Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26260596-20150330165541

So, I have this headcanon where on Homeworld, there was this highly confidential experiment that only the higher ups were involved in.

Some facts about it:

The experiment's procedure is essentially taking half a gem's gem and welding it to another half of a gem's gem.

The purpose of the experiment is to salvage a dead gem's unique attributes, if portions of said gem could be retrieved.

The experiment is only done if the gem's ability is deemed too valuable to discard. (Ex. Lapis Lazuli's Hydrokinesis)

The experiment is extremely risky. On average, only 1 out of 50,000 gems survive.

You cannot summon the dead gem's weapon, even if the experiment is successful.

Certain areas of the body are replaced with the dead gem's body parts (An arm, or a leg, or half a head of hair)

Here are some negative side-effects that this experiment has if successful include:

- Sudden excruciating migraines

- Inability to fuse with other gems, if two gems do attempt to fuse, the experimental gem will cause a shockwave due to the two halfs of the gem conflicting on which one gets fused.

Some positive side-effects:

- Vastly heightened senses, since you technically have two minds, (one being the dominant thinker) your senses, at the very least, double in efficiency.

- The ability to use the dead gem's unique powers (albeit, weakened due to only half of the gem remaining)

If you have any other ideas for this headcanon, I would apprciate it a lot if you share them here, so that I may add them. :) 