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 Mar 9 2005, 02:50 AM
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Dragon  Group: Members Posts: 4,664 Joined: 21-September 04 From: Arvada, CO Member No.: 6,686  |
Who says it'd require anethesia? All the real sammies I know have pain editors and they do they're own surgery... ain't trustin my life to some street doc.
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Mar 9 2005, 03:06 AM
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Canon Companion Group: Members Posts: 8,021 Joined: 2-March 03 From: The Morgue, Singapore LTG Member No.: 4,187 |
The problem with nanoware and basically most enhancements that a street sam may pick up is that it is not designed to be operated outside the urban setting for extended periods.
In any "extreme" environment other than space, adepts tend to fare better. |
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Mar 9 2005, 03:14 AM
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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 |
There are quite a few facilities serving various purposes, some secret, some not-so-secret, scattered around the Congo, and other less obvious places of the Sixth World. I'm sure there are ways for an enterprising character to negotiate some kind of maintenance from the employees there.
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Mar 9 2005, 03:42 AM
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Uncle Fisty Group: Admin Posts: 13,891 Joined: 3-January 05 From: Next To Her Member No.: 6,928 |
Load up the nanites into auto-injetcors. Have 'em on call, much like the Savior cyber, or whatever it's called.
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Mar 9 2005, 04:24 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,144 Joined: 22-September 04 Member No.: 6,690 |
Who says that general maintenance requires anesthesia? For example, if playing without stress rules, then most completely internal pieces would probably be maintenance free, except for yearly check/tune-ups. Completley internal gear (wired reflexes, most headwear, air tanks, etc) is the only thing I can think of that would require anesthisia before doing maintenance. Cyber limbs, eyes, all of that would be pretty simple to on your own (although arms and hands might be a little difficult to do one handed, but so long as you're not in the middle of a firefight, I don't see the point in causing too much grief). A couple minutes in front of a mirror with a screwdriver, press a couple of jumpers, and I would say you can flip your field of vision with cyber-eyes, so that you could do general maintenance with in a mirror while they're still in your head. I do not see it as unreasonable for a character who spends two years in the jungle with nothing more than a basic tool kit (ala Robinson Crusoe) to not have a single piece of functioning cyberware.
As far as nanites, with a hive(s) he'll only need to have the nanties replenished every six months. With expanded digestion, I do not see it as unreasonable that with the consumption of silica (fine sand), iron (screws), and exotic trace minerals (volcanic crystal), I would allow nanites to be replenished automatically while foraging. |
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Mar 9 2005, 04:55 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 187 Joined: 30-April 04 Member No.: 6,294 |
I thought all cybernetics ran off bioelectrics? |
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Mar 9 2005, 04:52 AM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,073 Joined: 23-August 04 Member No.: 6,587 |
There are a couple of items that state they need extra power. EG the eye lasers and shock systems.
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Mar 9 2005, 04:03 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 486 Joined: 4-August 04 From: Fomorian Wastes Member No.: 6,538 |
I could wrong AND out of date, but doesn't the description for a nanite hive say that the type of nanite produced by the hive is "usually hard-wired" when made.
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Mar 9 2005, 09:10 PM
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Mr. Johnson Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,587 Joined: 25-January 05 From: Berkeley, CA Member No.: 7,014 |
I think you'd have to have an additional piece of bioware, as expanded digestion only means you can extract food value from a larger amount of things and tolerate eating things that only a goat would love, rather than eating everything and extracting what you need from it. So some sort of "2nd stomach" attached before the sphincter of Oddi, that had a sole purpose of extracting and refining carbon and other base materials into nanite-capable products. In addition, you'd have to have an internal cyberware "processing plant" to convert said materials into the complex carbon gel that is needed by the nanite hive. And by the time you're done paying for that, you would have been better off served by walking to the nearest plane station in the Congo, bribing the local authorities, flying out to Azania, spending money to reach their Delta clinic, and having your nanites replaced... |
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Mar 9 2005, 09:21 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 668 Joined: 15-February 05 From: Ontario, Canada Member No.: 7,086 |
Expanded Hive -- produces multiple types of nanites, one of which returns 'dead' nanites to the hive, where they are reprocessed into functional nanites again.
Add in suitably advanced nanites that operate on bioelectricity (or just function properly in the electric field within the body) to maintain power.. Now.. nanites could be lost other ways, but there are certain amounts of metal and other compounds in the system already, so small amounts of iron and silicon and so on could be absorbed -- or, a third set of nanites that scavenge it from the digestive tract.. Shoot, just put the hive in something with an external access -- tiny input that can be filled with raw materials as needed. Anyway, you guys should get the picture. Opinions? |
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