16.1 The Cerebral Augment Chamber

Every faction has access to a Cerebral Augment Chamber. These pinnacles of technology devices are linked with everyone's mindsims and work to boost the capacities of your mindsim and augment your physical and mental capabilities.

Every real life day, you may perform a series of tasks for the Cerebral Augment Chamber (CAC), providing it with valuable data and maintenance, in exchange for which you will receive Data Slivers. These slivers can then be spent in order to temporarily enhance various aspects of yourself and your other faction members. 

To interact with the CAC, you must first locate the chambers within your faction capital. You will find them using LANDMARKS. At any time, you may use the CAC command and obtain a list of relevant commands you may use.

CAC TASKS                          List the tasks.
CAC INFO <id>                      Learn more about a task.
CAC UNDERTAKE <id>                 Undertake a task.
CAC DELIVER                        Deliver materials for the Maintenance and Upkeep task.
CAC PAY COSTS                      Complete the Operating Costs task.
CAC STATUS                         Check your current tasks and bonuses.
CAC AUGMENT <bonus>                Increase faction bonuses.

At any time you can check the CAC STATUS and see the bonuses your faction has. These are:
- Increased Experience Gain
- Increased Hacking XP Gain
- Increased Captaincy XP Gain              
- Increased Stats                        
- Increased Damage against mobs
- Increased Ship damage 

Also, you may check CAC TASKS and see what tasks you may perform. You may CAC UNDERTAKE <id> anywhere to begin a task, except for task 5, as this is completed by performing CAC PAY COSTS at the CAC room. In short, these tasks are:

CAC TASK 1    Obtain Samples
 - You must obtain samples by killing a certain number of creatures, chosen at random. These creatures are rated at Level 60 and above.
 
CAC TASK 2    Maintenance and Upkeep
 - You must deliver a certain amount of manufactured products to your faction's main station.
 
CAC TASK 3    Market Analysis
 - You must help fulfill at least a portion of a non-spacer market order, twice.
 
CAC TASK 4    Combat Data
 - You must eliminate five creatures or ships in an space incursion.
 
CAC TASK 5    Operating Costs
 - You must pay an amount of 6,000 marks to the CAC. You will complete this task by using the CAC PAY COSTS command. NOTE: This does not require confirmation, only do this if you are sure you want to spend the marks.
 
Upon the completion of a task, you will be awarded a Report Sliver. This is used to CAC AUGMENT <boost>; for example, CAC AUGMENT DAMAGE. Every sliver adds a percentage point to a specific boost. Each boost can be raised to a maximum of 5.
 
Every Sync, your faction's CAC loses 3 points randomly, up until your boosts are back to 0. This is a faction activity, you will not be able to max these bonuses by yourself, as you may only perform each task ONCE per day.