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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To develop an enhancement process for a body's skeletal structure
- Image Source: http://www.masseffec...mander-shepard/
- Primary Source: N/A
- Name: Mithras Skeletal Enhancement Treatment
- Manufacturer: Spaarti Creations
- Affiliation: Spaarti Creations, Primo Victorian, Closed-Market
- Homeworld (optional): Cadomai
Production: Limited
- Modularity: No modularity
- Legal Status: As of the moment, there are no laws governing this particular enhancement or treatment
- Ingredients: Modified Iskalloni Mutagen, Bonemer, Laminanium, Synthetic Bone Marrow, Modified Collagen Fibers
- Classification: Biological Enhancement
- Method of Consumption: Implantation through a singular extensive genetic surgery and biological mutagenic process
- Average Life: Indefinite
- Nutritional Value/Allergies/Side Effects/ Purpose: The enhancement does not have any nutritional value, but side effects that occur after surgery, until the subject's body has completely accepted the transformation, include sharp pain within the bones, fever, stiffness in movement. More serious side effects can occur if the subject's body rejects the treatment for some reason and can lead to full structural integrity loss, paralysis, susceptibility to diseases, and death.
- Making use of a modified Iskalloni mutagen to force the subject's body to adapt to the process, the treatment is designed to significantly enhance a subject's skeletal structure through increased durability and healing, while also increasing the subject's height through increasing bone mass and length.
- Through the use of the mutagen, Spaarti scientists are able to introduce a bonemer and laminanium mixture to existing outer bone structures to significantly increase their durability, decreasing the chances of a break by an extensive amount.
- If a break does occur, damage can be repaired by placing the broken limb or area under a source of high heat to activate the laminanium in the new bone structure and fuse the break together. The body's natural heat won't activate the laminanium due to the combination of the bonemer and the metal.
- Internal bone structure is replaced by modified collagen fibers that also serve as osteons to increase bone tensile strength and protect better against sheer stress and to still allow the body to store necessary minerals such as calcium.
- To avoid health issues such as a stunted immune system and production of red and white blood cells, and platelets, bone marrow is altered into a synthetic replacement that is based on the subject's own marrow that allows production of necessary cells without being hindered by the modifications done to their bones.
- Due to the modifications done, subject's skeletal structures are slightly heavier and can make movement through water more difficult.
- If a break does occur, before it can be fused, the subject will likely be in paralyzing pain, and even after fusion happens to repair the damage, they will need several hours and some high-grade painkillers to recuperate.
- Due to their increased mass and height from the treatment, stealth starts to become rather hard to accomplish as most subjects will gain at least half a meter of height, but likely more than that.
As part of the new Project OPHION, Ce Perlo and the scientists and geneticists of Spaarti Creations had been tasked with developing brand new bio-enhancements, much like their previous work on the Vejovis Enhancement. To split the work, and to make sure not all of the research data was available in one spot for security reasons (besides the Lady of Secrets' access), Ce delegated research and development to other Spaarti locations. The Cadomai facility was tasked with researching skeletal enhancement, and their work culminated in the Mithras Skeletal Enhancement Treatment.
The initial experiments for Mithras were... unpleasant for the subjects to say the least. The scientists had thought to use direct grafts, much like other modification programs have done in the past, but they quickly discovered the downside to that as subject's experienced reduced immune responses to germs and bacteria or suffered horrendous side effects as their bodies fought against the foreign material on the bones. Death was a mercy to the early volunteers and cloned subjects.
However, one of the scientists at the facility struck upon a novel idea to counter such ill effects and achieve incredible results. The Iskalloni species in Wild Space had an adaptive physiology and also made use of a special mutagen to further allow their bodies, and those of their slaves, to adapt to their cybernetics. A modified version of the mutagen could be used to force a subject's body to adapt and accept any of the modifications done to it. Procuring samples of the mutagen in exchange for cloned laborers, Spaarti scientists began working on modifying it to their specifications.
Using the new mutagen, the scientists began introducing a mixture of bonemer and laminanium into the subject's bones, increasing their durability and hardness to unprecedented levels. The introduction of laminanium also allowed damage sustained to the bone to be repaired easily by heating up the afflicted area to fuse the break closed. However, the geneticists at Cadomai also recognized they needed to modify the inner parts of the bone to make doubly sure effects on a subject's immune system were negligible at worst.
Modified synthetic collagen fibers, combined with osteons, were introduced into the bone, replacing the original internal structures of the subject's skeleton while synthetic bone marrow, based on a subject's original, was introduced to continue proper production of blood cells and platelets.
The new process, with help from the mutagen, easily put the new enhancement treatment within acceptable rejection parameters for OPHION and was approved by Ce and Taeli.
