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From: "Richard C. Osterhout" <rcoster@*****.NET>
Subject: Re: Smartlink
Date: Sat, 7 Aug 1993 22:44:30 -0400
On Sat, 7 Aug 1993, Philip Morrison wrote:

> > > Philip> Self-Contained SmartGunLink
> > > Philip> Internal database containing information
> > > Philip> on firearms (weight, range, physical
> > > Philip> dimensions) linked with a microprossesor
> > > Philip> that will move the arm to point to the
> > > Philip> object desired that is within the users
> > > Philip> field of vision. If the firearm that is
> > > Philip> held is not in the database, the
> > > Philip> microprossesor will not function. A
> > > Philip> special chip jack is included for
> > > Philip> updating the database to include new
> > > Philip> firearms.
> > >
okay now i understand...

so what you're saying is its kinda like a reflex recorder/active
skillsofts and skillwires...you look at the target, give the mental
command, and the microprocessor whips up the
arm holding the weapon and makes the finger pull the trigger...right???

if this is the case, i would say that it would cost about the same essence
as wired reflexes level 1 or a set of skillwires, because you would have to
wire up the nerves which control the muscles in the arm to the
microprocessor in the brain and then to the cybereye and datalink...

as if smartgun links weren't bad enough, this would make a sammi kinda
like a mage...look at a target, and will it to be dead...the sammi casts
the "HOSE TARGET WITH SMG" spell...

one more thing though...if this is what you mean by this smartsystem, then
i now see it as a skillwire system...just slot an active skillsoft for
Firearms/SMGs/The New 2054 ARES Line of SubMachineGuns specialization skill...

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