Colossus By Design: Season 2 - Log 97

[April 27, 2166]
[Augmentation Room - Level 10]
[S-Death Materials - Dhaka Branch]
[Dhaka, Bangladesh]
[Colony State - African Super-Nation]

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Augmentations. Once thought of as mere science fiction so many years ago, physical enhancement procedures are now a common sight in settings that provide services to militant private companies, as well as the Global Union of Divisions' own armed forces.

S-Death Materials is the main provider of such services due to having such extensive reach in research and development. The process is simple: for Humans, the bones have metal alloys bonded to them, designed to eventually replace them entirely with super strong materials; this process serves to also increase the height of the user immensely, requiring artificial hormone glands to be implanted throughout the muscles that will stimulate the growth of muscles to the appropriate sizes necessary to sustain the new metallic skeletal structure temporarily.

This isn't the end of it, however, as the muscular tissue requires artificial enhancement to accommodate the increased strain permanently; synthetic diamond nano-fibers are sewn throughout the muscle tissue, whilst flexible Orichalcum weaves are grafted onto the cellular structure. Along with these strength augments, a microchip is implanted on the brainstem to increase reactionary reflexes and facilitate synergy with the FE-AR armor system.

Finally, nanobot regulators are laid throughout the body, speeding up the flow of oxygen and essential nutrients whilst maximizing their efficiency when used to increase speed, all of which is kept in check by the brainstem-based microchip. For Synthetics, the process is relatively similar, albeit using mechanical substitutes where organic matter would lay normally.

But today is a special day, for today is the first where Jacob Hargrove's hotly advertised Androids will be receiving their first attempted augmentations. It's been a tense few days, with the first Android being enhanced setting a precedent for the rest.

In the augmentations room, S-Death Materials' finest are hard at work, putting the finishing touches on their test subject, a female Android calling herself Curie Polendina.

The last of the chemical stimulants are injected into multiple areas of her metallic skin, though she seems quite comfortable in the seat provided. One of the technicians gets a quick scan of her body and uploads his results to the main computer. With one last check-up from the head researcher, the director calls it in.


(Curie Polendina): So, doc...... am I combat ready?

(Dr. Lisa Michel): Remarkably....... yes. It's simply amazing!

(Curie Polendina): How so, doctor?

(Dr. Lisa Michel): Hold up, I'm bringing up the scans now.


The good doctor presses a few buttons on her datapad and brings up a hologram in front of miss Polendina; on it are several x-ray images of the Android, showing a comparison between her old bodily structure and her new one. The differences are quite noticeable, as before the procedure, she showed a natural muscular and skeletal structure slightly below the average augmented Human or Synthetic. However, in the images after the surgery, she shows enhancement far outstripping any Human or Synthetic results.


(Dr. Michel): Our procedure combined a few different steps from both Human and Synthetic augmentation, using the best of both worlds. It seems that your body was able to handle much greater strain from the enhancements, and is showing improvement beyond our expectations.

(Curie Polendina): That's wonderful! I guess Mr. Hargrove did a pretty good job, after all!

(Dr. Michel): Can't argue with that. It also seems your body has adjusted rather quickly to the augments. You can go right now, whereas regular Humans and Synthetics require a down period of about 12 hours.

(Curie Polendina): Amazing! Thank you, doctor!


As Curie Polendina gets up, her augmentations really show: she's over 7 and a half feet tall and simply towers over Dr. Michel and her staff; she bends down slightly to shake all of their hands. As she exits the room, Jacob Hargrove in his own Android body is waiting outside, with the biggest smile one could ever imagine.


(Jacob Hargrove): I see my prediction of good things was correct.

(Curie Polendina): I have to admit, at first I was scared........ but now I'm sure that our brothers and sisters will be fine.

(Jacob Hargrove): Indeed. Now, why don't we go down to the lobby and show the others those shiny new enhancements of yours?


As the two Androids walk down to the elevator, a grizzled bearded man in a lab uniform walks into the room. Dr. Michel and her staff are busy cleaning up the equipment, though they stop when they see the man walk in. All six of them stand at attention once he enter; he gestures for them to relax. In his hands is a briefcase absolutely covered in stickers with the biohazard warning label.

The man sets his briefcase onto a table, opening it up to reveal it's empty; where there should be a syringe of some sort, there is instead empty space.


(Vandal Savage): The procedure was a success, I see.

(Dr. Michel): Quite so, Mr. Savage. Those Androids seemed to react quite well to the Velocity-2 formula.

(Vandal Savage): Indeed. You wouldn't happen to have it still here, would you?

(Dr. Michel): Of course, sir! It's right here.


Dr. Michel passes a small injector to Savage, whom proceeds to put it into his briefcase and locks it back up. After doing so, he takes out a small piece of paper, a rarity in this day and age, that's covered in a wide assortment of equations, theorems, and chemical formulas; he hands it to the good doctor. She takes a good long look at it, then looks back up at her superior.


(Dr. Michel): Sir?

(Vandal Savage): Some preliminary findings of mine for a possible Velocity-3. I want your team to find out if it's viable, then contact me immediately once experiments have been conducted. The fastest man alive doesn't wait forever, you know.