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The Twelfth Division; The AST Division
Topic Started: May 24 2010, 11:22 AM (530 Views)
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The Twelfth Division
Some information taken from the HoS Website

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Division Responsibilities
Research, Science, Technology. Such are the responsibilities and words one associates with the 12th Division, also known as the Arcane Scient and Technologies (AST) Division. when one thinks of them, and indeed, these are the main duties of any loyal and common 12th Divisioner, but there is so so much that goes on beneath the surface that the general populace -and indeed, anyone who is not in a 'need-to-know' group- do not know. Some dark and wicked things that take place far beneath the surface of this normally 'eccentric' Division that would chill the most hardened Shinigami were they to learn of it.

But that is for the high-ranking scientists only, and indeed the primary function of the Division is knowledge; be it obtaining it through experimentation or research, or even through more mundane means. It is not uncommon to see members of the 12th Division at the denoument of a battle, or afterwards, sweeping the battlefield and corpses left behind for the abilities that were either used on them or used by them; not only to see how they worked on a subject or just in general, but also to see the effects on a target and the area around them.

But such battlefield work is only a small portion of the 12th Divisions work, and the study of how something affects something else is generally not done in such widely variable environments. No, the true home and place of study for any 12th Divisioner worth their salt is the laboratory.
And indeed, the laboratory is an important place for such work to be done, for the labs that the 12th Divisions Home incorporates are widely varying, each as strange and differing as the last. They can be fully altered too, ranging from simple white rooms with a slab to dissect a foe, to large fields in order to practise a technique.

Oh no, you don't want to mess with the 12th Division's Laboratories.

However, as everyone knows, such innovations do lead to something, usually things that are wonderous and for the benefit of Soul Society as a whole. They are in charge of developing new technologies and kidou-based skills. They're also in charge of studying many of the unexplainable phenomena that occur in the many different realms. Their technological development ranges from creating simple devices to make everyday life easier, to creating pioneering technology in their field range. They work with things as simple as household items to weaponry, producing devices and weapons and also making defense items for the Seireitei. They are also known to produce and perform combat enhancing items and objects along with other useful nitnacks that are used in the user’s specific line of work.

It is not dull as a 12th Divisioner, far from it, the members of the 12th division are known for intelligence and curiosity. They have a very acute understanding of the world and are greatly curious about anything they can't understand, making them not only great scientist but also skilled combatants when needed. Though renown for their curiosity, they are also feared because of it. Members of the division are known to get into trouble here and now as they are known to study any and almost everything that they can. That doesn't stop them however; they just try harder not to get caught the next time.




House Description
How does one describe the home of the Division where most other Divisions get the materials for their own homes from? Well, in a word the home of the 12th Division is intricate. Outwardly it looks like any other Division House; archaicly Japanese in style with a large gate - the only means of entry. However it is not an easy thing to enter this place, for not only does it have the highest-grade defense system of any other building within Soul Society, but the walls of the compound are also made of Sekkiseki (殺気石, spirit reducing stone), which creates a miniature dome around this Division House, stopping anything spiritaul from breaking in without authorisation. And that's just the perimeter wall.

As soon as one gets through the wall the gates will seal shut unless one is authorised or has high reason to enter. This gate is thick; thick enough that unless a Shinigami Captain went Bankai on it for several minutes and put all their power into it; it's sure as hell not going to break from the outside. Further, kidou sensors and reiatsu signature detectors periodically roam over the outside of the grounds of the 12th Division, to make sure nobody is lurking around. In order to actually enter the Division's quarters, one needs to enter either a passcode (which is given only to certain Captains and Division Members) and then state their business to the several security cameras that stay around the door, or to know the secret back way which is known only to the friends of the current Captain, since they move it around a lot.

Once one finally enters the Division House as a whole -however difficult such a process may be- the place looks rather barren and bare; with several rooms that seem more for decoration than for any real purpose. The top floor consists of only five rooms; an expansive kitchen, two 'lounging' rooms, a games room and a meeting room that is large enough to encompass the entire Division, with a raised stage at the front, a large board for tacking up important information and charts, and some chairs on the stage for important members of the Division to sit. Hell, based on this room alone one would wonder how this Division gets any of its work done, but it is from here that things get interesting.

Nestled within every single room within the top floor is a single panel set in each wall that, once pressed, reveals a large white door behind the wall nearby, which then opens to a large, pure white elevator. Within this elevator are no less than twenty buttons (and probably several dozen more) a count which changes often, that each lead to various underground laboratories and floors. The first five floors are simple training areas; where Divisioners can train their kidou and combat skills, as well as train with new combat and defensive technologies in various simulators. The next five floors are the general laboratories, which include several general research rooms; an even twelve monitoring rooms, with cameras in Soul Society, the Human World and a prized few in Hueco Mundo (including one at the front entrance to Las Noches, nestled in the sands nearby offering a perfect position to anyone who enters the front). Further, as one goes down these floors (which are also connected by spiral staircases) one begins to encounter more and more outlandish and out-there experiments and research-topics.

Following these ten floors is a single, large expanse, over two hundred metres in height and nearly half a kilometre in width and depth, this large terrain is full of rocks, caves, valleys and tunnels, all of which are designed for the 12th Division Experimenters to train and test out the few living things they create. Further down, going through up to nine more floors of testings and specimen rooms, archives and monitoring rooms, we finally hit the depths of this Divisions Headquarters, and the place where the Captain's Quarters and the Sleeping Quarters for the Division Members are. True, there are Division Sleeping Quarters on mostly every floor above the lower two (with small sleeping rooms on the far edges of each floor, with emergency elevators that will take division members to the top floor in seconds if an alarm is sounded) but the majority of beds are down the bottom.

And on the lowest floor? The Captains Quarters are located here, situated within a small kidou bubble that is also setup through several special technologies developed by the Captain personally, these Quarters are normally located on the bottom floor but, in a crisis or if the Captain feels like it, these quarters can be moved up to the top floor via an interconnecting kidou line, that will transport the room to the top floor, with a balcony around the outside. These quarters are also situated within the Sekkisekki dome when moved here, and all it requires is a simple button push. In order to maintain efficiency these quarters will also automatically move when an alarm sounds, and if a Hell Butterfly enters the dome around the 12th Division Quarters (thanks to a nifty technological edit) the quarters will move automatically, and send a small alert to the Captain, provided they are currently within the HQ.

And such is the 12th Divisions Quarters, a strange and disconcerting place that few Shinigami like to enter willingly when not 12th Division Members.
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Deep within the bowels of the Twelfth Division house, that place where so few Shinigami dared to tread uninvited -and even then they were hesitant or made excuses not to- a single, piercing note of purest pain rose up several floors; before being cut off sharply. Those Shinigami on the upper floors, the floors closest to ground level, looked around afearedly, but quickly went back to their work, as nearby senior officers told them to get back to work. These Shinigami were newer recruits; the further down in the House you went the higher-ranking the Shinigami became, until you reached the second-from-last floor, where the Captain was experimenting personally.

Standing straight with a small curse forming in his throat that was quickly suppressed, Shuichi almost spat on the ground in annoyance until he remembered some of his Senior Officers were nearby, and he dismissed them with a casual wave of his hand. The bright green glow around the two longest finger on this hand warned the Officers that their Captain was annoyed enough to not disengage his kidou, and they knew from experience this was not a good time to linger, unless they wished to undergo a procedure similar to the recently-expired patient who was on the cold metal slab in the center of this sterile laboratory.

With quick looks at the body, the men and women hurried out, leaving Shuichi alone to vent to himself; as soon as he made sure the door was locked behind them.
"Damn it!" he exploded as soon as they were through the soundproof doors, and he was alone in the room with only the body for company. "Damn brittle Arrancar bastards!"
Turning to the large slab of metal where his subject lay, he really did spit on the ground this time as the body began to decay away in that way that was so unique to Hollow and their variants. The body soon vanished from the once-white tiling it had been strapped to, and in annoyance Shuichi stabbed his kidou-augmented hand into one of his bench tops, slicing through the hard metal like it was butter.

His theories had been perfect, he knew they had! But time and time again those damn Arrancar that he took such care to extract from Hueco Mundo -and the Human World when they dared to tread there without taking precautions- and keep in the holding cells within his Division House, they died every time! There had to be a way to preserve their bodies as soon as their lives expired; yet after nearly half a dozen attempts the Twelfth Division Captain was no closer to working it out.

This may not sound like many; but to Shuichi it was a castrophic failure, the likes of which had rarely been seen.

Striding around the table, he pressed a small button in the underside of the top and immediately several small jets of water eked out the precious fluid, washing away the blood of the Arrancar that had stained Shuichi's immaculate laboratory in such an offensive way. If only he could find a way to keep the bodies around; they'd be able to harness such potential powers and eventually maybe even be able to trigger an automatic reaction in the Arrancar; to turn them into nothing with a simple flick of a switch. How glorious that would be; how incredible, how wonderful, how purely vile for anyone who thought honour was important in a fight.

But that was how Shuichi did things; he was the one whom the Gotei turned to when they needed something that most Shinigami would turn their noses up at even the concept. As such he was a little out-of-sorts with the rest of the world; a little out-of-touch with the events going on around him. Oh, he had heard of the Commodore's death, and like the other Captains he had mourned the man who had been equivalent to a father to them. However he had jumped back into his work with an eagerness that surprised even him at times. He had to find ways to prevent this from happening in the future; from stopping the Humans from being so pretentious and foolish.

Without the Shinigami after all, where would they be today? Dead, that's where.

Shaking his head, Shuichi turned and pressed another button, this one on a nearby wall. Immediately the now pristine metal slab where the Arrancar had been moments before was gone, sinking into the ground due to a nifty little access system. A door opened up in the wall then, a door that lead into a long corridor that gave off a faint green light from the outside. With a nod to himself, Shuichi turned and walked into this corridor, to find himself a new test subject for his next round of experimentation and creation...
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As Shuichi entered the long corridor that lead to his private quarters and personal experimental chambers, he gave a small smile and breathed a deep sigh of relief. He was at ease here; his home was these chambers more than the rest of the Division House or more than any other part of Seireitei, so he always felt most of his irritation and anger simply flow away as soon as he entered this hallowed part of his Division House. Indeed, as he passed several empty white rooms, each adorned similar to the large chamber he had entered from he gave a small smile, remembering past experiments that he had undertaken in those very rooms. But they weren't his destination now. No, he was heading for a room that was at the very end of the corridor.

As the door slid open smoothly, the look on Shuichi's face was purely... exultant.

This was the specimen room, his specimen room, Tenken's favourite part of his entire Division House, and also one of the few that he had personally overseen the construction of, for there were a few small details within its walls that he had personally constructed and made sure were just right.
Like the fact that the room was basically a giant wading pool.
Or the fact that it was filled with some kind of thick embalming fluid-like mixture.
And the fact that it was about as humid as your average rain forest in its rainy season.
Slowly making his way through the still liquid, the dull dark blue colour that it was reflecting off the otherwise opaque walls and ceiling and creating a dark feeling of contentment, that was perfect for any newly emerged subjects that he took out.

As he slowly walked into the center of the room and began to peer around the place through his orange shades, a very faint chiming sound could be heard from the direction of the door he had entered by, but he ignored it. He had other things in mind for the moment, so as he slowly covered his entire hand in his cutting, scalpel kidou and plunged it into the fluid, his face screwed up in concentration as he ignored the incessant chiming and looked for a particular research subject. After only moments of searching his hand emerged from the liquid without anything in its grip, for the chiming had become a solid long 'beep' sound, that was grating on his nerves.

Apparently something needed his urgent attention in his Official Quarters; just at the wrong time.

Stalking out of the liquid, his face like a thundercloud, Shuichi's clothing seemed to somehow shuck off the stuff as he emerged, making it look perfectly dry as he stepped up and out of the wading pool and into the corridor on the outside, the faint green light from this hall momentarily conflicting with the dark blue of the specimen chamber, until the door shut with a solid 'Shunk'ing sound. Walking quickly and purposefully down the corridor for two doors, he made a sharp right and walked into the large open chamber where he conducted his official Captain business -necessary meetings, paperwork and the like- and he activated the movement sensors with a wave of his hand. In an instant the chamber was no longer in the bowels of the Earth, but now was situated on the Ground Floor of the Division House, occupying the space where a normally empty room swapped places with it.

"What is it?" he asked shortly, and the door to the outside slid open quickly, revealing a prostrate Shinigami who was holding out a simple scroll for him to read.
"A message from Captain Mizushi of the Seventh Division," the messenger began, but was halted with another wave of Tenken's hand as he didn't care.
"I'll read it myself." he said shortly, and the random Shinigami bowed again and was gone, leaving Tenken alone in his rooms. Now he was up here he might as well get some official stuff out of the way before he went back to his experiments, so, message in hand, he walked over to his desk and planted himself in the seat and unfurled the message.

Immediately his eyes were assaulted by the almost-cutesy artistic stylings of the Seventh Divisions Lieutenant, his shades providing no protection from the beautiful artwork, and he almost threw the thing away in disgust then and there. However something caught his eye; the words "Regent Lord". Scanning over the message quickly, then moving back to the top and reading it more carefully, his eyebrows slowly but steadily rose, until they were completely hidden by his shockingly blue fringe by the end of his second, more thorough read-through of the letter.
"That's..." Shuichi was at a loss for words, and he threw the letter down on his desk and sat back in his chair, running one hand through his hair as he searched for an appropriate response.

He wasn't averse to the whole idea, but it was unexpected... wait, no it wasn't, this was Tenji we were talking about here. Shuichi preferred to keep at least cordial relations with the other Captains and important figures within Soul Society, but something about Tenji, about the way he pretended to know all about him, irked him and while they did talk without any open hostility, he generally avoided the information-gathering Captain if he could help it. The only thing about this letter that was annoying was the way he was calling himself a "Regent Lord" and, if Tenken didn't know better, he may even be one.
"For further analysis." he said absently to himself, storing the scroll in one of the top drawers on his desk. He was there now, and available for anyone to walk in on, but if they weren't a Captain, Acting-Captain or a Lieutenant they'd better have a damn good reason, or risk a kidou smack in the head...
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