Ka

### Correcting a Misconception

After ten years of study, Aria was able to make several groundbreaking discoveries about the nature of Blanks. She tells you that rather than being anti-Warp, Blanks produce a type of energy more connected to the Materium that can’t easily mix with Warp energy and in effect pushes it back. This energy is possessed by all living creatures, and Aria is for the moment calling it life-energy. When a being has a lot of life energy it leaks out of them, creating the disconcerting effect that Blanks are known for. Aria believes that it is possible to manipulate and control your life energy in the same way that Psykers can manipulate their Warp energy, and that blanks as you know them are effectively untrained Blanks, which seems to be far safer than being an untrained psyker. She is also of a belief that Stars possess a great deal of life energy, and that C’Tan consume it.

### Ka, a Primer

A treatise on the very basics of what the user calls Ka, which you recognise as the life-force that Aria has discovered powers Blank abilities, found by Commander Farsight long ago. Its author claims to be no master of using Ka or theoretical expert, but still offers many insights that are totally unknown. Judging by the summary ka in general is about boosting yourself and making your body perform better at tasks that it is already able to do, though there are also some ways to influence the minds of others.

## Ka Manipulation

### Manipulating Life-Force

After eight years of effort Aria has managed to gain a level of control over her Ka. At the moment she can only use it in a few ways, each of them rather crude. Before going into what she can now do Aria tells you what she has discovered about Ka and what it does. From what she can gather Ka can be used to effectively infuse material objects for a short period of time, notably boosting them in many ways. Currently, she can only apply this to simple objects, with more complex items being prone to breakages or malfunctions due to uneven levels of Ka-infusion, but even there it has a real impact. A Ka-sword item is tougher and sharper than it would normally be and hits harder despite being seemingly identical. Ka-infused objects are also far more able to ignore psychic effects than they normally would be, with a Ka-infused sword being able to cut through all but the strongest psychic shields.

Aria has found two main uses of Ka so far, first is effectively better control over her Null-Zone, which she now knows as her Ka-projection and a level of control over the size and shape of the Pariah field she projects when she goes Omega.

Second is her ability to strengthen objects, which can be used to boots physical and non-psychic energy attacks and strengthen defences.

### Improved Ka Manipulation

Aria spent another five years working on improving her Ka Control and has made several steps forward. She has found that as her ability to infuse Ka into objects grew more refined that she was able to infuse more complex items with Ka, which allowed for better measurements of what the Ka is doing. This allowed her to discover that Ka-Infusion in effect gives certain physical laws Primacy, allowing them to override other laws to an extent. As her control over Ka increased Aria was able to selectively enhance certain physical properties of items selectively, boosting their tensile strength, ability to cut or electrical resistance for example. Aria is sure that Ka could be used to massively boost technologies if used with enough precision and understanding.

### Advanced Ka Manipulation

After spending nineteen years working on it Aria has developed what she considers to be an acceptable amount of control over her Ka. As well as being able to project it over a selected area and change said area on the fly, she can now infuse complex technological items with her Ka without disrupting their working, and enhance multiple aspects of the item at once, though her ability to enhance them is based on her understanding of how they work. On a harder to define level Aria can now feel where her Ka is and what it is doing to a better extent.

## Self Infusion

### Basic Self Infusion

After fifteen years of working on it, Aria finally figured out how to infuse herself with Ka effectively. She tells you that the trick to infusing herself with Ka without the Ka just blending ka into her internal reserves requires efficiently creating an additional circulatory system within her body to channel the Ka, keeping it separate from her general reserves. Once she figured out how to do it, Aria tells you that she can feed as much Ka as she wants into the system, and it will enhance her until she moves it elsewhere, and she can easily modify the system to enhance her in particular ways. From what she can see, the main limit on how she can currently enhance herself is her inadequate understanding of the human body and the laws of physics, chemistry and biology that it runs on.

### Advanced Self-Infusion

After spending some more time working on it, Aria has significantly increased her ability with self-infusion. She tells you that with better knowledge about what she is boosting that she can be more delicate in how she boosts herself, needing a lot less ka to achieve the same results. Her greater understanding and improving level of Ka-Control, has also allowed her to boots herself to greater heights. Right now she can enhance herself to a similar level as an Expert Biomancer of Delta level, which while significant, is nowhere near what she believes the peak of this skill can provide.

### Master Self-Infusion

After much study Aria has finally mastered Self-Infusion, being able to perform incredible physical feats purely on the basis of her Self-Infusion. As well as massively boosting her combat abilities, she seems to have developed her mastery of ka to a significant level with this breakthrough.

## Infusing Others

### Infusing Others

Aria found that boosting others with Ka is very different from Self-Infusion, and is in many ways closer to technological infusion in how much knowledge she needs. This is made worse by the fact that people's innate ka tends to mess with the Ka that she is infusing them with, throwing out her control in small but often significant, or even fatal, ways. Aria is convinced that properly infusing others is still a long way off, though it may be easier to infuse those that know how to control their own Ka. She will need to talk to Niflheim it seems.

### Infusing Ka Adepts

Aria worked with some of Niflheim's more skilled Draugr to determine if Infusing others works better when the subject can control their own Ka. She found that while the Draugr's Ka still got in the way slightly, that with Ka and proper control the Draugr can reduce the issues massively, especially when they are using self-infusion on the same aspects that Aria is trying to boost.

## Technological Infusion

### Basic Technological Infusion

Aria has now gained a good level of skill with Technological infusion, and can now reliable infuse almost all of your wargear. The better she gets at it the more she finds that the main limitation of Technological infusion is knowledge of the laws of the Materium that you are dealing with. On further practice, Aria has found a way to almost set the Ka in place, making it continue to infuse the item without any further need for focus. This has led to Aria looking into how Ka moves naturally and found that unlike Warp energy it tends to remain in place, rather than diffusing into the environment. Which leads to the question of why suns radiate Ka.

### Understanding Wargear

After six years of study Aria has gained a pretty good understanding of how her wargear works, which she can use to perform far more effective Ka Infusion. This allows her wargear to perform massively better than should be possible, and at levels beyond what technomancers can enhance it to.

## Ka-Sight

### Ka-Sight

Aria spent five years working on developing her Ka-Sight to a high level. Now she can not only see the Ka within living beings, she can see how it is spread within them, to an extent. Aria also tells you that she can now clearly see the Ka radiating from stars.

## Sa and Ka Interactions

### Warp and Ka: Exploration

After over three decades worth of effort Aria has finally figured out how to use her Sa and Ka powers simultaneously. She found that while tainting her Sa with her Ka is by itself not enough to overcome the repulsion effect, if she combines that with creating weaknesses in her Ka that she is able to use them as channels that allow her to expel her Sa and control it externally.