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Black Angel:Combat specialized mini-ISO: |
Also known as a Dark Angel or a Death Angel in various polities and at various periods in history. The exact nature and capabilities of the Black Angel are only vaguely known and are mostly inferred from anecdotal accounts of eyewitnesses. Never survivors.
The central body of the Black Angel is a reflective black sphere of enhanced matter some 100m in diameter. The central sphere contains a femtotech based mind estimated to be of at least SI:3 level. The outer hull of the sphere acts as a multi-frequency phased array capable of transmitting energy across the entire EM spectrum at a range of energies from weak radio broadcasts to multi-terrawatt lasers. An entire panopoly of pico and femtotech based weapons can also be emitted by the sphere. Finally the outer hull of the central sphere seems to be capable of taking on the properties of the godtech material, ylem, able to convert incoming EM energy to matter with virtually 100% efficiency. However, while ylems conversion ability is an inherent property of the material itself, the hull of a Black Angel seems to be able to turn the effect off and on at will.
Surrounding the central sphere and normally extending out to a distance of some 10,000km in all directions is what at first appears to be a thin cloud of reflective dust or mist. In actuality this cloud, or 'halo' as it is usually called, is a gigantic array of dust mote sized Pitch Drives.
Each drive unit can operate independently or in concert with any or all of the others. Under the control of the central ISO sphere, the halo units can array themselves to produce a variety of gravitational field effects and enormous tidal forces.
A Black Angel can reconfigure its halo and central node to pass thru most wormholes. It can redirect the path of a snowflake or rip a battlemoon to fragments. It can accelerate a pebble into a habitat shattering kinetic bomb or decelerate a RKKS projectile to harmlessness. It can reach down to a planetary surface from orbit and lift a sophont into space or shatter the crust of a world.
The Black Angel is not associated with any particular polity or god. Rather, the basic design and a number of variants have been observed in use at those rare times and places when the archai choose to intervene directly, and especially militarily, in the affairs of Terragens civilization.
