Abilties and upgrades

In *Solar Ash*, the player have several **abilities** to begin with, as well as a few new ones and **upgrades** to existing abilities which one may gain by equipping Rei with different suits, pieces of Voidtech. These include, among others, Voidrunner cache scan, double plasma intake and reduced timeslip cooldown.

### Timeslip

A piece of Voidtech that allows Rei to slow down time. Standard ability that Rei has to begin with when wearing her broken suit and stays with every suit. Has a cooldown.

#### **Upgrade:** Reduced timeslip cooldown

An upgrade that decreases the cooldown on timeslip. Gained while wearing the unbroken version of Rei's default suit.

### Plasma intake

Rei can collect plasma littered about the Ultravoid. Even if she destroys a crate filled with plasma but does not move close to ir through it immediately, the plasma will follow her and get absorbed by her suit. Standard ability that Rei has to begin with when wearing her broken Tempest Adagio suit and stays with every suit.

#### **Upgrade:** Doubled plasma intake

This upgrade doubles the amount of plasma gained from one glob of plasma. Gained when wearing Erving's suit.

### Grav-boosters

A piece of Voidtech that allows Rei to gain a sudden boost to her speed, lunging forward. Has a cooldown. Standard ability that Rei has to begin with when wearing her broken suit and stays with every suit. The grav-boosters seem to be the part of the suits that form the rings around the ankles, as these are
seem to be located around the shoes/boots of the suits, as well as possibly the glove are. They also seem to be what is making double jump possible, as the feet, leg and hand area of Rei's Voidrunner suits glow when she performs this activity.

#### **Upgrade:** Reduced booster cooldown

An upgrade that decreases the cooldown on the grav-boosters. Gained while wearing Verse's suit.

### Double jump

The double jump ability is granted by same thing as Rei's skating ability, but only utilizes one of the shoes/boots of the suit. This is evident by how the hard-light skating blade is projected around only the right foot when attempting the double jump. There may be some grav-booster action involved as well. Seems to be an ability granted by her grav-boosters, possibly by warping gravity somehow. This ability is present in all Voidrunner suits and does not have an upgrade.

### Skating

Skating or surfing is an ability that allows Rei to move very quickly and smoothly. The ability is made possible by phase-shifted hard-light skating blades that get projected underneath and around the suit's wearer's shoe area. There may be some form of grav-booster propulsion involved too. This ability is present in all Voidrunner suits and does not have an upgrade.

### Rail-grinding

Rei can somehow use the shoe-area of her Voidrunner suits to grind or glide on rails, though how is unknown. It is not seemingly magnetic, as she can do it on both metal rails and fungus rails. Her shoes will stick to the tail during the remainder of the usage of this ability, and she will seemingly automatically be propelled along the rail in the direction she is facing. While using the ability, a glow is emitted by the suits of the suit she is wearing at the time. Rei can even grind on a rail upside down, as evidenced by rails that twist themselves along the way to be oriented in what one might consider a downwards orientation, but what up and down is in the Ultravoid is practically impossible to say, though it should be whatever direction the black hole's core is. She is also able to grind straight up and down on a rail that is oriented in a straight vertical orientation, though activating the ability and sticking to such a rail while jumping up towards it or falling down alongside it is practically impossible. Movement speed on rails are increased by usage of the boost ability, and it can be used multiple times on the same rail. There are no upgrades for rail-grinding.

### Grappling

Rei is able to project a hard light rope from her multi-tool which can stick to grapple spots and allow her to propel herself towards said grapple point, either in the form of specific glowing grapple points or the large eyes of the Dregs, certain nerve points on anomalies, certain nerve points on Remnants and the large central core "eye" of Remnants. The range of this rope is increased when using timeslip to slow down time. There are no upgrades to this ability.

### Scanning

By using her multi-tool, Rei can scan for objectives, including the locations of anomalies and C.Y.D. nodes. Rei may always use the scanning ability regardless of which suit she wears, as it is not the suit but the multi-tool with which she performs the action.

#### **Upgrade:** Voidrunner cache scan

An upgrade to the multi-tool gained when wearing Tufte's suit that adds to the scans any Voidrunner cache that hasn't been found yet.

### Attack slashes

Using her multi-tool, Rei can project a form of energy, possibly phase-shifted hard light of some form, and slash through enemies with it. She also has the ability to project a very large and very long hard-light blade that looks like a fork of needle or like the activation module of the Starseed, but only does so when she has to stab an eye.

#### **Upgrade:** Doubled attack power

An upgrade that doubles Rei's attack power, doubling the damage she deals with single slashes. Gained when wearing Ghozam's suit.

### Conduit Warping

A form of fast travel accessed by C.Y.D.'s Conduit Warping Protocols, Conduit Warping is the ability to teleport between activated Starseed conduits, essentially allowing Rei to warp between every individual region of the Ultravoid at will from her map, except the Impact Zone, which does not have a Conduit anyway.

This ability is unlocked when Rei activate the Starseed Conduit in the Broken Caoital, which is the second Conduit she comes across on her journey through the Ultravoid, though first she has to clear the Remnant of the area to unscramble the signal between the C.Y.D. node at the base of the Starseed and that of the Capital region, thus accessing local memory logs, and as a result reactivate C.Y.D.'s Conduit Warping Protocols, which she will subsequently upload to Rei's multi-tool. In order to warp to a region's C.Y.D. node, the map must be opened and one of the regions selected.

Following the activation of the C.Y.D.'S Conduit Warping Protocols, with every new Starseed Conduit/C.Y.D. node activated, that Conduit and the warping point to it is added to Rei's map.

### All abilities and upgrades

While wearing the Tempered Absolution suit, Rei gains all the abilities and/or upgrades of her teammates' suits at once. This suit is gained after 100%'ing the game.