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From: Airwasp@***.com Airwasp@***.com
Subject: Rigger Smuggling
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 10:40:31 EST
In a message dated 2/21/1999 10:31:31 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
Twist0059@***.com writes:

> What with the Rigger's dependability on gear, I'm been wondering about
> cybernetic enhancements like the kind that free up deckers. That said,
what
> about cyberarms that can "dock" specialized drones? When
"docked" the
drone
> looks just like, say, the bicep of forearm of the cyberarm, but when the
> rigger activates it with his headware remote control deck, it powers up,
> undocks, and "folds" out into it's normal position. This would negate
some
> of
> the arm's abilities, like body enhancement since only the skeleton docking
> structure would remain exposed, but only for the period when the drone is
> remove, obviously.

I was wondering how long it would take someone else to consider drones as
possibilities for cyberlimbs, or attachments onto cyberlimbs.

-Herc

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