Athena Project: Details

Phase 1 organs:
a) Second heart: Much like the astartes, a second heart is necessary for the further implantation process. The body will need to take in vast amounts of nutrients, and the densification process will reduce the volume pumpable by a single heart. In addition, the second heart serves as a safeguard in combat, allowing a certain modularity in organs. (Boost tough & str)
b) Fractal Alveoli: The second implant is placed on the summit of each lung. These release a special hormone that leads to a restructuring of the alveoli of the lung. Each alveoli restructures into a fractal volumetric shape. This increases the surface area to absorb oxygen 1000 times, allowing them to extract breath from even the thinnest atmospheres and water. In addition, the tubes created by the fractal structure are too small for even complex organic molecules, protecting the subject from airborne poisons & particulates. This structure is necessary for the Osseomuscola to function, as it requires vast volumes of oxygen.
c) Osseomuscola: The first implant is a small series of organs implanted in the bone marrow of the hip bones, two in the lower leg bones and one in the spine. Over a relatively short period (a few weeks) the bones and muscles of the subject densify. The bone achieves a triangular (rather than the usual hexagonal) structure, as well as a dense face-center-cubic configurations. This process is exceedingly painful, though the pain is mitigated by activating the hormonal effects of childbirth, allowing most subjects to survive. This reduction in size increases neural density while reducing neuron length, serving as a precursor to further modifications (Reduce size to small, increase toughness & strength, precursor to Pe boost)
Phase 2 organs
d) Intuo-cortex: This brain-implant includes a special cortex solely devoted to to managing and interpreting perceptual inputs. It also provokes the generation of specialized sense-cells, triggering innate potential located in the human genetic code. It is also essential to interpret the light-speed data from the future opto-neural network in a fashion the human mind can comprehend. (Unn pe, pe boost, heightened senses)
e) Pentachromatic-eyes: A select few human females have an active fourth color cone, allowing them to see slightly into the infrared. This implant unlocks that potential and more. The eyes of the implantee begin generating a fourth and fifth color cone, providing them with pentacromacy. This allows them to see into the infrared and ultraviolet, and even detect some forms of high-energy radiation. (Heightened sight, unnatural pe)
f) Locus Coreolus Imperius (Translated Place of sky-power): An augmentation of the pre-existing Locus Coreolus, this organ allows the user a state of heightened focus and intensity where time slows down and even a speeding bullet seems to slow to a standstill. While this power only lasts for a short duration, in this time the user can perform superhuman feets. (Gives a frenzy-like state of heightened focus for rounds/combat)
g) Lipid body shield: In combat situations, "fat" is generally better at absorbing physical damage the sensitive (and essential) muscle. This organ generated a thin, high-density layer if lipids all over the body, useful both as protection and as energy reserves for high-intesity situations (tough boost, mostly support to other organs)

Phase 3 organs
h) Opto-neural network: Optical fibers have been used by humanity to transfer high-density data since as early as M2. Even in those early days, the first genetors modified neurons to emit light, to better visualize their activity. Augustus has created a series of specialized cells to transmit neural signal at the speed of light, replacing the neural system “core” (spine, limbs) with organic optical fibers that allow reflexes to be literally at the speed of light. The fibers themselves are “grown” into multi-core single-mode fiber; low-power lasers are shone into a vat filled with light-sensitive neural cells that form a structure in those spaces the laser doesn’t shine; these structures are “pulled” out of the vat creating long fibers who’s empty cores will fill with high-transparency fluid once implanted. (Agility bonus boost, Boost to number of reactions, Unnatural agility, Unna pe).

i) Opto-cerebellum: Meant to interpret data from the opto-neural network, it acts as a cerebellum in its control of reflex actions. As the normal cerebellum is too slow to interpret light-speed data, this special organ is all-optical, capable of computations to react to any danger. (Unnat Ag, Unnat Pe)
j) HeLa Womb: In his quest to find optimal combat use of the human female configuration, the womb could not be ignored. Already optimal for generating & structure human pluripotent stem cells, the womb was adapted with genetic structuring derived from the HeLa cell line, the oldest know immortal cell line extracted by genetors in M2. Significant vasculature is added to the natural womb, and the ovaries are modified & enlarged to generate stem cells. This allows a constant low-grade regeneration of the Athena’s body, allowing them to heal in minutes injuries that would lay a man down. In addition, the stored stem cells can be released in a single burst allowing rapid regeneration of severed limbs, damaged organs and almost anything short of death. (Base: Regen 2; “regenerate” to remove a critical effecta 1/duration?)