Advancements (Evolutions)

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Newtypes/Cyber Newtypes: - Restricted until Story Arc 4!
Newtypes have an extremely high degree of focus and spatial awareness, almost a sixth sense. They are capable of empathically detecting other Newtypes and are sensitive to the hostile intentions directed at them by others, allowing them to uncannily react to their opponents even before the offender carries out the intended action. Some Newtypes also exhibit telepathic abilities or use psychokinesis.

It is theorized that Newtypes had existed before The Cataclysm, but became dormant after generations spent separated from space.

Becoming a Newtype requires the following criteria to be met:

• The character must have participated in at least eight missions.
• At least two missions in space while owning a Universal Century or After War mobile suit after completing the eight mission requirement.

Ranks and Bonuses:

• Rank A:
  • +3 Accuracy with Psycommu Weapons.
  • +3 bonus to Insight checks.
  • +1 Reaction Modifier
• Rank B:
  • +2 Accuracy with Psycommu Weapons.
  • +2 bonus to Insight checks.
• Rank C:
  • Enables use of Psycommu Systems.
  • +1 Accuracy with Psycommu Weapons.
  • +1 bonus to Insight checks.

Your character's Advancement Rank will increase automatically every four missions.

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Innovators/Innovades - Restricted until Story Arc 4!
Generally called Genuine or True Innovators (also sometimes Pure-bred Type Innovator), they are humans that naturally evolved from exposure to concentrated high grade GN Particles. The evolutionary process is also called Innovation. The full capabilities of a naturally evolved Innovator are unknown.

A Genuine Innovator has the ability to sense other users of quantum brainwaves (QBWs), possesses telepathic abilities that allow him or her to sense the thoughts and feelings of neighboring people, enhanced reflexes and a sense for danger precognition, and the capability to utilize the special properties of high grade GN particles to communicate emotions/feelings out towards other people. They are also said to be able to live twice as long as a normal human.

It is theorized that Innovators had existed before The Cataclysm, but became dormant after generations lacking the proper stimuli, in this case high density GN Particles.

Becoming an Innovator requires the following criteria to be met:

• The character must have participated in at least eight missions.
• At least two missions while owning a GN Drive powered mobile suit after completing the eight mission requirement.

Ranks and Bonuses:

• Rank A:
  • +3 Accuracy with QBW Weapons.
  • +3 bonus to Insight checks.
  • +1 Reaction Modifier
• Rank B:
  • +2 Accuracy with QBW Weapons.
  • +2 bonus to Insight checks.
• Rank C:
  • Enables use of Quantum Brainwaves (QBW).
  • +1 Accuracy with QBW Weapons.
  • +1 bonus to Insight checks.

Your character's Advancement Rank will increase automatically every four missions.

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Alaya-Vijnana System User - Restricted until Story Arc 4
The Alaya-Vijnana system consists of two parts: one part is installed in the mobile weapon, and the other part is implanted into the pilot’s spine. Originally it could only be done at a young age to let the implants fuse as they grow, but continuous research eventually allowed the surgery on young adults. The implant surgery is dangerous and should it fail, there maybe extremely grotesque cell growth around where the implants are located, as well as loss of other bodily functions, such as being unable to move one's legs, and even death.

After the implantation, the person has a protrusion on the back for physical connection to the Alaya-Vijnana interface in the mobile weapon’s cockpit. The Alaya-Vijnana System creates a pseudo-brain lobe in the pilot's body using nanomachines, allowing the pilot's brain to directly process mobile suit data fed through the physical connection. As the pseudo-brain lobe also governs spatial awareness, the pilot's spatial awareness is enhanced. The more implants a pilot has, the higher the information transfer rate through the system. The system also allows the pilot (even illiterate ones) to operate the mobile weapon without requiring instructions or reading a manual.

Undertaking the surgery for Alaya-Vijnana requires the following criteria to be met:

• At least eight missions participated in.
• At least two missions piloting a machine from Iron Blooded Orphans after completing the ten mission requirement.

Bonuses:

• Rank A/3 Implants: +3 Pilot Modifiers
• Rank B/2 Implants: +2 Pilot Modifiers
• Rank C/1 Implant: +1 Pilot Modifiers

Your character can attempt to advance their rank by receiving additional implants every 3 missions after obtaining their current rank. To advance, the character must pass a Constitution Check of 14 or higher. If they fail, they may try again after two missions.

Advancement Abilities

• Unshackled Demon: An ability granted to users of the Alaya-Vijnana System who are piloting one of the 72 Gundam Frames. By removing system limiters, the Alaya-Vijnana System can operate at full power and unshackle the performance of the Gundam, doubling all Pilot modifiers for the duration of the battle.
  
  However, with each use the user sacrifices part of their body due to damage to the nervous system and it can only be used as many times as the user has implants before death. One implant means the system will kill them after one use, two means two uses, and three enables three uses before death. Use of body parts are temporarily regained while using the system.
  
  All users of Alaya-Vijnana also receive the "Deformed" trait for free, owing to the new protrusion coming out of their spine.

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Experienced Veteran/Super Pilot
The option for those who don't want supernatural powers or abilities. Instead, the character has withstood many battles and honed their battle senses to their maximum potential. What they lack in special weapons or features, they make up for with sheer skill and experience. Because of this, they do not require any rolls or special abilities to achieve, only battle experience.

A Veteran/Super Pilot can transition to any other advancement. However they lose all bonuses from Veteran/Super Pilot in doing so, and can not revert their advancement once changed.

Veteran/Super Pilot is unlocked automatically once a character has completed a minimum of eight missions.

Warning: Critical and accuracy bonuses do not apply to remote weaponry.

• Rank A: +2 to Pilot Stat modifiers. +2 to Mechanics checks involving MS/MA. Focused Mind only requires a 12 to pass and automatically activates at 50% instead.
• Rank B: +1 to Pilot Stat modifiers. +1 to Mechanics checks involving MS/MA.
• Rank C: Enables use of the "Focused Mind" ability.

Your character's Advancement Rank will automatically increase every 5 missions after unlocking.

Veteran Abilities

• Focused Mind: The character can roll after the first three turns to unleash the "Focused Mind" ability. Essentially their will to win or survive becomes so strong that they push their abilities to the maximum. Requiring a roll of 15 or higher, if successful, all modifiers and critical range are increased by 1 for the remainder of the battle. If the roll fails, another may be attempted after the next 2 turns.
  
  Focused Mind = Wisdom Check of 15 or higher.
  
  Focus Mind will activate automatically if the pilot is near defeat, in this case meaning their machine is at or below 35% durability. Focused Mind cannot be used in Arena.

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Super Soldier/Coordinator/Extended/Enhanced/Ect - Restricted until Story Arc 4!
Unlike Veteran, whose superior performance is achieved through sheer skill and battle experience, or Alaya-Vijnana Users, who rely on a specialized system to enhance their ability to control machinery, Super Soldiers are humans that have had their bodies experimented on to enhance their physical and mental performance, often through drugs and cellular modification. Some were modified from birth through genetic engineering, while others receive the modifications later in life, in either case the individual tends to be physically and/or mentally superior to average humans.

Becoming a super soldier is not an easy process, it involves manipulating the body and mind to become something superior. As a result, there is a risk of mental instability, which can take the form of insanity, split personality, heavy reliance on drugs and serums to function, or various other complications.

Becoming a Super Soldier requires the following criteria to be met:

• The character must have participated in at least eight missions.
• The character has participated in a Stability Check.

Stability Check = Wisdom or Constitution Save of 12 or higher.

If a "stability check" fails, the character must take either the Insanity trait or Split Personality.

Ranks and Bonuses:

• Rank A: +2 to all Personal and Pilot stat modifiers. Can use either Psycommu or Quantum Brainwaves.
• Rank B: +1 to all Personal and Pilot stat modifiers. Can use either Psycommu or Quantum Brainwaves.
• Rank C: Can use either Psycommu or Quantum Brainwaves. May only choose one.

Alternatively, in place of Psycommu or Quantum Brainwaves, a Super Soldier may take the Focused Mind skill from Veteran/Super Pilot.

The character's advancement rank will automatically increase every three missions. However each advancement requires an additional Stability check. At Rank A, the passing minimum for the check is 16.

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X-Rounder
"X-Rounders" are humans who are able to use the "X-Region" of their brains. This usage of the X-Region allows X-Rounders to have increased spatial awareness and possess acute precognitive abilities, however the full potential of X-Rounder abilities are unknown. Moreover, their abilities allow X-Rounders to have an edge in mobile suit combat against normal humans.

Although X-Rounders possess heightened awareness and special abilities that normal humans do not possess, X-Rounders are a regression of humans as the usage of the X-Region was only required in the natural environment of the survival of the fittest which existed before the creation of civilization. As a result, X-Rounder instincts are comparable to animal instincts.

Aside from their special abilities, X-Rounders appear identical to normal humans in both personality and physical traits.

Becoming an X-Rounder requires the following criteria to be met:

• The character must have participated in at least eight missions
• At least two missions in space while owning a Advanced Generation mobile suit after completing the ten mission requirement.

Ranks and Bonuses:

• Rank A:
  • +3 Accuracy with X-Rounder Weapons.
  • +3 bonus to Insight checks.
  • +1 Reaction Modifier
• Rank B:
  • +2 Accuracy with X-Rounder Weapons.
  • +2 bonus to Insight checks.
• Rank C:
  • Enables use of X-Rounder Systems.
  • +1 Accuracy with X-Rounder Weapons.
  • +1 bonus to Insight checks.

Your character's Advancement Rank will increase automatically every four missions.