[K5pbem] Life in 2112

[Nestor42 at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/4/2006 9:21:58 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
rickr at ihug.com.au writes:

>  Okay, so there's talk of new cyborg bodies and the like, allowing  people  
> to work in different environments, but you don't see people   being "grown" 
> that way.

That's what I was thinking, yes. And  even then, because its cybernetic, its 
reatively "temporary." You can  allways go back to a Humanish body at some 
point doewn the road - soft  shell or the like. Or even having "multiple" 
bodies that a brain can be  trasfered from - eg, a millitary option for a 
3-meter tall robnoteank  body, buyt then having a softshell for Downtime and 
the  like.



That's reminiscent of an idea used in the "Centauri Knights" BESM  campaign. 
You could have your brain and spine transplanted into a full-body  cyborg that 
looks just like an idealized version of yourself. No extra mods  (other than 
the basic ones offered by the full-body), and you look completely  normal. In 
the campaign, it's how colonists wihtout the extra cash make the trip  to the 
colony system. Much cheaper to transport a brain in stasis than a whole  body.
 
You could even add the capability of making the brain-box transferrable, so  
you could move to a construction model during your work-shift, then move back 
to  your "R&R" body afterwards.
 
Heck, I was toying with that as a character concept way back during the  
first Kazei 5 campaign (the F2F one, not the PBeM). ;-)
 
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