A-004 Gyros

A rough sketch of A-004 from The Director's personal journal.

## CACG Item File

Item A-004 is the designation of an anomalous rotational force not normally exhibited in CMLT-919. Once imparted on an object or area, A-004 can exhibit a variety of effects, such as ripping atoms from a target and altering a projectile's trajectory mid-flight to primitive feats such as starting fires and generating electricity. Some advanced techniques are even capable of generating tornadoes and hurricanes, as well as piercing relativistic shielding and achieving MARY level feats. While it is possible to teach oneself A-004 usage, usage of it outside of the Group is scarce. Advanced A-004 users are capable of "imparting" A-004 in a subject to give them access to the most primitive abilities of A-004.

Prior to the Group's formation, A-004 was discovered by The Director during his years spent traveling the Grail. To date, it's estimated that only 23 individuals within the CACG's employment are capable of using A-004 in its most basic forms, and it's estimated that there are only 703 individuals trained to use it worldwide. Despite its myriad uses, putting A-004 into general training is unadvisable due to the time needed and the physically taxing nature of training to use it. However, this does mean that A-004 is effectively contained given the steep costs of training oneself to use it in any viable capacity.

Given its versatility, there's a variety of tactical options and techniques developed over its operational lifetime. Below are some of the techniques as well as their original creators. However, due to the history of A-004 being mostly unknown prior to its discovery by The Director and its subsequent classification, some techniques' original inventors may be incorrectly assumed.

* *Rotational Energy Generation.* Originally discovered by The Director, one of the common "tricks" learned by new users of A-004. This often forms the basis of other energy-based techniques. This energy can be used in a myriad of ways, such as imparting energy into an objects atoms and heating it up as a result, or even generating electricity by rapidly spinning a generated magnetic field.

* *Rotational Lysis.* Originally discovered by The Director. In this, technique, the rotational force imparted by A-004 acts as a centrifuge, separating out base components easily. In more extreme cases this technique can be used to rip atoms from already existing molecules, giving projectiles used in tandem with it great armor piercing capabilities.

* *Pendragon.* A Draco AK47 Pistol originally discovered and manifested by The Director, Pendragon is a fusion of both A-004 and A-006 unique to The Director himself (in terms of A-004 users). The weapon has an extended drum magazine with a tapered grip at the barrel. A holo-sight replaces the iron sights and adjacent to it is a gyroscope which also acts as a sight while holding the weapon at a 21 degree angle to the left. Projectiles fired from Pendragon can surpass the speed of light, and the bullet holes they leave behind exhibit a form of delayed Rotational Lysis, in which the hole is forcibly widened by remaining rotational energy acting as a sort of sawblade eating away at the target.