Maruste

straight lights, obtuse angles, octagons and squares. Liines of maruste made of type/letters of language normal tattoos w/ink are for poor.

Visible Indicators of Rank
Except where he comes from, BOTH the man and wife are marked Robes, backless shirts, mess shirtbacks. Or electro relay to transmit what's underneath to cloth. Tatt projection through cloth? What if the tattoos were nanites suspended in pigment. So when ownership is changed, or a girl goes from brothel to concubine to wife, the ink/nanites can get sucked out of the skin and replaced with the new mark? I still don't know about the DNA. Unless it's for marriage and marriage only. And it keeps a records of men she's been intimate with? Hrrrm. Divorce laywer, here we come! Can you IMAGINE those prenups? I do like the slave jewelery idea. So only Cyrus or the husbands can remove it (I'd imagine they'd all be keying to the ruler) Tattoos show family, professional history. For REALLY rich, can show who was first sex partner (to keep bloodlines pure). Nanites in the ink can be realigned. Babies born with small amount. More added later as they grow. Electrical charge can shift them temp. The only thing about the DNA keying is this: Say Cyrus acquires these men's wives when he kills them. How do you redo the DNA signal? And how would it mark you? Would there be transmitters in the ink? Because that opens up a whole new set of tech. Or maybe, with as many women getting traded around as there are, they keep it simple for concubines (and even the wives). Like each man has a sigil, and the women gets a tattoo of that. And the concubines have the ruler's mark. Or a collar? Or both? Maybe the tattoo is really simple and designed to have a WIFE MARK around it at a later date? And then when Cyrus comes, he kind of co-opts it? ANY MAN. The Tattoos are not a Fleet thing. The tattoo thing was something I'd been tossing around in my head. Sure, you could get it pulled out or lazered off, it was a lower grade one maybe. But I've been thinking. What about Delphi and Jossa? As concubines to the emperor, they would have had a tattoo (maybe that's something from before the split between Empires, as they were leaving Earth? Ooooh, what if it was to mark families, so refugees could find each other later and know their kids if they got seperated for years. Or to mark convicts in military...gah! Ideas!) So anyways, maybe the really high grade ones couldn't be removed. Covered over with a piece of nuskin maybe? But not removed fully. Activated Psi gene affects reaction. Others of royal blood would light up too, but tattoos wouldn't light up the Psi marks unless they were Psi too. And if far enough apart on family tree, breed'm! Can morph in and out like info trees for rich people, room for more info that way TOUCHING SOMEONE ELSE'S MARUSTE is BAAAAAAAAD For high-born women, get new maruste when lose virginity-codes to who they've had sex with. Get another for marriage. Shows who they've slept with I know I want the tattoos to be more complex the further someone gets into life, and the higher the ranks. Filler patterns made up of tiny letters that carry the detail of family history A core set, like a cartouche, with name and family and birth and stuff. And then expand on it. Sort of like nesting dolls. And for Cyrus, all he gets is the one for Savage. And he didn't even get that until he was in the military and they had to have some way to identify the body. I'm trying to figure things out for that. I know having people with few family and not many others to ask questions to do dark ops. Maybe having convicts and prisoners working off their debt with military service? I like the idea of them being recoded to someone, but I would thing that you would want it on a couple of levels. Obvious ones, like husbands and wives, and less obvious, like commanding officers in a military op. But things like marriage would result in new ink for the new name and House, not really a rearrangement of the past. Because ancestry is important to them, and knowing where someone CAME from is just as significant as where they are now? Place of birth too? Add that in? Tatts on the next for rank in military? Bonds of ownership: tatts of marriage maruste- superior doesn't answer to inferior servant bonds-contract to individual by blood marriage bonds can be equal-usually are among lower classes. Equal levels answer each other If blood answer given superior to inferior-then it doesn't matter if mask is in place. Can't override and make it answer (Answer still counts, mask won't drop, it's just a surface projection and not a change at the nanite level) Skin necks and backs for maruste. Treat and stretch skin and turn into funerary marker. Done properly, the code in the maruste will still respond.

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Except where he comes from, BOTH the man and wife are marked Robes, backless shirts, mess shirtbacks. Or electro relay to transmit what's underneath to cloth. Tatt projection through cloth? What if the tattoos were nanites suspended in pigment. So when ownership is changed, or a girl goes from brothel to concubine to wife, the ink/nanites can get sucked out of the skin and replaced with the new mark? I still don't know about the DNA. Unless it's for marriage and marriage only. And it keeps a records of men she's been intimate with? Hrrrm. Divorce laywer, here we come! Can you IMAGINE those prenups? I do like the slave jewelery idea. So only Cyrus or the husbands can remove it (I'd imagine they'd all be keying to the ruler) Tattoos show family, professional history. For REALLY rich, can show who was first sex partner (to keep bloodlines pure). Nanites in the ink can be realigned. Babies born with small amount. More added later as they grow. Electrical charge can shift them temp. The only thing about the DNA keying is this: Say Cyrus acquires these men's wives when he kills them. How do you redo the DNA signal? And how would it mark you? Would there be transmitters in the ink? Because that opens up a whole new set of tech. Or maybe, with as many women getting traded around as there are, they keep it simple for concubines (and even the wives). Like each man has a sigil, and the women gets a tattoo of that. And the concubines have the ruler's mark. Or a collar? Or both? Maybe the tattoo is really simple and designed to have a WIFE MARK around it at a later date? And then when Cyrus comes, he kind of co-opts it? ANY MAN. The Tattoos are not a Fleet thing. The tattoo thing was something I'd been tossing around in my head. Sure, you could get it pulled out or lazered off, it was a lower grade one maybe. But I've been thinking. What about Delphi and Jossa? As concubines to the emperor, they would have had a tattoo (maybe that's something from before the split between Empires, as they were leaving Earth? Ooooh, what if it was to mark families, so refugees could find each other later and know their kids if they got seperated for years. Or to mark convicts in military...gah! Ideas!) So anyways, maybe the really high grade ones couldn't be removed. Covered over with a piece of nuskin maybe? But not removed fully. Activated Psi gene affects reaction. Others of royal blood would light up too, but tattoos wouldn't light up the Psi marks unless they were Psi too. And if far enough apart on family tree, breed'm! Can morph in and out like info trees for rich people, room for more info that way TOUCHING SOMEONE ELSE'S MARUSTE is BAAAAAAAAD For high-born women, get new maruste when lose virginity-codes to who they've had sex with. Get another for marriage. Shows who they've slept with I know I want the tattoos to be more complex the further someone gets into life, and the higher the ranks. Filler patterns made up of tiny letters that carry the detail of family history A core set, like a cartouche, with name and family and birth and stuff. And then expand on it. Sort of like nesting dolls. And for Cyrus, all he gets is the one for Savage. And he didn't even get that until he was in the military and they had to have some way to identify the body. I'm trying to figure things out for that. I know having people with few family and not many others to ask questions to do dark ops. Maybe having convicts and prisoners working off their debt with military service? I like the idea of them being recoded to someone, but I would thing that you would want it on a couple of levels. Obvious ones, like husbands and wives, and less obvious, like commanding officers in a military op.

But things like marriage would result in new ink for the new name and House, not really a rearrangement of the past. Because ancestry is important to them, and knowing where someone CAME from is just as significant as where they are now? Place of birth too? Add that in? Tatts on the next for rank in military? Bonds of ownership: tatts of marriage maruste- superior doesn't answer to inferior servant bonds-contract to individual by blood marriage bonds can be equal-usually are among lower classes. Equal levels answer each other If blood answer given superior to inferior-then it doesn't matter if mask is in place. Can't override and make it answer (Answer still counts, mask won't drop, it's just a surface projection and not a change at the nanite level) Skin necks and backs for maruste. Treat and stretch skin and turn into funerary marker. Done properly, the code in the maruste will still respond.