以博识尊的思考方式为原型，鲁珀特二世仿造出数量庞大的无机仿生神经元集群，从微观的粒子波动，到宏观的大规模物质湮灭，“权杖”遍布于帝国的各个星域，忠诚地履行着观测、演算与干涉的指令。在特定条件下，这些天体级的计算干涉装置，甚至能短暂动摇区域内的物理法则。
与鲁珀特一世相比，血肉之躯的二世，其残暴程度有过之而无不及。不可名状的机械巨构，自我迭代的差分机，以纯粹的杀戮执行反有机方程的无情金属，取代了曾经浩浩荡荡的智械军团。那些被方程裹挟的无机生命，在他眼中不过是可有可无的工具。
利用“权杖”系统，他将治下的疆域统括进思维，每个信号的流向，每副躯壳的行动，一人的思考掌控了整个帝国的运作，帝皇成为帝国唯一的执政官、独裁者以及思考者。有观点认为，“权杖”系统的本质是二世用于克服有机局限性，将帝国转化为自身大脑的外置思考器官。
或许是受这种控制欲的影响，第二次帝皇战争末期，鲁珀特二世终于决定，通过“权杖”系统扩展自身思维，以创造某个未知的“知识奇点”。回归求知者的身份，他准备了一场名为“自我加冕”的实验。
鲁珀特二世未能完成“自我加冕”便死去了，有人认为他中途放弃了想法，也有人说一柄手术刀中断了他的思考。“权杖”系统也在学派战争中全线瘫痪，如今，它们安静地漂浮在黑暗里，成为游人们打卡战争遗迹的观光点，或是一团团等待清理的太空垃圾。
Scepter System (Technology)
With Nous' cognition process as its foundation, Rubert II cloned countless vast inorganic neuron clusters. From micro-particle fluctuations to massive large-scale matter annihilation, the Scepters were scattered across the empire's segmenta, faithfully performing observational, computational, and interference commands. Under specific circumstances, these celestial-level computational interference devices could even temporarily disrupt physical laws within an area.
Compared to Rubert I, the second emperor's cruelty only exceeded his predecessor despite his organic body. Indescribable gargantuan mechanical monoliths, self-iterating difference machines, cold merciless metal that executed the Anti-Organic Equation with a pure intent of slaughter, replaced the once-formidable Intellitron legions. Those inorganic lifeforms instigated by the Equation were nothing more than expendable tools to him.
Using the Scepter system, he united the domain of his conquered lands all into his thoughts. From the flow of every signal to the actions of every individual, the entire dynamics of an empire all came under the control of a single being's mind — the Emperor was the empire's sole executor, judge, and thinker. Some opinions believe that the essence of the Scepter system was the second emperor's way of overcoming organic limitations, an external cognition organ that converted the Empire into his own brain.
Perhaps influenced by such a desire for control, in the waning days of the Second Emperor's War, Rubert II finally decided to expand his own cognition with the Scepter system to create a certain unknown Knowledge Singularity. Returning to the role of a seeker of knowledge, he prepared an experiment known as the "Self-Coronation."
Rubert II died before he could complete the Self-Coronation — some opine that he abandoned the idea halfway through, and others say a scalpel stopped his cognition. The Scepter systems were also completely disabled during the Scholars' Strife, and to this day, they quietly drift through the darkness, reduced to no more than some war ruins that travelers visit, or piles of space trash awaiting clean-up.
