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Stalag
post Oct 1 2011, 09:25 PM
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QUOTE (RC pp 77-78)
Some Infected possess the Regeneration power, which makes implantation very difficult. Modern science can circumvent certain of these restrictions using specially-formulated materials, drugs, and allergenic surgery—for a price. In practice, most Infected can accept any implant (cyberware, bioware, nanoware) without difficulty, provided they can find a street doc or facility willing to perform the surgery—double the Interval for the Availability Test when looking for a Medical Provider that will work on the Infected. Infected with the Regeneration power may only accept deltaware implants. Genetech augmentations of any sort are not available to the Infected at all, as the retrovirus in their systems re-sists and rewrites any other attempt to alter the character’s genetic code.

So, it's clear that an Infected character with the Regeneration power faces significant difficulty in obtaining ware.

But, what about wares the character had before they were infected? Does the retro-virus read their genetic code and reject everything not part of your original body and then regrow anything that had been replaced? Would it be able to tell Cultured Bioware apart from the rest of you?

Or does everything get a "free pass", as it were, and only new wares are a difficulty?

The former could mean a path back to (a form of) humanity for those who did not lose their limbs by choice.

The latter would mean cybered up infected nightmares....

Thoughts?
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- Stalag   Cybernetics, Infection, and Regeneration   Oct 1 2011, 09:25 PM
- - HunterHerne   QUOTE (Stalag @ Oct 1 2011, 06:25 PM) So,...   Oct 1 2011, 09:38 PM
- - Jazz   QUOTE (Stalag @ Oct 1 2011, 09:25 PM) But...   Oct 1 2011, 10:09 PM
- - Patrick Goodman   QUOTE (Stalag @ Oct 1 2011, 04:25 PM) So,...   Oct 1 2011, 10:26 PM
|- - Stalag   QUOTE (Patrick Goodman @ Oct 1 2011, 05:2...   Oct 2 2011, 12:51 AM
- - Yerameyahu   I'm pretty sure you don't keep any 'wa...   Oct 1 2011, 10:32 PM
- - BishopMcQ   Because the virus rewrites your DNA at the genetic...   Oct 1 2011, 11:09 PM
- - Paul   Yeah I'd pretty much say no ware in an infecte...   Oct 2 2011, 12:00 AM
- - Yerameyahu   I think it's pretty cut and dried: Regeneratio...   Oct 2 2011, 12:56 AM
- - Paul   I do have this funny vision of some Vampire who ke...   Oct 2 2011, 01:10 AM
|- - Seerow   QUOTE (Paul @ Oct 2 2011, 02:10 AM) I do ...   Oct 2 2011, 02:05 AM
- - Shortstraw   Definition of Deltaware - the ware that uses roofi...   Oct 2 2011, 02:49 AM
|- - Christian Lafay   QUOTE (Shortstraw @ Oct 2 2011, 03:49 AM)...   Oct 2 2011, 03:37 AM
- - Makki   but shouldn't Type-O Bioware by definition wor...   Oct 2 2011, 09:13 AM
- - Stahlseele   Type-O Ware is the Standard Bioware you get if you...   Oct 2 2011, 09:34 AM
- - hermit   QUOTE But, what about wares the character had befo...   Oct 2 2011, 10:15 AM
- - Stahlseele   Also of note, ghouls had to pay double essence for...   Oct 2 2011, 11:42 AM
|- - Faraday   This thread brings back my idea for a nigh-unstopp...   Oct 2 2011, 11:45 AM
- - Stahlseele   The only good thing about the CZ Ghoul is the fact...   Oct 2 2011, 12:33 PM
- - hermit   I doubt a ghoul cyberzombie would even work, given...   Oct 2 2011, 12:43 PM
|- - Faraday   One could claim that the HMHVV could feed off the ...   Oct 2 2011, 01:52 PM
|- - Patrick Goodman   QUOTE (hermit @ Oct 2 2011, 07:43 AM) I d...   Oct 2 2011, 02:03 PM
|- - Nath   QUOTE (Patrick Goodman @ Oct 2 2011, 04:0...   Oct 2 2011, 02:33 PM
- - Patrick Goodman   I stand corrected. There's so damn much stuff ...   Oct 2 2011, 03:00 PM
- - CanRay   I read the title of this thread and started thinki...   Oct 2 2011, 03:30 PM
- - Stahlseele   Terminus Experiment was an interesting Read in thi...   Oct 2 2011, 03:36 PM


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