, and struggles to survive in the cold. If the coral is killed quickly with the cold no damage will occur to the brain of the host. This mind control will not be immediately effective, taking several days to fully manifest.

Image Source: Yorik-Kul

 

[MANIAC]

Kelos

Very imaginative and cool, however, in most of the sub you write in absolute and there is no defence against it, all on a minor production scale. I'd like to ask you to reword the sub and give players the option to defend against it, because in this case it looks like if you put this on someone, the character will be a lost, and it will be only a shell with no memories or die. It is always the player who decides how something affects them, not the sub or you. With that in mind, please modify the sub.

 

[Kelos]

MANIAC

Sorry about that. Looks like the submission I pasted in was the old version. I had two google doc files and one wasn't as up to date. I added those weaknesses.