Inflatable axons

inflatable axons

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$ 120.00 Commerce Value 0 lbs. Weight
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Infobox data from game version 2.0.207.72

[Implant] - inflatable axons

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Nanoscopic stents inflate the gossamer brain-threads that restrict the conduction of the will.

Activated. Cooldown 100.
You gain +40 quickness for 10 rounds, then you become sluggish for 10 rounds (-10 quickness).

Target body parts: Head
License points: 2
Only compatible with True Kin genotypes
Compute power on the local lattice increases this item's effectiveness.

Perfect

Cybernetic Info

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inflatable axons is a cybernetic implant which gives the creature it is implanted in the ability to temporarily enhance their quickness, albeit for only a short time and with a period of decreased quickness afterwards.

The gained ability is called "Inflate axons" and at baseline grants 40 additional quickness for 10 rounds. Upon activation, the following text is printed into the user's message log The hurdles that separate the will and the way begin to collapse, the user will then temporarily gain the hyper-responsive status effect which will last for the duration of the ability, after the effect's conclusion You feel slugglish will be printed into the message log and the user will gain the sluggish effect, sluggish reduces the affected creature's quickness by 10 for ten rounds.

The cybernetic does scale with compute power, improving the quickness bonus and duration by 4 and 1 for every 10 power. While the ability's cooldown is unaffected by compute power it will however start incrementing down immediately after activation, effectively translating to a lower overall cooldown the higher the user's computer power is.

They can be found randomly throughout the world, especially in the cybernetics racks found near becoming nooks. Additionally, inflatable axons is one of the possible starting implants which a True Kin character can choose during character generation.

Ability cooldown table

Inflatable axons' cooldown (CD) in rounds depends on the user's willpower (WI) attribute:

WI	CD	WI	CD	WI	CD	WI	CD
9	135	15	105	21	75	27	45
10	130	16	100	22	70	28	40
11	125	17	95	23	65	29	35
12	120	18	90	24	60	30	30
13	115	19	85	25	55	31	25
14	110	20	80	26	50	32	20

Compute power table

Compute power	Quickness bonus	Duration
10	44	11 rounds
20	48	12 rounds
30	52	13 rounds
40	56	14 rounds
50	60	15 rounds
60	64	16 rounds
70	68	17 rounds
80	72	18 rounds
90	76	19 rounds
100	80	20 rounds

Compute Power	Quickness bonus	Duration
110	84	21 rounds
120	88	22 rounds
130	92	23 rounds
140	96	24 rounds
150	100	25 rounds
160	104	26 rounds
170	108	27 rounds
180	112	28 rounds
190	116	29 rounds
200	120	30 rounds

Advantages & Disadvantages

This section is opinion-based. Your mileage may vary.

Advantages

• Can use the additional quickness to preform various actions during combat at no risk, such as injecting tonics, reloading a ranged weapon or using abilities.
• Useful for quickly defeating single targets or for reducing overall damage taken while surrounded by multiple enemies.
• Scales fairly well with compute power, allowing for a decently strong and long-lasting bonus with only moderate investment.

Disadvantages

• Baseline quickness bonus is somewhat low without additional support.
• Relatively long cooldown can make it challenging to use consistently without high Willpower.
• The ten turn -10 quickness penalty can be potentially deadly depending on the siltation.

Tips

• The implant even without additional compute power becomes substantially more effective when used along with other sources of quickness, such as leyline puppeteers or blaze injectors.

• Axons can help enable certain strategies which are otherwise hampered by their generally expensive turn economy, such as more effectivity allowing the repeated use ofBow and Rifle related skills or by better letting the user mass tinker and throw grenades in combat with micromanipulator array and grafted mirror arms.

• Can be used as a reasonably strong escape tool, especially when paired with Sprint or other sources of additional movement speed.