Authorized by Pendragon Executive Council and the Office of the Warden of Avalaon
Considering the recent deployments of the “Vanguard” type warclones by both The Deathless Circle and their linked organizations, we have authorized the release of our competing technologies to a wider audience by publishing the current specifications, methods of production, and processes for verification to allow for safe and more reliable deployments of warclone units in the modern age.
The following will be a summary of the standardized equipment developed by the Order of Elysian Stewards of the standardized warclone blank types produced and used, in either their base form or modified forms, by accorded entities. All are designed to be able to be produced with Grade 2 or 3 Biomass to save on overall costs and enable local production in facilities that may otherwise be considered insufficient for traditional clone fab units.
Elysian Type 1 Combat Blanks
Analogous to COTS 4th generation blanks in terms of base performance, this clone design incorporates several simple, drop-in upgrade sockets for additional bio-tech upgrades. Elysian Stewards were looking to build a modular platform to accommodate both warclone infantry and warclone pilots in a way that would allow maximum customization. Compatible with a wide variety of combat cybernetics and performance enhancing biotic modules these blanks truly make one a force to be reckoned with on the battlefield. Maintaining parity with other state-of-the-art blanks in the market space leads to these being relatively expensive compared to what they would have cost in the Warlords Era still, but they maintain a competitive edge. Key among more recent developments is the integration of additional support for Warclone Pilots in addition to warclone infantry, with a simple production step being able to be changed to accommodate either a 5th Lobe Warclone infantry implant or a Gelbrain for reconfiguration through TEBS systems, allowing the same production lines to be used to produce either Warclone Infantry or Warclone Pilot blanks. Out of necessity, all Elysian Warclone blanks currently integrate a socket for accepting Nanoheuristic Mapping Helixes, either to be used in concert with and to augment the Subcompact TEBS units used by Warclone Pilots or to be utilized by other systems as needed.
Baseline augmentations in Combat Blanks are as follows:
- Nanite augmentation of blood oxygenation, increasing effective hemoglobin density and allowing a higher state of oxygenation and increased blood flow when undergoing high G maneuvers
- Myofibril Stimulation to increase muscle tissue density and decrease lactase recovery time
- Metallofullerene nanoribbon neural dendrite supplementation
- Ceramic Carbide bonding to bone tissues to increase strength
- Fullerene-Carbide mixed shear thickening fluid padding augmenting brain case
- Increase gelbrain neuro-density to compensate for reduced volume within cranial structures
Elysian Type 2 Industrial HazCon
The first generation of blank developed in-house by The Bosena Accords before the formalization of the Elysian Stewards, the Industrial HazCon is intended and primarily used by Warclones who desired to enter civilian roles wherein hazardous conditions are likely to be expected. These inexpensive blanks integrate the same rapidly differentiating technology to take on a facsimile of appearance of the informorph downloaded but are not generally able to fully replicate the appearance without after-download sculpting. Primary intended purposes include, but are not limited to stellar construction, factory operations, subsurface welding, subsurface lattice construction, and private shopping center security. Accorded entities generally are able to purchase for roughly 15k isk per unit at the premium price, but additional economies of scale may reduce the overall cost
Elysian Type 3 Garrison Blanks / Vanity Blanks
Commonly called Vanity Blanks, Garrison Blanks are more expensive, fully featured blanks that are primarily designed for comfort and allow for warclones to interface with both baseliners and immortals face-to-face without the often off-putting limited sculpting features of more generic blanks. The downside is that these blanks must be sculpted ahead of time for a specific individual to match their specific appearance to go far beyond what rapid differentiation or post download sculpting can accomplish. Mostly used for long-term deployments or for leisure time, generally these are issued or purchased with minimal modifications, but they are designed to accommodate the same augmentations commonly found on Combat or Industrial HazCon blanks in the event of being needed by officers, specialists, or VIP protection details where face-to-face interactions are necessary.
Additionally, a few specific implant types are having their specs released to help integrate for parity with the measured capabilities of Vangaurd type warclone blanks
ConstCom
Utilizing the Elysian Standard Nanoheuristic Socket on the warclone blank, the Constellation Communication implant is a novel approach to augmenting the communication range of Warclone Blanks by the integration of communication systems commonly found in the Nanoheuristric Clone Mappers to greatly increase the effective range at which a blank can maintain communication. While it does not generally need the full effect of a Nanoheuristic clone mapper, and thus tends to have a significantly longer lifespan, this is still considered a consumable and should be discarded after roughly half the rated lifespan of an Elysian blank even with the reduced rate of nanite depletion.
QE4-He
Taking up a direct interface socket on the warclone blank, this premium implant integrates a limited amount of Quantum Entangled 4-Helium to facilitate theoretically limitless range for update scan connections for 5th lobe type Warclones. Such an implant however is only good for a short duration as, given the limited quantity of QE-4He used, too much information will quickly exceed the bandwidth requirements. Even still, these implants can cost upwards of 150 million ISK depending on current market rates of QE4-He, and as-such remain a relatively niche option for Warclones to use on high-danger long-range short-duration deployments.
Additionally, there are a few variations of Warclone Blanks that some Accorded groups have decided to publish statistics to be able to be produced by additional groups outside of the accords.
Siege Ekho
Derivative of Type 1 Blank standardization and modernization developed by the Varyazi Warclone Clan to bring Warclone Blanks up to parity with Triglavian Siege Elite units. Devised primarily for combat teams operating in Pochven. Variants utilize COTS Torso-Rig modifications with additional bio-stabilizers for administering combat boosters with minimal deleterious effects that would limit combat efficacy. Bioadaptive Mutaplasmids are introduced through one of the standardized Nanite Port Interfaces. Following field testing, Varyazi settled on bioadaption designed to augment the abilities of the Torso-Rig and cybernetic augmentations, offset the effects of space-time hazards unique to Pochven’s space topography, and increased resistance to exotic forms of radiation or hazardous mutaplasmid colonies. Significant time was taken in ensuring that subversion by these methods was all but impossible, as well as rectifying several found conflicts between bioadapative systems and standard nanite helixes. The resulting blank is one that is especially effective at operating for medium duration missions within Triglavian occupied space or even limited deployments in abyssal areas regardless of combat intensity with minimal risk of subversion or infection via external mutaplasmids. Following from lessons learned in communication disruption, a limited VI co-processor was introduced into later forms of the blank, allowing for additional tactical information processing and ingest, as well as significant predictive capability in the event of TacNet disruption.
SpringZeal
Derived from Type 3 blanks, these blanks were designed by the cooperation of the unlikely pairing of the Collegium Clipius and the Sain baina Shar.Meyzmul Pruuzan Accordiat, the SpringZeal variant was designed to fit the needs of both organizations. This fully-featured vanity blank is designed to fit the needs of VIP Protection Details and other similar activities where face-to-face interaction is just as necessary as combat performance. As such, though integrating TorsoRig augmentation derivatives originally designed by the Royal Khanid Navy, the covering of synthskin and subdermal shear thickening fluid armor allows it to go all but unnoticed when mingling with upper society regardless as to the clothing worn while maximizing the capacity to engage potential threats with a minimal of collateral damage or protect their principal from most standard small-arms. Biosec augmentations allow for the detection of various forms of toxins in air, food, drink, or contact and advise or protect the principal as needed. Overall, the design allows for the user to perform a variety of tasks necessary to maintain discreet protection or combat insertion, and otherwise functions as a suitable leisure clone when off-duty
Fuller fabrication details are being published so that any group can produce said blanks on their own or have them made at any number of clonefabs throughout the cluster. [Attachments 1-7] While we do not claim ours are the best available throughout the cluster, ours do remain able to provide similar capabilities to most blanks on the market.
Additionally, accompanying we will be publishing our analyses of recovered ‘Vanguard’ type warclone blanks, but for a brief technological summary
The most striking detail of the blanks being used is that they are of a Jove design, of one of the earlier Empires compared to the Jove that the wider cluster is most familiar with, as expected given the architecture of The Fulcrum station in Zarzakh. Infiltrators and Accorded entities that have entered The Fulcrum confirm that there are Jove Clone Fabrication units active in The Fulcrum that are being used to manufacture these blanks en-masse, accounting for their significantly lower ‘cost,’ being largely provided free of charge or only in exchange for biomass enough to replace the clones in question.
Being of an era of Jove technology focused around biological manipulation, they make extensive use of biotechnological sculpting in order to replicate many Warclone Blank features; however, they lack many of the advanced combat advantages expected of even modern Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Warclone Blanks, instead opting for physical performance not all that dissimilar to Baseline Human or that of IndustrialHazCon blanks.
The key advantage appears to be a novel biotech based FTL Communications implant, capable of significantly longer range and higher bandwidth than that of the standard FTL comms integrated into COTS Blanks. In effect this has so far allowed for the ‘Vanguard’ type blanks to maintain near-constant communication with Zarzakh well outside of expected ranges for the technology with virtually no available relay station in-use. Intelligence gathered by Recovery Operations confirms that this novel approach to FTL communications implants in the cluster was invented by the ‘Quartermaster’ of infamy amongst Warclone Pilots, previously active among the Valkyrie and Schism factions.
We understand that various entities may disapprove of the release of this kind of information and technology so publicly, but current extraordinary events necessitate an extraordinary response.