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post Jun 6 2008, 03:32 PM
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Browsing through Augmentation I started to wonder: would it be possible to rig my own body?
I could get funky rigger bonuses for controlling my "drone-body" in hot-sim.
I could go hacking/rigging remotely while a Pilot/Agent moves me around as needed.

The rules for 'Borgs describe them as essentially a rigged humanoid drone.
But that's too problematic.

A full-cybered body is damn expansive.
Counting the need of 2 arms, 2 legs and 1 torso to be able to rig-drive my body...
...at standard-grade I'll have money to buy the rigger stuff, but not enough Essence left.
...at Alpha-grade I'll have the Essence, but not the money.

So I was thinking: why not going Bio-Drone?
It only costs 25k (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nuyen.gif) and 0.5 Essence for a nice CAST to be implanted into my body!
Too bad for the availability of 25 that prevents me from doing it at Char-Gen (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sleepy.gif)

I suppose I'll have to stick to the old turbo-wheelchair (IMG:style_emoticons/default/spin.gif)

Anyway...is any of my ideas viable?
Or maybe I overlooked some fundamental detail that won't let them work even if, in actual play, I get money and opportunity?
Or is there some other way to work around (with vanilla canon rules) this limits?
Maybe some different oprion or way to rig?

...

I also have a question about Agents and Pilots.
Are they interchangable?
A Pilot is really a specialized agent that controls a kind of device.
An Agent is a "piloted" software that can perform 'trix actions.
So, can a Pilot be instructed to do 'trix stuff?
Can an Agent be instructed to "jump in" into a device?

And if not in this way...can an Agent command-control a Pilot's device, just like any hacker could do?


...

[EDIT]
A friend pointed out some calculation errors ( (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif) ) and it turns out that a full-cyber body (no skull) is possible at Alphaware, burning 180k (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nuyen.gif) and 4.8 Essence.
I counted in:
- 2 arms
- 2 legs
- 1 torso
- 1 Control Rig

I suppose there's no need to apply a vehicle Rigger Adaptation to the 'wared body, right? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)
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- Hasimir   Rigging my own body   Jun 6 2008, 03:32 PM
- - paws2sky   I'm highly amused, just for the record. -paws   Jun 6 2008, 04:28 PM
- - Slymoon   As am I.   Jun 6 2008, 05:12 PM
- - Stahlseele   it is, more or less, a valid question . . if we ca...   Jun 6 2008, 05:24 PM
- - Hasimir   So, I'm going for an Alphaware full-cyber body...   Jun 6 2008, 07:03 PM
- - PlatonicPimp   With just augmentation, I too thought this was do-...   Jun 6 2008, 07:57 PM
- - weblife   But you should, in theory, be able to rig your own...   Jun 6 2008, 08:09 PM
- - Jaid   by the way, you can't technically make human b...   Jun 6 2008, 08:20 PM
|- - D2F   QUOTE (Jaid @ Jun 6 2008, 09:20 PM) by th...   Feb 23 2010, 02:34 PM
|- - augmentin   QUOTE (D2F @ Feb 23 2010, 10:34 AM) Says ...   Apr 14 2010, 04:59 PM
- - Stahlseele   same difference as with player character ghouls an...   Jun 6 2008, 08:26 PM
- - Slymoon   Possible maybe, but it really seems bizarre. Sinc...   Jun 6 2008, 08:47 PM
- - weblife   Skillwires. If a body has skillwires, you can con...   Jun 6 2008, 09:10 PM
|- - Jaid   QUOTE (weblife @ Jun 6 2008, 05:10 PM) Sk...   Jun 6 2008, 09:38 PM
- - weblife   In SR 3 there were rules that allowed this wasn...   Jun 6 2008, 09:10 PM
|- - Stahlseele   QUOTE (weblife @ Jun 6 2008, 11:10 PM) In...   Jun 6 2008, 09:43 PM
- - Hasimir   Skillwires! That's genius! I was writ...   Jun 6 2008, 10:04 PM
- - Stahlseele   Shadows of Asia probably O.o   Jun 6 2008, 10:24 PM
- - Leofski   It may just be my memory fading away, but didn...   Jun 6 2008, 10:27 PM
- - Hasimir   The forum is impossible to use...my previous post ...   Jun 6 2008, 10:37 PM
|- - Jaid   QUOTE (Hasimir @ Jun 6 2008, 05:37 PM) Th...   Jun 7 2008, 02:19 AM
|- - Hasimir   QUOTE (Jaid @ Jun 6 2008, 09:19 PM) basic...   Jun 7 2008, 11:06 AM
- - Hasimir   For Sensor rating I'm gonna apply this "s...   Jun 7 2008, 01:02 AM
- - Hasimir   Since turning a body into a riggable device seems ...   Jun 7 2008, 03:36 PM
- - Hasimir   Let's see if I did my homework right. All modi...   Jun 7 2008, 07:46 PM
- - Stahlseele   you know . . you have indeed built an anime-like m...   Jun 7 2008, 08:05 PM
- - Hasimir   Stupid question, but... If I have a Control Rig, d...   Jun 7 2008, 11:35 PM
|- - RunnerPaul   QUOTE (Hasimir @ Jun 7 2008, 07:35 PM) St...   Jun 8 2008, 04:15 AM
- - Stahlseele   somehow, Rigging-Stuff never really came with inpu...   Jun 7 2008, 11:37 PM
- - Hasimir   So...an Agent can NOT "jump-in" to a dev...   Jun 8 2008, 01:04 AM
- - Synner667   Peter F Hamilton does something similar in one of ...   Jun 9 2008, 12:02 AM
|- - Hasimir   QUOTE (Synner667 @ Jun 8 2008, 07:02 PM) ...   Jun 9 2008, 12:10 AM
- - Hasimir   Question: I'm rigging a drone with a functiona...   Jun 9 2008, 02:14 AM
- - Jackstand   I think that the drone needs a smartlink.   Jun 9 2008, 02:24 AM
- - Stahlseele   hrm . . why hasn't anybody mentioned Cybots as...   Jun 9 2008, 09:19 AM
- - Hasimir   1) so, a smartlink interface in the Drone sensors?...   Jun 9 2008, 09:52 AM
- - Stahlseele   Cybots are more or less coffins/Stabilization Unit...   Jun 9 2008, 10:13 AM
- - Jaid   in that case, i have talked about them more or les...   Jun 9 2008, 09:05 PM
- - Stahlseele   the general idea that makes this so damn awesome i...   Jun 9 2008, 09:19 PM
|- - Jaid   QUOTE (Stahlseele @ Jun 9 2008, 05:19 PM)...   Jun 9 2008, 10:36 PM
- - Stahlseele   as far as the rules are concerned: no, it is NOT p...   Jun 10 2008, 12:00 AM
- - Hasimir   Question: Commlink Upgrades. Let's say I have...   Jun 10 2008, 10:13 PM
- - Fortune   The latter.   Jun 10 2008, 10:19 PM
- - Trollered   Well in my own case I was thinking of creating a P...   Feb 23 2010, 12:43 PM
- - Stahlseele   use smart metals . . you can wear your sword as yo...   Feb 23 2010, 01:20 PM
- - Tias   Probably a stupid question, but I know nothing abo...   Feb 23 2010, 03:04 PM
|- - D2F   QUOTE (Tias @ Feb 23 2010, 04:04 PM) Prob...   Feb 23 2010, 03:15 PM
- - Tias   Yeah, thanks a lot I'm thinking that there m...   Feb 23 2010, 03:44 PM
- - Achsin   Since riggers in hot sim take biofeedback damage e...   Feb 23 2010, 11:25 PM
|- - D2F   QUOTE (Achsin @ Feb 24 2010, 12:25 AM) Si...   Feb 23 2010, 11:35 PM
- - Achsin   true, but you would miss out on the +2 die bonus   Feb 24 2010, 02:43 AM
- - D2F   QUOTE (Achsin @ Feb 24 2010, 03:43 AM) tr...   Feb 24 2010, 09:28 AM


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