Watchmen

Watchmen are a near-human artificial species created by the Engineers to serve as an in-house paramilitary security force for certain facilities where it was deemed disadvantageous to resort to employing automated security measures or hiring human guards. After the Engineers were exiled from Japan, repatriated Engineers brought the technology to manufacture Watchmen with them to California, where they became an integral part of the armed forces, police and menial workforces of both California and Mexico.
 Engineered to perform as security guards, they have a plain and forgettable appearance, though degradation of resources and techniques since the breakup of the Engineers has caused many Watchmen to be produced with a "lumpy" and imperfect appearance, requiring them to cover up fully in order to pass as human. Like all other Engineer creations, they are manufactured in birthing-tanks which facilitate rapid development, producing one fully grown adult specimen over a gestation period of about one year, with an expected lifespan of around fifteen to twenty years before their pre-programmed expiration date causes them to terminate. This growth period can and has been modified according to the Engineers' needs to produce Watchmen much faster, at the risk of destabilizing the grown process and increasing chances of failure, and shortening the product's overall lifespan. Although appearing male, they are in fact genderless and lack genitalia.
With their primary purpose being to function simply as security guards, they alterations to their genes have been made to promote excellent focus and memory at the cost of any sort of intuition, inquisitiveness, imagination, or self-preservation instinct. They live to follow the orders of their designated masters, and combined with Compressed Mnemonic Imprinting have no will of their own other than to do as they are told to the best of their ability, producing diligent but dim-witted servants still capable of passing as ordinary, if incredibly dull and forgettable, humans.
==Further Development== 
After the Engineers were forced to abandon Japan, a large number of them relocated to the North American west coast, where a large Kantoku Corporation operation was already underway and well-established. However, the facilities there only had the means to produce Kantoku and Watchmen; the more combat-oriented creations of the Engineers had only been produced straight out of their main base in Tokyo. The Engineers, concerned over further reprisal the more their previous leadership's goals for world domination were uncovered, were highly interested in regaining the ability to mass-produce armies of absolutely loyal supersoldiers. With the ability to produce Watchmen already at hand, it was deemed efficient to pursue further enhancements to these exiting units as a means to close the gap between humans and the Gernadder heavy infantry soldier, using surgical enhancements rather than genetic enhancements to produce a super soldier.
Watchmen Segundo start as ordinary Watchmen either selected at random, or more commonly are recycled from failed gestations or specimens damaged in the line of work. The top of the head is removed, leaving only the cerebellum, brainstem, and most of the occipital lobe. The missing section of the cranium is then replaced with a cybernetic component not dissimilar from a cyberbrain, serving to relay instructions to the now mindless body. This also includes a new set of cybernetic eyes that allow the Segundo to process visual information across a additional spectrums. The enhanced head is then fitted with an enclosed helmet connected to a separate face shield and neck brace. 
The skeleton is reinforced with titanium components, with the arms, spine and shoulders extended. Muscles are reattached to the skeleton at points optimized for the gangly new proportions of the body. The skin is removed and replaced with an insulating rubber-like polymer, over which carbon plates are bolted. The armor is designed to accommodate a large pack that fits over the shoulders. This module is multi-purpose, housing a power supply unit, a chem-injector and a temperature regulator. The regulator cycles a biotic coolant through the bloodstream to help the body cope with the increased heat buildup due to the now permanent armor, while the chem-injector administers combat stimulants. The power source is a replaceable battery that provides power to the Segundo's cybernetics and weapons.
In terms of armaments, the Segundo is primarily defensive oriented. In addition to its heavy armor, all Segundo are equipped with a ballistic shield over the left arm. The right arm mounts either a triple burst 25mm grenade launcher or a beam sword. Normally stiff and slowly-moving, when under the effects of combat stimms they are capable of moving with great alacrity.
Overall, the Segundo program proved to be short of what the PRC wanted. The number of surgical alterations required added extra steps of complexity to the process. Of further issue was the replacement of most of the brain with a cybernetic, which could only be sourced from the Silicon Society and were apparently difficult to mass produce while still not granting the Segundo the kind of autonomy the PRC was looking for. Ultimately, the Saurgan project would overtake Segundo as a much more successful alternative. Segundo nonetheless do present a useful alternative for specimens that would otherwise be mulched, serving as truly formidable guards for PRC installations. 
As Watchmen are biologically human, the process of making a Segundo from a regular person would not be any more difficult. When faced with the project being passed over, KTK suggested using volunteers for the program and axing the brain-replacement. After a trial run, this proposal was deemed unfeasible on the grounds of the procedure being too incredibly agonizing for the end product to remain functional.
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