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Message no. 1
From: "Dark Thought Publications." <JEK5313@*****.TAMU.EDU>
Subject: Pandora, thy name is Roberson.
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1993 12:49:53 -0500
J Roberson:
]Does a smartlink include both hands, or just one?
]
]Consider the implications: A gun is knocked out of hand and must be retrieved
]with the opposite digital extremity. Or, for the regaining of Essence, one
]could remove the right smartlink but not the left.
]
]To me, common sense says that a single system is all that is required and
]that it includes but ONE hand, and that an additional charge will procure
]a second connection in the opposite hand, without having to purchase a new
]or second smartlink altogether.

Consider the implications: A sammi carries two Ingram Smartguns, one for each
hand. The guns are both in use at the same time. They mistakenly believe the
smartlink will move their hands, not a cursor, and so they think that this
gives them the ability to hose down a target. Not as unbelievably munchkin as
it sounds; it's happened.

Common sense dictates that only one system will be used, for two reasons:
1) That multiple systems incur additional costs (and, I presume, essence-wise as
well as money)
2) That multiple systems must provide multiple crosshairs for multiple
targeting ability. Multiple crosshairs make shooting ANYTHING _very_ difficult.

So, you may argue, why not a one-or-the-other smartlink?
Because, the initial smartlink is for the dominant appendage, and another
reduces essence further. Therefore it doesn't make much sense, since
everyone's conserving essence. To be otherwise is silly.

If you want to go about using the datajack as you linkage, talk to your GM
about smartlink gloves that are ambidexteral or something. Cyberware would not
occur in so haphazard, or consumerish, a fashion.

--Flare <NULLSIG COURTESY OF GHOD>

Dark Thought Publications & Doom Technologies, Inc.
>>> Working on solutions best left in the dark.

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