From: | shadowrn@*********.com (Allen Smith) |
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Subject: | New cyberwear: SNSC (Sympathetic Nervous System Control) Implant |
Date: | Fri Jun 8 15:30:05 2001 |
Thanks,
-Allen
SNSC (Sympathetic Nervous System Control) Implant
This implant, as the name suggests, acts to control the sympathetic
nervous system. However, unlike most devices in Shadowrun that control
the sympathetic nervous system or its outputs (e.g., wired reflexes or
adrenyl pumps), it _decreases_ the SNS's activity - primarily during
sleep, but also (with proper interfacing) to help stabilize a wounded
implantee.
Normally, during sleep, the SNS is somewhat depressed, but this is not
the case during dreaming (antagonists to epinepherine tend to disrupt
dreaming if they penetrate the blood-brain barrier). The SNSC prevents
the rise in activity during dreaming external to the brain (internal
epinepherine/norepinepherine levels are not affected, so as not to
disrupt dreaming; if necessary, norepinepherine levels inside the
brain are _raised_ in order to compensate for lower adrenyl gland
activity) and generally lowers the SNS tone during other portions of
sleep.
The effects of the SNSC are as follows:
-2 TM for all Physical Healing tests, so long as the implantee
has slept at least once since the injury was
taken. This is reduced to a -1 if the implantee has a
Sleep Regulator (since they don't get as much sleep),
although the Sleep Regulator can be turned off (see
below).
For 20-Quickness turns (minimum 2) after waking up suddenly
(10-Quickness if awaking naturally, minimum
1):
A. +2 to all Target Modifiers except vs Injury. This
can be removed by a Jolt-Alert (M&M pg 31), such as
one wired to a Retinal Clock or Math SPU.
B. No benefits from Wired Reflexes, unless the
character has a Reflex Trigger (including a Stepped
Reflex Trigger (M&M pg 32-33)).
C. Unless the Adrenyl Pump Regulator option (see
below) is used, Adrenyl Pumps cannot be used.
Several options can be used with the SNSC:
A. Stabilization Connection: A connection to a Biomonitor &
Diagnosis Processor (both are needed) - including their
Nanotech versions - or Metabolic Arrestor can be
installed. This also involves somewhat more selective SNS
inactivation - namely that to the skin is _not_ inactivated
if blood pressure is low (and thus skin blood vessels
remain contracted). (The Trauma Damper's SNS activation to
the skin to prevent bleeding (part of how it works,
realistically) comes after the SNSC's activities, and
overrides it when necessary anyway.) The overall result is
that, when dying, add (Body) turns to the period between
taking additional boxes of damage. This is cumulative with
the Metabolic Arrestor or Guardian Angel Nano-Implant, but
not with the Hibernate spell or Suspended State Adept
ability.
B. Adrenyl Pump Regulator: The SNSC can prevent adrenyl pumps
from activating by mistake - or cause them to
activate. Those with this option can activate or deactivate
an Adrenyl Pump with a Free Action; activation happens on
the end of that Initiative Pass, unless the Adrenyl Pump
would already have been activated except for the SNSC (in
which case it is immediate).
C. Sleep Regulator Interface: This allows turning on and off
the actions of a Sleep Regulator. If a Sleep Regulator has
been turned off, Stress to it is less of a problem; only
use the lower of the level of the Sleep Regulator's Stress
and the SNSC's Stress for the Sleep Regulator's
Stress. (However, this will only take place once the person
has slept one full night, of course.) This interface also
allows going to sleep via a Free Action, unless the Sleep
Regulator is malfunctioning.
Essence previously spent on Reflex Triggers is subtracted from the
Essence cost of a SNSC, although it cannot reduce it below .1 * Grade
modifiers; similarly, if a character gets Wired Reflexes and a Reflex
Trigger after getting an SNSC, Essence spent on the SNSC can be
subtracted from that for the Reflex Trigger (minimum .1 * Grade
modifiers).
Cyberware Essence Cost Avail Street
SNSC .3 20,000 6/8 days 1.5
Stabilization Connection .1 2,000 See Below See Below
Adrenyl Pump Regulator .1 6,000 See Below See Below
Sleep Regulator Interface .1 2,000 See Below See Below
The SNSC is Legal. The others have the same Legality, Availability,
and Street Index as the system they are interfacing to.
Putting together the above with some other cyberwear/bioware (e.g., a
version of the Cyberface Interface
(http://www.amurgsval.org/shadowrun/GoBorg.html) rigged to control
facial expressions instead of transmitting them) should allow someone
to control their external appearance of emotion to a pretty fine
degree. This would give minuses vs normal means of assessing
emotion/truth/etcetera; magical means would be at a lesser minus, but
given that the assumed emotions would be partially real (due to the
Chip & the CNS consequences of SNS regulation), they would still be at
a minus. (Of course, a good look at someone's aura would indicate that
the person had such implants, which would not do wonders for their
trustworthiness...)
--
Allen Smith easmith@********.rutgers.edu