From:	Iridios iridios@*****.com
Subject:	Cyberware and Cosmetic Surgery
Date:	Mon, 20 Sep 1999 13:40:31 -0400

Gurth wrote:
>
> According to Iridios, at 11:15 on 20 Sep 99, the word on
> the street was...
>
> > Something that's been on my mind of late. How much "evidence" (in
> > the form of scarring) is left after cybernetic implant surgery?
>
> Not much, I'd say -- much of the cyberware implantation process is done by
> nanites, says Shadowtech, which can be injected without the need for
> surgery.

I'd forgotten about that, while remembering various pieces of art
which show scarring (one in Shadowtech even shows scarring around the
eye!).


>
> > Personally I would assume that plastic surgery has advance enough to
> > easily cover "small" scars and such, but is it available from street
> > docs or street clinics? And wouldn't major implants (such as wired
> > reflexes) leave some scars even after plastic surgery? Would it be
> > possible to go to a specialized plastic surgeon to completely cover
> > all implant scarring? And how would one measure how notable scarring
> > might be? Would 10 - [essence cost](modified by additional plastic
> > surgery) be too high or too low of a target number to notice
> > scarring?
>
> You can simply use the rules from Cybertechnology for this: the wound
> caused by implant surgery is determined by the Essence cost (see SRII --
> it's not in SR3 -- p. 114), and then use the scarring rules on page 56 of
> Cybertechnology to decide how big the scar will be.

This works for me. Thanks.


--
Iridios
"Accept what you cannot avoid,
Avoid what you cannot accept."