Project Alterna-tive Ability

**Project: Alterna-tive Ability** is a line of inventions made by the Meep Team with the Golden Eggs gathered from Operation: SalmonFest.

## Inventions

#### By Voppi and Nine:

* Cybernetic Appendage - A prosthetic arm with incorporated assistance from O.R.C.A., and various uses and abilities, such as tracking your heart rate and stress levels, as well as different diagnostics on each Site of Alterna.
* Connection Headset - The direct precursor to the Crystal Neuralink Experiment. It grants the user a mental connection with someone else for a temporary amount of time. It can serve as an entrance to the SubClub if one is asleep with it on.
* Voice Alteration Amulet - A necklace which uses sensor technology to directly translate the wearer's speech into another language.
* Shock Palm - A glove with the Alterna Logo on it. when in contact with another being, the logo sends out a small electric shock.
* Cyber Visor - The Cyber Visor, typically used for area diagnostics and threat detection, is similar to the Connection Headset, however it is across the entirety of the wearer’s field of view, rather than partially, and fulfills a different purpose.
* The SplatterRail - The SplatterRail is a railgun-like ink weapon that takes up to 30 seconds to fully charge. Upon firing the charge, a highly explosive burst of ink (similar to that of the Explosher) will be sent from the weapon, with a range between that of the Bamboozler and a Splat Charger. However, this weapon is still a prototype, and thus may be unstable.
* Control Chip - A small hexagonal-shaped chip that is used to manipulate the wearer’s thoughts and feelings for operations, interrogations, and the like. It may emit controlled shocks if malfunctioning.
* Tracking Band - Used to monitor the wearer’s habits, pulse, and stress levels. Can be locked to cause a controlled shock to be emitted if wearer attempts to remove the Tracking Band.
* Inkropes - An extendable Inkrail-like device used to limit the movement of the Inkling/Octarian/ink-user it wraps itself around. The target cannot alter their ink color or change into their swim form whilst the Inkropes are active.

#### By the entire Meep Team:

* Multi-use Biochips - A collection of small microchips you can wear either on your body or your weapons, to make small enhancements to them. Requested by Charcoal and Candy.
	+ Species-swapping Biochip: similar to the Species-swapping Pod, it can alter the user's appearance and turn them into another species.
	+ Ink-condensing Biochip: it condenses the user's ink and makes it deal more damage while in battle, similar to the state of Zayn's Primordial Ooze.
* Unhypnocontacts [name in progress] - Contact lenses that protect the user from any sort of mind control. Requested by JJ.
* Team coordinator - A portable device that makes teamwork and coordinated attacks much easier. Can also be used outside battle. Requested by Drago.

## Trivia

* *Project: Alterna-tive Ability*'s first four inventions were brainstormed by Voppi, Arya and Nine (along with Fandom Users @Voppi Meep and @Digitaldusty)
	+ However, the first sketches were chosen by the whole Team, including Charcoal, Drago and others.
* The full line of inventions will briefly appear in the beginning of Thread #1 of the MTS' Season 3, and will make subsequent appearances along the season.
	+ This is because Artsy requested to modify the headset so that the connection would be permanent.
* Zayn interrupted the SalmonFest to steal the Biochips due to his intense thirst for ink and power.
* Before making the Connection Headset, Artsy wanted to recreate the actual experiment by restoring a leftover capsule, but those consumed a lot of Golden Eggs.
* The coordinator was first used to help Drago's Smallfry, Smol Man, and his group of Salmonids, to improve their march.
* The Meep Team Fandom Community dedicated the 100th-Page-Celebration to this line of inventions.
* Many of these items could likely be manipulated for malicious purposes, especially the Control Chips.
* Many of these items take inspiration from gadgets shown in numerous shows.
	+ The Control Chips are inspired by Horde Chips from She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.
	+ The SplatterRail is inspired by Uzi’s Railgun.
	+ The Cybernetic Arm is inspired by Meta Runner Arms.
	+ The UI for the Cyber Visor takes inspiration from Tari’s Meta Runner Vision.

## Gallery

The Connection HeadsetThe Voice Alteration AmuletThe Shock PalmThe Cybernetic AppendageThe Cybernetic Appendage's UI screen (Arya's version)The Cyber VisorThe SplatterRail PrototypeThe Control ChipThe Tracking BandThe Inkropes