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Message no. 1
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: [semi-OT] A short rant about senseless thwapping (was Re: Fe
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 21:29:01 +0100
The same also applies to a rigger driving a vehicle that has a datajack port,
but is not adapted for rigger control (IOW, no "black box").

Hope this helps,

-- Jon
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Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 15:06:36 EST
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From: JonSzeto <JonSzeto@***.COM>
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Subject: Re: Living Walker Drones
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In a message dated 98-01-02 15:57:42 EST, AirWisp writes:

> Second, take a person that already has implanted within them the Snake-Eyes
> Remote Interface Link and a MBW ... this enables a rigger to receive and
> send
> information to and from that person ... if the same person added an
> encephalon, dedicated to keeping a line of communication between the Snake-
> Eyes and the MBW ... and then add into the mix a DNI interface link between
> the Encephalon and the MBW ... then with some reprogramming of the MBW to
> enable a rigger to control the body via the mbw without any interference
> from
> the implanted pc ...
>
> And thus does one make a person capable of being a living-walker drone ...
>

Snake-Eyes, as I originally designed it, allows a rigger to experience the
sensory input from a flesh-and-blood metahuman, just as if that person was a
drone. However, it does NOT give the rigger control over the character,
because the Snake-Eyes cyberware interfaces only with the sensory lobes of the
brain. It does not have any connection to the parts of the brain that deal
with motor control, so it is physically impossible for a rigger to take
control of a character. (To use an analogy, it's like a cassette walkman
player that can't record, because it has no record head to overwrite the data
onto the magnetic tape.)

On the other hand, it COULD be possible for some corp out there to design a
piece of cyberware SIMILAR to Snake-Eyes that would also connect to the
brain's motor
Message no. 2
From: "Paul J. Adam" <shadowrn@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: [semi-OT] A short rant about senseless thwapping (was Re: Fe
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 00:19:32 +0000
Some typos seem to have crept in. What did you mean to say here?

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Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 20:57:48 +0100
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From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Organization: Plastic Warriors
Subject: Re: Sv: Sv: Sv: Year of Earthdawn
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Message no. 3
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: [semi-OT] A short rant about senseless thwapping (was Re: Fe
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 01:41:11 +0000
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Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:19:36 -0800
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From: Max Rible <slothman@*********.ORG>
Subject: Re: Year of Earthdawn
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At 14:09 1/6/98 PST, Damon Harper wrote:
>>Uhhh... Barsaive is in East Europe, ya know... Thera is a real island
>>on the Mediterranean, and it's to south-east, and Death's Sea is some
>>real sea, too... only mountains and jungles are changed...
>
>Uhhh... Thera is the lost city of Atlantis, ya know... and if it really
>was real, it's in the bottam of the ocean...
>[how does condecention feel? ;) ]

If you compare the map of Barsaive to Eastern Europe-- and especially the
on in the Theran Empire sourcebook that makes it 100% obvious that it's
taking place on Earth-- you'll find that Death's Sea corresponds to
the Black Sea. Thera is one of the names of a Greek island that blew
up Krakatoa-style sometime about 1200BC (I think) and brought down
Minoan civilization on the island of Crete, as far as modern archaeologists
know. Santorini is another of the names of the island. It's in the middle
of the Aegean Sea, between Greece and Turkey.

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