From:	Sebastian Wiers <seb@***.RIPCO.COM>
Subject:	Cybertechnology
Date:	Sat, 9 Sep 1995 13:13:22 -0500

Iv'e been studieng cybertechnology for a while now and am not very
impressed. Yes, some of the ware is good, but underdescribed in general. And
the archtypes in the back are all botched, ie reactions miscalculated, rules
broken (sixmilsam has orthoskin and dermalsheath). The cyberlimb rules raise
good questions but answer them very poorly- I'd rather have seen rules for
building limbs ground up based on the patients physical atributes, for a
reasonable cost.

Anyhow, here are some specific questions:

What are the vision modifiers for someone using eyelights?

Can eyelights be installed in non-cyber lowlight eyes (orcs or elves)?

Is the cyber interface needed to activate the gyro arm? If hooked to other
built in devices, do you need one interface per device? I thought putting it
in a cyber arm and paying 4x normal price was good enoug to give you cyber
control of the device.

Eye lasers. Why all the different types? once you have a laze, can't you use
it as a designator or a tracker (if it is bright enough)?

What is involved in a lazer microphone? I would like a caracter with one
built ino the eye (instead of the cyberarm). No range is given in srII for
these.

On that tip, the shit about wearing mirror-shades to protect your eyes is
totaly wrong. Using a very low power lazer, and wearing a number 13 and 5
shield (dark gogals for oxy-aceteline welding under very dark mask for
arc-welding), I aimed into my eye, and was blinded for about 30 seconds.
Locking eyes with any sort of eye lazer system would be blinding, perhaps
permanantly.

Well, I'm sure this will get all the silence that technological points on this
list normally get.

By the way, the state of the art in cyber-enhanced running seems to be around
120km/hr. Strength can be very high in sigle limbs (40 or so), but why
bother. The nastiest new threats are armor plated cyber-zombies with very
high level tactical computers. Outrageos initiatives seem to expensive and
short term (healthwise) for any corp to bother developing very far.

5ebastian
aka
Mongoose
an elf with no essence