Re: [HoE] Cyborgs Qs

[The Baron Samedi <baron11@netmcr.com>]

At 04:36 PM 9/2/99 , you wrote:
>   I have a question.  I am a bit strapped for cash at the moment, so I
>haven't yet ordered my fix from Pinnacle, including Cyborgs.  So I have a
>couple of questions.
>    From what I have gathered, the cyborgs in the book are all undead,
>correct?  If so, does it say why?  After all, it is possible to play a living
>cyborg in deadlands, albeit presumably no where near as cybered up.

all Cyborgs are, or were, Harrowed.

the short answer is you can slap a whole lot more cyberware into someone 
who is dead.  no need for blood, organs, ect.  also, Cyborgs use AIs 
plugged directly into their heads to keep them in line, and the living 
don't deal as well with having a computer literally put into their brain.

also, Gash's cyberware never caught on on the legal market.  so when 
Cyborgs were developed, all the tech for cyberware was made so that you did 
not need working blood and nerves and such.  it was made for an undead body 
and the effort was not really made to make it for living soldiers.  The 
tech was not developed.  After all, Cyborg tech did not use the nerves at 
all, rather the computer in the brain.  Last is power.  Cyborgs have a 
built in power source:The Manitou.  humans would require walking reactors, 
and be as unwieldy as Wolverines at least.

that is the short answer, off the top of my head.

Da Baron