Blood on the Asphalt biker
"It doesn't just absorb kinetic impact; it dynamically disperses it across the molecular structure."
I sat at a heavy workbench covered in scorch marks, the Shogun's shattered processor core resting in front of me. The corrupted white sub-ether had faded, leaving behind a dense, hyper-optimized matrix of old-world circuitry.
"I don't care about the armor, Dad. I care about the engine," I said, wiping grease from my forehead with the back of my hand. I held up a small, cylindrical component that looked like a sleek, silver hourglass. "This is the localized chronological-shunt drive. This is how he moved faster than Dax."