Revenant vertebrae

Revenant vertebrae

A prosthetic spine that allows the user to become temporarily invisible. The prosthetic is crafted from a modified Revenant spine, using archotech shards to restrain the dormant revenant. The user can manipulate the visual centers of those nearby, effectively turning themselves invisible.

Base Stats

Type

Medical Items – Body Parts

Market Value

1895 

Mass

0.3 kg

HP

50

Body Part

Spine

Creation

Crafted At

Required Research

Revenant invisibility

Skill Required

Crafting 8

Work To Make

24,000 ticks (6.67 mins)

Resources to make

10 + 1 + 2

Technical

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Anomaly

This article is about the installable body part. For captureable form of the revenant entity, see revenant spine.

The Revenant Vertebrae is an artificial body part that acts as a total spine replacement. It grants the ability Revenant Invisibility, which turns the user invisible for 15 seconds on a 1 day cooldown. It provides 100% efficiency, the same as an organic spine.

Acquisition

Revenant vertebraes can be crafted at a bioferrite shaper once the Revenant invisibility research project has been completed. Note that this research requires dark study to unlock. Each requires  10 Bioferrite,  1 Revenant spine,  2 Shards, 24,000 ticks (6.67 mins) of work modified by the general labor speed of the crafter, and a crafting skill of 8.

Summary

The revenant vertebrae replaces a shattered or otherwise damaged spine, and both prevents and cures the bad back condition. It otherwise provides no other statistical, curative, or preventative benefit, aside from the Revenant Invisibility ability. Its creation requires the defeat of a Revenant, and the associated Revenant Invisibility Void Research to be completed. You can execute a previously captured and contained revenant to revert it back to its spine form, for subsequent use in creating the item.

Installation

Installing the part requires 2,500 ticks (41.67 secs) of work, 2x medicine of herbal quality or better, and a Medical skill of 5.

Once installed, the part cannot be removed by conventional means. It can be overwritten by the installation of a bionic spine, however the vertebrae will be lost in the process.

If the operation fails, the part has a 100% chance to be destroyed.

It cannot be installed on ghouls.

Analysis

The revenant vertebrae's main use is in that it provides the ability to briefly invisible, a useful trait for a melee pawn to close distances without being shot, or to avoid heavy fire for a brief moment. A ranged pawn may also use this to escape melee and create distance. As such, when used on combat pawns, it has notable synergy with jump packs or locust armor. It can also be used for the purpose of allowing one to sneak a pawn into and out of a location without being detected, such as for hacking a guarded terminal, or any other instance in which stealth may be required.

The Revenant Vertebrae can also be useful to give to body modders for a mood buff without affecting any stats, with 6 installed parts giving the maximum mood buff. However bionic eyes, legs, and arms all use more easily obtained materials. Two of each of these alternatives reaches the maximum buff and results in a significantly more capable colonist. Thus, the vertebrae is mainly useful should only be used for this purpose if the other options are unavailable, such as on Blindsight pawns.

The main difficulty in using revenant vertebrae comes from crafting it. As it cannot be bought from other factions, the only way to obtain it is through:

• Researching bioferrite shaping and building a bioferrite shaper,
• Finding and capturing a revenant, which alone is very difficult,
• Holding enough advanced entities or constructing a secure enough cell to research revenant invisibility without the revenant escaping,

all of which together is likely to take several quadrums. As such, although revenant vertebrae is an extremely useful prosthetic, it will take a large time investment to obtain.

Revenant Vertebrae can also cure colonists with scarred or shattered spines, as well as the bad back condition from old age, similar to a bionic spine. A shattered spine can only otherwise be cured by a healer mech serum or installation of a bionic spine. However, as it cannot be acquired through trading, it needs to be crafted, which will be difficult as you need to be very far down the Anomaly research tree to unlock the recipe. Additionally to the fact that revenants may only appear once or twice throughout a given playthrough, it is almost certainly better to prioritise the other uses outlined above.

Version history

• Anomaly DLC Release - Added.

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