From:	bellovar@***.WISC.EDU
Subject:	Re: Thymic Activator
Date:	Sun, 7 Feb 93 21:58:48 CST

>>>>>[ Well chummers, I finally broke the second file I was after....
Sparcs sure didn't make this easy on me when he gave me these files..
.. these are nearly a work of art! Anyways, on to the good stuff:

Thymic Activator
Body Cost: 0.30 Price: 15,000 NuYen
Essence Cost: 0.10 Price: 6,000 NuYen

Effects: +1 to Body for Pathogenic healing checks.
Each encounter with a particular pathogen will lower the power
level of each subsequent attack by one, assuming the body is
given at least a week to "update" it's immune system.

The Thymic Activator uses an augmentation of the thymus, which
produces the body's immune system during the adolescent years, along
with a small cybernetic analysis/thymic stimulant unit that reactivates
and enhances the body's dormant thymus gland to provide an increased
immunity to pathogenic agents.
Current work is being performed along the lines of a purely
bionetic system, but current designs create too great a stress on the
body to have a reasonable market. However, given current progress in
biotechnology, it may be but a matter of months before it is feasible.

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Well ladies and gents - there we have file #2 for your viewing pleasure.
Seems to me a cheap way of geting a full spectrum immunization, that
covers both viral and biological agents. Of course it DOES have it's
drawbacks.....]<<<<<
-- CrossFire <19:43:19/02-06-53>

>>>>>[ You mean like how one needs to ENCOUNTER a pathogen before one
starts to develop an immunity to it?]<<<<<
Alex <19:43:58/02-06-53>

>>>>>[ Yeah, something like that.... of course, the dedicated might
expose themselves to mild doses of certain substances... kinda like
a booster shot... of course, I don't think I would find myself trying
it...]<<<<<
-- CrossFire <19:45:16/02-06-53>

>>>>>[ The dedicated.... or the insane....]<<<<<
Alex <19:45:57/02-06-53>

>>>>>[ Not to mention Crossfire, the corps are always coming up with
new goodies to throw at us runners.]<<<<<
Jazzman <19:47:34/02-06-53>

>>>>>[ Hey, I just post the stuff... not design it. Of course, it's
healing advantage could be nice, assuming you survive.]<<<<<
-- CrossFire <19:48:00/02-06-53>