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Bio Tech represents biological alterations that can be made to a character’s body using viruses and medical nanites. Bio Tech also represents the technology that can permanently alter the natural structure and function of a character’s body and mind.

Bios Augmentation

In this process, a person’s body is infected with various designer bacteria, viruses, and flora. Her digestive sys- tem receives specialized bacteria and flora that allows her to digest any type of organic matter and neutralize most poisons and toxins. These detoxifying bacteria also live in her mucous membranes so any toxins she eats, drinks, or breaths are also neutralized. She is also infected with a special prophage virus that has no side effects but prevents any further infection from other viruses and bacteria. Her skin is imperceptibly infected with various designer bac- teria and flora that keep her skin clean and prevent body odor. These bacteria even clean her teeth and keep her hair fresh and clean without bathing. She only needs to dust off the dead bacteria everyday to keep herself perfectly clean and hygienic. This process also greatly increases the action of her immune system making her immune to almost every disease.

Body Design

Body design is the growth of body parts or organs cre- ated from a person’s own genome or from altered designer genomes that are used as replacement organs and body parts. Blood vessels and nerve innervations are attached using medical nano manipulators. A person’s immune system sometimes requires modifications to prevent re- jection of the engineered replacement parts. Replace- ment operations of damaged or amputated limbs and dis- eased or damaged organs have become standard medical

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procedures performed in most modern hospitals. Some people known as transforms have designer limbs grafted on that resemble tentacles, hands that resemble tiger or crab claws, skin covered in beautifully patterned fur, and designer digestive systems that allow them to digest al- most anything. Transforms also alter their bodies to have designer metabolisms, unique organ arrangements, and special skin pigmentations. This process allows people to have perfect sex changes or convert themselves into hermaphrodites or something totally androgynous.

Body Sculpting

This invasive reconstructive surgery is designed to im- prove or alter a person’s physical appearance. Characters can improve their appearance through skin grafting, tissue culture implantation, and bone and facial reconstruction. People can alter their appearance to look totally alien and many companies specialize in designer appearances that include feline, reptilian, monstrous, angelic, and demonic appearances. A character with body sculpting receives a

+1 Presence dice pool modifier.

Clone

The cloning process uses a genetic sample to produce a perfect physical copy of a person. These genes can be sampled, stolen, or read from a person’s body using a pow- erful EM effector. A clone can be produced to resemble that person at any specific age. Clones are usually created to resurrect a person or replace a dead loved one. If it is raised as an infant, it will have a different but unusually similar personality when compared to the original person. An adult clone can be produced and implanted with the recorded or downloaded memories of the actual person. Recorded memories can be stored by people who want to be resurrected when they die. There are many services that provide clone storage and immediately imprint it with a client’s most recent mind scan once he dies.

If the mind of a person is recorded into a different body or into a body with the incorrect age, the clone may have severe emotional and psychological problems. If a clone is made from a clone, the second generation clone can have severe mental damage caused by the degradation of the mental pattern after each scan. Fourth generation clones are considered completely inviable because of the massive degradation of the scanned mental engram after being copied so many times. To prevent mental degrada- tion, an old mental scan can be used for each new clone that is made. There are legends of clone tanks from the Old Empire that allowed unlimited cloning that gave their ancient leaders the equivalence of immortality.

Mental Cleansing

This process uses EM effectors to balance a person’s personality and mood by diffusing and editing her mem- ories of past traumas including rape, abuse, injury, and childhood neglect until they can no longer affect her. A character’s mind can be cleared of all fears, aversions, re- grets, hatreds, and fetishes by removing her negative asso- ciation paths. Mental cleansing involves suppressing and stimulating various subpersonalities and mental routines while avoiding any damage to a person’s primary person- ality. The Imperium uses mental cleansing to rehabilitate political dissidents and criminals and to cure mentally ill patients. Many people consider this process mental rape because a person’s personality and memories are inevita- bly altered or stripped away.

Mental Encoding

Mental encoding involves neural programming through precise field induction that allows memories, skills, and patterned motions to be inserted into a person’s mind. These memories are permanent and it can be difficult for a person to determine which memories are real and which are artificial. During an encoding session, data must be synchronized to a person’s exact brain pattern. Mental encoding is not always successful and can permanently damage a person’s memories and cognitive abilities.

Methuselah Process

The Methuselah process involves infecting a person with nano tech that repairs and rebuilds the structure and genome of every cell in a person’s body. This process can only slow the aging process and cannot regenerate heav- ily damaged genetic material so a person will still slowly age and die over time. This process increases a person’s life span by a factor of ten but the nano tech does little or nothing for the elderly.

Shaper Mods

Shaper mods are evasive and extreme alterations of a person’s body, mind, and biochemistry that allow her to perform specific abilities and functions almost perfectly. These adaptations are considered dangerous because they tend to strip a person of her humanity and sanity. In some mods, internal organs are replaced, nervous tissue grafts are implanted, and a person’s mind is reprogrammed us- ing drugs and psychotechnic training. This evasive re- construction is only performed on young children whose minds are still malleable, because no successful Shaper modification has ever been performed on an adult.

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Pleasure Mod

Pleasure mods have major physical reconstruction that makes their bodies and faces extremely beautiful and al- most perfect. Their bodies are reengineered to excrete powerful pheromones, perfumes, and narcotics on com- mand allowing them to easily control and manipulate other people that are near them. They are trained to have total control over their bodies and their sense of pleasure. They can enhance or completely turn off their pleasure and pain sense at will. They are also trained to exploit other people’s desires and weaknesses and to manipulate and control their thinking. They receive a +3 Presence

dice pool modifier made against people exposed to them and a +5 Presence dice pool modifier made against people that are intimate with them.

Multi Mod

Multi mods require total neurological rewiring and brain remapping that allows them to use both their hands and feet simultaneously with total precision. A person’s mind is altered so that he can manipulate objects with his highly modified feet as if he were using his hands. Multi mods were designed to be perfect null grav workers and soldiers. They can perform the same action with all four limbs with the use of only one Action. These characters can perform actions with both hands and both feet at once without any test modifiers. For example, a multi mod can

fire four hand weapons with the use of only one Action.

Frontal Mod

Frontal mods are engineered to be perfect leaders, dip- lomats, and negotiators. Their brains are altered to allow total concentration and recall on command. They are also trained and surgically altered to maximize their charisma and leadership potential. They are trained to take advan- tage of the weaknesses that only they can detect in other people by detecting and understanding their personalities and emotions. They receive a +2 Intelligence modifier and

a +2 Diplomacy dice pool modifier made against people

that they have had time to observe and interact with.

Rejuvenation Process

This process of physical reconstruction and genetic re- pair turns back a person’s biological clock making him feel and look as good as he did in his prime, no matter what his age. In this process, a person is submerged in a pool of nano manipulators that totally rebuilds his physi- cal body and repairs his aging genome. The rejuvenation process can reverse a character’s physical age by up to

thirty years. This process can only be performed a lim- ited number of times before the degenerative nature of the brain results in a senile with a young body but experi- mental nano tech techniques can repair their degenerative neural damage.

Viral Evolution

In this process, a person is infected with specially de- signed retroviruses that insert designer genes into a per- son’s genome and deactivates many of her standard genes. Every cell in a person’s body is affected causing massive changes in her metabolism and physical structure. The effect of this process is different for each person. The character receives a pool of five permanent +1 modifiers that can be distributed in any combination to a character’s Strength, Intelligence, and Agility.