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Description This is a drawing of a cybernetic enhancement, namely bulletproof armored plating implanted beneath the skin. This illustration was published in one of the Chromebook supplements for RTG's Cyberpunk 2020 game. It is copyright and everything R. Talsorian Games, no infingement, etc.
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Comments: 9

Ishkari [2022-12-23 09:59:49 +0000 UTC]

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Ishkari In reply to Ishkari [2022-12-23 10:00:21 +0000 UTC]

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Flyosapien [2016-10-21 15:43:19 +0000 UTC]

awesome

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Grebo-Guru In reply to Flyosapien [2016-10-22 09:56:15 +0000 UTC]

Thank you mucho!

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Claylex [2016-07-02 22:46:46 +0000 UTC]

One of my favorite augments.

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Grebo-Guru In reply to Claylex [2016-07-03 01:16:02 +0000 UTC]

Cool, glad you got some mileage out of the idea. I gather must have been quite the CP2020 player...

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Claylex In reply to Grebo-Guru [2016-07-03 01:43:05 +0000 UTC]

Nah I'm a tabletop rookie.XD

Though I SO WANT to get people to play.

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SithiR [2015-10-23 19:58:24 +0000 UTC]

This is truly great, but I have thought for a long time the one regrettable thing here is that you might have gotten in trouble had you draw subdermal armor plating for a woman. I might have considered that salacious, but as it happens I would not -- I'm just curious to see how it might be managed. It seems that ballistic fibers and plates might be coupled with a ballistic grade of shear-thickening fluid in the breast implants.

Players often use the internet to make disrespectful comments having to do with the fact that in the Mass Effect computer game franchise, the female version of the protagonist Commander Shepard appears to have larger breasts as one goes through the series of three games. Through such comments, these players spew out godless, salacious filth -- forgetting all honor and politeness.

For my part, I realized that it makes more sense if I conclude that by the 22nd century, perhaps female soldiers can choose to obtain specialized breast implants made from ballistic materials. This is not to say that normal breast implants have these properties -- indeed, if there is anybody ignorant about the idea, it has already been disproved by a televised hobby experiment on the Discovery Channel.

It might be conceivable for intelligence officers, paramilitary personnel, policewomen -- even civilian sportswomen wishing to have protection from some kinds of falls and accidents -- to opt for implants like these. We also know that at this point in history, people in dangerous situations often wear electroreactive body armor. The armor stiffens when an incoming threat is detected, which is done by automatically applying an electric current from the inside, through the use of a computer system. Furthermore, people can choose what are — by that time — simple outpatient surgeries to get webs of ballistic protection fiber implanted beneath the skin. Sometimes this is even done over the majority of the body. Commander Shepard is portrayed using both of the latter two strategies. Why not the first strategy as well? Commander Shepard eventually suffered brain-death and had to be resuscitated through the use of extensive biomechatronic implantation -- popularly known by the incorrect name "cybernetic implantation." In fact, for Commander Shepard's case, this was done to an extent that had never been used before. There are biomechatronic implants in fully 40% of her body. Since this is true, it would make sense that because the specialists were already performing much more significant medical interventions, they would have taken the opportunity to increase the volume and ballistic rating of her breast implants. There are people who would object to this for various reasons, but it seems to me that there would be quite a few potential recipients who would not object.

The idea has special relevance because, in the Mass Effect universe, combatants routinely use contragravity-assisted coilgun small arms with explosive ammunition. Other kinds of ammunition are also available. In that universe, weapon designs like this are ubiquitous, existing in all sizes and formats (in pistols, submachine guns, shotguns, ordinary rifles, sniper weapons, and so on.) Did it occur to these idiots who are besotted by pornography that the projectiles would indeed actually cause damage, that they themselves would be hurt if they were hit by one, and that dead people typically stay dead? I have an autism-spectrum disorder, which happens to make it easy for me to pretend that I actually live in that universe. I would like to smash some basic physics into these people's skulls. Maybe if I drew down on them and started firing contragravity-assisted coilgun rounds at them, then they would understand that ballistic protection breast implants should not be considered something to laugh about, and would not exist only for their amusement. Commander Shepard is after all a special operations soldier, at even higher risk than most other soldiers. Both the characters of Miranda Lawson and of the Matriarch Benezia have large breasts, as well. The Matriarch Benezia, in fact, may have a breast size as much as what we call DD in the United States. Benezia was an important dignitary, and she had a full detail of guards with her at almost every moment. Do we suppose that she would not also use (relatively) unobtrusive body modifications to help protect herself from assassination attempts? It is conceivable that her people, the Asari, might even have a law saying that their dignitaries are required to have these types of ballistic protection implants. As for Miranda Lawson, she is either a covert operative or an actual terrorist, depending on one's point of view.

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Grebo-Guru In reply to SithiR [2015-10-27 00:04:55 +0000 UTC]

Mmmmmmmmmmmmakes sense to me! In fact, I guess in the Cyberpunk future, breast implants could be composed of pure bulletpoof material.

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