Gamma Artifacts

"Gamma Artifact" is the title given to Artifacts 9 through 16. They're the first batch of Organic Artifacts made by The Great Kings. What makes these Artifacts special is the fact that they were made nearly entirely with the Ethraksha of an Ethraksha-Based-Organism, rather than that of Aether and Akasha themselves.

They're on par with the Delta Artifacts in terms of Raw Magical Power, but are easier to control than them and conversely way more dangerous to use in the first place.

There are eight Gammas Artifacts, one for each Element.

History
Hm. I MUST have something down somewhere. I should find out what the first Gamma was.

Stats
More powerful than the Modern and Multi-Type Artifacts by a mile.

Versatility
The Gamma Artifacts are incredibly versatile, being able to be used for a wide variety of tasks outside of what they were originally created for. Not really sure what to say here. They definitely have more uses than the Delta Artifacts do.

Raw Magical Power
Less RMP than the Deltas, but more than the most Multi-Types, and all of the Moderns. These weapons sacrificed power for control, but that's all relative. These things will still destroy an entire country in an hour or two.

Weight
The lightest Artifacts. Even among the other Organics, they're barely made out of any Compressed Ethr Shard, much to the relief of anyone who uses them.

Learning Curve
Hard to learn, easy to master. Once you get the feel of the Gamma Artifacts, they'll soon start to feel like extensions of your body. That's nice and all, but getting to that level takes years of practice. That problem stems from the versatility of the Gammas; you're rarely ever going to learn everything there is to learn when it comes to controlling them, so most people never really get to use them to their full potential.

Efficiency
Right below the Deltas when it comes to being horribly inefficient. Not much to say here. No normal person is gonna be using one for more than 20 minutes.

Lethality
They take a little more setup than the other Artifacts do, but if you actually know what you're doing you can kill a man in less than a second.

Artifact Complexity
Varies greatly. Most of them are on the higher end of the spectrum though, since converting a living piece of a Region Tyrant into some programming in a small Ornament is lot of work. Giving them shape outside of the Ethraksha Batteries is a design choice. That didn't take too much work.

Stability
a big fat 0. These things are basically half complete. Their form, what you see that isn't the Etrhaksha battery? Most of it's Raw Ethraksha, but at least it's been bedrocked. It still crackles with green lightning when it burns through airborne organic material when you move them around. The Gammas pose the highest risk of killing the user from both Flow Overload AND Flow deprivation.

Corpse Raiding
They're all made from pieces of Region Tyrants, previous and current forms alike. and thanks to that, they don't have much else in common.

Moon Tested
The Gamma Artifacts have all been successfully moon tested.

Primal Reversion

If you can handle it, you can temporarily transform the Artifact into a miniature version of the Region Tyrant it was made from. For many, this is the reason why people cannot agree on whether the Gamma Artifacts are all made from the Region Tyrants; nobody remembers what their previous forms are.

This doesn't do anything outside of making the Artifact stronger for a few minutes, but it's still cool to look at.

List of Gamma Artifacts
Empyrean Lens (FIre) Unmodified flames from the Dark Star itself. Raze hell with this cosmic flamethrower.

Glaster (Steam)

Unnamed (Water)

Quantum Harmony (Ice): A Fang from the Great Frost Wyvern that allows the user to traverse the Void Dimension and split their existence into lesser ones.

??? (Wind)

??? (Sand)

Medusa's Eye (Earth) A Ring that allows the user to transmute their Flow into Marble Magic.

MEDB/VESPA (Lava): A bouquet of leaves made from stretchy, explosive plastic that can melt into scalding hot Candle-lava. Made from The Furnace's previous form, the Queen of the Wax Sea.

Trivia
They used to have this thing called a "Last Resort", where they temporarily transform into a smaller version of their respective Region Tyrants. But that's dumb. We don't need that to be a last resort. People who are good enough can do that on a regs.