Originally posted by Waffles Name: The Animated Lifeform Preservation Containment Unit, or ALPCU Description: A jar, usually of glass and a base about half a foot tall, containing the head of an organic sapient being. A lid keeps the fluid within from spilling, while the jar itself hums quietly while containing machinery. The glass is usually treated to be bulletproof, while the base usually contains a mixture of false organs and stasis technology to keep the head alive. Abilities: [*] A moderately protective casing prohibits weak damage against the head. [*] A head can prolong life to about 500 years if placed within, at which point the generator either fails or the head experiences massive organ and/or respiratory failure. Limitations: [*] Movement is extraordinarily limited. Without another being to carry or move the head, it will not move. [*] You're a head. [*] Synthetics cannot be placed within, due to complications of the fluid keeping the head alive. [*] The jar does not support augmentations such as arms or legs. [*] The head, once placed within, cannot be removed. Cloning is the only way to return to the full body. How does it work: The fluid within the jar is a mixture of vital nutrients and drugs, to both nullify any pain of the fact you're a head in a jar and to sustain the head. The stasis field helps maintain the appearance of the being from when it was alive, leading to cloned presidential heads appearing as they did before/at death. Within the base is a set of synthetic organs to provide a working biological system for homeostasis and use of the nutrients within, which are replaced on a daily basis in the form of easily dissolved flakes. The power source varies, but the most a better will do is keep you alive a few more years above the base amount of five hundred before expiration. As for the head itself, usually the being is either a clone of the original, the actual personnel transferred to the jar's system, or a whole new being. Flavor text: First developed in basements, media, and certain military complexes , the earliest models simply held cloned or dying personnel, or specimens long expired. Now, with the development of technology furthuring by the year, the governments have deemed it worthy to allow richer civilians outside their beloved celebrity hoards to become one of the many, if only for a few centuries, to live as a head past their expiration. Referenced Technologies (Optional): N/a Attainability: [Open] [size=-2](Previously Semi-Open)[/size] Tags: [Civilian] Category: Medical
