Jump 415: Eclipse Phase

Jump #415: Eclipse Phase
>Five of Wands (Strife), reversed: Disunity, chaos, and petty quarreling at a time of crisis.
Doesn't this basically sum up the entire setting?
>Location: Deimos (Progress), Mars orbit
Yeeeah, not staying here long, thanks.
>Identity: Drop-In
>Biohacker Package (Free)
>Nanotechnician Package (Free)
>Device Engineering Package (Free)
Between the three of these things, I'm pretty sure I'll have a good feel for the local tech. Not to mention being able to augment my own capabilities with local versions.
>Missing Time (Free, Drop-In)
While this probably won't apply to me, at least I'll be able to deal with any unexpected unconsciousness a little easier.
>Blueprint Designer (900, Drop-In)
Oh, nice. Designing blueprints works quite nicely with the packages I've got.
>Primacy (600, Drop-In)
This will actually be quite useful, come to think of it. I rarely have issues with my clones, but... well, once in a while they can be moody, depending on the kind. It's best to make sure that's kept under control.
>Non-Human Neural Model (400)
Pretty sure that if anything scanned my brain at this point, they wouldn't be able to make heads or tails of it.
>Remade [200]
It's a good thing I got an extra [600] points for a sleeve. Frankly most of what this body has isn't anything I don't have in my upgraded human package (thank you Evo) but there are a couple of useful bits and some streamlining I can borrow.
>Immunization Mods [0]
If I can get immunity to radiation, vacuum, poisons, toxins, and even limited immunity to hostile nanotech... then heck yes I'm going to take it.
>The Eclipse Phase RPG Books (Free)
Useful reference, at minimum. Also it's super handy that I get discounts on one item of each tier!
>Nanodetector, Jumper-grade (300, discounted)
You know it's good, because it's Jumper brand!
>Computronium (0, discounted)
To be honest... this is some pretty next-level stuff, even compared to most of what I've come across in my travels. The closest thing I've found was some of the things that could be put together in Symbiote, and some of what I put together during Hive Queen when I put Tupile together. And even at that, this is better.

So, there's a heck of a lot of stuff that an out-of-context person can do in such a setting.

Like sit in orbit of Mars, keep filling up an ice cube tray, and flicking ice tubes that land as icebergs. You want a nice atmosphere while you're terraforming? You got it.

Like use Cheat Mode on that block of computronium repeatedly, and two and a half years later, give Firewall a cubic meter of processing substrate. (It's just a very fancy optical CPU, in truth, but it still looks pretty damn cool.)

Like use clairvoyance, precognition, and postcognition to see the nature of various interesting things, like how those lichen-based intelligences are actually far worse than anyone ever suspected, the actual nature of the gates, and where the hell the TITANs fucked off to and why. And what's hunting them. They are blind to your presence, unless you show yourself. The TITANs showed themselves, and something noticed them. There are no TITANs now. Only Factors.

Like send out feelers and trade out-of-context technology to various groups in exchange for as much of the local tech as I can, to add to my database.

Like killing every last bit of technology on the Earth and sterilizing any remaining traces of the Exsurgent virus with magitech automatons that make less than no sense to the locals and cause mass confusion with their use of magic.

Like concluding my stay in the jump with "oh by the way, holographic principle confirmed for the nature of the universe, but if it's any consolation you'll hit heat death before there's any loss of data, so don't forget to do the needful" before disappearing.