Augmentations and Freelancer

[Fletcher]

So yeah, finished Deus Ex: Human Revolution and its one of the very few games that has gotten my brain into overdrive about the future of humanity, the potential, the sacrifices, the abuse. The cost.

With that in mind, how far along would you say augmentation technology is in Freelancer? In my Edison Trent RP, I replaced one of his arms due to 'Nomad Infection', since robot technology is pretty far along, I can only assume human augmentation or prosthetics aren't too far behind.

So yeah, in my mind its not as advanced as Dues Ex is, I can only see it being possibly to replace limbs, replace damaged parts of the human body and possible for hackers and marines, internal breathing apparatus and hacking modules.

You?

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[Camtheman]

http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?sh...0&hl=Marvin

That's pretty much my stance on robotics.

Full cybernetics...

Probably.

But obviously not as far as the head in the jar technique of futurama.

In between Halo and Futurama I'd say Freelancer is.

[McNeo]

You made the post about robots taking over the world didn't you?

Cybernetics is the integration of robotics into the human body isn't it?

You should be very scared :sleep:

[Ryummel]

It wouldn't be a crazy idea if pilots of navy forces (and any relevant paramilitary group) had eyesight enhancers and assorted stuff which may improve their reflexes (just a little bit).

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[Omicron]

I believe most of implants could be disguised as normal looking limb or something. Terminator style?

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[r3vange]

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[r3vange]

[color=#FFFFFF]Derp aside

Augmentation does exists in FL if you ask me. Evidence. Neural net...pretty much interfacing with the ship without any avionics and such. Those thingies Rogues, Hunters, Hackers wear. Implants are mentioned on several occasions as well.

I will create a char in the fallowing days (hopefully I will get accepted in the Lane Hackers (YO READ HERE!)) basically a sickly dude in a wheel chair can't fly a ship can't tie his shoes, doesn't have a girlfriend but hacks the neural nets of other people and assumes he's them on-line

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[Enoch]

If you like this kind of stuff, you should read Peter F Hamilton's books : The Pandora Star saga and the Void trilogy. It's literally full of implants, biononics, offensive programs, virtual shadows, personal forcefields, combat augments and so on. Pretty impressive stuff. (not to mention postphysical humans)
I suppose it is much more evolved than in Freelancer's world. Still, implants like Fran said would make sense and I guess there is no problem with you RPing your characters having some cool features implanted in his body. (I personally RP the Neural-Net as being accessible by a brain chip, works pretty well).
By the way, I think Rogue NPCs in the bars have a sort of robotic eye.

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[r3vange]

[color=#FFFFFF][01:16:40] Re\/ang3: I SHAT BRIX
[01:16:47] Re\/ang3: F1 DEUS EX = F1 DISCOVERY
[01:16:51] Re\/ang3: CLOAKING DEVICEDURR
[01:16:56] Fran (Ryummel): LOL
[01:16:59] Fran (Ryummel): XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

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[Friday]

Eventually, one goes beyond simple medical enhancements or replacement parts.

In todays world, the philosophy of Transhumanism is considered fringe.

In a world of advanced technology, there will always be people wanting to push the boundaries. There are the sick and desperate, people with dreams of immortality, or those with sinister goals of of dominating humanity under a single human/computer matrix.

Transhuman Cults could well exist. Complete cybernetic enhancement could still be perceived as abhorrent by all right-thinking people - there could even be laws against it!
Such activities will have their backers as well as opponents. Scientists, wealthy patrons, government agencies and so on.

This could make for an awesome faction concept...

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