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From: runnerpaul@*****.com runnerpaul@*****.com
Subject: Datajack Location & Essence Cost [was: Couple of questions]
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 22:35:22 -0400 (EDT)
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At 08:30 AM 7/23/99 -0700, David Cordy wrote:
:3) I was thinking about the datajack in different location issue,
:and how much additional essence this would cost and I came up with
:the following number and reason: Essence Cost would be 0.1 per
:meter from the brain to the new datajack location. how did I come
:up with this number? I was thinking about the Smartgun Link. It
:costs 0.5 essence in a meat arm, and .25 if it is installed in
:someone with a cyber arm. So, the connection from the shoulder to
:the induction pad costs .25 essence as well. I took off .15 for
:the induction pad, and that left me 0.1 essence for the wire
:running the length of the arm. So does that make sense? Any
:obvious flaws in my logic?

So, under your theory, how do you justify the fact that the Fingertip
Datajack (Cybertechnolgy, p.29-Fingertip Compartments) has the same
essence cost as a headware datajack?

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