Essence ofAugment Gothic

You have undergone a rather amazing amount of successful genetic resequencing, even what might be considered genetic sculpting. It's a work of art, the masterwork of a geneticist far more skilled than anyone alive today, or perhaps using technology and techniques beyond our current understanding,

You'd have to go back to the era of Khan, during the Eugenics Wars on Earth, to find genetic enhancements this comprehensive. Everything has been enhanced, making you as different from regular humans as humans are from monkeys, yet you are still human. You are not so different that you would be unable to have children with humans. In fact, your physiology and DNA are so robust you wouldn’t struggle with impregnating virtually any but the most extreme outlier examples of the humanoid races the Federation has encountered. You might be the future of the human form, if humanity were extraordinarily lucky as a race, after hundreds of thousands of years of hard evolution.

For one thing, you stand just over 6 feet 6 inches (a little over 2 meters) tall. For another, your face is now completely symmetrical, your cheekbones, jaw, and chin more defined, giving you a rugged, handsome look. You now have the body of a fitness/underwear model - a defined musculature without the over-bulging of weight lifters – the kind of body type that only movie stars who are basically paid to get professionally sculpted can achieve. You now sport rock hard pecs, wide shoulders, jacked arms and biceps, and 8 pack abs, with that distinctive V-shape leading to your pelvis, and sculpted legs that looked as strong and thick as tree trunks.

And, if you are a man, you will find your penis having become huge and perfect, in length, girth, and shape, with that distinctive arch to hit the g-spot just right.

Your skin is missing any moles or other blemishes, and the hair on the top of your head and eyebrows are the only places you still have hair.

It is the body of someone blessed at birth with extraordinarily good genes and with a dedicated lifestyle to both achieve and maintain it, like someone who was at the height of their training for the Olympics that was to take place next week.

On a genetic level, a bunch of junk DNA left over from the evolutionary process have either been removed or repurposed entirely. Every organ has been enhanced to superhuman levels. You literally now have cat-like reflexes and an incredible sense of balance, making your reaction time and agility off the charts.

Your muscle fibers are incredibly dense now too, but also supple. You could wrestle a silverback gorilla without much effort. In addition to increased density, your muscles are also far more efficient than they should be – lactic acid will now take much longer to build up and leave them faster.

Your kidneys, which are responsible for maintaining overall fluid balance in the human body, regulating and filtering minerals from blood, filtering waste materials from food, medications, and toxic substances, has been seriously enhanced. You could drink salt water and still be fine, even contaminated water. Your enhanced kidneys, working in conjunction with your enhanced gastrointestinal tract and digestive system, which are extremely efficient, will mean you will either need to go to the bathroom far less than a normal human, or not at all, depending on what you eat.

Your lungs works perfectly now, pushing air in deep, regular breaths and are enhanced with increased overall capacity and defenses against airborne toxins and contagions (you can run like a cheetah for miles without needing to take a rest).

Your stomach can digest most organic matter and would work in tandem with your super-liver and kidneys to prevent most poisons and toxins from affecting you.

You heart, arteries, and veins are more elastic, durable, and muscular, which will prevent you from bleeding out if you are wounded. That has added benefits, like preventing your arteries from getting clogged.

Stem cell production is off the charts, allowing for quick cellular regeneration (with enough time, you can even regrow a limb!) and your immune system is like a jealous lover, destroying every foreign contaminant without mercy.

The list goes on, but some of the highlights are that your skeleton, joints, and every organ is laced with a network of naturally produced carbon nanotubes, meaning you can now withstand some pretty extreme punishment without organ damage or rupture. Your skin has also been enhanced, making it surprisingly resilient, making you able to shrug off most cutting slashes with little to no damage and the nanotubes will work like organic clamps, keeping the skin together long enough for the cellular regeneration to heal with no scarring. The denser skin structure also helps with reducing radiation damage, but this also means you won’t tan well. The skin upgrade don’t make you invulnerable, but it can help keep you alive until help arrives. What is interesting about the skin nanotubes is the side benefit of being able to divert energy weapon beams throughout the nanotube network, allowing it to weaken or even dissipate the energy of a stun shot. Augments can already withstand a stun beam without any effort, but you can take on a beam set to kill.

You are also a long-lived augment, your regeneration having affected your chromosome's telomeres so that they remained long. You aren’t immortal, but you are as close as you can get and still be human.

The one drawback that would usually come from this demigod-like body is the need for a lot of calories. But you only need to eat the same amount as a normal human, and your body will keep itself in tip-top shape with no effort.

Your mind works faster and better, and you can at will turn of your emotions, entering a state of cold, clinical behavior.

Whenever you get within something like 10 feet of a humanoid woman their nostrils will flare a tiny bit, and the visible interest in them will ratchet up several degrees. Many of these women, especially the unattached, single ones, will find any excuse to stop, and chat, and touch you, like they are confirming you are real, sending all kinds of signals that they are sexually interested in you Humanity, and the other humanoid races, has some instincts buried in their DNA that is still not understood, and which you naturally trigger as a strong alpha male capable of giving them unusually strong offspring. It is as if there are sensory cues that your body is giving off that signal that you are further along the evolutionary chain, yet still compatible with them.

You have also received any other augmentations and abilities that Gothic has, but are not mentioned above.

You have the same skills, experience, knowledge, training and etc as Augment Gothic in chapter 25.

You also receive your very own copy of Gothic’s ship: The Marauder-class Corvette from Star Wars, nerfed quite a bit by being shrunken down to less than a quarter of its normal size and adapted to better fit in with the Star Trek universe's technology base, though it does look mostly the same visually. It is 45 meters long, and 15 meters tall, with an impressive wingspan, which holds most of its weapons. It is not a capital ship by any means, more of a super runabout really, but definitely larger than a standard Runabout.

The standard Star Wars design, came standard with 8 double turbolaser canons for weapons. As that technology doesn’t exist in the Star Trek universe, those weapons have been replaced by Klingon-style disrupter canons like you'd see on a Bird of Prey, two fore, two aft, two port, and two starboard. The ones on the wing, though, are not the overlarge version of that weapon that reached past the midpoint of the ship really. And the shuttle/fighter launch bay, which had sat directly below the cockpit in the 'snake's head' is more akin to a smallish cargo bay now, which would barely be able to fit one small shuttle at most. It has a loading/boarding ramp to this cargo space, which it can lower where you'd enter the ship and load cargo. Two smaller storage bays are at the rear of the ship, to either side of the large ion impulse engine. Each has its own door which opens at the rear for easy loading.

It also has a permanent bedroom for the captain/pilot in the shaft of the ship, between the cockpit and the rear wing section.

What is definitely not standard for the design are the two warp nacelles tucked directly under the ship, in the wing section, on either side of the large ion impulse engine. There is no such thing as 'hyperdrive' in the Star Trek universe, so warp drive is a necessity for interstellar distances.

Its impulse drive is at the rear of the craft, in that large engine style of the Star Wars universe. For a smallish ship of lower mass, this gives the ship an incredible amount of thrust while at sublight speeds.

That much higher than normal sublight speed, combined with the vessel's maneuverability, means that in a ship-to-ship engagement, where everything else was close to equal, you’d have a serious advantage. Should you face a craft that totally outclasses yours, you should have enough speed to run away and/or enough maneuverability to make getting hit by targeted weapons' fire very, very difficult. Even its warp drive is more powerful than that of a standard runabout.

The ship's control systems are different too, but not so different as to require a great deal of time to figure out. It is a better design and layout than standard Federation controls, being very easy to pilot, with simple, intuitive controls and its built-in neural uplink, a device which allows your brain to connect with the ship itself using a helmet-like device. This allows you to control the ship with your mind alone if you wish to, with no need to even touch a control console. The neural link has no negative side effects, and can be used to it’s full potential thanks to your Augment nature.

The ship also has a Fabricator capable of creating anything you have ever eaten or drank before.

The ship has no cloak function, but can hide from long range sensors.

It has a sort of 'notice-me-not' or 'nothing-important-here' field surrounding it, preventing people from thinking the ship weird.

The ship also has anything else Gothic’s ship has.

Optionally, you may choose to receive any of the following people as your companions. You can pick as many as you want. The relationship between you and them is whatever you want it to be, and you can choose exactly how romantically and sexually experienced they are. This can be different for each of the characters but they will all be irrevocably loyal to you.

• Annika/Seven of Nine.

• Dr. Beverly Crusher.

• Kira Nerys.

• T’Maz (near identical descendant of T’Pol).

• Ro Laren.

• Jadzia Dax.

• Any other character from the Augment Gothic universe.

Optionally, you may at any time choose to take a one way trip into the world of Augment Gothic, or a variation of it. This can be the original Star Trek universe, any alternate universe, like another fanfic or a universe made perfectly for yourself. You can either simply be dropped in or reincarnated into the body of an existing character or someone new. You will find that the world of Augment Gothic is close to the world of Star Trek, with certain changes. Like Dr. Crusher looks more like a green-eyed Christina Hendricks, and Seven or Nine never became Seven of Nine, and instead stayed on earth as a Librarian.