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I remember bringing this up a while back.

After all, who in the universe made both Luke's new hand and Darth Vaders entire body structure. He's not held together by the force and bits of metal, thats engineering that is!

It would be quite interesting to introduce, but at the same time, there would have to be limitations to the character as well.

For example, someone has both of their legs replaced by cybernetic parts - burst run is far quicker to recharge, and they get bonuses to terrain navigation, but at the same time, they cannot hope to dance or anything like that.

Also, one major detriment I can see would be that these cybernetic parts would be permanent additions to the character, once installed they are completely permanent, and as you've pointed out, can get damaged more obviously than flesh. Flesh heals, metal doesn't.

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Well, doctors do have the Master Surgeon title after all. And I do remember seeing those screenshots of characters with cybernetic arms and such. I don't think it's a bad idea but it's going pretty far. Perhaps it would require a DE to create sub-components necessary much like a BE creates tissues for a Tailor. I guess I'm interested, but something inside me doubts SWG going in this direction.

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...Those Manekulas levels are way too high...

This sounds like a really neat idea and I would love to see it in SWG, even though it would take forever to implement and debug, and then proabably require a revamp soon afterwards (LOL, I really have more faith in the devs than that sounds, really). hehe

Actually, I've had very similar thoughts as to what you could do with cybernetics....I think I even heard a dev talk about it once upon a time. Either way, you could require that limbs be crafted by DEs, weapon attachments by WSs( and special armor by AS(s)), have them repaired by artisans, applied by doctors/image designers.... And that's where things get very complicated.... I'd still love to see it though

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wasn't there suppose to be a pistol that comes with a cyber arm coming out?

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I love the idea, and have posted to a few similar posts Iv read in the past. It would have to be perfomed in a hospital of course, and a droid engineer would have to make all components, and if you wanted to reverse the surgery, you would need a master bio engineer to assist and engineer replacment parts, so it would be a somwat weighty descision to make. That being said, make it only performable by a master doc, and require some crafting of meds and such to be administered, and let there be a success rate, that would be determined by the quallity of the meds the doc needs to administer, a fail would result in a reversal of the procedure, and the downfall would be some time based stat damage to all stats, say youd heal up the damage over the course of 2 weeks, and during that time no further procedures could be done. Another effect that can be added for balance is a decrease in some stats, resists or skills, say you had a data chip installed in your head, you could store a bunch of extra data, but your mind scores would be diminished slightly, cybernetic muscles in your legs, you move faster, get a terain bonus maby even an action pool bonus as you legs are now more restant to damage, but the new parts make your action pool vulnerable to electricity, and wear and tear is high so they must be maintained which costs a set fee regularly, mabye add somthing npc city hospitals only to accomodate that, shield emiters implantes in your body, provide a basic def % to everything, but has linited power, say fully charged can provide 5-10 mins then shuts down due to power loss, recharges naturally over the course of 1 day real time, but has a small negative bonus to all secondaries due to the fact its a major enhancement and many componets have to be used affecting your natuall reflexes, strength and such, I could write oodles of this stuff, those were just a few off the top of my head, oh, and an interface device, I like that one, this could improve the responsiveness of your ship, things like fire rate, turning, small bonus to speed and accelleration, this would require maintenence, would take up a few skill points and give a negative bonus to mind stats.