Here are this week’s research system rolls.

Balance of Power modifiers:

• Piltover: 0
• Bandle City: +2
• Zaun: 0
• Demacia: +4

Piltover

The Velocitronic Rail (Alpha Phase) — High-speed hextech levitating train system
Target: 8 or higher
Balance of Power Modifier: 0
Roll: 5
Total: 5

People of Tomorrow (Gamma Phase) — Bio-augmentation project
Target: 8 or higher
Balance of Power Modifier: 0
Roll: 1
Total: 1

Airship Armada (Alpha Phase) — Build a fleet of hextech airships
Target: 8 or higher
Balance of Power Modifier: 0
Roll: 1
Total: 1

Danger Level: 1
Roll: 20 (success)

Bandle City

Refuel the Mothership (Beta Phase) — Attempt to refuel the Yordle Mothership with pyrikhos-based fuel
Target: 8 or higher
Balance of Power Modifier: +2
Roll: 3
Total: 5

Cosmic Balance (Gamma Phase) — Balance Order and Chaos and find a way to use pyrikhos safely.
Target: 8 or higher
Balance of Power Modifier: +2
Roll: 1
Total: 3

Danger Level: 2
Roll: 7 (success)

Zaun

HexKorps — A mechanized hextech army of battletanks, mutants, death rays, and other fiendish innovations

Zaun has created a hextech army the likes of which Runeterra has never seen: cyborg soldiers, techmaturgic biodisruptor beams, walking humanoid robots the size of buildings, and hextech tanks rigged with death rays. As Noxus has fallen into disarray, Zaun has ascended to a level of military power to rival even Demacia. The HexKorps is operational and ready for deployment by land, sea, or air.

Impact: Zaun now has a powerful military. The HexKorps will open up new options in interactive lore events that involve military conflict, and give it a much better chance of success in those events.

Pharmakon II — An arcano-elixir that could produce a new breed of Void-touched mages

“Pharmakon” is a consumer product, an arcano-elixir made with Void ooze collected from contaminated Noxian land which when imbibed gives a potent high and temporary psionic powers. It is only one of several such “NoxiToxis” that have proliferated in Zaun ever since its megacorporations began their “research” on Void-tainted Noxian land. Attempts to strengthen Pharmakon had always failed: concentrating it above a certain level simply made it lethal. Singed has discovered the secret: infusing hyper-concentrated Pharmakon with pyrikhos, then charging the mixture through a latticework of hextech energy beams wrapped in tubes circulating a steady stream of pyrikhos as mages chant the half-remembered scraps of Shuriman spells. The result is Pharmakon II, which if administered to certain “gifted” individuals can create Void-touched psi-mages with the power to warp reality itself to their will. For the first time in history, Zaun has its own school of magic.

Impact: Zaun’s psi-mages can use their powers to curse an enemy Champion with a hex that closely resembles the sort of “summoning sickness” that Champions sometimes experience due to over-exposure to the magics of the Fields of Justice. Zaun may roll a d6 prior to Featured Matches and Tournament Matches; on a roll of 6, Zaun gains one “real” ban against the enemy faction.

Void Energy (Gamma Phase) — An attempt to harness the energies of the Void itself.
Target: 7 or higher (Aggressive Research bonus)
Balance of Power Bonus: +0
Malzahar Bonus: +2
Roll: 9
Total: 11

Breakthrough! Project complete!
Zaun has developed the power to control the energies of the Void.

Mutant Academy (Gamma Phase) — An institution led by Zac where mutants can learn to use their powers for good
Target: 7 or higher (Aggressive Research bonus)
Balance of Power Bonus: +0
Twisted Fate Bonus: +1
Roll: 8
Total: 9
Breakthrough! Project complete!
Basically this.

Warpgate (Beta Phase) — Twisted Fate is assisting Zaun in creating a point-to-point teleportation system.
Target: 7 or higher (Aggressive Research bonus)
Balance of Power Bonus: +0
Roll: 9
Total: 9
Breakthrough! Project advances to Gamma Phase.
The first full-scale warpgates have been built, and the vortex fields stabilized.

Danger Level: 6
Roll: 20 (success)

Demacia

Cosmic Purity (Beta Phase) — Holy magic to repel the Void and cure those it has afflicted
Target: 8 or higher
Balance of Power Modifier: +4
Roll: 8
Total: 12
Breakthrough! Project advances to Gamma Phase.
Demacia has discovered incantations believed to date back to an ancient war against the Void.

Secrets of Shurima (Beta Phase) — An attempt to unravel the secrets of ancient Shuriman magic to better understand pyrikhos
Target: 8 or higher
Balance of Power Modifier: +4
Roll: 10
Total: 14
Breakthrough! Project advances to Gamma Phase.
Demacian mages have sufficiently understood the principles of Shuriman magic to fill in a crucial gap in Merricurry’s theories.

Danger Level: 1
Roll: 13 (success)

Stay tuned for more!

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