From:	Veskrashen veskrashen@*******.com
Subject:	SR Future Products and Such
Date:	Wed, 11 Aug 1999 12:31:51 -1100

Tamino wrote:
>
> At 10:05 11/08/99 -0400, wordman wrote:
> >> Also in the new book will be Nanites.
> >
> >Let's hope this is actually written intelligently. I know it won't be,
> >though. Nanites becoming feasible will have _major_ world-shaking
> >consequences for the planet and its inhabitants. Nanites change
> >_everything_. Warfare is never the same. Medicine is never the same. With
> >the ability to edit anything at a molecular level, the will become very
> >different, very quickly. I've written to DLOH about this, but I'm almost
> >positive that FASA's take on nanites will be "oh yeah, there's also some
> >nanites".
>
> I cannot disagree with your more strongly, I think you'll find the
> new rules and writeups for nanites to be ok...don't judge all nanite
> tech by RA:S...

Actually, I don't think it's going to be all that earth-shattering,
since nanites have been canon since first edition. Check out pg. 39,
Shadowtech, in the section called "Cybersystem Implantation."

"It's true that a surgeon can position the cyber components in the body,
but the job of actually linking the cybernetic device to the
human/metahuman nervous system is left to genetically engineered
microsurgical units called nanites."

The section then goes on to explain how the actually linkage process
occurs, and what happens to the nanites afterwards. Of course, if
there's going to be robotics based nanites in M&M, that's an entirely
different story.

-Ves.