Artifice Enhancements
Space
Space is much like a fabric brought to 3-D. A bit of twisting can create gravity without mass or negative mass.
Level 1
All powers of the GLS have access to basic inertial dampeners
Level 2
- Displacer Drive
Basic Inertialess Displacement Drives become available. While only sized for large ships, they allow acceleration without normal limits. These generally grant artificial gravity.
- Countergrav
Hover devices for land units, greatly increasing mobility.
Level 3
- Spatial Shields
Shields that block a certain percentage of weapons firepower, but not all.
- Matter Accelerators
Incredible effective analogs to railguns
- Advanced Displacer Drives
A more compact version of the IDD designed for strike craft.
Tractor beams and gravitic sensors become standard here.
Level 4
- Spatial Distortion Field
By altering the nearby structure of space, ships are protected from harm and propelled without inertia. This functions as both a spatial shield and a displacer drive.
- Lesser Wormhole
You can teleport via wormholes within a solar system wide range.
Level 5
- Wormhole Drive
You can travel off the star ways on your own path
- Black/White Hole weaponry
Unbelievable destructive power. While these weapons have a short duration, they are easily capable of destroying a planet or damaging a star.
Energy
From accelerator cannons to zero-point manipulation, this is the art of making energy do things it shouldn't.
Level 1
All powers of the GLS have access to basic particle cannons and efficient power sources.
Level 2
- Accelerator Cannons
Heavy beams capable doing massive damage. Only seen on cruisers and battleships, but very powerful. Usually mounted spinally.
- Energy Shield
Useful against all forms of realspace attack. Slowly degraded by weapons fire, but it can recharge off of a power source.
Level 3
- Beam Rifles
Fires a visible bolt of energy, and is small enough to see use in strike craft and as weapons on tanks.
- Personal Energy Weapons
Whether a rifle or a wand, this grants powerful energy weaponry to individual people.
Level 4
- Advanced Beams
These are beam weapons that are clearly not physically possible, bending to seek targets and being capable of crossing dimensional boundaries.
- Personal Shields
Shields for all units, even down to individual footsoldiers.
Level 5
Megacannons - Spinal mount monstrosities that unleash mass destruction along a path. Sufficiently well power versions can devastate entire planets.
Zero-Point Tap - Power is easily available via directly tapping into vacuum fluctuations. Quite simply, the ambient environment can provide all the energy you could need on a short term basis.
Dimension
Hyperspace. Subspace.
Level 1
All powers of the GLS have access to standard FTL or jump drives that operate along pre-determined star ways.
Level 2
Level 3
Level 4
Level 5
Life
Genetic or cybernetic enhancement taken to a new level.
Level 1
All powers of the GLS have access to amazing medical treatment for diseases and a basic immunity to genetic defects
Level 2
- Basic Military Enhancements
Whether cyborgs or genetically enhanced humans, your military is well beyond normal humans in strength and durability. Your medical technology can save a person from disease o
- Cosmetic Modifications
All of your people can look different from a baseline human. This covers most of the human spectrum, and includes things like elves.
Level 3
- Enhanced Nervous System
Your military is lightning quick in combat, thanks to enhanced reflexes and superb control. As a side effect, you can play a mean of pool.
- Extensive Body Mods
Your people can transcend the human form - from growing cat ears and fur to having wings.
Level 4
Level 5
Matter
Matter acts differently from Energy in Artificer arts.
Level 1
All powers of the GLS have access to basically any material familiar to pre-Artifice Earth.
Level 2
- Transform!
Your material artifice is capable of giving your units multiple forms.
- Weakpoint Analysis
Your military is skilled at finding the chink in a suit of armor, whether it is their enemies or their own. Against an enemy with a lower level of Matter artifice, this gives a damage bonus. This ability also helps your military reduce the effects of the enemy's weakpoint analysis by putting a grate on that damn exhaust port...
Level 3
- Combine!
You can dock multiple units together to form a new whole. The resulting unit is equal to a basic unit of the new type.
Level 4
- Advanced Self-Repair
Your units can be damaged, but you keep on coming back from the brink.
Level 5
Psyche
Soul. Spirit. Mind. The very essence of a being, whether a construct, an AI ship, or a person.
Level 1
All powers of the GLS have access to basic defenses against Oblivion attacks. These were distributed widely by GLS defense planners to reduce the capability of Demons to wreck havoc.
Level 2
- Mental Focus
A fraction of your population is capable of utilizing artifice without a device to channel the essence or energy