From:	Cobra <wgallas@*****.FR>
Subject:	Re: Cyberware Power Sources (Was Re: Cyberware: Where do you put
Date:	Thu, 7 May 1998 04:21:28 +0200

>>In my musings for today I was contemplating cyberware. I wondered how all
>>of these neat little devices got the power they need to run. Does wired
>>reflexes have a battery pack? If so why isn't it listed so I as a GM can
>>rule that it shorted out at a most inoportune time <display evil_grin>.?.
>
>Actually, if current technology has been refined to a high degree in SR,
>then there could be two probable possibilities derived from the electricity
>produced by the human body.Standardly, neurons produce a charge of 700
>milliwatts in a non-active state. If all the standing eletrical energy
>produced by the neurons of the body could be concentrated, it could run a
>small lightbulb. Perhaps in the future they have figured out how to amplify
>this.
>Another possibility would be the eletrical gradient across the cell
>membranes of all living cells. They are currently developing microscopic
>mechanisms which utilize this electric potential at the AMBRI institute in
>Austrailia. If this mechanism could be maginifed, it could also be a source
>of plausable and natural eletrical current.

Anyway, that makes a big problem with SR technology. If you can *easily*
produce energy to use most cyberware without having to refuel every day or
week, you should use that same energy production for vehicles... That means
that vehicles should have a lot more potential than it is stated in SR
(they're not very different from now...).
I don't think we could find a way to compromise those two facts...
Cyberware is here for... Ambiance... And the average tech is here to give
more *realism*.

That makes me think about an evolution of SR world... Magic drains energies
from astral quite easily and with great potential. If you magic and
technological devices to harvest those energies, that can give you great
possibilities.

- Cobra.