From:	Ian Smith <KildTheCat@***.COM>
Subject:	Re: Essence and body-index
Date:	Tue, 8 Aug 1995 01:11:50 -0400

If you take to the idea that Essence is a rating of how much "you" is still
there physically, a lot of things sort of break down. For example, I have a
character who has almost no essence left - but few of his implants are
outside a very small region of his head ( sorry guys, no C2 ). So why is my
characters essence lower than many street sams who have muscles replaced all
over their body and skin replaced my plastic?
I think, personally, that the Essence rating is a sort of combination of the
cyberwares effect on the mentality of the character, and of the auric
integrity. The two effect eah other, so this makes sense. . . at least to me
:)