Legions Lore for Cores v3

Cores
		As the elite soldiers of the Empire's military, the Legionairres' base armor already makes them nearly unstoppable.  As criminal syndicates on the
	outer fringes of the Empire gained power during the Ilnai Dynasty to the point of being able to field their own elite aerial soldiers, imperial scientists
	were forced to invent new ways to improve the Legionairres beyond simple armor or weaponry improvements.  Large amounts of funding was dedicated to nearly
	anyone who claimed to have an idea.  The resulting hodge-podge of inventions left hundreds on the cutting room floor before a few cores were ultimately
	chosen to be put into production.

	Overdrive
			As the first core to be produced, the Overdrive core was also the simplest.  Borrowing compression technology from warp drives, the core
		distorts space-time grotesquely with gravitational fields.  Despite best attempts to shrink the technology further, the compressors stored within
		the core itself require the assistance of the suit's coils to create the initial distortion.  Because of the nature of compressors, they cannot
		go below a certain threshold lest the bubble collapse.  Unfortunately for Legionairres, that minimum threshold is well above the comfort level of
		armor, let alone fleshy humans.  Even the healthiest of humans can only survive for a few seconds while using the core.  Thankfully however,
		because of how maneuverable they are in this form, they seldom have to endure this torture for long.  Additionally, because the coils effectively
		take on a SCRAMjet-like funnel structure in Overdrive, there is a minimum speed, lest the funnel and thus bubble collapse.
			Because of the limitations in bubble size, Sentinel armor was never able to use the Overdrive core as the gravitational tides on the
		boundary of the bubble would tear its extremeties apart.  Nearly a decade after the invention of the original Ovedrive core, Instant Overdrive was
		invented as a way to circumvent this problem.  Instead of focusing on sustained distortion, the design team behind what became known as iOD focused
		on creating a larger bubble for a shorter period.  By using the more numerous coils in the wings of the Sentinel creating a space-time pulse prior
		to the core attempting to establish a stable bubble.  As a result, Sentinels are able to accelerate themselves to high speed very rapidly and since
		the fall of the Empire, this core has become even more useful as it allows physical ramming of Legionairres serving enemy nobles.

	Regeneration
			Due to a series of lawsuits, all files regarding the Regeneration core have been sealed.

	WARP
			Although warp engines lasted as the dominant interstellar drive for centuries (and still are for transit outside of known space), wormhole
		generators have taken over "local" traffic.  By building jump gates at planets and larger ones at stars, humans have been able to have instantaneous
		travel to wherever there happens to be an endpoint.  Unlike these jump gates however, the WARP core (despite its name) is able to create both start
		and destination wormhole points.  This is done by keeping the start position wherever the user currently is and by having a singularity follow the
		Legionairre through time.  Because there is such limited room on Legionairre armor, the stabilizers that would orginarily exist on jump gates
		have been shrunken, leading to inefficient cooling systems which causes jumping to damage certain components of the core.  If not repaired between
		uses, repeated use can ultimately lead to failure of the system and the user becoming stuck inside the wormhole.  It is not known whether or not
		one can surrive a collapsing wormhole, though no one has ever made contact following a collapse.
			"Warp" stands for Wormhole Attentuation and Retention Protocol.

	Shield
			Like the Overdrive core before it, the Shield core was also quite simple and easy to produce.  For centuries prior, starships already
		carried shield arrays to protect themselves during combat from enemy fire, so the adaptation of such an old technology for personal use wasn't
		difficult for imperial scientists.  Like the flight coils, the Shield core distorts space-time around the user, though instead of being used for
		flight, it is used to rend or deflect incoming fire.  Because the system works best when it can detect incoming fire, the Shield core does not work
		particularly well against messenger particle weapons such as the X-91 Laser Rifle and must rely instead on passive disruption and hope that the
		spatial distortion sufficiently distorts the incoming beam so as to be harmless.

	Boost
			As long as the Legion has existed, its soldiers have used explosive weapons to launch themselves at high speed a la "rocket jumping."  For
		those in pursuit of high-speed enemies a common tactic has been to throw a grenade behind oneself and fire a rocket at it to use the shockwave to
		accelerate and give chase.  Eventually "boost" grenades were created which created low velocity but high decibel shockwaves to push players more
		effectively.  Because boost grenades were expensive to produce, the idea of a boost core was one of the first out of the mouths of Ilnai-age
		imperial scientists.
			Like the grenade by the same name, it was idealized as a system that could allow a user extremely high acceleration from a standstill.
		Conveniently, just a decade prior, "EVal" drives had been successfully created after nearly 80 years of speculation by a small group of scientists.
		The exact mechanisms behind the Boost core are not known as EVal drives are classified and most were lost after the fall.  Speculation has it that
		they allow outright manipulation of mass-energy within space-time and can edit any property at a given time.  Despite the fact that this violates
		multiple laws of physics, this is the dominant theory as to how the Boost core functions.

	Dodge
			A newer core than the WARP, the Dodge core would have likely had the name of its predecessor, though WARP was already well-used as a term
		leaving the engineers creating the core few other options, though they eventually settled on "Dodge" due to the core's ability to allow a user to
		easily evade incoming fire.  This is done by using a miniaturized version of interstellar Alcubierre drives to create a small one-way tunnel from
		the Legionairre to the endpoint.  At first when it was deployed to put down the Kora Insurrection, multiple Legionairres failed to realize that
		despite its appearance, it does not teleport the user and attempted to use it to pass through walls, resulting in fatal impact injuries.  This
		led to fewer purchase orders by the Empire afterwards and was never again produced in high amounts.
			In many ways, the functionality of the Dodge core is similar to that of Instant Overdrive, though Overdrive's wake caused by the coil
		funnel is not present in the Dodge core, causing most heavy units to refuse to use it.  Since the Fall however, some have taken to using it more
		because it allows much more control than the more popular iOD when used by an expert.
			It is also a common myth among superstitious Legionairres that the "ghost" left by the use of the Dodge core is actually the soul of the
		user.  Clearly this is not the case as it is simply severely distorted and red-shifted light from the Legionairre while in transit, though
		because only the most battle-hardened and professional Legionairres are capable of mastering this core, the appearance of lacking a soul or
		heart may not necessarily be unfounded.  It simply is for other reasons than the onlookers believe.

	Engineer
			Of all cores that have gone into production, few have been so useful as the Engineer core.  While technically speaking anyone could
		theoretically drop a turret or other deployable, the electrical signatures of the devices and their control frequency would be rapidly picked
		up by orbiting capital ships, allowing for pinpoint bombardment for neutralization or hacking attacks to seize control of the device itself.
		As a result, the majority of the Engineer core is not in fact storage for deployables but rather an EM field generator to block the signature of
		the deployable devices.  While range is not an issue for the device, in an attempt to be as efficient as possible, only the area directly above
		the devices is barricaded, though the thickness of the barrier is entirely dependent on the energy output of the device.
			The secondary component of the Engineer core is a store of nanite packs which refresh themselves from any available reaction mass.  To
		construct a deployable, the corresponding instructions are given to a nanite pack which is then placed by the Legionairre and allowed to form
		the intended device.

	Stabilizer
			During the Fall, various nobles ordered the the Stabilizer core in mass production due to its supreme ability to allow a single
		Legionairre to control combat in a given area by zoning enemies.  Because of this, rival nobles ordered the destruction of all factories that
		produced the core and had their forces focus fire on any enemies utilizing this.  As such, it is no longer in production and most if not all
		units have been destroyed or at minimum damaged beyond repair.  Recently a legend has cropped up that the combined efforts of two nobles may
		result in production of this core again.
			Like many other cores, this functions by the distortion of space-time, though obviously this core does so in a different mechanism than
		the others.  Instsead of attempting to create a new distortion as the others do, the Stabilizer core functions by stabilizing the universe's
		attempt to seal off the afflicted areas after coils pass through them.  By preventing the area from undergoing the sealing process, the distortion
		becomes lethal to anyone who comes in contact with it due to radiation and the deletion of any mass-energy that attempts to pass through it.

	Titan