40. Systema Zero

Systema zero is built upon of the earliest traditions of space-borne humanity. The martial art encompasses a broad spectrum of free-fall experiments and traditions, dating back to the earliest permanent off-Earth settlers.

Built on a foundation of freefall training, systema zero is designed to function in the simplest possible circumstances: you and your opponent free floating in zero gravity with no nearby objects. Consequently their is heavy reliance on locks and holds able to bend an opponents body against itself, and almost no strikes. More sophisticated forms allow for surfaces and common environments, featuring jumping off of nearby objects to land powerful hits as well as the use of Coriolis and Centrifugal forces.

Mechanics

Systema Zero is treated as an Unarmed Combat specialization, active whenever the user is in a zero or micro gravity.

39. Domesticated Limb

The octopus is the uplift most different from humanity. In a wild species, as much as two thirds of an octopus' neurons are located in their limbs. In uplifted octomorphs the size of the primary brain is increased, but half of their neurons are still located in their limbs. The tentacles of octopuses and octomorphs therefore have a significant degree of autonomy, capable of grasping and feeling on their own initiative. The semi-autonomy of these limbs has led to the development of one of the most unique martial arts in transhuman history.

"Domesticated limb" (as translated from octopus color language) is a martial art dedicated to the training of octomorph tentacles. The focus of training is not on the ego, but on the nervous systems of the limbs, training their reflexes to perform combat-useful actions. A master of domesticated limb, or more precisely, their tentacles, are capable of choking someone out, breaking an arm, or dissembling a gun, with no conscious attention whatsoever. This comes with problems, as there have been cases in the past of domesticated limb practitioners accidentally subduing random passers-by.

Mechanics

Domesticated limb is treated as an Unarmed Combat specialization, active whenever the user is in a octomorph.

38. Methods of Steel

Methods of steel is the premier open-source, synth oriented martial art. It is truly transhuman in its practices, making heavy use of skillware, simulspace training scenarios, and AI trainers. There are, in fact, only two physical schools: one in Extropia, and one in Locus. The art is banned or heavily regulated on many Lunar habitats due to its associations with synth liberation movements.

Much of the most basic training is focused on giving the practitioner a true sense of the tolerances and strengths of their synth body, so that they will take full advantage of synths' durability and strength. As a student progresses, they can branch into specialized schools of technique. Styles are generally divided into "soft" (vs. biomorphs) and "hard" (vs. synthmorphs.) The open-source nature of the art's development has led to huge, branching specializations, with specific techniques not just for different weapons but for certain numbers and types of limbs, industrial tools, and a system of flexbot techniques that is rapidly spinning off into its own martial art.

Mechanics

Methods of Steel is treated as an Unarmed Combat specialization, active whenever the user is in a synthmorph.