From:	Lehlan Decker <decker@****.FSU.EDU>
Subject:	Re: Cyberware and Regeneration
Date:	Tue, 12 May 1998 15:40:59 -0500

>
> Why would a regenerator reject something that a normal person
> wouldn't? Today we can make implants that the human body will
> accept: titanium hip ball/socket joints, plastic knees, pace makers,
> steel pins and screws used to hold shattered bones together, etc.
> The cyberware of SR meets the same conditions. They are made of
> materials that a person's immune system will not recognize as a
> foreign object and will blithly ignore.
>
> So, you perform the surgery using some method to circumnavigate the
> regenerative power of the patient. You implant the cyberware. You
> return the person to normal and let the regeneration power kick in.
>
> The person's surgical "wounds" heal. The implants are not recognized
> as foreign objects, and are not rejected, and are accepted as part of
> the body.
>
> / How about this model:
> /
> / You're a creature with regeneration. You decide to get cybereyes. You
> / have your current eyes removed, mechanical ones put it. Your supernatural
> / ability of regeneration then will try to regrow the eyes that were
> / "damaged" by the surgical removal.
>
> Why? I'm serious. Where in the description of the power does it say
> that the power will allow the person with it to regrow lost body
> parts?
>
I've been staying out of this argument, but I suppose I'll comment.
Ultimately, I don't let have shapers or vampires have cyberware for game
balance. They are powerful enough and there is no direct drawback for them
unless they are also magicians. But I digress....
I interpret regeneration (the power) to be based on the astral template
(true self), of the shapeshifter. This is how it knows to reject cyberware.
No matter what the body says, the template is wrong.
Just like today, some people's systems are more sensitive then others.
Well basically in my world it goes like this.....mundanes->magic active->
regenerative creates.
This is all IMHO of course. :)
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