Mount Zion Ryan

Notes for a fiction project. here for safekeeping only.

• Boss at Lab is a woman. She somehow survives and redeems herself by practicing medicine in rural Mexico. She can help Darius later.
• Why doesn’t the host’s body’s immune system attack the nanites?They are made of a substance that the immune system does not attack (like pacemakers, surgical steel, etc…)
• (Maybe) Darius was approached by a gov’t organization and warned of the pending attack. He is asked to bring the nanites out. He will have a specific amount of time to get out before the compound is destroyed by a hydrogen bomb.
• Unbeknownst to Darius, his father is part of Alacorp and has been tracking him, but letting him get away. He agreed to bring Darius in if they leave D’s wife and children alone.
• Alacorp is replicating the Nanite Project at more than one facility.
• Enemy: an earlier version of the project—
  • bionic man,
  • nanites enter host and make permanent change.
• Genetic mod type enemies. Genetic engineered humans.
• Present day or near future (10 years).
• Doesn’t age.
• Core concepts: Darius abilities are not supernatural or mutant abilities or even pseudoscience. They are actually technological.
• Nanite capabilities:
  Temporary changes, limited by fuel source:
  • Heightened senses
  • Feats strength and speed
  • Regeneration
  • Armor
  • Change physical appearance
  • Eiditic Memory
  • Seems to slow time. Actually moving at incredible speed. And nanites increase his brain mojo to allow him to take in all the information.
  • Greater brain procession, ie spidey senses. A normal brain blocks a great deal of the data collected by the senses, the nanites can “open the pipeline” of this information giving Darius heightened senses and “bullet time.”
  • Pass through solid objects
  • Block Pain receptors, first thing to shut down when he needs to conserve energy.
  • Increased immune system.
  • Learn physical skills (martial arts, shooting for example) very quickly as the nanites boost muscle memory.
  • Shooting, nanites increase skill by allowing near instantaneous firing solution.
  • Hold breath until he blacks out.
  • Rapid environmental acclimatizing.
• Side effects
  • Constant need to eat…nanite abilities need a lot of fuel.
  • Headaches
  • Pain (until he learns that the nanites can block pain).
  • Broadcasting a frequency originally intended to let Nanite soldiers communicate. Range 100 yds.
• Weaknesses:
  • Environmental threats: desert, under water, extreme cold.
  • Nanites have as a Prime Directive regeneration. This is not a function that Darius can override. Massive wounds require redirection of nanite resources.
    

    For example Darius leg gets shredded in a car accident and his heightened senses and other nanite functions are redirected to regenerate the wound.

  • Nanites consume a great deal of fuel (food). As the fuel runs out their functionality is diminished.
  • Regeneration is not necessarily instantaneous. Healing process normally depends on the bodies natural delivery through the bloodstream.

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