From:	Katt Freyson <katt@******.NET>
Subject:	Re: Cyberware and regeneration
Date:	Mon, 11 May 1998 23:42:28 -0400

|> From: Lady Jestyr
|> Sent: May 11, 1998 7:56 PM
|> Subject: Re: Cyberware and regeneration

|> I`m really unclear on the FASA rules for regeneration, never having been
|> interested in playing a character with it - does regeneration grow back
|> missing body parts, or just heal the body faster? That`s the important
|> question - if the former, then cyber wouldn`t have much chance of
|> working. If the latter, cyber would be fine. All IMHO, of course.

This would seem to be the crux of the argument; is Regenration [in SR]
merely rapid healing, or does it extend to rull regeneration of the body?
Someone posted the description given in one of the books and unfortunately
this is not specified, or if it is I did not notice.

Going with the theory that they would have called it super-rapid healing
if this is what they intended I'd say that Regenerate does indeed heal the
body back to full, unless the brain, the spine, or both are destroyed. Even
to the point of regrowing lost body parts. Ergo, if my reasoning has been
correct, implanting cyber-wear, especially limbs, would be problematical.

Having written the above I should point out that it is my belief that
with a healing spell designed for it [even though SR doesn't have yet] it
should - at least theoreticaly - be possible to install cyber-wear as part
of a magical ritual.

-M
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