Excerpt From The Internal Journal of Jacqui Pacheco:
I knew the instant I picked up that shard I found, after Mender Ramiel left, that things had changed. It was just a stray thought at first... what if I could reroute the energy flow through the... well I probably shouldn't record the specifics. That was the biggest problem I had becoming an incarnate.
Unlike heroes with inborn mutations or gifted with fantastic abilities through science gone horribly wrong (or right in some cases), I don't have any super powers on my own... unless you count my brain. Mom always said I inherited my brains from dad. And then of course there's the technology. My grandfather created the basis for tech that has pioneered advances in the audio/visual industry, and when I took over after mom and dad retired I wanted to do so much more. Just touching that shard has taken me so far beyond what I had anticipated.
You have to understand, when I developed my hard-light/laser motion tracking system from the original Synergy tech my grandfather built, I intended to use it to make the world a better place. In this world of alien invasions, super powered criminals and disreputable corporations, I wanted to make a difference. But now the very things I know could put the entire world in danger if I were to ever share that knowledge or have it taken from me.
My primary tool has always been my belt, the primary power source for my holographic projection system I use when fighting crime. The tech has its fail safes and by itself while dangerous in the wrong hands isn't really world ending. But what that shard showed me I could do with it... no it would be too much. No matter how careful I was... one missed record... one lost blueprint... it could unleash incarnate level technology upon the world that could be used to devastating effect. But how could I not use it? I could do so much good with it.
And then it came to me. The answer to my predicament. How to create incarnate level technology that could not be stolen or duplicated or reverse engineered. I had one of my trusted allies in crime fighting, Dr. Steven Sheridan, surgically implant a neural interface my company had developed a few years ago (with some upgrades of course) into my brain. On it's own it's harmless... it simply lets me control my belt's tech through neural impulses. It's what's in my head that makes it all come together though. I should probably take a look at mom's old remote micro projectors and see about doing away with the belt altogether...
The only way for me to use this incarnate level tech without risk of it being stolen is to make sure it doesn't exist when I am not using it... that no blueprint or record is ever set as to its design. Through the neural interface I actually create the tech through hard-light holograms... basically force fields and photons. The shard showed me how to make it possible... honestly I am surprised I didn't think of it on my own. But from what little I've learned about the Well of Furies from those "in the know", it doesn't actually give you anything you don't already possess except maybe ACCESS to things already within you that you just didn't quite know how to tap into. Or maybe it removes roadblocks keeping you from exceeding certain thresholds. I am not entirely sure to be honest. I'm pretty sure the Well prefers it that way too.
This is the best way... the safest way to use this technology to better mankind and keep it safe from those who would abuse it. Sure it's a lot of effort to mentally construct the tech every time I need to use it, but I can't think of any better security measures than my own brain. I've even managed to create permanent mental defenses subconsciously so not even a master telepath or fancy mind probing devices can access my knowledge of incarnate tech. And just in case anyone gets close... I added a kill switch.
It scares me to think about it being there in the back of my mind. But I can't have any priority higher than keeping that knowledge out of the wrong hands... even if it means losing my life. I wish I could write in a regular pencil and paper journal like normal people, but I guess I don't really qualify as normal anymore. Maybe one day it will be safe to download these entries somewhere other than my brain. Until then...
((This little excerpt came out of my trying to figure out just how a tech based hero in general, and mine in particular, could be an incarnate without any old villain just nabbing the tech or stealing the specs to make their own. Since my character is a technology origin ill/rad/primal controller, I thought of how Star Trek's Holodecks can create working machinery through photons and force fields and figured why couldn't my character do that? So basically her "suit" isn't really real. She uses her belt's power supply to get the ball rolling but that "incarnate tech" stays in her head when not in use.))
Excerpt From The Internal Journal of Jacqui Pacheco:
I knew the instant I picked up that shard I found, after Mender Ramiel left, that things had changed. It was just a stray thought at first... what if I could reroute the energy flow through the... well I probably shouldn't record the specifics. That was the biggest problem I had becoming an incarnate.
Unlike heroes with inborn mutations or gifted with fantastic abilities through science gone horribly wrong (or right in some cases), I don't have any super powers on my own... unless you count my brain. Mom always said I inherited my brains from dad. And then of course there's the technology. My grandfather created the basis for tech that has pioneered advances in the audio/visual industry, and when I took over after mom and dad retired I wanted to do so much more. Just touching that shard has taken me so far beyond what I had anticipated.
You have to understand, when I developed my hard-light/laser motion tracking system from the original Synergy tech my grandfather built, I intended to use it to make the world a better place. In this world of alien invasions, super powered criminals and disreputable corporations, I wanted to make a difference. But now the very things I know could put the entire world in danger if I were to ever share that knowledge or have it taken from me.
My primary tool has always been my belt, the primary power source for my holographic projection system I use when fighting crime. The tech has its fail safes and by itself while dangerous in the wrong hands isn't really world ending. But what that shard showed me I could do with it... no it would be too much. No matter how careful I was... one missed record... one lost blueprint... it could unleash incarnate level technology upon the world that could be used to devastating effect. But how could I not use it? I could do so much good with it.
And then it came to me. The answer to my predicament. How to create incarnate level technology that could not be stolen or duplicated or reverse engineered. I had one of my trusted allies in crime fighting, Dr. Steven Sheridan, surgically implant a neural interface my company had developed a few years ago (with some upgrades of course) into my brain. On it's own it's harmless... it simply lets me control my belt's tech through neural impulses. It's what's in my head that makes it all come together though. I should probably take a look at mom's old remote micro projectors and see about doing away with the belt altogether...
The only way for me to use this incarnate level tech without risk of it being stolen is to make sure it doesn't exist when I am not using it... that no blueprint or record is ever set as to its design. Through the neural interface I actually create the tech through hard-light holograms... basically force fields and photons. The shard showed me how to make it possible... honestly I am surprised I didn't think of it on my own. But from what little I've learned about the Well of Furies from those "in the know", it doesn't actually give you anything you don't already possess except maybe ACCESS to things already within you that you just didn't quite know how to tap into. Or maybe it removes roadblocks keeping you from exceeding certain thresholds. I am not entirely sure to be honest. I'm pretty sure the Well prefers it that way too.
This is the best way... the safest way to use this technology to better mankind and keep it safe from those who would abuse it. Sure it's a lot of effort to mentally construct the tech every time I need to use it, but I can't think of any better security measures than my own brain. I've even managed to create permanent mental defenses subconsciously so not even a master telepath or fancy mind probing devices can access my knowledge of incarnate tech. And just in case anyone gets close... I added a kill switch.
It scares me to think about it being there in the back of my mind. But I can't have any priority higher than keeping that knowledge out of the wrong hands... even if it means losing my life. I wish I could write in a regular pencil and paper journal like normal people, but I guess I don't really qualify as normal anymore. Maybe one day it will be safe to download these entries somewhere other than my brain. Until then...
((This little excerpt came out of my trying to figure out just how a tech based hero in general, and mine in particular, could be an incarnate without any old villain just nabbing the tech or stealing the specs to make their own. Since my character is a technology origin ill/rad/primal controller, I thought of how Star Trek's Holodecks can create working machinery through photons and force fields and figured why couldn't my character do that? So basically her "suit" isn't really real. She uses her belt's power supply to get the ball rolling but that "incarnate tech" stays in her head when not in use.))
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