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"At first I didn't like it. They were heavy, hurt like hell, especially in cold weather, they were ugly and my sense of touch wasn't as good as it was, but... I started to see the up-side. I literally hit like a truck now. These things let me protect my friends better. Worth It"
Man, drawing this one wasn't easy. I'm used to something more elegant with curves, not full of straight lines and blocky shapes and densely-packed detail. But still, totally worth it, as far as I'm concerned, especially for an old friend.
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Man, drawing this one wasn't easy. I'm used to something more elegant with curves, not full of straight lines and blocky shapes and densely-packed detail. But still, totally worth it, as far as I'm concerned, especially for an old friend.
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Or at least a bionic shoulder... And back, spine in general, and legs, really the whole structural business needs some cyberization. And then why not replace the rest of the fleshy bits because suddenly they're a liability and then you're the cyborg ninja.
Or a tech zombie or whatever they call that in Shadow Run.
Or a tech zombie or whatever they call that in Shadow Run.
That is true... maybe even fur X3 or a total skeletal work... anything is possible! Also rejection is famously overblown, you can jab a receiver for a robotic arm into your spine and the neural plasticity will let you eventually use it same as any ordinary arm. They tested it with chimps, our bodies were practically made to be modified X3.
These kinds of enhancements don't stop until they're properly distributed throughout the system. For arms and shoulders like these, this person would need internal support enhancements for strength and general mobility, and pretty much a complete skeletal enhancement package to prevent random bones snapping. Since there's no organic muscles involved, he wouldn't need to worry much about that sort of thing so much, and the skeletal enhancements would most likely be add-ons, not replacements, since metal bones can't produce blood cells and such. More than likely this person would need his entire skeletal system plated in metal or enhanced with cybernetic support systems to absorb shock. The bones in his feet would need this as well, and probably the soles as well, depending on how heavy the overall enhancements were.
Considering all this, the level of advancement that would be needed for these kind of cybernetics would probably allow for special ultra light alloys being used, microlight construction techniques to further reduce weight while maintaining the strength of the materials used, and even advanced nanotech systems similar to the circulatory system to maintain and repair both mechanical and physical damage.
The only thing I think is a bad design on these arms is the number of obvious and exposed hydraulic systems, which can be broken or targeted fairly easily. The ones on the knuckles are especially bad, since the first time he hits something, they're gonna break.
Considering all this, the level of advancement that would be needed for these kind of cybernetics would probably allow for special ultra light alloys being used, microlight construction techniques to further reduce weight while maintaining the strength of the materials used, and even advanced nanotech systems similar to the circulatory system to maintain and repair both mechanical and physical damage.
The only thing I think is a bad design on these arms is the number of obvious and exposed hydraulic systems, which can be broken or targeted fairly easily. The ones on the knuckles are especially bad, since the first time he hits something, they're gonna break.
Indeed, maybe you can hit like a freight train, but the first time it happens you bend the rams, bust the seals and jet hydraulic fluid all over the place. Bye hands.
The real problem is every problem you solve creates more problems. If you want stronger arms, you need stronger bones, so prepare for serious full body surgery and extensive rehabilitation.
What would make more sense is two sets of arms, and an exoskeleton that integrates with your stronger set. Or just a normal set of arms and an exoskeleton with a set built in, since you're not gonna wear your piston fists without the reenforcing frame. Cheaper, and less life threatening surgery involved.
Not to mention you can mount armor on an exoskeleton, and guns, and various other things and it'd actually be useful at some jobs.
The real problem is every problem you solve creates more problems. If you want stronger arms, you need stronger bones, so prepare for serious full body surgery and extensive rehabilitation.
What would make more sense is two sets of arms, and an exoskeleton that integrates with your stronger set. Or just a normal set of arms and an exoskeleton with a set built in, since you're not gonna wear your piston fists without the reenforcing frame. Cheaper, and less life threatening surgery involved.
Not to mention you can mount armor on an exoskeleton, and guns, and various other things and it'd actually be useful at some jobs.
Well, this kind of thing CAN work, it just would need a complete physical upgrade to work properly. Depending on what time (as in year or level of technological advancement) this character lives in, this could be a fairly simple and painless procedure that wouldn't take long to recover from. And full cybernetic replacement parts can have weapons mounted on and in them as well; they just need to be designed for the purpose from the beginning, or designed to allow for such modifications with a bit of overall enhancement.
I personally go for something a bit more high tech. I call it "biomechanics". The concept being a biological system based more on a high strength alloy than carbon. It looks and functions much like normal flesh and blood (at least on the surface) but is powered by energy rather than proteins and such, and has an extensive network of nanobots per cell that repair and maintain it. Being based on an alloy much stronger than the normal carbon based cell, it's dozens to hundreds of times stronger in toughness and applicable force than normal flesh and blood while maintaining a similar weight. It also bears the ability to mesh into normal living tissue better, being able to be "grown into" a living body without the need for extensive surgery or rehabilitation.
I personally go for something a bit more high tech. I call it "biomechanics". The concept being a biological system based more on a high strength alloy than carbon. It looks and functions much like normal flesh and blood (at least on the surface) but is powered by energy rather than proteins and such, and has an extensive network of nanobots per cell that repair and maintain it. Being based on an alloy much stronger than the normal carbon based cell, it's dozens to hundreds of times stronger in toughness and applicable force than normal flesh and blood while maintaining a similar weight. It also bears the ability to mesh into normal living tissue better, being able to be "grown into" a living body without the need for extensive surgery or rehabilitation.
Problem with mounting weapons to your cybernetics is you either need a new arm, your old arm gets more cumbersome, or worse it requires surgery. And if you design the weapons into the arm specifically then you can't really swap them out easily. Likely the worst problem would be law enforcement, how do you drop your gun when it's a part of you? Probably there'd be call to create an AR-15-style limb, with lots of modular parts for changing out functions.
That's getting to a much higher tech level than plain old cybernetics. By the point that became viable cyborgs would cease to be viable at all.
The real problem with high performance cybernetics though is what kind of psycho would put themselves through all that to weaponize themselves? Likely, by the time surgery like that became quick and easy, we'd have reached a point where cybernetics were outmoded anyway.
That's getting to a much higher tech level than plain old cybernetics. By the point that became viable cyborgs would cease to be viable at all.
The real problem with high performance cybernetics though is what kind of psycho would put themselves through all that to weaponize themselves? Likely, by the time surgery like that became quick and easy, we'd have reached a point where cybernetics were outmoded anyway.
I can think of a lot of people who would want high performance cybernetics. Police. SWAT. Criminal thugs. Military types of all kinds. Gun nuts. I can even see there being a group of people who, similar to people who collect guns, tattoos, piercing, etc would collect cybernetic parts.
As for the concept of "too high a level of tech for cybernetics"...? How can any level of tech be too high tech for cybernetics, when "cybernetics" MEANS grafting machinery onto a living being? As long as the tech counts as machinery and can be grafted to a living thing, it would still be cybernetics. A cyborg could technically be someone with something as simple as an inorganic organ replacement. So people who have had their hearts replaced with mechanical replacements could be called cyborgs. As long as the flesh can decay, be damaged beyond repair, or need replacement parts, cybernetics would remain a viable technology.
I also don't see a point being reached in which cyborgs would become obsolete. The simple fact is cyborgs would exist for the most part to allow for a "human" aspect to be attached to some piece of machinery, not really the other way around.
A good example is Warhammer 40k. The huge mechs the Space Marines use are "manned" by soldiers who lost their entire bodies except their brains. Even though the only part of the machine that is a living, fleshy part is a brain somewhere inside, they're still considered to be cyborgs because of that fact, and are accorded great honor and respect because if that.
As for the concept of "too high a level of tech for cybernetics"...? How can any level of tech be too high tech for cybernetics, when "cybernetics" MEANS grafting machinery onto a living being? As long as the tech counts as machinery and can be grafted to a living thing, it would still be cybernetics. A cyborg could technically be someone with something as simple as an inorganic organ replacement. So people who have had their hearts replaced with mechanical replacements could be called cyborgs. As long as the flesh can decay, be damaged beyond repair, or need replacement parts, cybernetics would remain a viable technology.
I also don't see a point being reached in which cyborgs would become obsolete. The simple fact is cyborgs would exist for the most part to allow for a "human" aspect to be attached to some piece of machinery, not really the other way around.
A good example is Warhammer 40k. The huge mechs the Space Marines use are "manned" by soldiers who lost their entire bodies except their brains. Even though the only part of the machine that is a living, fleshy part is a brain somewhere inside, they're still considered to be cyborgs because of that fact, and are accorded great honor and respect because if that.
Cut out Police and SWAT, they'd only want them as replacements if they lost a limb, and even then most of their days are spent doing non-MDK related shit and training, so they wouldn't want a heavy machine gun arm to make running harder. The military would have more use, but again, an exoskeleton would be more viable even with missing limbs. Criminals likely couldn't get hold of anything really dangerous without a paper trail or risking a back alley chop shop. Gun nuts are interested in guns, which don't require surgery to own or use, the big advantage to them, really. People addicted to surgical modification would definitely go for that stuff though.
The problem with cybernetic limbs and organs is the entire point is to replace what you lost, but the ultimate objective for that is to make them obsolete. The objective is to replace your limbs with the closest analog to your lost one, until we reach a point where you get a whole new flesh and blood arm, so by the point all that wacky future tech comes in we're likely to just be giving people real arms. Once that happens most cybernetics will be pointless.
Not to mention, attaching a human to a machine gets pointless when the machine does the job better without, and that's likely to happen.
The problem with cybernetic limbs and organs is the entire point is to replace what you lost, but the ultimate objective for that is to make them obsolete. The objective is to replace your limbs with the closest analog to your lost one, until we reach a point where you get a whole new flesh and blood arm, so by the point all that wacky future tech comes in we're likely to just be giving people real arms. Once that happens most cybernetics will be pointless.
Not to mention, attaching a human to a machine gets pointless when the machine does the job better without, and that's likely to happen.
Pfft!, am i suppose to be scared?.. I'd have him for breakfast .
No but wow those are some seriously heavy duty arms(and shoulders) :O. This rather sexy guy is not fucking around that's for sure. He/really the piece looks epic beyond belief. The arms esp looks so tangible. So well designed & detailed. Not too mention his bionic eyes too with the characteristic android like glow....Just so well rendered.
I think the ridiculously high level n attention to detail is stunning. Simply gorgeous artwork. Impressive stuff :3.
No but wow those are some seriously heavy duty arms(and shoulders) :O. This rather sexy guy is not fucking around that's for sure. He/really the piece looks epic beyond belief. The arms esp looks so tangible. So well designed & detailed. Not too mention his bionic eyes too with the characteristic android like glow....Just so well rendered.
I think the ridiculously high level n attention to detail is stunning. Simply gorgeous artwork. Impressive stuff :3.
congratulations. your drawing was used in a local crime watch show in singapore as an "avatar" of a user on the dark web call cybertiger,
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