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Originally Posted by Boobis
BTW what does the DR model, reinforced bone?
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DR, a few points of Hard To Kill, Injury Tolerance (unbreakable bones), and a few Extra Hit Points make up a package representing a biomod called "military and police reinforcement". This is a step up from "sports reinforcement", but it stops short of dermal armour, testicle tucks, and other extreme measures. Sports reinforcement is meant to protect Rugby players and the like from broken bones, dislocations, and sprains, so it concentrates on reinforcing bones and joints. M&P reinforcement is meant to keep soldiers and policement alive long enough to get them to hospital when they have been shot or stabbed. So it pays more attention to blood vessels, certain rupturable organs, and penetrating injuries to the spine.
The bones are reinforced with high-strength composites. In sports jobs the vault of the skull is simply reinforced with a grid of straps, but military & police reinforcement means an complete composite brain-box, and a lot of attention to making the vertebrae a bit bulletproof.
The ligaments are reinforced with high-strength fibres, which are directly bonded to the reinforcing members in the bones to prevent dislocations and sprains. In the sports jobs reinforcing the spinal ligaments is considered enough. In good M&P reinforcement the spinal cord is enmeshed in tough fibres to protect it from fragments and blades.
Internal organs prone to rupture and tearing (the liver, kidneys, pancreas, and spleen) are enveloped in ballistic mesh. In good M&P jobs the liver and pancreas are laced though with a spongework of ballistic fibres.
In M&P jobs only, the peritoneum and intercostals are laced with ballistic fibre to reduce penetrating injury, the reniforcing straps of the ribs are extended to full width, and the pericardium is heavily reinforced. The walls of all major blood vessels have high-strength mesh woven into them, and a set of bio-mimetic valves are installed to cut off blood flow to any vessel that is ruptured.