GDS

### Type

Object, Artifact, Crucible, Superweapon, Matrix, Genome Recoder, Supercomputer, Advanced Pre-Programmed Platform, Biotechnology, Tool, Hax

### Effects

Complex Hax, rich with potential

> "It's going to take all of me and everything I am and have."
>
> The motto of the GDS. The process involves harnessing your entire essence and directing it into a concentrated beam. Furthermore, it relates to Bulldrifter Steven Walker's obsession on killing Scarlette. If he can successfully eliminate Scarlette, he believes he will be able to eliminate any superhuman being and perceive himself as unstoppable, so he dedicates and pours all his resources, assets, abilities, and efforts towards the objective of killing Scarlette, even if it poses a risk to his own life.

## Name

Crucible Object Gray Dwarf Star is refered to as GDS.

"Gray Dwarf Star" is a conjunction of a Black Star, a semiclassical gravitational object composed of matter and theoretical alternative to the black hole concept from general relativity, and a White Dwarf, inspired by the concept of a Dyson sphere powered by a white dwarf at its center. However, despite the name, the artifact isn't a black star, black hole or white dwarf.

**Crucible Object** comes from the use of an antecedent, which is a noun or noun phrase that comes before a pronoun in a sentence, and appositive phrase, the pronoun; the noun phrase that comes after another noun phrase (its antecedent) to provide extra information about it. "Crucible Object" would be the antecedent, as it is before "Gray Dwarf Star", the appositive phrase. The term "Crucible", a situation in which different elements and concentrated forces interact to cause or influence change or development, leading to the creation of something new, and "Object", only labels the artifact as a "Crucible Object", similar to addressing a law enforcement officer by "Officer..." and then calling them by name; "Officer (name)" - "Crucible Object (name)"; "Crucible Object Gray Dwarf Star". Given the definition of Crucible, and considering that the Gray Dwarf Star acts as a genome recoder that manipulates life on a genetic cellular level, including augmentations of biological functions, by utilizing a unique energy field, rich with potential, which caused Steven's body to undergo a variety of changes, granting him a connection to great energy, it makes sense why this object would be called a Crucible.

## What is the GDS?

The GDS is a highly complex artificial structure; an artifact with speculation about its ultimate function and uncharted powers; a superweapon, more like an incredibly flexible tool made from a science so advanced, it looks like sorcery! Only speculation can be offered about how it works. It is a handheld artifact crucible object, in the shape of a microphone, containing no heavy metals, but is mostly made of carbon allotropic form that is similar to fullerenes. Inside is integrated plastic, an interlocking system, it contains Helium-3, insulated wiring, a regulated energy flow, specialized compounds that channel and store thermal energy with greater efficiency, a power cell core, and a radiation shielding sheath.

## Appearance

The GDS is microphone shaped with an elegant design. The handle is white while the orb is black with a matte finish and lines of pulsating lights.

**Note: It is not ancient! It is not alien!**

## How to use

For the use of the GDS to be accomplished, there are two special conditions that must be fulfilled. Without a specific order of when the conditions are to be met, users realized that the GDS requires a means to massively amplify its energy in order to be effective. An area with a lot of power, such as cities with lots of buildings or towers or skyscrapers, possesses this capability.

The other condition is that the user's skin must contact the GDS' handle, as it could only become active when it came into contact with a replication mechanism. However, not everyone can do so; Why? Attempting to grab the electric handle without any safety measures is extremely painful. The electric flux of the GDS' handle is such that when an electric charge is at a maximum, a person touching it is in danger of being electrocuted. Most often the process happens instantly when someone touches the GDS' handle. It is also difficult to release the handle voluntarily; the wielder cannot move their hand for seconds, similar to having a cramped hand from writing and being unable to drop the pen or pencil right away. When Bulldrifter decides to try again, he holds on through the pain through sheer will. However, holding the handle with gloves, a cloth, or anything that is not skin, is safe, but useless, as the power of the GDS cannot be used.

Upon an individual's relinquishment of the handle of GDS, any physical or psychological alterations resulting from its contact become enduring, including death. Nevertheless, assuming the user's survival, the act of absorbing energy does not inherently imply its complete and irreversible exhaustion. The replenishment of the user's energy and stamina is still normal. Moreover, the ability to fire a beam is not a power, not permanent nor temporary; rather, it necessitates direct contact between the GDS' handle and the user's skin, resulting in the same experience of discomfort as the first contact, though without the transformations that occurred during the first contact.

## Functions and Capabilities

**Note: The Strong Nuclear Force is being used offensively while the Strong Force is being used defensively. They're different.**

### Long Story Short

The GDS is a powerful artifact that effectively synchronizes with the user's DNA, yet its effects seem to be visibly primarily limited to the manifestation of green-highlighted skin, blue-green glowing eyes, and the ability to emit green light. This process is seen to be extremely painful, but grants him simlar, but enhanced versions of the temporary powers and even weapons he had.

* **Electric Shock (Electrocution)**: Electrical Handle
* **Life-Force Absorption**: The GDS absorbs the user's energy while the user absorbs the GDS' energy.
* **Strong Force Manipulation**: The GDS manipulates Strong Force.
* **Energy Transfer (Energy Manipulation and Flow Manipulation)**: The user's energy and the GDS' energy are added to each other.
* **DNA Manipulation (Varies)**: The process creates a new synthesized DNA through **Orgamech Manipulation**: The process synthesizes the user's DNA and cybernetics into one, making them synthetic-organic, aka, an Orgamech. (If they do not have anything other than their own DNA, a synthesized DNA may not happen.) It also uploads a bio-tech code that enhances processing functionality to the point of achieving true intelligence and returning to full strength.
* **Strong Force Mimicry**: Users become Strong Force along with their new synthesized DNA.
	+ Strong Force DNA
		- The strong force holds atoms together. *Almost 99% of the mass of the human body is made up of six elements: oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus. These atoms consist of electrons, protons, and neutrons but in human body are present in form of atom and perform their functions.[1]*
			* What happens to a human or Altered human?
				+ Oxygen[2]
					- With the Strong Force binding the user's atoms together, the user can breathe in almost anywhere, because the human body already contains oxygen atoms. Basically, the user has an unlimited source of oxygen exclusive to themselves. The only way they can suffocate is by drowning.
				+ Carbon[3]
					- (No Effect)
				+ Hydrogen[4]
					- Lubricated Joints and Improved Muscle Function
						* Enhanced Superhuman Feats
					- Invulnerability
						* Contaminant Immunity
						* Disease Immunity
					- Self-Sustenance
					- Quintessence Force Energy Production
				+ Nitrogen[5]
					- (No Effect)
				+ Calcium[6]
					- Enhanced Durability
					- Enhanced Endurance
					- Enhanced Resilience
				+ Phosphorus[7]
					- Invulnerability
						* Contaminant Immunity
						* Disease Immunity
					- Energy Capacitor
* **Strong Force Embodiment**:
* **Strong Force Symbiosis**:
* **Electromagnetism**: The GDS also uses electromagnetic energies such as gravity, heat, light, and powerful blasts of concussive force.
* **CPL ÆSNF Beam Emission** (CPL ÆSNLF, pronounced "CPL Asian F" is an acronym for "Cosmic Phenomenon of Light Attuned Electromagnetic Strong Nuclear Force", though the attunement goes towards the CPL, rather than the ESNF): When the user grabs hold of the GDS', the user may be able to fire a beam of Strong Nuclear Force and Electromagnetism from the opposite palm, along with the energy of the user's CPL, which includes their DNA, their "base", and their equipment.
	+ The beam also harnesses both the user's "base" and the user's equipment, thereby incorporating powers that the user doesn't even have and isn't even dormant. "Isn't even dormant" implies that the user does not possess these powers under any circumstances, as the powers in question are extremely impossible for anyone to possess. Therefore, the user does not have these powers at all. However, if these powers were indeed possible, the user could possess them, whether they be dormant or usable. So, the GDS beam utilizes powers derived from the "base" of the user's being; the fundamental essence of the user's existence, and what makes them up; not their genetic makeup or personality. These powers could be referred to as "impossibilities", abilities that are essentially unrealistic or beyond the realm of possibility. Alternatively, they could be categorized as a distinct type of impossibilities since certain existing powers are unexplainable and should theoretically be impossible, yet they exist anyway. The GDS also harnesses the capabilities of specific equipment: A conventional firearm or blade may not (emphasis on "may not" (will be explained later)) produce any significant effects. However, if a shotgun loaded with chemical rounds is strapped to the user, the beam may contain said chemicals, even if those shotgun shells are not in the shotgun's chamber, but still equipped for reload. If it's a knife that is kept in a holster and has a heating element? The beam will use the thermal energy of that heated knife. To clarify the emphasis of the "may not" mentioned earlier, it should be noted that the beam has the capability to utilize equipment like a traditional firearm or blade by replicating the characteristics; the "base" of the elements present in the construction materials of said equipment and subsequently channel them into the beam as energy. For example, if the gun is made of carbon and is strapped to the user, the beam will include particles of carbon. However, apart from this functionality, a conventional firearm or blade serves no other purpose. Even a phone, equipped with its electrical power and computer programming capabilities, could work. Overall, the GDS beam essentially takes from the user's base, copies any physical object connected to the user, and incorporates those powers into the beam.

### Full Explanation

It emits no radiation of any kind.

The user grabs hold of the GDS' electrical handle, which slowly absorbs for a time sixty times longer than the period of time the user is in physical contact with the GDS' handle.

When activated, during the fusion, the GDS produces and consumes Helium-3 in a similar manner to humans and plants with oxygen and carbon dioxide.

It simultaneously adds the user's energy to the GDS', and the GDS' energy to the user, thus creating a new synthesized DNA, altering the user on a genetic cellular level; transforming the user into a new hybrid of synthetic-organic life (due to being organic with synthetics (cybernetics)) with the development of green-highlighted skin, blue-green glowing eyes, blue vision, and later, a green light power.

The GDS functions as an advanced pre-programmed platform, a genome recoder, and a handheld portable supercomputer, all of which manipulates life on a genetic cellular level, including augmentations of biological functions, by utilizing a unique energy field, rich with potential. As a supercomputer, the "brain" functions as a computational device, crunching unheard amounts of data in nanoseconds. The "heart", Power Cell Core, powers the artifact. The brain and heart can be likened to a microprocessor, commonly referred to as the central processing unit (CPU) of a computer. Through Orgamech Manipulation, the artifact is also supposed to be capable of creating and functioning in and as a variety of purposes, as its goal is to create, shape, manipulate and repurpose a flesh/robotic amalgamated technology; biological framework needed for communication. It fuses the mechanical and organic worlds, using biology's malleability and growth capacity in conjunction with technology's ability to adapt and progress to create exceptional crafts and improvements upon sentient beings and inanimate wears. Even for those without cybernetics become synthetic-organic. The GDS has a complex relationship with human brains. The user's corporeal form undergoes a transformation or fusion, which the GDS does to them by manipulating the strong (nuclear) force. It also uploads a bio-tech code that enhances processing functionality to the point of achieving true intelligence and returning to full strength.

The user's body is then made up of, and transformed completely into strong force, anatomically identical to their normal form, aside of being made of strong force in which case it contains all to organs and is somewhat vulnerable to attacks, and with the strong force flowing through their being, fortifying their cells, bones and muscles. The user's power is mostly focused to their bodies and while they gain some amount of strong force attacks, the changes and applications are mostly internal.

The strong force is amenable for strong nuclear force (a force that overcomes the electric repulsion between protons and binds them together), the formation of atomic nuclei, and the stability of matter itself. The strong force exhibits incredible properties, and its manipulation enables users to harness the energy that powers stars, nuclear reactors, and other high-energy processes.

The GDS is supposed to be capable of harnessing the strong nuclear force as a weapon, harnessing the energy that powers stars, nuclear reactors, and other high-energy processes by manipulating the heretofore-untouchable strong force: one of the four fundamental forces in the physical universe, accountable for numerous phenomenon instances, especially those related to the binding of protons and neutrons in atomic nuclei. Theoretically, the beam tears apart the strong nuclear forces that hold the target's atoms together, altering nuclei, thus changing the chemical composition of the target, destroying organic tissue and corroding armor.

Additionally, the GDS artifact has the ability to affect and use another fundamental force of the known universe, other than Strong Force; That would be electromagnetic energies such as gravity, heat, light, and powerful blasts of concussive force.

Once the user reaches a certain phase of development, it moves to the outer limits of the targeted brain system and builds neural pathways because that’s the only way chemicals travel through the brain. The GDS then establishes a connection to that personalized network, a network of more than a thousand other connections, opened in different parts of the brain or body. It's like having a powerful network right within your own mind!

Offensively, the user also emits a green intense burst of solar energy from the opposite palm, firing a beam of pure particle energy that deals high amount of damage and can set others ablaze with a similar natural lethality of micro black hole gravitational singularities. The beam also harnesses both the user's "base" and the user's equipment, thereby incorporating powers that the user doesn't even have and isn't even dormant. "Isn't even dormant" implies that the user does not possess these powers under any circumstances, as the powers in question are extremely impossible for anyone to possess. Therefore, the user does not have these powers at all. However, if these powers were indeed possible, the user could possess them, whether they be dormant or usable. So, the GDS beam utilizes powers derived from the "base" of the user's being; the fundamental essence of the user's existence, and what makes them up; not their genetic makeup or personality. These powers could be referred to as "impossibilities", abilities that are essentially unrealistic or beyond the realm of possibility. Alternatively, they could be categorized as a distinct type of impossibilities since certain existing powers are unexplainable and should theoretically be impossible, yet they exist anyway. The GDS also harnesses the capabilities of specific equipment: A conventional firearm or blade may not (emphasis on "may not" (will be explained later)) produce any significant effects. However, if a shotgun loaded with chemical rounds is strapped to the user, the beam may contain said chemicals, even if those shotgun shells are not in the shotgun's chamber, but still equipped for reload. If it's a knife that is kept in a holster and has a heating element? The beam will use the thermal energy of that heated knife. To clarify the emphasis of the "may not" mentioned earlier, it should be noted that the beam has the capability to utilize equipment like a traditional firearm or blade by replicating the characteristics; the "base" of the elements present in the construction materials of said equipment and subsequently channel them into the beam as energy. For example, if the gun is made of carbon and is strapped to the user, the beam will include particles of carbon. However, apart from this functionality, a conventional firearm or blade serves no other purpose. Even a phone, equipped with its electrical power and computer programming capabilities, could work. Overall, the GDS beam essentially takes from the user's base, copies any physical object connected to the user, and incorporates those powers into the beam. However, The GDS doesn't carry over powers to the next user. They're not transferred. Person 2 won't have Person 1's CPL in their beam.

In basic terms, the GDS could be described as an all-purpose real life hacking code that rewrites whoever the handle touches to suit its own ends; Commonly but unofficially known as a "Hax" (hacks) by people of society.

## Different CPL's (User Differences)

Each user has their own unique CPL, although some may have some similarities. Everyone utilizes the ESNF, but with their own personalized CPL attunement.

Reminder: The GDS doesn't carry over powers to the next user. They're not transferred. Person 2 won't have Person 1's CPL in their beam.

### Incorporated Powers

Everyone has different powers, so not everyone's beam is similar.

### Bases

Not everyone has the same base, and some will have some similar bases and still have more or less different bases along with them.

### Incorporated Equipment

Not everyone uses the same equipment, so different elements would be in their personal beams.

## Proficiency

When grasping the handle of the GDS, the user's hand remains firmly attached for a duration of 7 seconds before voluntary release is possible. An individual would not regain the ability to grasp the object until a duration of 16 seconds has passed, after which they can only sustain the grip for an additional 12 seconds. The total duration amounts to 35 seconds. If an individual refrains from releasing their grip, they have the capacity to sustain their hold for a cumulative duration of 20 seconds instead of 35, indicating that releasing the grip significantly improves the situation. On average, the duration of persistence between the two methods is 27.5 seconds.

Steven is only able to launch one and a half attacks with the GDS before later collapsing on the ground, exhausted from using the GDS, having barely enough energy to live. A fellow ally healed him, and told him not to touch the GDS again, or it might kill him much to his dismay since he had great proficiency with the tool.

* One user's initial use of the beam took Scarlette Rose, also known as Tenebris and Akari, aback, as the attack was unexpected and so sudden, but it proved to be powerful enough to knock Scarlette to the ground after striking her in the chest. However, that can only be simply due to the fact that she was caught off guard. When Scarlette recovered almost instantly and charged at the user, the user was only able to keep her at bay, and with a continous beam, barraging her. Scarlette, having previously encountered the beam and prepared for its impact, demonstrated remarkable resilience by enduring the beam and pushing through it and boosting towards the user before deciding to evade and sidestep the beam's path. This forced the user to redirect the beam towards her, as they were unable to halt its trajectory, knowing that they would not be able to fire it again. Scarlette skillfully evaded and continously sidestepped the beam without interruption until she successfully approached the user and delivered a forceful punch to their face. So, it appears that Scarlette can only be knocked down by the beam if she is struck unexpectedly and without embracement, regardless of whether the beam is continuous or not. However, Bulldrifter's beam is different. His beam is filled with the weaknesses he built for Scarlette, and intangibility, so there's no impact on Scarlette, though Scarlette is still affected by it.