 German Augmentation Cover, New Artwork revealed |
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 Nov 14 2008, 02:44 PM
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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 858 Joined: 25-August 03 From: Braunschweig, North German League, Allied German States Member No.: 5,537  |
Pegasus has just today revealed the new cover artwork for the German translation of Augmentation ("BodyTech").
I'd post a link to the artwork but it depicts a nude female elf (breasts visible) floating in a "bacta tank" (to use a Star Wars analogy) and I'm not sure if I'd violate Dumpshock's rule #3 (the picture is in no way explicit, at least by German standards, but you never know...). So, should an admin give his/her OK I'll post a link, otherwise not. |
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Nov 14 2008, 03:08 PM
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Great, I'm a Dragon... Group: Retired Admins Posts: 6,699 Joined: 8-October 03 From: North Germany Member No.: 5,698 |
Cool picture! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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Nov 14 2008, 04:05 PM
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Awakened Asset Group: Members Posts: 4,464 Joined: 9-April 05 From: AGS, North German League Member No.: 7,309 |
Yes indeed. Cool pic.
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Nov 14 2008, 04:45 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 858 Joined: 25-August 03 From: Braunschweig, North German League, Allied German States Member No.: 5,537 |
Well, the decision has been taken from me - the link was posted in the German Shadowrun art thread.
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Nov 14 2008, 04:54 PM
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Great, I'm a Dragon... Group: Retired Admins Posts: 6,699 Joined: 8-October 03 From: North Germany Member No.: 5,698 |
Fellow posters: a pest like roommates, co-workers or husbands. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif)
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Nov 14 2008, 05:41 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 171 Joined: 30-August 08 Member No.: 16,291 |
Not that I'd love the original artwork, but I find neither of the new covers better. And what's with the title? "Bodytech" is not really a German word.
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Nov 14 2008, 05:43 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,991 Joined: 1-February 08 From: Off the rock! Back In America! WOOOOO! Member No.: 15,601 |
Yeah, gotta admit I'm not enamored with the new cover.
Granted at least no one will be knocking on the covergirls "crotch plate" and asking if anyone is home... |
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Nov 14 2008, 05:50 PM
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The King In Yellow Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,922 Joined: 26-February 05 From: JWD Member No.: 7,121 |
QUOTE Not that I'd love the original artwork, but I find neither of the new covers better. And what's with the title? "Bodytech" is not really a German word. I agree. I guess I'll keep the English book there. The cover isn't very in tune with the setting (Bacta tanks?), it's not very well composed, and the girl looks ... odd. like a puppet. strange positioning of arms and legs. also, the tank's far too large for her, and makes the image seem ... empty. Nice colours though. |
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 Nov 14 2008, 05:56 PM
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Prime Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,803 Joined: 3-February 08 From: Finland Member No.: 15,628 |
QUOTE (hermit @ Nov 14 2008, 07:50 PM)  The cover isn't very in tune with the setting (Bacta tanks?) Gene Augmentations? |
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Nov 14 2008, 05:59 PM
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The ShadowComedian Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,538 Joined: 3-October 07 From: Hamburg, AGS Member No.: 13,525 |
wonder if there will be new toys in there like in the german arsenal?
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Nov 14 2008, 06:00 PM
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The King In Yellow Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,922 Joined: 26-February 05 From: JWD Member No.: 7,121 |
QUOTE (Mäx @ Nov 14 2008, 06:56 PM) Gene Augmentations? Syringes and ambulant treatment, as described in the book? Besides, gene modding doesn't grow you mechanical parts, as it seems to have happened to this elf there. |
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Nov 14 2008, 06:07 PM
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Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,328 Joined: 28-November 05 From: Zuerich Member No.: 8,014 |
In the intro story to genetech, one such tank is mentioned (in which the Japanese woman changes to a caucasian woman).
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Nov 14 2008, 06:12 PM
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Great, I'm a Dragon... Group: Retired Admins Posts: 6,699 Joined: 8-October 03 From: North Germany Member No.: 5,698 |
QUOTE (hermit @ Nov 14 2008, 07:00 PM) Besides, gene modding doesn't grow you mechanical parts, as it seems to have happened to this elf there. Could have had the parts before? And isn't Tomas Roxborough (sp?) supposed to hold alive in a vat-tank or something like that? |
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Nov 14 2008, 06:26 PM
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The King In Yellow Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,922 Joined: 26-February 05 From: JWD Member No.: 7,121 |
Roxy isn't human, least of all in form. He's a fairly straightforward adaption of Neuromancer's (or, mor eprcisely, Mona Lisa Overdrive's) Josef Virek. Basically, a huge, huge tumor. More a Soggoth than human.
Even if, I doupt these tanks are usually kept in borg ship-ish environments in the SR universe. |
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Nov 14 2008, 06:30 PM
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Great, I'm a Dragon... Group: Retired Admins Posts: 6,699 Joined: 8-October 03 From: North Germany Member No.: 5,698 |
Wasn't he a human guy who later suffered from a serious illness/ infection/ whatever?
And can't you imagine a row of tanks in a sterile environment, with steel stairs and all that? |
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Nov 14 2008, 06:39 PM
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The King In Yellow Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,922 Joined: 26-February 05 From: JWD Member No.: 7,121 |
Yes. NOT, however, in a borg ship. Well, of course I can imagine that, but not in conjunction with SR.
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Nov 15 2008, 11:31 AM
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Great, I'm a Dragon... Group: Retired Admins Posts: 6,699 Joined: 8-October 03 From: North Germany Member No.: 5,698 |
I don't see a borg ship at the cover.
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Nov 15 2008, 11:46 AM
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The King In Yellow Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,922 Joined: 26-February 05 From: JWD Member No.: 7,121 |
No, because it's a boirg ship's interior. Could also be something out of Matrix or SLA, though, you're right.
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 Nov 15 2008, 01:44 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,173 Joined: 27-July 05 From: some backwater node Member No.: 7,520 |
Borg aside, this picture is way better than the dog-faced, armed to the teeth, clad in dark clothing, surrounded by shadows, because it's so cool to be dark, thing on the german arsenal cover.
Art... why even bother? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rotfl.gif) |
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Nov 15 2008, 09:45 PM
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Immoral Elf Group: Members Posts: 15,247 Joined: 29-March 02 From: Grimy Pete's Bar & Laundromat Member No.: 2,486 |
I have to say that this is pretty much how I have always pictured genetic (and even some bioware) treatments being administered in Shadowrun.
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Nov 15 2008, 10:11 PM
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Hoppelhäschen 5000 Group: Members Posts: 5,807 Joined: 3-January 04 Member No.: 5,951 |
Well, it's pretty much how genetic treatmens were picture in Shadowrun before.
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Nov 15 2008, 10:15 PM
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Dumorimasoddaa Group: Members Posts: 2,687 Joined: 30-March 08 Member No.: 15,830 |
Are not vats mentioned as part of the recovery proses for all augmentations. Hench the term Vat job see pg 47 BBB.
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Nov 15 2008, 10:49 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,263 Joined: 4-March 08 From: Blighty Member No.: 15,736 |
I ignore all references to vats. Vats are silly early SciFi story products that are totally unsupportable in real life with the treatment time lengthes given in the book (what kind of opressive megacorp is going to give you a month of vacation time so you can get yourself suped up). Honestly, I see it as going down to your clinic for a comprehensive examination, a discussion with your treatment provider and a shot or two with another such session scheduled some time in the next few weeks to review progress and progress to the next stage of your treatment.
Plus, the fact that you will be expected to attend work whilst dealing with raging fever and whatnot from the virus they're using to insert your genemods is more in line with the tone than "you sit in an oddly lit tank for a month and come out smarter". Even nanite-based insertions will make you feel extremely fatigued from all the extra activity. |
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Nov 15 2008, 11:04 PM
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Dumorimasoddaa Group: Members Posts: 2,687 Joined: 30-March 08 Member No.: 15,830 |
The tanks could only be a day or two thing even more so with nanites and what not.
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Nov 15 2008, 11:12 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,263 Joined: 4-March 08 From: Blighty Member No.: 15,736 |
They're completely unnecessary. You can just inject the insertion agent into their bloodstream and send them off. Space multiplied by time equals money, and corps optimise out inefficiencies. People do it as well; why sit motionless in a boring tank when you could at least be at home watching the trid? There would be a demand to remove all the tank-sitting that is possible. I don't think it's necessary in the first place and I think it smacks of silly.
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