Implement of Curiosity

Artifact

Implement of Curiosity is an Artifact, first released in Season 27 (Season: Reclamation). The game files hold 2 more copies of it.

Works best with: Elements: [Solar] [Stasis] [Strand] [Kill] Weapons: [Bow] [Sword]

Artifact mods (group 1, 2 slots)

Fever and Chill: Rapid precision hits with [Solar]Solar weapons grant Radiant. Rapid precision hits with [Stasis]Stasis weapons grant Frost Armor.
Elemental Benevolence: Granting allies an elemental buff gives class ability energy.
Frost Renewal: While you have Frost Armor, taking critical damage releases a burst that freezes nearby combatants and grants Frost Armor to you and nearby allies.
Horde Shuttle: Damaging unraveled targets with a weapon occasionally spawns a Threadling. Threadlings sever targets that they damage.
Refresh Threads: Picking up an Elemental pickup matching your subclass element or picking up a Tangle while you have a [Strand]Strand Super equipped grants energy to your least charged ability.
Pack Tactics: Dealing damage with Threadlings increases Threadling damage. At maximum stacks, Threadlings stun [Stagger] Unstoppable Champions.
Semi-Auto Striker: If you have fewer than 2 stacks of Armor Charge, rapid precision shots with Bows, Snipers, and Scout Rifles generate an Armor Charge.

Artifact mods (group 2, 3 slots)

Threaded Blast: Destroying a Tangle with [Strand]Strand damage increases the radius of the explosion and its damage.
Cauterized Darkness: [Stasis]Stasis or [Strand] Strand debuffed non-boss combatants take increased [Solar]Solar damage from all sources.
Elemental Daze: Stunning a Champion with an elemental weapon creates an elementally aligned explosion, applying a matching elemental debuff to them and nearby targets.
Shoulder to Shoulder: Dealing sustained precision damage against combatants while near two or more allies grants you damage resistance.
Elemental Coalescence: Defeating targets has the chance to create an Elemental pickup matching your equipped Super element.
That Fresh Bullets Smell: Picking up an ammo brick gives your Kinetic weapons increased damage for a short duration.
Energy Acceleration: Sustained damage with micro-missiles causes the combatant to emit a Kinetic shockwave that damages nearby combatants. Strong against [Stagger] Unstoppable Champions.
Fever and Chill: Rapid precision hits with [Solar]Solar weapons grant Radiant. Rapid precision hits with [Stasis]Stasis weapons grant Frost Armor.
Elemental Benevolence: Granting allies an elemental buff gives class ability energy.
Frost Renewal: While you have Frost Armor, taking critical damage releases a burst that freezes nearby combatants and grants Frost Armor to you and nearby allies.
Horde Shuttle: Damaging unraveled targets with a weapon occasionally spawns a Threadling. Threadlings sever targets that they damage.
Refresh Threads: Picking up an Elemental pickup matching your subclass element or picking up a Tangle while you have a [Strand]Strand Super equipped grants energy to your least charged ability.
Pack Tactics: Dealing damage with Threadlings increases Threadling damage. At maximum stacks, Threadlings stun [Stagger] Unstoppable Champions.
Semi-Auto Striker: If you have fewer than 2 stacks of Armor Charge, rapid precision shots with Bows, Snipers, and Scout Rifles generate an Armor Charge.

Artifact mods (group 3, 2 slots)

Radiant Shrapnel: Dealing sustained weapon damage while Radiant or defeating a scorched combatant with a weapon causes the target to release Solar projectiles that deal damage and scorch on impact.
Shieldcrush: While you have Woven Mail, Frost Armor, or a Void overshield, your melee recharges faster and deals increased damage. While you are Amplified or Radiant, your grenade recharges faster and deals increased damage.
Elemental Overdrive: Picking up an Elemental pickup or Tangle grants increased damage to weapons of the same element.
Tangled Web: Creating a Tangle by defeating a [Strand]Strand debuffed target suspends nearby combatants.
Frigid Glare: While Frost Armor is active, [Stasis]Stasis precision final blows cause combatants to release a freezing burst.
Iron Lord's Vigor: While wielding a Sword, you take decreased damage; rapid final blows grant ammo to the wielder.
Argent Quiver: Reloading a Bow consumes one stack of Armor Charge, granting increased damage and reload speed for your next 3 shots or until you stow your Bow.
Threaded Blast: Destroying a Tangle with [Strand]Strand damage increases the radius of the explosion and its damage.
Cauterized Darkness: [Stasis]Stasis or [Strand] Strand debuffed non-boss combatants take increased [Solar]Solar damage from all sources.
Elemental Daze: Stunning a Champion with an elemental weapon creates an elementally aligned explosion, applying a matching elemental debuff to them and nearby targets.
Shoulder to Shoulder: Dealing sustained precision damage against combatants while near two or more allies grants you damage resistance.
Elemental Coalescence: Defeating targets has the chance to create an Elemental pickup matching your equipped Super element.
That Fresh Bullets Smell: Picking up an ammo brick gives your Kinetic weapons increased damage for a short duration.
Energy Acceleration: Sustained damage with micro-missiles causes the combatant to emit a Kinetic shockwave that damages nearby combatants. Strong against [Stagger] Unstoppable Champions.
Fever and Chill: Rapid precision hits with [Solar]Solar weapons grant Radiant. Rapid precision hits with [Stasis]Stasis weapons grant Frost Armor.
Elemental Benevolence: Granting allies an elemental buff gives class ability energy.
Frost Renewal: While you have Frost Armor, taking critical damage releases a burst that freezes nearby combatants and grants Frost Armor to you and nearby allies.
Horde Shuttle: Damaging unraveled targets with a weapon occasionally spawns a Threadling. Threadlings sever targets that they damage.
Refresh Threads: Picking up an Elemental pickup matching your subclass element or picking up a Tangle while you have a [Strand]Strand Super equipped grants energy to your least charged ability.
Pack Tactics: Dealing damage with Threadlings increases Threadling damage. At maximum stacks, Threadlings stun [Stagger] Unstoppable Champions.
Semi-Auto Striker: If you have fewer than 2 stacks of Armor Charge, rapid precision shots with Bows, Snipers, and Scout Rifles generate an Armor Charge.

A relic from a past journey to Kepler.

Source: The Edge of Fate Activities

Things didn't get interesting until the first apology.

A desperate transgression: charred fish and tubers stolen from an unattended fire. Common enough. Surprise when the expected violent outcome did not materialize. Instead, a bowed head, and a leaking ocular duct signaling earnest remorse. Elsewhen, a conglomeration of dark matter and indifference cocked a proverbial head to the side. Inquisitive, as five digits offered forgiveness, and five more, spare nutriment.

At some point a bone broke. Common enough. Expected outcome of abandonment, isolation, fear, death. But surprise, again. The apes gathered the infirm, tending to them enough for osteoblasts to execute their programming. Calcification, returned strength. Two legs ran with twenty more. Something had changed. Elsewhen, dark matter and curiosity leaned in to observe.

One summer, the apes theorized that teosinte could be more bountiful and nutritious if they sowed seeds from a past crop that yielded a particularly desirable result. Unexpected ingenuity. Everything they touched they sought to optimize. Elsewhen, dark matter and pride did smile.

Eyes looked at the flocculent quadruped and saw friendship instead of obedience. The first time a hand reached out to rub fingers over soft, floppy ears, the dark matter felt an unfathomable tenderness.

They made noises with their mouths simply because the sounds made others laugh. They held one another to process emotions their small, frail bodies could not bear to feel alone. They celebrated each time one of their own lived to see another orbit.

They, the children of Earth. They, the children of my Earth. Created and pondered and explored and played just because they could. And I, the dark matter, watched them in wonder.