Augmentations, full-body cyborgs Options

[Zolhex]

Ok as I write this I have been out of the theater for 2 hours sorry my mind took sometime to finish reeling from the movie which is really cool you should go see it.

But now I have an inquirey with Augmentation we get the ability to make full-body cyborgs so question can I make one that can transform???

Sorry but I just think it'd be cool make a guy who can become a car and then sit parked and watch your target till an opening comes along to do what ever it is you were hired to do then transform and do it.

Oh if you have not guessed yet I saw Transformers at the first midnight screening in my area.

[Jaid]

for a human to transform would probably not be available imo. certainly nothing as drastic as what happens with the transformers at least. such transformations are difficult when your lungs can only go so far from your mouth before the connecting tubes rip, for example...

(i suppose Dr. Halberstom's brain-in-a-jar experiments could rectify some of that, but that's hardly the standard).

the other problem is that, for the most part, transforming isn't really all that practical.

[Wakshaani]

I do wonder, here, what kinds of "Mecha" we'll be getting in augmentation and/or arsenal. To borrow from Bubblegum, I'd at least expect Boomers and battlesuits roughly the size of cars, but *not* expect hardsuits or, you know, gundams.

But I've got a Pilot: Anthroform just itchin' to b used.

[Synner]

Weird...

[Ravor]

Well personally I'm of the opinion that if they offically introduce Transformers (More then meets the eye.) to the Sixth World I'm going to swear off Shadowrun for good and go play Cancer. :cyber:

However, I take great relief in Synner's post. 8)

[Zen Shooter01]

Thus far SR has shied away from various Japanese visions of the future. Thankfully, it's not about anime.

[sunnyside]

Although they did have that bit with the furries. Though I suppose that isn't Japanese per se. Of course neither is transformers, which they kind of put into battletech back in the day.

Still I'm hoping it doesn't really show up in shadowrun.

[Synner]

[Moon-Hawk]

Ooh, maybe it means that Wakshaani's post was uncannily accurate. :-) *speculate speculate guess froth rant*

[ThreeGee]

[Wakshaani]

[Rotbart van Dain...]

Nothing wrong with landmates.

[Wakshaani]

[FrankTrollman]

In order to make a Transformer, I'm afraid that you're going to have to conjure up a Spirit of Man from a Possession or Inhabitation Tradition. Its optional power will be Innate Spell, and it will have Vehicle Form. You'll put the spirit into a anthroform battle suit and it will cast a spell on itself to turn into a car.

That would work. But technology in Shadowrun is not sufficient to get around the fact that any part of a vehicle which can mechanically "transform" is definitionally also a part of the vehicle which is structurally vulnerable. In short, a vehicle which could literally and physically transform would be fundamentally weaker than a vehicle which could not (at the same size, weight, and materials).

So you'd have to go magic, because magic operates on entirely different rules.

-Frank

[Critias]

As far as just powered armor goes, you could fake it pretty well with the SR3 diving suits (STR enhancements and all), if you had a mind to.

[ThreeGee]

[Moon-Hawk]

[Ancient History]

Now, now. Everyone knows a transformer is the result of a good merge between a vehicle and a Spirit of the Machine.

[Wakshaani]

[ThreeGee]

[mfb]

you could call it a Deceptisoft.

[Moon-Hawk]

Ha!

[Wakshaani]

[Nocturne]

So, out of morbid curiosity, what IS the technical handwaving that justifies Transformers (either in the latest movie or the old series)? Nanomachines? Living metal? Absurdium/Unobtainium construction?

I do like the possession angle in SR though, very nice. *golfclap*

[Zolhex]