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Message no. 1
From: Brian Angliss <ANGLISS@****.PSU.EDU>
Subject: But what about another deadhead option
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1993 17:45:35 -0400
>>>>>[Cool limbs and a warm torso? But Ares and I(when I worked there as a
cybernetics scientist/engineer) developed a body(or 9) that you pulled the
brain and spinal cord out of the original body, as well as the adrenal glands,
liver, and a few other non-replacable organs, and put them into a poly-ceramic
bio-case and dropped them into the body. Instant Cyborg. No real life-essence
left, but virtually indestructable. Almost vehicles in the difficulty that any
opposition would have in killing the individual.

Even magic had but a limited effect on the individual, but most lost their will
to live or went insane and had to be terminated or if they survived had little
or no personality left. They just were not the same people they were before
the operations, with a notable exception or two. Speaking of Collussus(one of
the exceptions), has anyone heard from him lately?

And FM has asked me to tell you that she will be unable to upload the remaining
Sensory Feed for a day or two due to being sent off on a delivery to somewhere
undisclosed. She'll get it out eventually, and then you'll know why many of
her friends are worried about her.

So, in conclusion, your 2.5 meter tall metalman may be a cyborg developed by
another, non-Ares affiliated corporation. I know for a fact that what you
sent out as a trideo feed was not in any of the project specifications as of my
leaving the Corporation, seven months ago. And they can't develop a totally
new Cyborg body that quickly. Not even Ares is that fast.]<<<<<
-- Wizard(17:43:54/10-06-54)
Message no. 2
From: The Wyrm Ouroboros <aalberdk@******.SAN.UC.EDU>
Subject: Re: But what about another deadhead option
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1993 19:38:23 -0400
>>>>>[Ares .can. be that fast, Wizard. Of course, I have several
questions about your 'cyborg' -- how much does doing that cost? What
are the limits, strengthwise and such, of the body? I know many of the
limits of the deadheads -- I'd better, I'm running the things.
Deadheads can be run at a vehicular level -- speed increases can force
them up to as fast as 100 kph, cannon shells won't put them down for the
count, so on and so forth. They're fragging expensive, though -- a lot
more so than vehicles -- and that explains our base costs.

So how cost-effective .are. your cyborgs, Wiz?]<<<<<
-- Mike and the Mechanic (19:37:42/10-5-54)

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