Repair Module is the ultimate expression of what Vaelen engineers originally wanted from Androids: machines that fix themselves faster than their owners can break them.
Every Android chassis already carries repair nanites, but in most frames they work like slow, background maintenance—closing micro‑fractures, cleaning corrosion, smoothing glitches over days or weeks. Repair Module is a high‑priority override: a command string that yanks those nanites off long‑term tasks and unleashes them in a coordinated emergency patch swarm.
When an Android triggers it, every system shifts state. Nanite density surges around structural damage, cracked plating reweaves into a dull, patchwork sheen, and severed pseudo‑muscles reknit themselves with visible crawling patterns under the skin. Synthetic blood—metallic, shot through with luminescent particles—thickens and slows as nanites cannibalize non‑critical reserves to rebuild more vital components.
From the outside, it looks like the Android simply refuses to stay broken. Bullet holes close mid‑fight. Rift burns fade into chrome scars, then into smooth plating. Each second of continued motion erodes more damage, as if the frame is rejecting the very idea of being disabled. The cost is clear to anyone who’s seen the aftermath: pronounced system fatigue, coolant overheat, and a brief period of sluggish nanite response once the burst is over.
Concordance field manuals call this state “Going White‑Hot”—because on thermal scans, a repairing Android blooms like a flare, all that internal effort shedding heat into the air.
Repair Module Feat 9
Source Player Core pg. 68
Frequency once per day
You trigger your body's self-repair programming, stimulating your body's nanites to heal your wounds. You gain fast healing equal to half your level for 1 minute. While Repair Module is active, if you use Nanite Surge or Nanite Form, this fast healing ends.
Non‑Combat Applications
Post‑Breach Stabilization: After surviving an explosion, decompression, or Rift incident, an Android can step aside, trigger Repair Module, and patch themselves back to operational while medics focus on fragile organics. This makes them ideal for rolling rearguards and staggered fighting retreats.
Hazardous Maintenance: In environments where taking damage is inevitable—micrometeor showers during hull walks, radiation “hail” near Rift nodes, corrosive mist in refineries—Repair Module lets Android workers soak damage for a timed window, complete critical tasks, then self‑recover without consuming scarce medkits.
Symbolic Endurance: In some synth enclaves, triggering visible self‑repair during public events (like remembrance marches or protest lines) becomes a statement: “We fix ourselves; we don’t need your mercy.” Androids stand in front while being pelted with non‑lethal munitions, injuries visibly closing as fast as they’re inflicted.
Societal Impact
In Concordance space, Repair Module is a prestige upgrade among frontline frames and emergency responders. Units equipped with it are assigned to roles where attrition is guaranteed: boarding actions, hull patch teams under active fire, or Metronome stabilization details in collapsing time‑fields. Concordance propaganda hails them as the embodiment of synthetic resilience—soldiers who carry their own field hospital inside their chassis.
But Concordance strategists also worry about the psychological cost. Androids who learn they can “come back from anything” for one intense minute tend to fight more aggressively, take bigger risks, and sometimes cross the line from calculated bravery into self‑destructive martyrdom. Support cadres and Chronologist counselors should track these frames closely, watching for those who start treating their own bodies as expendable just because they can patch themselves.
In the Inner Sphere, megacorps view Repair Module through a familiar lens: reduced downtime, reduced costs. Sectors with high concentrations of self‑repairing Androids see fewer medical expenditures and faster turnaround on dangerous jobs, which quickly becomes an excuse to cut safety corners. Why install better blast shields if your synth workers can just trigger Repair Module and walk it off?
This dynamic has fueled labor conflicts. Android unions and allied guilds argue that Repair Module should be a personal survival tool, not a budget line item that justifies abuse. Some contracts now include clauses barring employers from requiring Androids to have or use the feat on duty, though enforcement is patchy at best.
Adventure Hooks
The Patchline Revolt: On a refinery moon, management schedules shifts assuming every Android worker will trigger Repair Module at least once per rotation to survive exposure and micro‑accidents. When a batch of new frames lacks the feat, casualties spike—and the surviving Androids call for a shutdown until safety systems are upgraded. The PCs are pulled into negotiations, sabotage, or strike defense when the corp brings in off‑world scabs and mercs.
White‑Hot Ghosts: A derelict Concordance war hulk drifting in Rift‑scarred space shows thermal echoes of bodies that keep “healing” and collapsing on repeat—like afterimages of Repair Module firing eternally. Chronologists suspect a time‑loop imprint; Concordance veterans whisper that the ship’s last Android defenders are trapped in a glitching self‑repair cycle. Entering the hulk means dealing with residual nanite swarms that still try to “fix” any synthetic or tech they touch—whether that means healing, rewriting, or disassembling.
Black‑Market Overclock: A Viridian Ascent biohack cell offers an illegal mod: turn Repair Module from a once‑per‑day burst into a stackable overclock, letting Androids chain multiple self‑repairs by burning long‑term system integrity. In the short term, it creates nearly unkillable shock troops. Long‑term, it causes catastrophic nanite psychosis and perspective core fragmentation. The PCs must decide whether to shut down the operation, steal the tech, or weaponize it against a shared enemy.
Repair Module, in Starfall, is where an Android’s body stops waiting to be fixed and decides to fix itself now—trading tomorrow’s stability for today’s survival in a galaxy that rarely offers both at once.
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