#adnunttheherald

[loveisnotareliableword]

Would you fight your destiny?

“Would that I could’ve.”

“Not that it matters to think about it now.”

[scintillatingbrightness-blog]

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“Holy shit,” Lyra breaths after skidding to a stop and almost toppling over.  Ordinarily the first thing she’d be worried about is her skirt, but it’s the second thing she worries about this time—second to the living golem just walking around on the streets.

Golems and androids and robots always interested Lyra; in another world where she hadn’t been blessed with abnormally potent magic powers, she could see herself perhaps pursuing a career working with them.  But she knew well the development of them for the military.  And they hadn’t come close to resembling a human in reasoning ability yet.

“Uh.”  Would it be rude to bother him?  Then again, he—it? she? they?—seems to have noticed her already, not a particularly impressive feat considering how... obvious her interest is by now.  “How... exactly do you work?  Oh, and what’s your name?”

[thechozone-blog]

➳♥

6. Cheek Kiss

Samus just really wanted this guy to be quiet but wasn’t willing to kiss some stranger on the lips. A kiss always got people quiet anyways and he was rambling so a quick kiss and then a wave good bye was it. What a great end to a conversation. What a great way to escape so she could go home and just cuddle with her new bird child.

[infobrokerofmumbad-blog]

"Bull!"

“It’s true, it’s true, and before you think otherwise it’s not so far-fetched to consider that I’ve travelled all the way to the moon and back.

I don’t know how it is in your time, but in my time the Weyland Corporation was first founded by a man called Jack Weyland who created the great space elevator known as the Beanstalk. It reaches all the way to the moon, with different levels and different entertainments on each.

The moon was just a quick day trip for me, both to check on certain key investments as well as to take a little break from the day to day of Mumbad. It’s certainly a visit I would recommend to anyone.”

[adnunttheherald-blog]

The Role of a Comms

Cuniculators vary wildly in their exact cybernetic augmentations and loadout, but there are a number of generally distinct classes they can fall within. The Comms class, short for Communications Expert, is the one Adnunt falls under. Unlike Certa, for whom most of her cybernetics related to her role were disabled, Adnunt has retained nearly all of the cybernetics that allow him to function as a Comms. Thus it is only fitting that I discuss what a Comms can do.

A Comms is no mere Communications Expert, not by a long shot. They are a valuable (and often undervalued) force multiplier, having been optimized for a specific (if unconventional) style of warfare like nearly all the other Cuniculators. Their multitasking augmentations allow them to give equal attention to the battlefield and the multiple things they often do at once using their communications backpack. Even the most basic version of that cybernetic is capable of jamming communications and performing high level encryption and decryption of radio signals. Many of these backpacks also come with a way of pinpointing (with different degrees of accuracy) the direction and distance a signal has been sent from, and to send signals to foreign devices.

Being able to send false transmissions to the enemy’s devices is just one way a Comms can often sow discord amongst their enemies, and many are equipped with mimicry augments to better sow this particular kind of deception. Hacking into the enemies’ devices and disrupting their normal function--or sometimes even turning them against the enemy--is another favored form of chaos. For those devices without wireless access, some Comms even have nanobot factories dedicated to electronic warfare, sowing discord by scrambling the signals sent to the affected devices, or instead establishing a wireless access point from which they can more precisely mess with the enemy. 

Comms are also invaluable for organizing their allies into a cohesive whole, with or without a Taccie to relay orders from. In addition to keeping the cyborgs informed of the status of the battle, many Comms also have various sensor suites and navigational equipment installed within their communications backpacks. Not only do these sensors allow them to gather and relay more information on the battlefield to their allies, but many can also detect stealth units that would otherwise go unnoticed. Radar and sonar are particularly common, due to their 360 degree effectiveness. 

The primary role of a Comms can thus be summed up as a duality: Keep the enemy disorganized and your allies organized. 

To this end, Comms tend to be expert communicators, and are regularly by far the most effective talkers amongst the cybernetic scavenger race. To that end many have linguistics implants, to allow them to better intercept and understand enemy communications no matter what language is being used, and to better deceive them into believing their fake transmissions are real. 

Comms also have an affinity for using sonic weapons, which may be a side effect from how much their role revolves around noise. Additionally, many are often given some way of obscuring their true location, such as active camouflage. Perhaps this is a way of making up for the fact that many Comms are not given much in the way of defensive cybernetic upgrades. Regardless, both of these things are a footnote to the primary role of a Comms.