This is a rough sketch used for the colored cover image on fanfiction.net and in the last post. Here you see basically what Rose looks like after Eve seizes control of her brain and her body, and the cybernetic implants. The original purpose for the implants, again, was life support, but Eve hijacked that to control Rose. The large one on her left temple is an adaptor between Rose's brain and the Void Ship's mainframe; it's where Eve is mostly located. The tubes and wires attached to Rose's face and scalp perform nanosurgery on her damaged brain, and by the time the Doctor finds her, her neurons are completely repaired. The collar on her neck is directly connected to Rose's brain stem. It performs involuntary reflexes, like breathing and her heartbeat, keeping her alive until her central nervous system is functional enough to perform those functions independently.
The ship's shape is a truncated icosahedron, which I picked to convey the connection between this ship and the Daleks' Void Ship, but to also convey that the Helial Void Ship is much more sophisticated than the Daleks' crude imitation.
When two hexagonal sides (the hexagon being an important shape in Helial culture) line up with a gravitational center, they open a portal into the ship.
A schematic diagram of the interior structure of the Eternal.
A. Mainframe core
B. Central control room
C. Main corridor
D. Entry point
E. Computer systems matrix
F. Helial living quarters
G. Liquid energy generator (one of twelve)
H. Internal heating
I. Primary reactor
J. Gravity funnel
K. Pulsar reflector
L. Upper pole
M. Mainframe engineering
N. Water manufacturing
O. Cooling
P. Secondary reactor
Q. Lower pole
The story for how Rose lost her left hand isn't completely clear, even to her, but lose it she did, and the Helials replaced it with a prosthetic that is directly connected to her nervous system, so she can control it just as easily as she would a normal hand. The fingertips and the palm of her hand contain rubbery touch receptors that are in fact more sensitive and advanced than the touch receptors in normal skin. The hand is also detachable, connecting to a cybernetic stump that, like the implant on Rose's left temple, is an adaptor between nerves and electrical wiring. The hand's grip is also significantly stronger than that of a natural hand.
Eve can also open direct connections with the Eternal's software through this hand.
Security cubes:
The ship's security robots, which also function as repair droids when needed, though only about a foot in length, width, and height, can fire a powerful incinerator beam from its corners, one which can reduce an organic life form to ash in a split second. The incinerator also contains enough energy to break through most force fields, and is even hot enough to burn through a Dalek's casing. The cubes also contain adaptive capabilities, enabling them to learn from their targets and adapt their shielding to advanced weaponry. Thus, every time a cube is destroyed, the other cubes become stronger. The cubes can also generate an energy beam that can lift solid objects, as well as tap into machinery and computer software using the same mechanics as a sonic screwdriver.
The cubes are only dangerous when the mainframe of the Eternal feels threatened. At all other times, though they survey the activity within the ship, they ignore all life forms within the ship until something triggers the defense protocols.
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