Synat

*Not to be confused with Sy.N.A.T*

> Synats are a special power that every person who enters this world Sotaqt we call it, whether it be in birth or from another world gets. They are unique to each person and are represented by two words on which your powers are based. The first word is based on death and the second life.
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> - The synat reader, Sy.N.A.T, Chapter 1: As Above…

A **synat** is an ability that everyone on Sotaqt ,whether they are born there or arrive through the PMESH initiative, has.

Synats have a wide variety of uses from everyday tasks to combat. There are an extremely wide variety of synats something that is helped along by the different people groups of Sotaqt. These powers are conducted through the Sy.N.A.T nanobots that populate the atmosphere of Sotaqt.

## Definition

A synat is an ability that everyone on Sotaqt ,whether they are born there or arrive through the PMESH initiative, has. A persons synat abilities derive from two words; a life word and a death word. The life word is based of the person's personality and the death word is based off how the person died or will die. From these words, which whether they have an inherent knowledge of them or are told them by a synat reader, they do anything they can think of within reason.

## Mechanics

Typically people born on Sotaqt are able to use their synat from birth, but people brought to Sotaqt can often have difficulties and usually it needs to be triggered by an instinctual response. In most cases people develop a certain set of abilities that they usually don't stray from as, while it is possible, it is difficult to expand ones ability set especially with age; this is due to the variety of the abilities that can be pulled from one's synat being linked with one's mental elasticity. Synat usage can also be draining for some people as it can take a lot of mental energy and focus to use certain synat abilities. Most people never push their synats to their limits and as a result only a relatively small group of people regularly use their synat to great affect, maybe 1-5% of Sotaqt's population. Synats major limiter is inherent to how they function. The nanobots that synats are conducted through are only on Sotaqt and no where else. Meaning that the scale of their ability is limited to a singular planet as mentioned by Alex in Sy.N.A.T In Chaos, Chapter 20: Hope Lies there; In The Dreaming Gardens, "I mean aren’t all synats limited by the fact that they’re only a swarm of nanobots that are only in Sotaqt’s atmosphere, it would be impossible for someone to have a synat capable of destroying the moon for example." Oliver Lucius has a minor amount of control of the nanobots and has prevented a synat capable of destroying the entire planet, making it uninhabitable, or wiping out it's population. The most powerful synat in terms of destructive power would be Perses's synat, 'Explosive Fusion', which at its upper limit could theoretically produce an explosion of 200 megatons of TNT or roughly equivocal to the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa; although, it's doubtful that he could ever develop his synat far enough to create such an explosion especially considering the amount of practice it would take. The largest explosion he has created was 25 megatons and he could likely create one exceeding 70-80 megatons. Although it's never mentioned Apate would not be able to use Perses's synat due to it's power. In regards to the limits of a synat's power Number 02's 'Extracted Chaos' is another example of synat's upper limit in terms of ability. The ability to change the present through a Laplace's demon style modification of the past via travel between the Earth and Sotaqt dimensions due to there opposing temporal flows.

## Origin

The words synat comes from the acronym **Sy.N.A.T** or **Synthetic Nano Auto-Immune Transmitters**, and was borrowed into all Sotaqian languages after contact with the ATUR scout group. The nanobots were designed to act as an artificial virus. These nanobots were released into the atmosphere of Sotaqt from the space ship the ATUR scout group arrived in after the detection that Sotaqt's population was to high for Earth human habitation in an attempt to thin it out. Unbeknownst to them these nanobots were released and were more effective then intended killing 90% of Sotaqt. They ai that originally detected the high population devised two solutions to repopulate. The first was to give people a specially devised set of powers that came to be known as synats. The second was to modify the DNA of a large percentage of the population to create the variety of intelligent races that inhabit Sotaqt known as the Great Transformation.