TranStar Industries (Prey)
Cost: 10 SP
You have the technological knowledge of Prey. The advanced technology found on Talos I is yours to produce, make, and create. You can create all manner of technology found on Talos I, from 3D printers, recycling bombs, drones, fabricators, and Neuromods. You know everything that has to do with the technology seen in Prey, including the information and data on Typhons, which you can use to grant yourself Typhon-based abilities and powers.

As a bonus, even without the use of a Psychoscope or study, you know how to make Neuromods for most skills found in the year 2035. With the correct Neuromods, you can be a master musician or a skilled hacker. Your technology can adapt the exotic neuro patterns of alien creatures to make them into Neuromods, which you can use to grant yourself the strange and wonderous abilities they may have.

(The removal of Neuromods may erase all your memories gained after their implantation. With time and research, in addition to other Tinker powers you may have, you may learn how to negate this flaw.)

Overmind
Cost: 25 SP
You awaken as the sovereign ruler of an autonomous hive, possessing the ability to generate sentient creatures without limitation, whether through biological, technological, or spiritual methodologies of your own design. These creatures bear characteristics and traits of your choosing, and share a collective consciousness and coordination with you, fostering a harmonious unity. As their creator you can assume whichever form that suits your preferences, including your orginal one before taking this option.

As the central consciousness of this hive, your awareness expands to encompass an extensive network of interconnected minds, forging a cohesive and cooperative collective intelligence. This interconnectedness enables the seamless flow of thoughts, knowledge, and experiences, fostering a shared understanding and facilitating instantaneous communication among the members of your hive.

Optionally your creatures can possess autonomy and individual will, and if they did, you would be regarded as their divine creator, acknowledging your unquestionable authority and pledging unwavering loyalty and servitude. Should the need arise, you retain the power to override their free will as desired.

Your hive stands as an ever-growing force of nature, boasting unparalleled efficiency. Effortlessly synchronizing the actions and movements of your individual members, you transform them into a highly coordinated and formidable collective. This synchronized effort maximizes their strengths, mitigates weaknesses, and allows for swift adaptation to changing circumstances.

Klyntar (Marvel)
Cost: 10 SP
The Symbiotes, or Klyntars, are an inorganic, amorphous, and symbiotic species created from the Living Abyss at the dawn of the universe by the elder god of darkness, Knull. An incident that destabilized the symbiote hive-mind led to the Klyntars rebelling against their creator, ultimately imprisoning him within an artificial planet. They named both the planet and themselves "Klyntar," meaning "cage" in their language.

Symbiotes are genderless beings that reproduce asexually, and while they lack individual names without a host, they differentiate themselves through unique emotional patterns. They feed on their host’s adrenaline and have a craving for phenethylamine, a chemical found in brains, which has led some symbiotes to consume the brains of other creatures. Fortunately, phenethylamine is also found in chocolate.

When bonded with a host, Klyntars enhance their partner’s physical abilities and powers. They boost strength, durability, stamina, speed, agility, and can even provide a healing factor. For example, a normal human bonded with a symbiote could match or even surpass Spider-Man in strength.

They also possess a range of other abilities, including ageless immortality, shapeshifting, mental communication with their host, reading the host’s memories, and controlling the host's actions to some degree (although strong-willed hosts can resist and even reverse this control). Klyntars can provide survival in extreme environments like space or underwater and possess a danger sense. Their latent psychic abilities make them resistant to telepaths as well.

Symbiotes leave behind traces of the Living Abyss in their hosts, granting those they bond with access to the powers of previous hosts, regardless of how long the bond lasted. Even supernatural beings can be infused with symbiote codices. Additionally, Klyntars have a genetic memory, allowing them access to their parent's knowledge and powers. For instance, Venom's descendants inherited Spider-Man's abilities. While symbiotes grow stronger with each new host, their genetic memory also gives them psychosomatic weaknesses to intense fire and sound, a vulnerability carried down from their painful creation by Knull.

As creatures born from the Living Abyss, Klyntars can bond with inorganic materials, allowing them to interface, augment, and merge with machinery, such as Iron Man’s armor or spaceships. They are also capable of killing gods and absorbing their divinity. However, their most dangerous ability is the power to corrupt all of creation with darkness, making it an extension of their own being.

You can choose which symbiote to bond with, whether it’s an established one like Venom or Sleeper, or even create your own. Rest assured, your symbiote will never betray you.

Talos-1 Station (Prey)
Cost: 15 SP
Talos-1 is a massive orbital research station, stretching nearly 800 meters in length, and located in high lunar orbit. Originally constructed during the Cold War as the Soviet-American Kletka station, it was repurposed and expanded in the 2030s by TranStar Corporation into a cutting-edge scientific hub. Combining the art-deco elegance of its corporate redesign with its utilitarian origins, Talos-1 stands as a testament to human ambition and technological progress. Its modular design allows for unparalleled adaptability, accommodating a wide array of research fields and ensuring its relevance in the ever-evolving landscape of scientific innovation.

The station’s primary mission is the development of Neuromod technology, which integrates Typhon-derived neural pathways to enhance human abilities. Research takes place in specialized labs, such as the Neuromod Division, Psychotronics Lab, and Hardware Labs, supported by essential infrastructure like the Arboretum, Crew Quarters, and Life Support Systems sustain the staff, while areas like Deep Storage and the Power Plant or Solar Panels ensure operational security and energy supply. These labs are critical for advancing human enhancement, studying alien biology, and exploring new materials, placing Talos-1 at the forefront of both scientific discovery and applied Engineering.

Designed to operate autonomously, Talos-1 employs advanced AI and a fleet of Operator robots to oversee daily operations. These systems manage routine tasks, supply logistics, and emergency responses with minimal human oversight. This high degree of automation allows researchers to focus entirely on their work, pushing the boundaries of scientific discovery. The station’s modular design further ensures that its facilities can be reconfigured quickly to accommodate new research needs, making it a highly adaptable platform for innovation.

The station is equipped with fail-safes and safety protocols to prevent catastrophic outcomes, such as Grey Goo scenarios or viral pandemics. These systems automatically halt dangerous experiments, ensuring safety, though they can be compromised by human error or sabotage. Despite these protections, Talos-1 remains vulnerable to breaches from Tinkers or Thinkers.

Talos-1 accelerates research through access to Typhon materials and TranStar’s cutting-edge technology, allowing for breakthroughs that would be impossible elsewhere. The station’s work environment is optimized for creativity and rapid innovation, with researchers benefiting from hands-on involvement in projects that further enhance productivity.

Talos-1 represents the pinnacle of human ambition, with its self-sustaining, highly automated systems ensuring smooth operation while advancing groundbreaking science at the edge of human knowledge.

Trained Personnel
Required: Morgan(a) Yu (Prey)
What’s a cutting-edge orbital research station without a crew to bring it to life? Having the Chief Director and a descendant of the Founders as a companion, it would indeed be unusual to operate such a facility without a capable team supporting its operations. With this add-on, Talos-1 comes fully staffed, ensuring every role on the station is filled by qualified personnel.

Your station will now host a complete and highly trained crew, with redundancies built into critical roles. The staff includes scientists, astronauts, cosmonauts, engineers, security personnel, janitors, and an assortment of backup team members to ensure smooth functionality. Human personnel are further complemented by a robust network of Operators, providing automated assistance and maintaining operational efficiency.

This cohesive workforce ensures that Talos-1 not only functions as intended but thrives as a hub for innovation, exploration, and security. Whether conducting groundbreaking research, managing day-to-day tasks, or responding to emergencies, your crew and Operators stand ready to support the station’s ambitious endeavors.

Above the Cutting-edge
Required: TranStar Industries (Prey)
Leveraging your complete technological knowledge and peak research capabilities of the Talos-1, your station now operates at a level beyond cutting-edge. Your Operators have been significantly upgraded, with humanoid variants running modified neural frameworks composed of all Neuromods available in the station's database. Each sector is now overseen by a version of Morgan(a) Yu Operator, ensuring unparalleled efficiency in design, testing, and research processes.

The station’s fabricators and recyclers have also advanced to extraordinary levels. With enough time and resources, these systems can construct an entire new station with minimal material loss. This development greatly enhances the sustainability and scalability of your operations. Research into Typhon materials has similarly reached new heights, enabling the creation of synthetic variants that reduce the inherent risks of studying such formidable lifeforms.

Talos-1’s modular design and adaptability have been enhanced to unprecedented levels. Should the need arise for secure containment cells or specialized research facilities, the station can "print" new sections. These additions are equipped with state-of-the-art safety measures, including rapid deployment capabilities and self-destruct systems for emergency containment. Each module is entirely self-sustaining, featuring integrated Plasma-Fusion Reactors, Solar Panels, and Magnetosphere Generators. These upgrades allow the station to function independently, even in harsh environments such as orbits around Venus or Mercury.

Talos-1 is now more than just a research hub; it is a fully adaptable, self-replicating technological marvel, prepared to tackle the most ambitious challenges in the cosmos.

Another Extra-Dimensional Menace
Required: Klyntar (Marvel)
Your science team initially thought the Klyntar was just another Typhon anomaly, a strange lifeforms discovered within a satellite, responding to life signals. However, after donating a sample, they realized its vast potential. Now, you wield full control over Klyntar biology, similar to how you manipulate the Typhon. You can force them to create offshoots, generate valuable raw materials, or tap into their Hive-Mind for collective coordination.

The Klyntar Hive-Mind offers more than just synchronization; it grants access to an immense reservoir of shared knowledge. You can harness this intelligence to streamline large-scale operations, research, and innovation. Additionally, you can genetically modify the Klyntar to produce bio-engineered materials, such as self-replicating nanobots, bio-metals, and even biological weaponry. Their remarkable adaptability makes them ideal for designing self-sustaining ecosystems, both for research and practical applications.

Taking this further, you can experiment by integrating Klyntar matter with other species, creating hybrid symbiotic organisms. These enhancements could lead to improved human or alien capabilities, such as augmented strength, cognition, or sensory abilities. By merging Klyntar biology with technology, you could also develop organic interfaces, bio-computers, or sentient weapons. This power opens doors to revolutionary breakthroughs in biotechnology, human augmentation, and perhaps even interdimensional warfare, with the potential to shape the future of both organic and synthetic life.

The Typhon (Prey)
Cost: 0 SP
Required: TranStar Industries (Prey)
Required: Overmind
You're now the head of a Typhon hivemind similar to the Apex. Akin to a Weaver, you can produce any Typhon species shown in the Prey series, such as Mimics, Telepaths or Nightmares, as well as any subspecies. You're even capable of formulating new, unique species of Typhon against specific threats. You're also able to reanimate corpses into Typhon variants, called Phantoms, by infusing them with your psionic energy.

Typhons are limited to devouring biological creatures' consciousness, alongside their organic matter, to use their psionic energy and matter to replicate. You, however, only require organic matter to produce Typhon, as you can infuse them with your own psionic energy when creating them. Larger and more powerful Typhon species require a greater amount of psionic energy and organic matter to create; even creatures as large as the Apex can be produced if you have enough.

You possess the unique physiology of the Typhon, a mass of exotic black matter that exhibits solid, liquid and gaseous properties simultaneously and can be altered freely to move and shapeshift at will. Due to your vast psionic power, you also possess all of the abilities and powers demonstrated by Typhon in the Prey series, such as telekinesis, invisibility, teleportation, mind control and matter mimicry, to name but a few.

Morgan(a) Yu (Prey)
Cost: 15 CP
Alias: M. Yu
Gender: Male/Female
Sex: Male/Female
Age: 32

Power: Talos-1 (Prey) Tech power

Appearance: Handsome/Beautiful often seen wearing a black suit or experimental lab attire.
Civilian Identity: Dr. Yu, Chief Researcher at TranStar Corporation
Quality of Life: Good, but complicated by the burden of memory manipulation and ethical dilemmas.

Morgan(a) is highly adaptable, capable of thinking on they feet and solving complex problems in high-pressure situations. Despite they intellectual genius, they struggles with moral dilemmas, often questioning the cost of progress. They are determined but reserved, often distant due to the trauma of the memory resets.