Trick #1: He just won't die!
Buy a commlink, Alphaware muscle replacement cyber, a biomonitor, cybereyes, cyberears, a simrig, a Pilot program, and some autosofts. Get a special personafix program made, designed to give the user your personality. If you can, get it linked to your simrig to make it a better simulation over time. Then, when you take enough damage to render you unconscious, you get the Pilot program (which you'll have installed in your muscle replacements) to take over your motion. The autosoft make it so it knows how to control your body, and it feeds the data from the cyber-eyes and -ears into the Pilot as its sensors, and stores the incoming feeds. Then it hoofs it to the closest hospital, after finishing off whatever threats rendered you unconscious. It uses the personafix chip to assume your personality, so it'll make decisions the same way you would. If you die on the way, you get a cloned body made, the cyberware transferred, and when your clean-slate clone brain wakes up, it gets imprinted with your memories and personality from the records you've kept, and you go right back to action.

Trick #2: Sleeping with your eyes open!
Buy a commlink, maybe a Clearsight autosoft, a set of Cyber-eyes and -ears. When you go to bed, you switch off the simsense feeds from the cyber-eyes and -ears, but leave them running to the commlink, which analyses them for trouble, as you go to sleep. If it detects trouble, it wakes you up with a torrent of simsense, before restoring your eye and ear feeds. If you have wired reflexes or reaction enhancers, it might turn on the juice to wake you up quickly.

Number 1 won't work, if you're dead, you're dead, no persona fix program is going to make a dead body move, probably not an unconscious one either. Muscle replacement doesn't change that since input from the brain is necessary and you probably need oxygen to power those muscles too.

I think it's cool Nick.

#1 is and nice idea, but would fail when finally needed.

#2, on the other hand, is very effectiv - and you don't need a commlink at all, being able to install Pilot and Autosoft directly on eyes and ears.

#1
I might very well be wrong but I don't recall ever see anything where they have managed to clone a brain and "write" contents to it otherwise people would make clone backups and brain backups on a regular basis just incase someone decided to pop them off. Persona and memories are rather different things. Even if this was posible, the cost involved would be so astonomical why the hell would you want to run when you could afford to have your own private island along with hula girls.

Interesting concept though.

#2
Sleeping with eyes open, not bad idea but you could jsut as easily stick up a camera linked to your pan right next to the bed which can swivel and monitor the room whereas when you decide to roll over and end up face down in the pillow no amount of open eyes is going to help you see.

Tashio: Yeah, the persona of the person probably wouldn't come with memories. That's what the simrig's for.

Also, by canon, DocWagon grows clones by the bucketload for their customers.

Kerberos: That's what the Pilot Program and Muscle Replacement are for: to make your dead body move.

#1 has a critical point of failure. Human brain is dead. But if you added skillwires to the mix, I could see it might be possible to get muscle twitches for a while out of a corpse. But this argues for some additional juice in addition to the fire your motor signal.

The clone would require skillwires and the proper softs since p-fixes don't come with active skills. It wouldn't be you any more than a Shedim or a Loa stuffed in your corpse is, but it gets the job done.

There are anthroform drones.

As for myomeric fiber... Google it.

I'll also point you to p. 329 of SR4.

So the problem is energy - which you need additional power supplies as your body no longer features bioelectricity...

Indeed, that would be ATP.

Cyberware runs on bioelectricity officially, though...

That tech, or a version thereof, appeared in.... Cannon Companion, methinks?

I can never remember clearly because it seems like such a counter-intuitive place to put it.

Please. It runs on "bioelectricity" it doesn't run on the bioelectricity that your body was already generating.

Your body produces tremendous amounts of waste chemical energy, your cyberware runs on electricity. Your man/machine interface produces electricity from the waste energy of your body. So the electricity is produced from a biological source, and is thus "bioelectricity."

It's a technically accurate use of the term, and involves no thermodynamic violation.

-Frank

Meh, I chalk that misunderstanding up to the inefficiencies of the English language.

I mean, "hydroelectric power" could seem to imply the use of supercharged water molecules at first glance.

bi·o·e·lec·tric·i·ty Audio pronunciation of "bioelectricity" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (b--lk-trs-t, -lk-)
n.

An electric current that is generated by living tissue, such as nerve and muscle.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=b...=bioelectricity

Besides I was only joking.

page reference?

Dunno the page, but its in Shadowtech!

Edit: ARRRRRRRRGHH top of the next page ARRRRRRRRRRRGHH

The brain is the most oxygen-sensitive organ in your body. You could be passed out from blood loss and still have enough ovygen transport to run your muscles. Also, muscles are able to operate without oxygen for a while. That is how we are able to sprint.

With the headware listed above, and skillwires to operate the muscles, I don't see why it would not allow your unconscious body to move. I don't think it would be able to impersonate you with any kind of success. If this were possible, Deus would have done it to take over Renraku.

At that point you are really an anthro drone with a ceramic framework and biotech drivetrain, but it is still an interesting concept. The "cyberzombie" could not go far. I would guess well under a mile. They might be able to exit the battlefield and call for help.

Here's an additional thought. Carry a Anthro pilot program, and then a standard auto pilot program. Your anthro pilot's prime order is to find a car, and jack into it. Then the autosolft takes over. That probably isn't enough to make it a "drone modded" vehicle, but it might get you to the clinic of your choice.

Speaking of clinics, having video and audio recording while you are under anesthetic sounds like a really good idea at a shadow clinic.

That or have your friends scrub in too.

Shadowrun has both medical clones (shadowtech p. 11) and vat grown specific organs (SR2, p. 114). Why they use both techniques hasn't ever been fully explained.

I don't think I could even speculate on that subject.

-Frank

Frank, If you are talking about the chat at the bottom of page 11, it sounds like only the organ in question comes out normal. That would make it the same as vat grown organs.

You might end up with a non-aware, misshapen lump of meat with a perfectly formed, perfectly functional, heart in the middle.

If you suddenly find yourself in need of an organ (because it was shot out and you're currently on life-support), you want a cloned organ. If you want to be prepared for the loss of an organ before it gets shot out, but you're not quite sure which one it will be, get the docwagon contract with full clone body.


"Your organ will be grown in 3-6 weeks, after you get through the waiting list. If you're still alive by then, you can have. But you might die by then, 'cause, y'know, you're missing a vital organ an' all. Oh, but don't spend all your cash to cover your hospitalization, cause we don't take I.O.U.s."

If i recall correctly Docwagon Platinum? provides a fully grown clone for instant spare parts. You can try the description of the various Docwagon contract levels to be sure.

DocWagon Platinum grows a medical clone of you according to SR1-3. SR4 does not mention it, but presumably it still does.

-Frank

Behold the power of Platinum DocWagon.