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Biogel Oracle

As an experiment in opening up direct access to certain aspects of the Unity’s mind and powers to certain select individuals, Lady Anwae directed Dr. Alluwa to create a device that could transform anyone into a ‘biogel oracle’. While held inside the device’s grasp, the oracle would have have considerable access to the vast swath of information within the Unity. This would, at Omega’s discretion, even extend to the Unity’s network of senses embodied in each and every biogel wearing individual.

Each of the half dozen existing oracle units is an identical, pod shaped device with a reclining seat inside. This seat is made of glistening, luminous pink, transparent biogel. Upon contact with a nude, or biogel wearing, individual, the biogel will instantly stick to, spread over, and fully encase her. It expands to form a rounded surface flush with the outer surface of the pod, sealing the new oracle inside and ensuring that no one can interfere with her activities.

Once fully ensconced within the pod, threads of brightly glowing activated biogel spread through the transparent encasement, and then over the surface of the oracle until she’s entirely covered with it. At this point, she has access to the Unity’s collective consciousness. At first, this access is very limited, largely in order to preserve the oracle’s sense of self. She might be able to sense the world as if she were in a random biogel wearer’s body. She might be able to remember certain things highly pertinent to the Unity as a whole. But to access more, she must remain in the pod.

A prospective oracle must decide how long she will remain in the pod before she enters. Options range from one day to one month. One day is only enough to poke around the world as another biogel wearer for a bit, and to obtain an understanding of the Unity and its potentially accessible properties. It takes several days before the oracle can begin to remember some of the memories which have been added to the Unity from its countless constituent minds. After a week and a half, remembering becomes relatively easy, though retaining her sense of self starts to become difficult. After two and a half weeks, if allowed, the oracle can choose who’s body to perceive the world from, thought at this point, only the most disciplined of minds can retain their sense of self. As the end of the month nears, the oracle’s retention of her sense of self becomes virtually impossible. An oracle who loses their sense of self is immediately dissolved into the activated biogel, and their soul becomes part of the gestalt within the connected biogel core.

Biogel oracles can hear the inquiries of those who might come to them for advice, and the nature of their prison compels them to reply as truthfully as the Unity, and Omega, allows. The reply comes in the form of fluid, ethereal words that come directly from the surface of the pod’s biogel filling, or cloudy images which form upon its surface. Under no circumstances will the oracle reveal anything about Omega’s nature, thoughts, or intentions. She will not discuss Vixanti, Gelitech, or anything that might compromise their security or business operations. Nor will she reveal anything which might be considered a matter of national security for the Fey’li Empire.

The experience of being a biogel oracle has been noted to carry along with it certain addictive properties. A biogel oracle who only enters a pod for a few days in unlikely to feel any particular inclination to do it again. However, once a biogel oracle becomes comfortable remembering the Unity’s memories, the desire to do so again is quite compelling. Given the chance, such biogel oracles will enter the pod again and again if given the opportunity, insisting on longer and longer durations each time, until their dissolution into the Unity is all but guaranteed.

Biogel oracle addiction does not rise to the point where a former oracle will attempt to force their way back into the pod, and has no effect on her so long as she remains out of sight of an oracle pod. Should she again come into the presence of such a pod, she will insist on a longer duration than her last time as an oracle, regardless of the intervening time, or the immediate circumstances.

There is no means by which the general public can access either a biogel oracle pod, with or without an oracle inside. It is currently considered highly restricted technology by the Fey’li Imperial Navy, though internally, Vixanti has thus far been totally free to experiment with it as they see fit.