drones, skillwires, and you, hacking your own brain! Options

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some background. i'm playing an otaku in a fairly successful otaku tribe--lots of rebuilt junk hardware, very tech-savvy. recently, my otaku acquired two LS-9 surveillance drones. my original plan was to slap a laserlink and a satellite uplink on one of 'em and have it follow my otaku around; the otaku'd have a level 1 RCD in his backpack and a rating 2 signal amp, and would be able to deck from anywhere by connecting a laser to the RCD, pointing it at the drone, and uplinking through it to any satellite constellation he can get a beam on (probably Angel SatCom, as they're the easiest pickin's in the sky). a remote control complex form and a Rigger Protocol Emu Module in the RCD will let me control the drone while i'm hacking.

however, that doesn't quite satisfy me. like a rich man's nagging wife, i want more. it occurs to me that, with a little work, i can have my drone network keep my otaku mobile while he's decking.

first, i'd need a set of skillwires implanted--rating 2, 8Mp. that's enough for an Athletics (Skating) skillsoft rating 2, as my boy's a rollerblader. with a chipjack and expert driver 2, that's 4 dice for blading--plenty for basic go-around-the-block stuff.

next, i'd need a drone pilot and an autonav. the second LS-9 will provide a drone pilot, once we rip it down for parts, and autonavs are cheap. without too much trouble, i can probably rig these up to just run off of the RCD's power supply, which will be beefed up to handle the extra load.

now, for the part where i'm a genius. i route my skillwires to my datajack (datjacks act as cyberware routers with 5 ports). then, i connect to the RCD through my datajack, connecting through the laser to the drone to the sat uplink to a satellite. there, i fire up my remote control complex form, where i find 2 drones on my network: the LS-9, and the drone brain jury-rigged (heh) to my RCD.

the drone brain, by means of some modifications, is linked via external router to my datajack, and from that to my skillwires. from my lofty position in the Angel SatCon, i command the spare drone brain to take my body around the block. the drone brain ponders this, then checks with the autonav--which i've helpfully loaded with a map of Seattle--to plot a route, then relays these instructions to my skillwires. the skillwires, with their 4 dice of goodness, move my body in a manner which allows it to skate with better-than average skill around the block. meanwhile, through the wonders of RAS, my otaku is busy robbing electronic banks to fund his next crazy scheme.

flaws i can see offhand: drones have no real way to interface with skillwires. however, i don't see this as a problem, because the same drone brain can pilot anything from an LS-9 to a car to a fighter jet, with no additional hardware or software required. it shouldn't be a huge problem, to me, for the drone to just tell the skillwires "move", and let the skillwires handle the rest.