TIMEMASTER

A T T A C K   D E S C R I P T I O N

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Technology: Interdimensional Phase Reactor (IPR)

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• The core of CM58’s “Parallel Shift” ability comes from its IPR Unit (Interdimensional Phase Reactor) — a dangerous and unstable prototype salvaged from a collapsed experiment involving synthetic consciousness loops.

• TimeMaster, against all safety protocols (naturally), reverse-engineered it with four stabilizing gyros and one neural override key—his own mind.

• Because of this, CM58 can “decide” which version of reality to exist in for tactical advantage.

• But the cost? Every consecutive shift risks de-synchronizing with home timeline combat flow, weakening physical output due to reality bleed.

• The IPR doesn’t just phase CM58 out of harm’s way — it gives it surgical access to alternate timelines that run parallel to the current one. Think of it like threading a needle through realities that are just out of sync with ours.

• Instead of full-on multiversal travel like a portal jump (which would be unstable and catastrophic in combat), the IPR enables what TimeMaster calls:

• "Slipstream Threading" – precise, short-distance jumps into “adjacent timelines,” which can be anywhere from milliseconds to full combat turns out of sync.

• It gives CM58 multi-versal agility without multiversal chaos, as long as TimeMaster keeps his grip tight.

• ​​Within its Functionality:

  • CM58 can temporarily exist in alternate versions of this battle, where:

    • A projectile missed.

    • A different move was chosen.

    • A different CM58 design exists (tech variations from R&D that never got built in this timeline).

    • The enemy is weaker, slower, or never existed at all (used for mental manipulation or escape).

• ​But with Constraints:

  • These universes are fractal-close — just slightly different branches. It’s not jumping to "Earth-94 where TimeMaster is a saxophone-playing beetle."

  • Long-term travel would destabilize CM58’s time core and fracture TimeMaster’s neural link—his mind would start splitting across infinite selves.

  • The IPR’s containment field only holds for short bursts (1-3 turns max) before feedback threatens to implode the mech’s chassis from timeline compression. 

  • Every time CM58 enters another universe, TimeMaster and any passengers feel it — like dragging their soul through wet concrete made of memories that could’ve been. It’s physically painless, but mentally taxing; especially for TimeMaster, when he catches glimpses of alternate futures — some brighter, some tragic. He never talks about them.

    • TimeMaster once said; “The hardest part of skipping timelines… is seeing how good your life could’ve been if you’d just quit the mission.”

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Execution Lore:​​​

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• TimeMaster grips the control helm inside CM58’s cranial chamber, muttering, “Ain’t no version of me takin’ that hit.”

• ChronoMech 58 activates its Interdimensional Phase Reactor (IPR), slipping between adjacent timelines where damage has not yet occurred — or never will.

• Each shift aligns CM58 with a version of reality where the attack trajectory simply never hits, rendering it untouchable, not by dodging… but by literally being somewhere else.

• With a low, pulsating hum, CM58’s parallax stabilizers and temporal mirrors bloom into motion. Its body flickers — not transparently — but as if alternate versions of itself are fighting simultaneously across fractured spacetime.

• CM58 phases between different timelines, making itself untouchable.

• As the mech begins shifting in and out of parallel timelines, enemies see multiple after-images blur and converge, each with slightly altered armor configs and color temps, hinting at infinite outcomes.

• To them, CM58 becomes an unsolvable paradox: Which one is real? Which one can be hit?

• If used consecutively, increases evasion but reduces attack power.

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Audio/Visual Flair:​​​

• CM58 doesn't fade—it fractures and splits into slivers of itself mid-motion, like it’s in a broken prism of reality.

• Deep subsonic pulsing as phase engines spin up — like something vibrating through reality itself.

• There’s a momentary “shimmer” where time bends outward, creating ripple distortions as its form phases out of sync with the timeline.

• A burst of crystalline time-reverb that echoes like a sonar ping through the timeline.

• Bright teal-blue glints pulse across its body, especially on joints and visor panels, as if syncing alternate forms in nanosecond intervals.

• A faint ticking underneath everything… not a clock, but more like the counting of outcomes being processed.

• For a few frames, you see alternate versions of CM58 from future/past battles—battle-damaged versions, sleeker prototypes, or even old-school mechs peeking through before stabilizing.

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E F F E C T

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Effect:

• Avoids all enemy attacks for 1 turn by shifting into a parallel reality.

• If used consecutively, evasion increases by +15% each use (stacking), but decreases all outgoing damage by -20% per use due to system strain across realities.

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SP Cost: 25 SP

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Cooldown: 5 Turns

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Additional Effects:

• Reactive Flashback Mode: If CM58 avoids a projectile or charge-type attack while in Parallel Shift, there's a 20% chance of replaying the enemy’s missed attack back at them, dealing 200 HP as "Chrono-Rebound" damage. (Damage type: Temporal Feedback)

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A T T A C K   D E S C R I P T I O N

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Technology: Legacy Layering System (LLS)

• A quantum-temporal feedback loop that records each battle CM58 is ever involved in—success or failure—and uses that data to simulate future strategies based on past experience across timelines.

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Execution Lore:​​​​

• The attack begins with CM58 locking its limbs mid-battle, entering a brief but powerful internal alignment phase called a Core Resonance Sync. Inside the cockpit, TimeMaster’s body twitches erratically, his muscles reacting to input from multiple timelines converging at once.

• The lights inside the mech flicker to an ancient command pattern—not a glitch, but a pre-coded language known only to the original engineers of the CM-series, passed down like scripture.

• Unleashes the wisdom of past warriors stored in CM58’s data core.

• On-screen, four ghostly silhouettes appear behind him—flickering outlines of past CM58 pilots, each from a failed timeline or classified mission:

  • One moves like a capoeira dancer, agile and chaotic.

  • Another is brutal, military-precise.

  • A third is calm, evasive, purely defensive.

  • The fourth fights like a philosopher—every strike is timed with emotion.

• They’re not visible to enemies—but their presence can be felt in the sudden change of CM58’s movements.

• The CM58’s core isn’t just a fusion reactor—it’s a temporal archive, housing the battle instincts, neural patterns, and emotional imprints of warriors who piloted prototypes before TimeMaster. These aren’t simulations or A.I. ghosts. These are resonant echoes—digital phantoms of real combatants encoded through Chrono-Trace Echoes, permanently archived in the system.

• When LEGACY PROTOCOL is activated, TimeMaster doesn’t just call for help— he synchronizes with these spectral blueprints, allowing them to co-pilot his body through CM58.

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Audio/Visual Flair:​​​

• HUD shifts to a layered display—showing multiple timelines of movement overlays like motion blur, but perfectly aligned.

• TimeMaster’s voice blends with the voices of the past pilots, speaking a single word in four overlapping tones:
  “Online.”

• Background sound distorts into a hum of quantum chords—pure tone frequencies that feel emotionally ancient, like instruments played in a room before war.

• CM58’s metal plating flickers with ghost sigils, symbols from long-lost squads etched in light across its frame.

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E F F E C T​

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Buffs:​

• Boosts TimeMaster’s Strength and Speed by +40% for 4 turns.

• Boosts Ally's Strength and Speed by +30% for 4 turns.

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SP Cost: 35 SP (low cost because the effect draws from internal memory banks, not external energy).

Counter Chance:

• Grants a +15% chance for counterattacks.

• (TimeMaster doesn’t just react—he already knows how the attack plays out, because one of the past pilots lived it.)

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A T T A C K   D E S C R I P T I O N​
 

Technology: Temporal Stasis Layering (TSL)

• The TSL engine in CM58 works by referencing alternate-universe collision data, constantly running simulations of every potential incoming threat—from plasma to psychics—and begins canceling their timelines before impact.

• This means the Barricade doesn’t react—it preempts.

• Think of an armor that remembers the future and prepares for it.

• [Aegis Bloom Dev Log #3 - Classified CM58 File]

  • As Temporal Armor Division Lead, Dr. Mae Akula explains, "We don't stop bullets. We stop the moment the bullet thinks it's real. Such as, you can activate a missile, however, CM58 activates the absence of that missile.”​

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Execution Lore:​​​​

• Generates an indestructible time-shield that blocks all incoming damage.

• Upon activation, CM58 digs its graviton-tipped anchors into the ground, stabilizing its posture through zero-point magnetogrid pulses. The chest cavity opens—not fully, but just enough to expose the Barricade Projector Core (BPC-9X), a spinning gyroscopic lens powered by Chrono-Plasma, a substance only found in fractured dimensions.

• The moment the core pulses outward, time warps into a dome-like ripple, centered on CM58. Everything inside is under localized temporal arrest—a silence so absolute it almost hurts.

• Hostile projectiles outside the dome? Frozen mid-air.

• Close-range energy bursts? Snuffed like they never formed.

• Even AoE attacks lose velocity before contact, as if they’re remembering not to happen.

• Allied units within the dome don’t just benefit from the shield—they’re partially tuned into the temporal field, letting their own movement speeds compress into microbursts—giving them a slight edge without overwhelming their systems.

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Audio/Visual Flair:

• Upon activation, the entire battlefield soundscape dulls, replaced with a single harmonic frequency that feels like the ringing memory of a bell.

• The Barricade Field appears as thin hexagonal panels, each one slightly phasing in and out of reality like future reflections of themselves.

• CM58’s lights flicker into a silent, deep-blue diagnostic pattern, symbolizing absolute control over local spacetime.

• From the outside, enemies see nothing but distortion—like watching reality breathe in reverse.

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E F F E C T

Damage:

• Negates the next 2 attacks outright, no matter the type—physical, magical, or dimensional.

• All allies within a certain radius receive -50% damage reduction for the duration.

SP Cost: 40 SP (incredibly efficient for how defensive this is).

Duration: Until the next two hits land OR after 2 turns, whichever comes first.

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A T T A C K   D E S C R I P T I O N

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Applied Technology:​ Temporal Spine Core, powered by Temporal Acoustics Technology (TAT)

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• The Temporal Spine Core is the central routing system of CM58's Chrono-Conductive Frame. It interprets data not in binary, but in vibrational language—thanks to Temporal Acoustics Technology.

• T.A.T. is the revolutionary tech codec integrated into CM58’s chest cavity, spinal housing, and cockpit shell. It functions by:

  1. Translating temporal phenomena into acoustic signals,

  2. Mapping those signals as vibrational patterns, and

  3. Using those patterns to influence time-based outcomes.

• It’s not just time travel—it’s time modulation, controlled via sound design principles. That’s why CM58 doesn’t “teleport” like a sci-fi cliché—it orchestrates time.​​

• Components:

  • Resonance Spinal Column: A lattice of hyperconductive fibers that resonates with cosmic background frequencies, allowing CM58 to “hear” the temporal signature of any moment.

  • Echo-Tactile Hull: The mech’s armor acts like an instrument body, translating vibrations into physical effects. This allows timeline shifts to occur without destabilizing the structure.

  • Omni-Chamber: Housed beneath the cockpit, this vacuum-isolated sphere contains the Chrono-Conductive Core (3T Glass + memory-metal coils), where T.A.T. frequencies are generated.

  • Temporal Keys: These are literal key-like switches controlled through pilot nerve commands. They strike tones that detune or synchronize the mech’s flow with the timeline it’s syncing to.

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• T.A.T. is the reason CM58 can:

  • Phase through time without tearing spacetime,

  • Play “temporal chords” (multiple outcomes stacked in harmonic resonance),

  • Create shield harmonics like Temporal Barricade, and

  • Trigger “FINAL REMIX”, where the mech performs a full Temporal Composition.

  • T.A.T. exploits the cosmic BPM, manipulating how time flows locally by syncing (or desyncing) with that rhythm. Think of it like DJing gravity waves… but with deadly precision.

  • Read timeline frequencies like soundtracks

  • Convert acoustic waveforms into timeline shifts

  • Compose temporal attacks as if remixing destiny

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• “FINAL REMIX” is only possible because T.A.T. reaches harmonic resonance with ALL timelines CM58 has ever touched. It requires:

  • Full Omni-Chamber ignition,

  • Pilot neuro-sync at 100%, and

  • ChronoPulse Conductor mode, where every part of the mech becomes a vibrating instrument, tuned to its own history.

• That’s what scrubs reality—not a vinyl scratch, but a detuning of time’s harmonic field.​​

• For Final Remix, the Spine Core doesn’t just react to TimeMaster’s inputs—it harmonizes with him, syncing his consciousness to every version of himself across existence.

• The mech knows the pilot’s rhythm and time dances to their beat.

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Execution Lore:​

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• CM58 remixes the fabric of time, creating a battlefield-wide explosion of temporal energy

  • TimeMaster doesn’t just manipulate time. He conducts it

• “FINAL REMIX” is his magnum opus—a temporal symphony-weapon that layers the past, present, and future of the entire battlefield into a single, collapsing crescendo of cause and effect

• Inside CM58’s neural cockpit—an ephemeral throne of chrono-glass and neuron-laced conduits—TimeMaster fully syncs with the Integrated Pilot Resonance System (IPR Core). No joysticks. No HUD. Just total mind-fusion with the Mech’s dimensional processors

  • “No more time-travel. No more rewinds. Only the Remix.”

• In the cockpit, TimeMaster triggers Legacy Key "Delta-58", igniting the Temporal Spine Core—a multi-chambered neural lattice network housed within CM58’s back column. This is powered by T.A.T. (Temporal Acoustics Technology), a system that translates cosmic vibrations into real-time temporal commands

• CM58 begins to resonate—its armor humming like a struck tuning fork. Instead of vinyl scratches or tired time-glitch clichés, the mech pulses with metronomic crescendos, its joints articulating like orchestra conductors as the Temporal Spine Core feeds from harmonic wave sequences traced across multiple timelines

• CM58’s limbs extend outward in a T-shaped crucifix stance, each joint emitting harmonic time-thread pulses. The mech’s Temporal Spine Core—hidden until now—unlocks like a reactor bloom, revealing the Omni-Clock Drive, a rotating planetary array of spinning rings, orbiting like musical spheres

• Each ring is etched with timelines—some real, some possible, some never meant to be

• ​Each pulse of the mech’s limbs bends time like musical phrasing: one arm rewinds entropy, another fast-forwards cause, the legs modulate inertia itself. Above the battlefield, fractals of alternate outcomes flicker like warped concert lights

• And then—he begins the Remix

  • The left arm rewinds space itself: debris reassembles, shattered buildings return to form, old wounds reappear on enemies

  • The right arm fast-forwards entropy: metal rusts, armor ages and crumbles, enemies feel years pass in seconds

  • The legs lock into dimensional anchor-points, slicing through multiversal coordinates for final-stage acceleration

  • The head cockpit tilts downward, emitting a singular bass resonance, not a scratch but a tear in dimensional cloth, like the first sound at the birth of the universe

• Then the Remix Wheel appears: a massive holographic turntable, spinning in front of CM58 like a god’s interface. But instead of music, it scrubs reality itself

• He rewinds, fast-forwards, and scratches through reality, unleashing an inescapable final attack. However, this is more than an attack, it's post-history execution

• Each “spin” of the wheel sends thousands of temporal echoes of CM58 out in every direction—

  • Some are versions of it from alternate pasts

  • Some are from unlived futures

  • Some are anti-timelines—where cause follows effect

  • They all strike at once

• ​CM58 punches into the timestream, cycling through alternate versions of itself—war-battered, ancient, future-augmented, dream-born, all syncing together into a unified attack stance. The mech becomes a living composition: A symphony of selves

• With a thunderous, harmonic discharge, CM58 detonates the ChronoPulse, a wave of pure temporal energy remixed across centuries. It's not an explosion—it’s a multi-era remix drop, so precise and powerful that reality itself stutters. The landscape bends. Enemy AI short-circuits just trying to comprehend the timeline logic

• You don't just see the damage. You feel it resonate

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Audio/Visual Flair:​

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• The battlefield becomes a collapsing mosaic of time-frames—players see frame-flickers of alternate outcomes, parallel defeats, failed evasions, and repeating deaths layered on top of each other.

• No scratching. Instead, a polyrhythmic blast of time-signatures, where each beat represents a different tempo of reality. You get staggered echo hits like:

  • Boom. Boom. BoomBoomBoom.

  • A silence.

  • Then the true attack drops like thunder crashing backward.

• Enemies scream, not from pain, but from sensory confusion, as their consciousnesses flicker through their own timelines—unable to grasp where or when they are.

• A soft choral harmony plays in the background—like ancient pilots whispering in harmony—one of the only remnants from the original builders of CM58, whose spirits live on in its Legacy Drive.

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E F F E C T

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Damage:

10,000 HP split evenly across all enemies. No defense, no dodge, no counter.

Inflicts “Chrono-Lag”:

Enemies suffer -50% Speed for 3 turns, as their perception of time is shattered.

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Ally Buff:

Allies gain +20% Speed, synchronized to TimeMaster’s pulse, moving like echoes of his intent.

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SP Cost: 100 SP

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