Tikari

Tikaris are robotic insects that can turn into knives or other melee weapons. They link into a second personal antenna and function as a new body part, and they can be stored and recharged inside a Valkyrie's chest. The Tikari port can then pass for its owner's sternum, which is removed and incorporated into the Tikari. Tikaris can look, listen, and, in weapon mode, kill with rocket force and heat their blades to 800 kelvins.
They can fight autonomously, and have a link range just over a kilometer. They can record material, relay it, run simple missions, and perform other actions as mentally commanded. A Tikari's AI takes over as soon as the owner takes their mind off it or sends it out of range. By default, a Tikari will act like a pet when on AI, but it can be given a standing order. Tikaris have extremely smart AIs and tend to take on characteristics of their owners. A Tikari's AI can manifest online as its own, distinct avatar and protect its owner from and with various net warfare techniques. Unlinked, a Tikari can find and return to its owner from across the solar system and stay in orbit indefinitely.
Tikari wings are usually part of a blade, and their blades are made from permarazor steel. Tikaris are very durable. In one instance, a Tikari was buried in Ganymede mud for ten years and remained ready for action. Tikaris can handle objects with great care with their legs, fly, walk and climb, and send any sensory impulse and act as its owner's eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and fingertips. A Tikari can fight in any of twenty-four styles, including berserker mode, where it will kill everyone nearby except its owner. A Tikari's owner can also set it to act as a mine in kamikaze mode.
In knife form, Tikaris can fly by gyroscope and rocket power, cut down entire trees, and still stay sharp enough to perform delicate surgery, which they can do in bug form, knowing how to perform over 600 operations. They can cut through bone and are capable of severing a limb in one stroke. Tikaris can hide themselves from M-scans, C-scans, X-scans, and P-scans.
According to Veikko, a Tikari can also trim toenails, weave a basket underwater, and play back 10,000 songs.
Tikaris use ITT to change size as needed.
== Behind the Scenes ==
Tikari is Finnish for Dagger.
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