Tace Renn
Primary attribute. Reads personnel signatures like print. Respiration patterns through ambient overlay emissions. Classification at range without skill activation.
High. Enables Ghost Step's environmental density component. Reads system energy the way Signal operators read visual information.
Supports 6 skill slots. Overlay share capability: map fragments, route geometry, system-formatted.
Moderate. Receives resonance channel. Responds via resonance pulse-sequences. Does not initiate loops.
Not engagement-oriented. Avoidance over durability.
High for IL 29. Sustained Ghost Step 56 minutes. Recovery rate: 0.7 SP/second at rest.
Description
Exists at slightly different density
than occupied space. Passive: reduced
system-visible signature. Active: full
environmental integration. World becomes
something you move through, not over.
Governs Flux.
Description
Reads facility layout as text. Identifies
alternate paths, bypass opportunities,
attention gaps. Outputs as overlay share:
geometry of decision rendered for
Commander evaluation.
Governs Signal.
Description
Designation-level identification from
ambient overlay emissions. Reads energy
quality: dense/anchoring (Sentinel),
Signal-light (Specialist). Corporate
training shows in overlay texture.
Governs Signal.
Description
Transmits system-formatted data:
map fragments, personnel signatures,
movement patterns, attention gaps.
Not verbal — direct geometry transfer.
Governs Lattice.
- › Invisible when Ghost Step is active. Maren has never seen Ghost Step from outside.
- › Non-vocal resonance communication. Finger-to-forearm shorthand with Maren.
- › Reads the briefing data 4 times, then reads the original with corrections.
- › Handled unscheduled maintenance worker in 11 seconds. Maren never asks how.
- › Smiles briefly when a route works. Does not discuss personal cost.
- › Ghost Step recovery began immediately upon boarding extraction vehicle.
ace Renn.
Renn, T. — Scout — IL 29 — HP: 100% — SP: 88%. That two percent stamina drop since they'd entered the maintenance level meant Ghost Step was running, had been running since they'd stepped off the access point. Maren had never seen Ghost Step from the outside, only the absence it created. Inside, Tace described it as the world becoming something you moved through instead of over. Her Flux read was what made it more than stealth: the skill let her exist at a slightly different density than the space she occupied, reading the building's system energy the way a high-Signal operator read visual information — ambient, constant, not something she had to concentrate to do.