Cognitive Expansion Network

Name: Cognition Expansion Network (CEN)
Concept: MMI/MXI researchers

Description: The CEN is a group dedicated to adapting to Gaia, by means of eliminated the boundaries between the human and their tools. Using Mind-Machine Interfaces and other cybernetics, CEN researches allow humans to directly interface with machines, and possibly control them as extensions of their body. Their final goal is to create humans that are greater than the sum of their parts, able to expand and change their existence through interfaces.

The Vectors have opened up a whole new echelon of human-expansion research among the CEN, as well. Biologists as well as cyberneticists, CEM has begun to research Mind-Xenoform Interface - the ability to link with Vector-based technology, notably Fractals and hybrid humans. Excursions into Vector-heavy regions are popular, and the CEM analysts search eagerly for new planetary discoveries.

Build

Origin

Ori-1) Tsiolkovsky Community (+10 Manpower, +30 Training, +30 Morale, +40 Fractal, +30 Logistics, +1 Wealth, Go to Ori-4)

May use AN-Fractals Only

Talents, Cosmos and Remade Only

Cannot spend Manpower on Pilots/Elites (Training determines AI abilities)

Ori-4a)Test Division Pilots (+1 Wealth, +1 Prestige)
Ori-4b)Biology Research Firms (+20 Manpower, +10 Fractals, Access to Linked and Marked)
Ori-4c)Tactical Intelligence Network (-20 Morale, AI count as elites)

Totals

Base: 10 each

Manpower: 40
Training: 50 (40+10 Prestige)
Morale: 20
Fractal: 70 (50 + 20 Wealth)
Support: 20 (10+10 Logistic)
Transport: 30 (10+20 Logistic)

Free points

Logistics: 30
Wealth: 2
Prestige: 1

Types Available: Talents, Cosmos, Remade, Linked, Marked
Fractals: AN Fractals
Special: AI units are Elites

Unit Composition

Rough example of what CEN AN-Fractals look like

Pilots: 8 (40)
AN Fractals: 14 (70)

General Personnel

Commander: Stratcon (Strategos-Connect)
Concept: Tactical Battle Network

Description: Strategos-Connect is a two-part entity. On the one hand, it's the network that connects all of the CEN Fractals together, coordinating their onboard systems and the CEN Central Network Node. It also has a second capacity - it functions as CEN's commanding officer and military director. Strategos-Connect (or Stratcon) is a highly advanced AI, based in a bio-mechanical computer modified with Vector genes. Using MMI translations and Vector hybridity, it incorporates several dozen electronic and biological subsystems, giving it unparalleled processing power.

Stratcon's multi-tier intelligence allows it to not only analyze battle readouts and Fractal computers, but also the pilot's brain activity and Fractal wavelengths. It's so acute that it can almost predict what they're going to do before they do - a habit that unsettles many of the human pilots. However, access to the command and advisory staff at the Battle Network Node, the pilots themselves, and the entirety of the CEN computer system give Stratcon an amazing ability to plan strategy and coordinate tactics, modifying on the fly.

Stratcon's inhuman nature makes it difficult to communicate with outside of battle directions - it mostly communicates through HUD and nav-comp systems. When it chooses to vocalize its responses using a synthetizer, it tends to have a dry wit and an unsettling blunt manner of speaking.

Pilots

Captain Walter Prousk

Race: Cosmos (+3 Education and Charisma, +2 Other Stats, +3 Wits (Disguise) Specialization)

Pilot: 5 [3+2](6)

Gunnery: 5 [3+2](6)

Sympathy: 3 [3+2-2](6)

Physical: 5 [3+2](6)

Wits: 5 [3+2](6)

Disguise 3 (0)

Education: 7 [4+3](10)

Charisma: 8 [5+3](15)

Conspiracy (Tsiolkovsky): 3 (6)

Command (Leadership): 4 [3+1] (6)

Growth: 2 (3)

Traits:

Veteran

Vector-Manipulation Powers: 3

Pilot AN-Fractals (1)

Spatial Awareness (2)

Sonja Yemen

Race: Cosmos (+3 Education and Charisma, +2 Other Stats, +3 Wits (Disguise) Specialization)

Pilot: 5 [3+2](6)

Gunnery: 7 [5+2](15)

Hit and Run 1 (1)

Vector Weaponry 1 (1)

Sympathy: 6 [4+2](10)

Physical: 4 [2+2](3)

Wits: 7 [5+2](15)

Disguise 4 (1)

Deception 1 (1)

Education: 5 [2+3](3)

Charisma: 5 [2+3](3)

Conspiracy (Tsiolkovsky): 1 (1)

Command (Tactical): 3(6)

Growth: 2 (3)

Traits:

No such thing as Overkill

2 Fast 2 Furious

Heroic Luck (4)

Adventurous (+3)

Vector-Manipulation Powers: 13

Pilot AN-Fractal (1)

Peak Senses (1)

Spatial Awareness (2)

Scalar Magnification (9)

Alexi Virin

Race: Talent (+3 Physical and Education, +2 other stats, +3 Education Specialties)

Pilot: 4 [5+2](3)

Gunnery: 7 [2+2](15)

Sympathy: 5 [2+2](6)

Commune 1 (1)

Physical: 5 [3+3](3)

Wits: 5 [3+2](6)

Education: 8 [5+3](15)

Biology 4 (1)

Medicine 1 (1)

Charisma: 4 [2+2](3)

Conspiracy (Tsiolkovsky): 2 (3)

Command (Strategy): 4 (10)

Growth: 3 (6)

Traits:

Jinxed (+3)

Vector-Manipulation Powers: 10

Pilot AN-Fractals (2)

Spatial Awareness (2)

Commune (6)

Dominic Harmer

Race: Remade (+4 Physical, +3 Other Stats, +3 Big Guy Specialization, -2 Charisma for non-cyborgs/artificials, cannot pilot N-fractals

Pilot: 9 [5+3+1](15)

Gunnery: 8 [4+3+1](10)

Sympathy: 3 [2+3-2](3)

Physical: 8 [4+4](10)

Big Guy: 3 (0)

Wits: 7 [4+3](10)

Education: 5 [2+3](3)

Charisma: 5 [2+3](3)

Conspiracy (Tsiolkovsky): 3 (6)

Command (Tactics): 4 (10)

Growth: 0 (0)

Traits:

Veteran

Made of Iron

Vector-Manipulation Powers: 3

Pilot AN-Fractal (1)

Spatial Awareness (2)

Petra Golga

Race: Remade (+4 Physical, +3 Other Stats, +3 Big Guy Specialization, -2 Charisma for non-cyborgs/artificials, cannot pilot N-fractals)

Pilot: 6 [3+3](6)

Gunnery: 8 [5+3](15)

Sniper 2 (3)

Sympathy: 6 [3+3](6)

Physical: 7 [3+4](6)

Big Guy 4 (1)

Not Dying 1 (1)

Wits: 7 [4+3](10)

Camouflage 1 (1)

Education: 5 [2+3](3)

Charisma: 7 [4+3](10)

Intimidating 1 (1)

Conspiracy (Tsiolkovsky): 1 (1)

Command (Tactical):1 (1)

Growth: 1 (1)

Traits:

No such Thing as Overkill

Vector-Positive (4)

Vector-Manipulation Powers:17 (13+4)

Pilot AN-Fractal (1)

Peak Senses (1)

Spatial Awareness (2)

Illusions (4)

Scalar Magnification (9)

Sabrina Alivera

Race: Cosmos (+3 Education and Charisma, +2 Other Stats, +3 Wits (Disguise) Specialization)

Pilot: 5 [3+2](6)

Gunnery: 6 [4+2](10)

Sympathy: 6 [4+2](10)

Physical: 5 [3+2](6)

Wits: 4 [2+2](3)

Disguise 3 [0+3](0)

Education: 5 [2+3](3)

Charisma: 8 [5+3](15)

Looks (Sexy) 1 (1)

Conspiracy (Tsiolkovsky): 3 (6)

Command (Leadership): 3 (6)

Growth: 1 (1)

Traits:

No Such Thing As Overkill (+1 Firepower, -1 Melee)

Fan Favorite (6)

Type Failure (Messian Concordiat) (+3)

Vector-Manipulation Powers: 13

Pilot AN-Fractal (1)

Spatial Awareness (2)

Illusions (4)

Sympathetic Aura (6)

Lily Montague

Race: Marked (+3 Pilot and Sympathy, +1 Other Stats, +5 VM points, -1 Charisma for non-Marked/Linked)

Pilot: 6 [3+3](6)

Evasive Maneuvers 1 (1)

Gunnery: 4 [3+1](6)

Sympathy: 8 [5+3](15)

Physical: 3 [2+1](3)

Wits: 5 [4+1](10)

Education: 6 [5+1](15)

Linears 1 (1)

Navigation 1 (1)

Charisma: 3 [2+1](3)

Conspiracy (Tsiolkovsky): 1 (1)

Command (Strategy): 2(3)

Growth: 1 (1)

Traits:

Vector-Positive (4)

Vector-Manipulation Powers: 18+5+4

Pilot AN-Fractal (1)

Vector Synergy (1)

Cognitive Overload (2)

Linear Boost (11)

Linear Translocation (12)

Nasca

Race: Linked (+5 Pilot and Sympathy, +1 Other Stats, -2 Charisma to same sex, +2 to opposite, +10 VM points, Pilot AN-Fractal, Pilot N-Fractal)

Pilot: 10 [5+5](15)

Melee 1 (1)

Gunnery: 2 [1+1](1)

Sympathy: 10 [5+5](15)

Physical: 2 [1+1](1)

Wits: 5 [4+1](10)

Education: 3 [2+1](3)

Charisma: 5 [4+1](10)

Moe 1 (1)

Conspiracy (Tsiolkovsky): 1(1)

Command:0 (0)

Growth: 4 (10)

Traits:

Blademaster

Type Master: N-Fractals (5)

Naive (+3)

Vector-Manipulation Powers: 32 (22+10)

Pilot AN-Fractal (free)

Pilot N-Fractal (free)

Peak Senses (1)

Vector Synergy (1)

Spatial Awareness (2)

Cognitive Overload (2)

Locate (6)

Tectonic Event (4)

Tectonic Shift (8)

Vector Madness (8)

Fractals

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