Intergalactic Summit

I for one, welcome, our new rattlesnake overlords.

May God do the thing and things will happen because he did the thing.

Any more updates on this or is it a case of waiting out the Strontium reserves and seeing?

Hm. Have an attache there right now, and he doesn't report an excess of spikes...?

Transhumanists are an abomination before a holy and righteous God. Instead of employing Blood, the one holy and natural tool that God gifted upon his Chosen that they might improve themselves with blood-based foods and supplements, these transhumanists instead jam their brains full of unnatural chips and replace the limbs that God gave them with artificial ones. O how wicked. O how vile.

P. S. These transhumanists in this Origin corporation kill others, too. From the day they moved into this wormhole, they have been out committing the genocide of the Sleeper people.

Oh they are fascinating.

Firstly, I do not believe Sleepers either people or alive.

Second, I believe that eating natural food is dangerous for your body. It may contain germs. I trust only properly synthesized food. Which was actually balanced by aminoacids and contains all microelements that human body needs. Obviously blood can't match these category, proteins in blood are optimized for oxygen transportation and foreign object neutralization. Our bodies contain way more different proteins, thus aminoacid balance in blood proteins is not suitable for feeding of human bodies.

Third, all capsuleers brains are jammed with chips, including yours. Without them we couldn't be able to access interface in hydrostatic capsules to pilot ships.

Fourth, replacement of limbs is the lest harm they can do to themselves. You probably should be way more worried about Gallente body modificators who does way worse things with themselves than just limb prosthetics. But in any way, mechanical replacement can't match biological one. By making your hand stronger, you make it slower and way less sensitive than biological. You can stuff it with sensors, but then it will be way less strong and way less fast than the natural one. And there is almost no way to make artificial arm faster than the regular one.

But in any way, Mr. Nauplius, I would recommend you to turn your sight towards Gallentean body modders. That amount of wicked and vile things can make flinch even such battle hardened soldier as myself.

Okay, I know you and reality have a... strained relationship, but this is pure nonsense.

We are long, LONG past the point where human augmentation comes with a tradeoff. The days where a stronger arm was also a slower one are centuries behind us, and modern nanocircuitry is so light that your body's natural fluctuations in weight throughout the day dramatically outweigh even the most aggressive upgrades to your central nervous system.

I don't know what clunky back-asswards school of cybernetics you studied, but it's clearly never encountered things like nanocomposite subcutaneous microweave that dissipates both kinetic and thermal energy thereby affording the user protection from both lasers and kinetic projectiles. Not armor, but it can make the difference between getting to an operating table and dying on the spot.

Orthoplastic bones are an order of magnitude stronger than natural human bone while being lighter into the bargain. Myopolymer muscles with the same density as normal human tissue offers 150% of the performance or more. Then there''s the microsuperconductor synthetic nerves that are an essential component in quickdraw implants, performance enhancers for every conceivable facet of human life from social empathy to focused attention to sexual stamina...

By far the most invasive of my personal augmentations are the capsuleer piloting suite. Otherwise, I prefer to look and be relatively baseline. I am rather stronger than an ordinary man of my size and body type. My reflexes are accelerated, my maximum percent body fat is capped so that I could eat like a particularly gluttonous king and gain no weight, and with my synthetic liver I could drink a bar out of business then sit the tea maker ceremony in the morning and walk away feeling as fresh as glacial meltwater.

Modern cybernetic enhancements are just that: enhancements. I don't know which century you're stuck in but here in the real world we're dealing with true improvements to the human body. The only tradeoff I've ever noticed is that I need a few more calories per day, which is not what I'd call a hardship.

But, I shouldn't expect anything Diana Kim says to map with the facts. I don't think there's a human augmentation program in the world that could fix your delusions.

This is the most accurate write-up at why augmentation isnt more widespread i've ever seen.

Even you must be using some thoroughly outdated haptic and proprioceptary relays if rehabilitation is taking that long.

The goal of modern prosthetics has always been to make the new limb feel as natural and comfortable as possible so as to minimize the acclimatization time needed. An objective that was achieved generations ago in Caldari lines. Just take a look at Zainou's products sometime.

I had a prosthetic knee when I was still a baseliner (altercation with an anti-materiel pulse laser) and adapting to it only took me a couple of weeks, and that was twenty years ago.