Butterrobber202 Posted October 14, 2018 Posted October 14, 2018 I think the safest bet is to only allow certain races cybernetics, be it for in lore reasons or otherwise. The Unathi would probably throw cybernetics into the trash can then set said trash can on fire, and the Tajaran have to different a physiology than Humans/Skrell, who I assume would be the front runners in this kind of tech. The Vaurca Bound are canonically forced to have cybernetics bound to their body as birth or something, and the Skrell are reputed to be masters with Cybernetics. Now obviously cybernetics are gonna need some disadvantages, like Ion and EMP vulnerability. Possible that you might need to recharge them at some cost as well. Maybe possibly have a social impact of having to many as well, but typically there doesn’t seem to be much consistency with social constructs on the server.
geeves Posted October 14, 2018 Posted October 14, 2018 I don't think all Unathi would throw it out. Dominian and conservative Unathi, sure. More radical modernist ones would attempt it, I'm sure. I think it'd be even better to have Unathi get cybernetics, so that I can ICly go "EHHHHHHHHWWWWWWWWWW GETTHEFUCKOUT" at fellow Sinta that damaged their soul ;b.
Bauser Posted October 16, 2018 Author Posted October 16, 2018 Categorically speaking, I wouldn't want to bar any race from cybernetics. If we're going to add something that's pretty universally seen as fun and neat and useful and interesting , it would just be spitting in the face of players if we restricted this content from them on a nearly arbitrary basis. And it would be arbitrary: given the similarity of structures like brain and heart and lungs and muscles and limbs and etc., it's completely within the realm of reason to say that certain cybernetics could be applicable across races. It would be reasonable to restrict specific bionics to a race if there's a biological reason (E.G. internal-headset implant has to be fitted to your specific race's ears, or whatever), but on the basis of fun, we should be inclusive rather than exclusive. Except for dionae. They're already godmode, so don't don't need upgrades from an OOC perspective, and they're tree people, so obviously the concept of them sharing the same bionics is ridiculous IC too.
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