You are the owner of the Transistor, a large blunt sword also serving as a powerful computer holding a virtual world. Only you can use it unless you give user access to others.
The Transistor is able to use Functions, which projects its digital resources into the outside world to various effect. The base Function of the Transistor is Turn(), allowing the user to pause their perception of time and program a course of action, up to a limit, with more exhausting actions costing more against that limit; once released, they'll execute every action they programmed extremely rapidly over the course of the next second. Afterward, the Transistor will need to recharge for a few seconds before any of its Functions are available.
By touching a living being with it for around ten seconds, their consciousness is copied as a Trace inside of the Transistor's virtual world, and their data is analyzed by it, granting a Function fitting to the being digitized. If they have powers, their Function will usually imitate those powers in some way. You start with one such Function, which corresponds to you.
Unlike Turn(), other Functions will need to be assigned to certain roles; Active, Passive or Upgrade. Active Functions can grant abilities such as dashes or blasts of energy. Upgrade Functions are added to Active ones, altering them in various ways such as reducing their energy cost or making them strike multiple times. Finally, Passive Functions augment you directly, such as by granting you an energy shield or masking you from sight. You may have four Active and four Passive Functions working at once, and each Active Function can have two Upgrades. Changing it around requires a few minutes of messing with the sword's computer. None of these functions can grant you capacities above street-level.
The Transistor can also create the Process, mindless programs projected into the real world. It can theoretically control them, however, without someone with extraordinary knowledge in programming to fine-tune them, they will rampage and digitize things without reason.