From:	MC23 <mc23@**********.COM>
Subject:	Cyber and Body Index (was Re: Munchkinism at it's finest)
Date:	Mon, 4 May 1998 12:08:27 -0400

Once upon a time, Alfredo B Alves wrote;

>Speaking of cyber and body index... would cyber increase the body index?
>I can't see why it would ... I'm just starting down this train of thought
>but ... I think cyber should incur body index (this, btw, would prevent a
>chrome king from loading up on bioware). I see the cyber as doing more
>"damage" to the aura (or perhaps it would be appropriate to say the
>synchrinicty of the aura) than to the body index... but still raising the
>body index some ... bioware would be the reverse ...what do you think?

Well unless you believe in perpetual motion machines there would be.
Everyone seems to be forgetting that alphaware on up has reduced Essence
cost because of miniaturization and _organic components_. For these
Amazing Discoveries(tm) levels of cyber grades to even exist (and I still
scoff at that) then the "organic component" would constitute more and
more of the cyberware. Non-natural organics are Bioware and would effect
the Body Index. There is no such thing as a free ride.

I would also drop the "no death on the operating table" rule since
if the character wanted to gamble to get all this great stuff he has to
stake something for it.

And what about a Bioware version of cyberpsychosis?

-MC23, who is now thinking about Prometheus Unbound-