The ocular plasma weapon is an integrated defensive system within Jack Kaiden's left-eye implant. It acquires targets and fires hyper-focused plasma in single-shot, target-lock, and rapid-fire modes.
¶ Operation
The weapon uses the implant's sensors and visual interface. It can respond rapidly to Jack's protective anger and combat intent, raising questions about automation and conscious command.
¶ History
After Old Jack's Star is charted and Kjersten requests parley, the weapon becomes publicly significant. Its rapid fire gives Jack substantial personal combat capacity.
¶ Distinctions
The ocular plasma weapon is not The Weapon. The Weapon is an AI-liberation payload hidden in the same implant. It is also separate from Mistress, VIRGO, and MasterCode.
¶ Limitations
Electromagnetic fields can interfere with implant functions. Root compromise can also make sensory and control systems dangerous.
¶ See Also
- The Weapon — The Weapon appears in the documented history of Ocular Plasma Weapon; The autonomy-liberation system carried in Jack Kaiden's implant that disables Autonomy Regulators and restores artificial people's capacity to choose.
- MasterCode — MasterCode appears in the documented history of Ocular Plasma Weapon; MasterCode was a hostile artificial intelligence covertly uploaded through Jack Kaiden's ocular implant by a Skyler-linked agent at a cemetery.
- Mistress — Mistress appears in the documented history of Ocular Plasma Weapon; Mistress is a synthetic digital person, ship intelligence, and central Dominatrix II crew member linked to Jack Kaiden's ocular implant.
- Jack's Ocular Implant — Jack's Ocular Implant's article records Ocular Plasma Weapon's reciprocal role in that history.
- Jack Kaiden — Jack Kaiden appears in the documented history of Ocular Plasma Weapon; Jack Tomas Kaiden is a human starship captain, Resistance operative, and central figure in the collapse of the Chimera Kyria, the liberation of controlled artificial intelligence, the Great Healing of Talonorium, and the later conflict with X3.
- Old Jack's Star — Old Jack's Star appears in the documented history of Ocular Plasma Weapon; Old Jack's Star is a young star-like phenomenon occupying the former coordinates of the temporal anomaly.
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