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Prerequisites: Ability to manifest astral construct, Boost Construct.
Benefit: When you create an Astral Construct, you may choose to have it gain the Living Construct subtype. Among other things, this grants it a Constitution score equal to 10 + twice its level. A living Astral Construct gains bonus hit points according to its newly granted Constitution score, or according to its size (as though it did not have the Living Construct subtype), whichever is better.

The table below summarizes the Constitution scores, modified hit point totals, and modified Fortitude saves of living Astral Constructs.

Level   Con   Hit Dice    HP    Fort
1       12     1d10+ 10    15    +1
2       14     2d10+ 20    31    +2
3       16     3d10+ 20    36    +4
4       18     5d10+ 20    47    +5
5       20     7d10+ 35    73    +7
6       22    10d10+ 60   115    +9
7       24    13d10+ 91   162   +11
8       26    16d10+128   216   +13
9       28    19d10+171   275   +15

In addition, you can select from the following Astral Construct abilities when making living Astral Constructs, in addition to your normal options. You cannot use these options with nonliving Astral Constructs.

Menu A

• Ensouled (Ex): The construct gains any one Incarnum feat that it qualifies for as a bonus feat. This ability may be selected multiple times.
• Fortification (Ex): The construct gains a 50% chance to ignore the extra damage from critical hits and precision damage (such as from the Sneak Attack ability). Any ability damage that it receives is reduced by 1, to a minimum of 0.
• Soultouched (Su): The construct gains the Incarnum subtype and a single soulmeld you have shaped (if any), as though it had shaped the soulmeld itself, with a meldshaper level equal to your meldshaper level for that soulmeld. It does not gain the benefit of any other effects that you have applied to this soulmeld, such as invested essentia, chakra binds, or feats. You must choose the soulmeld when the construct is created.

Menu B

• Body Link (Su): Half of any damage that you would take is instead dealt to the construct, as per the share pain power. Unlike the power, this link is unidirectional, lasts as long as the construct does, and cannot be dispelled.
• Improved Fortification (Ex): The construct gains a 100% chance to ignore the extra damage from critical hits and precision damage (such as from the Sneak Attack ability). Any ability damage that it receives is reduced by 3, to a minimum of 0.
• Improved Soultouched (Su): As Soultouched, except the soulmeld is also bound to its crown, feet, or hands chakra (your choice, but the bind must be valid for the selected soulmeld). You must be able to bind the selected soulmeld to the selected chakra.
• Vigor (Ex): The construct gains a +4 bonus to its Constitution score.

Menu C

• Empathic Transfer (Ps): The construct can use empathic transfer (manifester level 7th) as a psi-like ability once per round.
• Greater Soultouched (Su): As Improved Soultouched, except that the soulmeld can be bound to the constructs arms, brow, or shoulders instead, and that the construct gains 2 points of essentia.
• Regeneration (Ex): The construct gains regeneration, healing 5 points of nonlethal damage each round. Its regeneration is only bypassed by crystal weapons and by sonic damage.

Special: You can use the Skin of the Construct feat, Ectopic Skin feats, and similar effects to select from these additional menu options as long as the construct that you create to fuse with is a living Astral Construct.

Prerequisites: Ability to manifest astral construct, Boost Construct.
Benefit: When you create an Astral Construct, you may choose to have it gain sentience, granting it an Intelligence score equal to 4 + its level. This grants it a number of feats and skill points, as indicated on the table below. It still follows your orders unquestioningly. Sentient Astral Constructs lose the immunity to mind-affecting effects that the Construct type normally grants.

Level   Int   Skills                                   Feats
1        5    Listen +4, Spot +4                       Alertness
2        6    Listen +4, Spot +5                       Alertness
3        7    Listen +5, Spot +5                       Alertness, Weapon Focus (Slam)
4        8    Listen +6, Spot +6                       Alertness, Weapon Focus (Slam)
5        9    Listen +7, Spot +7                       Alertness, Weapon Focus (Slam), Power Attack
6       10    Listen +15, Spot +15                     Alertness, Weapon Focus (Slam), Power Attack, Improved Natural Attack (Slam)
7       11    Listen +18, Spot +18                     Alertness, Weapon Focus (Slam), Power Attack, Improved Natural Attack (Slam), Iron Will
8       12    Listen +21, Sense Motive +19, Spot +21   Alertness, Weapon Focus (Slam), Power Attack, Improved Natural Attack (Slam), Iron Will, Improved Bull Rush
9       13    Listen +24, Sense Motive +22, Spot +24   Alertness, Weapon Focus (Slam), Power Attack, Improved Natural Attack (Slam), Iron Will, Improved Bull Rush, Awesome Blow

In addition, you can select from the following Astral Construct abilities when making sentient Astral Constructs, in addition to your normal options. You cannot use these options with nonsentient Astral Constructs.

Menu A

• Arsenal (Ex/Ps): The construct gains proficiency with single a simple or martial weapon of your choice. It can manifest call weaponry (manifester level 1st) as a swift action once per round as a psi-like ability.
• Mind Shield (Ex): The construct is immune to charm and compulsion effects, unless it chooses to be affected.
• Skilled (Ex): The construct gains a number of ranks equal to its level + 1 in the skill of your choice, to a maximum of your ranks in that skill, and it considers that skill to be a class skill. This ability can be selected multiple times.

Menu B

• Feat (Ex): The construct gains any feat that it qualifies for as a bonus feat. This ability may be selected multiple times.
• Improved Arsenal (Ex/Ps): The construct gains proficiency with all simple and martial weapons. It can manifest call weaponry (manifester level 5th) as a swift action once per round as a psi-like ability.
• Improved Mind Shield (Ex): The construct is immune to mind-affecting effects, unless it chooses to be affected.
• Mind (Ex): The construct gains a +4 bonus to its Wisdom score.
• Thought (Ex): The construct gains a +4 bonus to its Intelligence score. This does not grant it additional skill points.
• Personality (Ex): The construct gains a +4 bonus to its Charisma score.

Menu C

• Channel Power (Su): As long as the construct's creator has line of sight and line of effect to it, the creator may determine range, line of sight, and line of effect for powers the he or she manifests from the construct's position and with the construct's senses instead of his or her own.
• Greater Arsenal (Ex/Ps): The construct gains proficiency with all simple, martial, and exotic weapons. It can manifest call weaponry (manifester level equal to its hit dice) as a swift action once per round as a psi-like ability.
• Improved Psionics (Ex): The manifester level of each of the construct's psi-like abilities improves by 4, to a maximum of its hit dice.
• Share Powers (Su): At the creator's option, he can have any power (but not any psi-like ability) he manifests on himself also affect the construct. The construct must be within 5 feet of him at the time of the manifestation to receive the benefit. If the power has a duration other than instantaneous, it stops affecting the construct if it moves farther than 5 feet away, and will not affect the construct again, even if it returns to its creator before the duration expires. Additionally, the creator can manifest a power with a target of “You” on the construct (as a touch range power) instead of on himself. The creator and construct cannot share powers if the powers normally do not affect creatures of the construct's type.

Special: You can use the Skin of the Construct feat, Ectopic Skin feats, and similar effects to select from these additional menu options as long as the construct that you create to fuse with is a sentient Astral Construct.

Prerequisites: Ability to manifest astral construct, Boost Construct, Astral Lifeshaping, Skin of the Construct, must have a Constitution score.
Benefit: You can merge a living Astral Construct with your body, allowing it to buffer you from certain effects. When you use Skin of the Construct to fuse with a living Astral Construct, you may choose to give up the Menu A option and the temporary hit points to let the construct's life force mingle with your own. This grants you temporary hit points equal to the construct's Constitution score (which may be traded for other effects with other Ectopic Skin feats in place of the normal 1d8 temporary hit points) that last for as long as the ones granted by Skin of the Construct normally would (normally 1 hour). In addition, you are protected by the skin of the living construct for as long as you would otherwise gain the Menu A option (usually 1 minute), granting you immunity to poison, sleep effects, paralysis, disease, nausea, fatigue, exhaustion, and energy drain. You can be targeted and affected by spells that target constructs in addition to your normal type. You do not need to eat, sleep, or breathe, but you can still benefit from the effects of consumable spells and magic items such as heroes' feast and potions. finally, if you are disabled you do not risk further injury due to strenuous actions, and you automatically stabilize if you are reduced to negative hit points.
Special: If you have the Living Construct subtype, you can choose to retain the Menu A option and the improved temporary hit points at the cost of the other benefits (most of which, if not all, are already granted by the Living Construct subtype).

Prerequisites: Ability to manifest astral construct, Boost Construct, Astral Thoughtbinding, Skin of the Construct.
Benefit: You can bind a sentient Astral Construct mind instead of your body, allowing it to manifest your powers for you. When you use Skin of the Construct to fuse with a sentient Astral Construct, you may choose to give up the Menu A option and the temporary hit points to let the construct's mind mingle with your own, granting you the benefit of a modified schism power for as long as you would otherwise gain the Menu A option. This special schism is considered to be the result of a supernatural ability, nor a power, and it stacks with the benefits of the schism power and similar effects. The effective manifester level of your construct's mind cannot exceed the number of power points that you spent to manifest it, even through effects that grant a bonus to its manifester level, such as the Overchannel and Practiced Manifester feats. Despite being referred to as a separate entity, the fused construct is considered part of your own mind, as normal for the separate part of your mind created by schism. As such, it uses your feats, skills, and other abilities, not those that it would have as an independent construct.