| From: | Starrngr@***.com Starrngr@***.com |
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| Subject: | Starting equiptment [was: Value and so on] |
| Date: | Mon, 19 Jul 1999 19:25:15 EDT |
writes:
> I can legally buy all sorts of guns and explosives today in the USA. So why
> did the military not let me take home my M16? Or maybe a tank or two? Or
> some
> Night Goggles? Why did they bother when the streets are already full of
this
> sort of stuff and gangs and so on... Most of it's available through the
> private
> sector legally (save for the tank perhaps).
That Arcady, is because an M-16 is not implanted into your body. Nor would
the army have to pay for a couple of months of convalecence leave for you to
recover once they took it out of you because you were going to be discharged.
Plus the cost of growing a clonal body to supply the parts that were
replaced when the cyberware went IN.
Also look at it from another perspective. They train you in your job and
then let you take that information with you when you leave. That information
is theirs, and in many cases is classified... so why don't they brainwash you
so you dont remember it when you leave? becasue its WRONG, for one. Its
also not cost effective for another, just as is having to pay a solder for
several month who isnt doing anything but laying in a hospital bed after
having his GI issue cyberware removed prior to discharge. I will acknowlege
that short timers tend to be more laid back right before their discharge, but
they are still there, doing their job until they ARE discharged.
Third point.. An M-16, NVG, or M1A2 Tank can be taken from one solder and
given to another with no loss of efficency. Not so with Cyberware. Remember
those Second hand Cyberware rules? Basicly, the rist of damaging the paitent
and or the cyberware in question is another thing that makes it non cost
effective, not to mention the fact that if they did take it out and put it in
someone else the cyberware doesnt work as well.
Under your system, your talking about loosing up to a year's worth of service
TWICE.. once at the start of the second enlistment, when the cyberware is
installed, and the second either right before or right after the solder is
discharged when they take it out. You've just dumped an equal amount of
money down the drain at the end of his term when he isnt going to be around
anymore as you did to put him together. THAT is what makes it cost
ineffective in more ways than one.
