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Exactly. Monofilament wire does exist, but it's not the omni-lethal "cut-through-anything" superweapon that cyberpunk fiction makes it out to be. (At least, not yet...)

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I believe that it causes more problems than it solves and also doesn't fit the TL of the SR universe and also would require immense effort on the part of the GM to keep from overpowering the setting in the party's favor.

I also doubt its possible from a technological standpoint, especially to the degree mentioned. Unless of course the decker has compartmentalized mind and such things as that.

However, I do like the page in the article with the cyberdecks. Seems neat how easily that was worked up and how cheap they are as well. And however circular the discussion was thanks for the entertainment for the day.

Anyone have any inclinations on how to work out rigging? It may be possible that I'm missing something obvious in the GURPS books at this point as I am having another bout of sleeplessness but I'm interested in everyone's take on it.

Having never played a rigger before its an interesting topic to see how it could be done in GURPS.

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Not possible now. Will it be in 10 years? 20? 50? 100? I don't know ... but it's at least as plausible as anything else in Ultra-Tech.

And again, Van Eck Phreaking (a scanner to analyze the bit-states of an electronic target) is real, not superscience.

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I never said it was lethal yet *chuckles* just that it existed :)

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Buy possession with machine only, maybe gadget limitations if it's part of your deck, design the drones either as vehicles or PCs, and you use your mental attributes but the drone's physical attributes when you're jumped in. Take penalties for jamming, etc.

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At the fringes, it can be blurry. Spaceships uses 'limited superscience' to refer, if I understand correctly, to things that are physically possible but technically problematic.

But the distinction isn't arbitrary. If you call antigravity and reactionless engines realistic, you're using some definition of 'realistic' that doesn't concern itself with not flagrantly contradicting known physics.

The 'I don't know what's wrong, so there's no such thing' argument really holds no water.

Magical precision induction might be limited superscience. But even before getting into the problems of creating the desired field, we're talking about performing low-level hardware manipulation on unknown hardware, that you can't precisely locate, while it's moving. How are you even getting started? If your setting has sensors that can analyze the guts of someone's cyberware in realtime mid-firefight, that's got a lot of implications before we get into trying to hack them.

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I totally get that argument, and I certainly don't begrudge someone using the elements of a game that they like, and ditching the ones that they don't. For example, wizards in my DF games can cast Healing spells, D&D Purism be damned. Why? Because I said so.


Cool! :D

I've been giving this some thought as well, though I haven't written anything down yet. Transhuman Space has a bunch of stuff about teleoperation and robotic drones ("cybershells"), which seem a good fit.

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.....and this was pointed out in the Shadowtalk in the very first edition of the Street Samurai's Guide. :)

Monowire edges actually had a very modest effect in the game mechanics too.

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Just incidentally, EM fields aren't going to effect the photons in a fiber optic system anyway. I don't know of anything that would.

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Yeah, but wasn't the damage code for monofilament whips like 10S?