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| Thermo is exactly the same as regular vision. The only difference is that instead of seeing the wavelengths of light humans normally see, it picks up wavelength a few hundred nm longer. A cyber eye for thermo only and one for normal vision only would be virtually indestiguishable unless you looked through them. If you had thermo only eyes you could probably operate just fine, maybe better even for a shadowrunner. You couldn't read newspapers or computer screens, but that guy trying to sneak up on you in the dark alley would look lit up like a chrstmas tree. |
I beg to differ,
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M&M pg49 under heading Thermographic vision Cybernetic and external thermographic systems superimpose this image over a basic, amplified lowlight display... emphasise is mine |
So to me that says pretty clearly that it is not it's own stand alone vision. But a computer generated image of heat perceived by the cyber eye. There fore, no spell casting if the only thing you can see is the persons thermal image.
Nowhere does it state that the Thermo is 'computer-generated'. Natural Thermo is also super-imposed over regular sight, so why should cyber Thermo be any different? As far as I know, there is nothing in canon to suggest that Thermographic Vision cannot be used for LOS purposes during spellcasting.
My point was is that it is not vision, but a vision overlay. The computer generated was just my theory as to why. But the fact stands, it isn't vision. It is a vision mod.
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| TheScamp wrote: How about the "Spell Targeting" section on p.181 of SR3? |
Oh sure, trot out the correct section and quote it, why don't you? Next thing is you'll suggest I look in the index. Damn your Vulcan logic!
I, umm... never thought to check the, aah.. Spell, the Spell Targeting section. *ahem*
Thatshouldbefinethankyou.
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