Invictus file 215434 Tactical Suppression Suit

It’s no secret that numbers are the best way to pin down even the most accomplished Acrobat type super. Even serene can get dogpiled by enough sufficiently motivated normal humans or supers. Their hesitation to kill someone certainly doesn’t help when we have whole armies bearing down on us. Though serene’s old suit was well suited for stealth and sabotage it provided no real aid when it came to direct combat and the heavy assault suit can only maintain its output for so long before failing. Fortunately our recent world tour allowed me to acquire some new perspectives on how we do things. Soviet biotech, Federation behavioral code, and Commonwealth technomancy combined with good ole american cybertech has yielded a number of upgrades for us and our mission. Quantum entanglement comms with our contacts, portable powered safe houses with indoor plumbing for witnesses in need of protection, A.I. guided investment and crypto funding for homeless outreach and non profit debt relief/legal representation, open source sustainable farming plans and seeds for communities outside of cities ect. In regards to our personal equipment however I’ve decided to make sure the outfits we wear into battle compliment us better than our old gear did.

Serene’s new Tactical Suppression Suit is an advanced textile based zero point energy exoskeleton melded with their old NBC live armor. As mentioned before heavy forms of protection such as heavy armor plates and even ballistic leathers slow and limit serene’s agility and range of motion to an unacceptable degree. Thus smart textiles were my choice, with minimal power demands the survival features give serene more resistance to areas of high radiation, and limited protection from a hard vacuum. The original scent deadening properties of the suit remains of course, in addition the suit offers enhanced protection against blades and fists but offers no real ballistic protection. Though serene is easily one of the deadliest hand to hand combatants on Earth range still remained a massive vulnerability for them. The solution came for the longest time in barrel blockers but these got harder and harder to supply. A much easier and frankly versatile solution came from soviet biotech within a reinforced ballistic grade leather pouch rests a sophisticated miniature bioreactor that can produce vacuum sealed toxins, salves, corrosives, meds, and construction material on silent command. The entirety of the soviet bio arsenal can be produced into hundreds of throw able caplets in minutes. More notable items include

Mycocrete: Rapidly growing but sadly unstable fungal based concrete alternative mycocrete was the foundation of the union and all her sister republics. This varient originally grew and reacted with oxygen going from the size of a pill capsule to incalculable mass and height. Unfortunately it was far too unstable to replace the standard version of mycocrete but soviet biohackers tirelessly worked at it before and after the world suffered through x day. I put my own spin on this substance splicing the myocrete spores with picobots to direct their growth to preset parameters. They can’t rebuild a skyscraper but they can reinforce a crumbling building, make a bridge across a chasm of a hundred feet, or bury someone in breathable but restricting mold that’s strong enough to support a few tons.

Nematacyst Gas: A long favorite of soviet anti riot troopers and gulag population control specialists menatacysts refer to the stinging cells of the man o war dispersed in gas or spray form. The standard formula blended nematacysts with a softer form of box jellyfish venom that would drop almost anyone without enhanced pain tolerance. The version I armed serene with does the same thing but with the inclusion of my picobots spreads quickly and has the added benefit of smart targeting guided by federation behavioral algorithms. The end result is a grenade that’s safe to use even when friendlies are mixing it up in close quarters.

Air Ink: Just like the octopus or squid air ink uses a rapidly spreading gas based visual impairment. Thanks to my nanobots they also impair visual senses on several spectrums, anything that isn’t echolocation or scent based navigation is going to have a rough time inside the area of air ink. Furthermore my nanobots calculate and deflect the trajectories of incoming projectiles away from friendlies and towards hostiles. This isn’t foolproof but as my old corpsman used to say “i’d rather treat one gunshot wound per grunt than thirty.”

Red Army Miracle: Not a capsule but an adhesive medical strip that’s been part of the red army since the 1950’s these medical strips can be almost any length and not only sterilize the site of the wound but also diagnose the patient through color code. Red being normal, green meaning the presence toxins, black denotes serious disease or radiologicals. The bandages themselves then integrate with the recipients skin and tissue facilitating the replacement of such. Even the deepest of cuts in days in ordinary people, used by superhumans with even slightly enhanced body processes injuries can be healed in minutes.

The Great Unmaker: The soviets created the most corrosive substance on the planet able to cripple a main battle tank in seconds and melt it to slag in minutes. It would have been the TERROR of vietnam, if it affected biological matter like it did anything inorganic. Though not the one all solution to war the soviets had hoped it allowed for light easily portable anti material solutions for the red army and its allies. This substance is a death sentence for anyone who relies on cybernetics to survive, and given serene’s reluctance to kill I had to dial down that aspect of it. Nonetheless when surrounded by people with advanced firearms or tech based gear it is invaluable. I couldn’t make it gas based, too many risks involved but given how accurate serene is with thrown objects it’s hardly an issue. The acid rapidly spreads to cover approximately a six foot human sized object per capsule allowing one capsule to disarm and disable one person.

The Purifier: A shockingly corrosive acid that makes royal pudding of anything made of flesh the purifier was THE choice for soviet anti personnel solutions. Able to turn someone with D class invulnerability into a pile of sludge in one minute upon contact this voracious corrosive feeds on the moisture of its victim to mass upon itself and grow allowing a minimum of the substance to rapidly cover a victim. The soviets supplied the viet cong purifier based weaponry in droves during vietnam giving them a decisive edge in cqc. I made the compound smarter so it doesn’t kill EVERYTHING when it spreads but its lethality makes it something serene hesitates to use unless they’re truly desperate.


The bioreactor can be recharged with nothing more than tap water and only takes a few hours to fully rearm itself with whatever items the user desires.

Strapped to serene's thigh is a custom electronic warfare and cyber security navigation suite. It includes icepicks, viruses, malware, frequency scanners, and more to allow serene to bypass most digital security. It also has an onboard A.I. to aid serene in tracking down the assets of the people they target and constantly scrapes social media to generate profiles of people they encounter. It is capable of leaving stealth backdoors into any network it connects with as well as applying heuristic data algorithms to rapidly determine a persons known associates, debts, credit score, and most visited locations. The suite is essential in serene's arsenal to track down, steal and redistribute the assets of the various organizations that threaten the people they protect.

Around serene’s forearms are what look to be wrist wraps popular with many frontline fighters who rely on close quarters combat. However these are one of my finest creations using tech from all four major powers. These self replicating energy redirecting restraint and grappling devices are a huge step forward in pietzoelectrically powered tech. Their highly elastic nature lets them stretch for hundreds of feet and can selectively adhere to any surface as well as contract rapidly. They can detatch parts of themselves and self replicate via simple technomagic enchantments as well as apply any item that the bioreactor can create. Serene’s own skill can see these devices move as if they have a mind of their own without needing additional power. Federation energy research has allowed me to make the wraps highly resistant to heat, cold, and almost entirely non conductive. The foot and ankle wraps around serene’s feet act as noise dampeners making serene’s already quiet steps nearly imperceptible. In addition every step they take also maps out and transmits the layout of any building they’re in to me in order to rapidly map any compound and tag anyone in it for analysis. The hood of the outfit has two purposes, put up it amplifies the effect of serene’s facepaint/nanofibro bundle. Going beyond just scrambling facial recognition, fingerprints, and DNA the hood once activated acts as a white noise generator scrambling frequency bands as the user chooses across several miles. In addition it can also broadcast false orders to law enforcement, first responders, news media, and scramble all connections to broadband or cellular frequency bands. The end result is a total communications blackout over several square miles, an electronic warfare nuclear option if serene needs to make a quick getaway. In it’s second configuration the suit’s hood becomes a high collar and an adept NBC filter able to trap, analyze, and neutralize particles on the nano scale. The suit redirects resources to provide more radiation shielding than normal protecting the wearer from up to 450 rem. Overall the new suit gives serene a wider array of crowd control options to deal with larger crowds of people.

art by  bludgeon
serene belongs to  gurlow