The Fix: A series of treatments medical, cybernetic, biological, nutritional and otherwise designed to fix and enhance flaws in the normal human genome. This includes using laser eye surgery to fix soldiers’ eyes, stimulants and strict feeding guidelines to ensure a healthy body and mind, replacement or repair of damaged organs, as well as supplements of various stimulants and chemical treatments. By the end of the treatment, which occurs simultaneously with training, the soldier should be in physical prime matching the best of non-augmented humanity, and frequently beyond. Force Recon treatments also increase flexibility and pain resistance, among other qualities such as muscle density. Even after completing their training, the Fix never truly halts-constant medical observation and intervention is performed on marines, allowing them to remain in the prime of health for decades.

Bone Hardening: Specially designed chemical injections strengthen the user’s bones, significantly reducing the chance of breaking. The material is also designed to reduce damage dealt by bone splintering. This also enhances the force of a marine’s hand to hand moves, as well as the recoil they can brunt. Force recon treatments include an expensive series of injections that also coat the bones in a self-repairing membrane with properties similar to certain forms of light ballistic weave, increasing damage resistance.

Nano-Hive: One of the few universally required cybernetics of the Marine corps, Nano-hives are small devices that, along with providing constant health monitoring, serve as a home and producer of a small host of medical nano-machines. These machines assist clotting, break up unwanted clots, can temporarily ‘patch’ bone fractures, and otherwise assist in medical procedures. The nano-machines are short lived, however, to prevent any chance of medical issues such as cancer or ‘grey gooing’, and degrade relatively quickly to be absorbed into the body. Nano-Hives may be refilled at any standard UEC military medical station. In cohesion with Spinal Taps, the Nano Hives also help influence natural processes, such as encouraging the production of estrogen in the wake of an injury to increase chance of survival.

Spinal Taps: An optional series of spinal implants that enhance the speed of electrical signals through the human body increasing human reaction time significantly. They also monitor pain signals and other responses from the body, and automatically dull or negate them as necessary, allowing the Marine to better respond to dangerous situations. It may also dull certain automatic responses, such as sweating during a combat situation, to prevent loss of grip or other negative effects. UEC Force Recon models are particularly extensive and can, in fact, serve effectively as a ‘secondary spine’ that can allow a soldier to remain active even after some spinal fractures though at far from optimum ability.

Sense Augmentation: Although partially covered under ‘The Fix’, the augmentations to a marine’s eyes and ears are particularly extensive. Semi-permanent implants are placed inside the marine’s ears, increasing sense of balance and allowing for a level of automatic audio filtering that prevents hearing damage and reduces the effects of concussive weapons like flashbangs (This also provides limited protection from ear rupture from explosive overpressure). Eyes are enhanced through extensive laser surgery as well as semi-permanent ‘lenses’ over the eyes-Presuming the marine doesn’t permit full cybernetic or clone eye replacement. Force Recon Marines also have implants in their nose that greatly enhance sense of smell-closer to that of a dog than a human, and specifically designed to help distinguish chemical scents like explosives apart.

Respiratory Enhancement: Small implants for Force Recon operatives within the throat and the lungs that help filter harmful gases and function as a sort of rebreather, allowing a Force Recon Marine to persist in low oxygen environments such as non earth like planets, boarding actions, or areas hit by chemical weapons. Even in the case of a failure in their armor’s own sealing systems, this grants Force Recon operatives limited protection. Standard marines receive a less invasive form of this augmentation.


Hardened Skin: One of the most expensive and difficult treatments of Force Recon involves a treatment that, effectively, causes new skin cells to have qualities derived from spider silk and goat milk, granting the marine’s flesh minor ballistic resistance. Despite certain claims to the contrary, this does not make the marine bulletproof-Even low velocity pistol rounds would need to be travelling at roughly half speed to be stopped by the skin alone. However, this does greatly reduce the damage dealt by rounds that penetrate body armor and may reduce damage from shrapnel or low velocity rounds.