I notice that no one chose Street Sam because they like the code of honor thing.

Pardon the intrusion, this is just a little bleed-over from Emo's Alignment thread. I figure since Emo started both threads....

Oh yeah, and his last name is Samurai

My formula spirit pact can beat up your microgravity!

For what, 5,000 years? What then smarty pants?!

-Frank

You'll become first on every invitation list for my parties.

You are forgetting that whilst we are using our magic to live forever, we've mindcontrolled some meat schmuck to shoot you out of the sky

I have. The idea is that the constant gravity allows us to grow sufficient bone density and also forces our muscles (specifically the heart) to get a sufficient work-out that it is able to pump blood at this gravity. Prolonged time in microgravity results in loss of both and subsequent problems. I believe some of the cosmonauts in Mir suffered from some minor problems due to lack of excercise. No one has died from it, however.

Wiki has some stuff on it in brief. I'm sure you could google more if you wanted:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microgravity#...#Health_effects

Yeah, that's what I mentioned above, and it's bad if you want to return to a gravity well, but I've yet to see anything that indicates that it's a maladaptation in its environment, that is to say microgravity. Have you seen anything like that?

~J

Levitate.

Headware phones are fairly low-Essence, and not exactly one of the high-performance combat mods that define "street samurai". Or you could just get one of those little ones that you stick in your ear.

Manabolt.

Again, not exactly a high-performance combat mod. And you could get a credstick that you can stick in your ear to balance the phone.

Movement power.

Read their minds and emotion-control them so they stop thinking things like that. And then go make out with their girlfriends.

I'm not sure where you got that latter point. The only relevant SR references to microgravity I know of have been to life extension, not a permanent halt to aging. Anyway, for those who aren't bioindex maxed out cyberzombies Leonizatoin treatments seem the better bet. You actually get younger and can stay on Earth.

Well, by the current technological and magical level of development, microgravity is really a crappy way at longevity, since it seems (judging from Wilhelmina Benoit's example) that it can add at most some decades of lifespan (as it may be expected from biological realities: lack of gravity takes away some causes of aging, but definitely not all). Comparable to one optimized leonization run. Far better to invest your money in that, and avoid sequestering yourself in orbit for decades.

Leonization is quite better, but for it being really efficient at increasing lifespan, you need to let yourself age up to biological 60-80 years age every time, so it's not ongoing youth, and it can give (by available SR3 rules) 300-400 years at most before your system shuts down. Of course, this may change if Augmentation will take away the Essence price tag on leonization entirely, but I'm skeptic about it (reducing the Essence cost of the treament would be very nice, though, as SR3 price was excessive to game usefulness, and it would be an expected effect of ongoing scientific development).

By comparison, magical means (formula spirit pact, hidden life free spirit power, HMHVV-I/III infection -vampire, wendigo, banshee, nosferatu; unfortunately I've never understood whether dzoo-noo-qua and goblin keep sentience, so HMHVV may suck as a longevity method for dwarves and trolls-) is garanteed to work at least till the next downswing of mana, 5000 yrs. in the future, barring violent death.

If I were a SR character of means and learning, eager for real immortality, I'd start searching a free spirit or vampire that is able and willing to grant the dream/life/formula pact package, Hidden Life, or Infection, to a reasonable price.

The free spirit route is preferable if you are already Awakened, HMHVV is you are mundane and a human/ork/elf.

If you are willing and able to track down and successfully bargain with a vampire, nosferatu or wendigo, you can reliably Awaken without the right genes. It's about 70% efficiency if you are human and get the power from a vampire, 100% from a nosferatu. Ditto for orks. Sure, being an Infected has its social drawbacks and the mandated secret predatory lifestyle, but any really successful runner or corporate shark is already a social predator with plenty of blood on his hands, and a record of felonies worth a couple life/capital sentences or lynchings if caught.

Dude, it's a radical full body change. Costing a point of Essense/Bio Index (whichever was in SOTA 2063) is hardly unreasonable. And given how cheap it was at a coupla three million, presumably the real rich get a half impact delta version at the really exclusive Swiss clinics. The fact that this is inconvenient for cyberzombies is beside the point, and hardly likely to hurt their sales very much. And if it were money cheap enough for players it would be common enough to be massively socially disruptive. Less than 0.1% of the population in wealthy countries getting a few trips back to their younger days is one thing. Even as much as 1-2% would cause lots of interesting social stuff the developers don't want to have to think about.

I liked that SOTA 2063's Leonization mentioned a requirement for an original young DNA sample to be in storage so that they have an undamaged template to return to. Leonization always presented a problem with early SR old guys running corps - why aren't they using it? Why did Wilhelmina Graff-Beloit die? Clearly she was too old when the technique was invented to benefit! Very good retconning, guys.