One of New Caledonia's less successful business ventures had been a project to create a complete system to monitor the entirety of a battlefield and make the different technologies used talk together. It worked perfectly fine but no other country really wanted to buy and everyone just preferred to make their own systems. The project was called "Project Full Battlefield Integration" or PFBI. But one part had seen some success, the "Army Omni Tool" or the "wine opener" as it was dubbed by New Caledonian soldiers due to it having a cork screw. The general idea behind it was to make different tools a soldier might need more accessible and quicker to use by placing them in a gauntlet, the Omni tool had rope, a spring knife, a tablet that displayed information to the soldier, it was bullet proof and it had a wine opener. This quite minor tool had caught the attention of the developers of the EMU battle-suits who approached Terran Arms about using it in their battle-suits in exchange for production rights to said suits. This deal was accepted. This sparked interest in the Omni tool and soon a follower started being developed, this one would be a lot more high tech than the first one and was expected to be used in the next generation of battle-suits.

Written pre /r/worldpowers reset

[27th of March 2062]

"Is that everything? Or do I also need to put on my Valkyrie suit?" She asked jokingly with a lopsided grin. She looked a little silly wearing a HUD, and exoskeleton together with the prototype of the Omni Tool 2.

It was a little rough looking, and it was clear a lot of people had been working on it. There were scratches and stains all over it. Asami had been doing her best to keep it clean, but it was hard keeping a prototype like this clean when an entire team was working on it.

Apart from that however it looked pretty nice. It consisted of two parts, the first one was the main body of the omni tool, which wrapped around the right forearm like a large black watch, extending all the way from her wrist, to just a little beneath her elbow. This is where the computers and the titanium-diamond blade was located. Then there was the gloves, the one on the right side connected to the main body of the omni tool with something that looked like black rubber, but probably was some sort of special compound material. The gloves had plates made of the same material as the main body, they looked a little like a high-tech medieval armor gloves. However they contained quite a bit more than that.

It was covered entirely in a dark black color, which probably came from the carbon plating over the titanium it was made of, and it's weight could definitely be felt. It weighed at least a kilo although Korra hadn't been told the exact weight. It was probably classified.

"Well you might have to." Asami answered, obviously considering it seriously. Korra's heart dropped a little. She had hoped that she could get a little time outside of her armor on this job. She did love her armor, and the sense of power and freedom it gave her, but it was nice to every once in a while just walk around like a normal person.

Upon seeing Korra's reaction Asami quickly added. "But of course, if this test goes well you wont have to." Korra wondered what they would be testing. "If you would just follow me." She said, as she started walking with her note pad in one hand.

Korra did as told and followed. She was after all a soldier, even now when she was working with Terran Arms. She had been lucky to get the offer to work with testing the Omni Tool. It was a well paying and easy job, the only thing she had to do was put it on and use it. Until now she had done nothing but some hand movements while wearing the gloves. Probably the easiest money she had ever earned.

She wasn't actually completely sure why she had gotten the offer. Usually it was only veterans that got these offers, but she was still in service. She was suspecting Asami had something to do with it.

They entered a great big hall with at least 10 meters to the roof. The big testing area of Nouméa university, where the engineers roamed free. It was nearly entirely empty, except for some people down in one end who were testing some sort of drone.

"Okay so here we are, let's just run some of the basic tests first okay?" Asami said pulling her notepad out, and getting a pen out of her white lab coat. "First let's test the the blade, try getting it out." Korra did as told and with a wrist movement the 25 cm titanium blade with diamond edges sprung out from it's sheath on top of her wrist. Asami noted something down and then looked up "Good, try the tazer now." Again Korra did as told and with a hand movement the tazer in the glove activated. Small electrical charges jumped between her fingers and an electrical buzz could be heard. "Good you can deactivate it now." After another hand movement the buzz died down. "Let's test the titanium uhhh..." They had never actually found a name for those. "The titanium knuckle claws?" Korra suggested. "Yes let's call them that. Also try activating them with the HUD." Asami got ready with her notepad. The HUD connection was something they had been having trouble with. Korra preferred to use movements because it was a lot cooler, but she did as told. She thought about using the claws, and the sound of metal unsheathing could be heard. Five small titanium blades sprung out of the knuckles on the gloves all sparkling in the light.

"I think that's the basic tests over, lets get on with the real test." Korra was excited to hear what they would be testing. It was always something cool. It seemed that was the only things Terran Arms made. Cool stuff. "Do you see that little box under your wrist?" Asami said. Korra turned her arm, and true enough there was a little black box right behind her wrist. "Inside of that there is 100 meters of synthetic spider string, which can lift 10 tons." Asami explained proudly. "Damn, a piece of string has already beaten me at weight lifting." Korra said with a grin. Asami couldn't help but laugh at the stupid joke. "Anyways, on the end of that string there's enough gecko tape to lift 480 kgs." Asami continued her explanation. "Asami you're destroying my self esteem here, first a piece of string now some tape? What is next a super strong piece of cardboard?" Asami let out a quick laugh before she got on with the testing.

She pointed at one of the walls of the testing facility. "Try shooting the string at that wall. It should work with the HUD." Korra pointed the glove at the wall and let the string loose. It quickly shoot out of her glove, and attached itself to the wall. "Now try to pull it in." Korra did as told again but to both her and Asami's surprise the string didn't come back, but instead pulled Korra towards the wall. It was quick, and after some time Korra was hanging on the side of the wall dangling from her glove. "Are you okay?" Asami asked though her mic. "Yeah I'm fine if a little winded. Was that supposed to happen?" Korra was more surprised that scared, up until now the tests had been quite tame. "Well both, yes and no. You forgot to detach the gecko tape before you retracted the string. This is one of the intended functions, but we weren't going to test it just now." Asami explained through the mic as she looked up at Korra with worried eyes. "Well then I guess we accelerated the research a little." Korra smirked to herself. "I guess. While you're up there could you test something else? The gloves are covered in gecko tape, you should be able to climb down with them." Asami said now that she had been reassured that Korra wasn't in any danger. "What like spiderman?" Korra asked this may be the coolest feature of the Omni Tool yet. "Yes like spiderman." "Awesome!"

Korra quickly crawled down from the wall. Humming the spiderman theme to herself all the way. When she reached the bottom Asami rushed over to her, and helped her take off all the equipment.

"I think that's enough testing for today we will continue tomorrow." Asami said when Korra was free of all the technology. "That was quite successful. We should open a bottle of wine to celebrate it." Korra would actually love to share a bottle of wine with Asami. "How would we open it though?" It was Asami's turn to make jokes now. "With the Omni tool of course. It has a cork screw after all." Korra didn't really get the joke when they literally had a cork screw in the glove. "Oh it doesn't have that." Asami said quickly. "WHAT?" Korra was astounded the old Omni tool had one, how could the new one not have one? "How can there not be a cork screw in the Omni tool? It's the most used feature of it." It was true she had barely used any of the other features in her Omni tool in the army. "Okay I will talk about getting one built in." Asami complied. "Do that, it wont be a real Omni Tool with no cork screw." Korra said.

Authors note: At first I actually kinda made this just to put a corkscrew in it as I had forgotten to do that in the first development post. When this was a post it had a meta/ooc sentence at the bottom saying this:"Yes I did this just to put a cork screw on it." This is also the first RP post with Korra so you can say this all started with a need for wine.