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Changing Pods

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Fri, 2015-02-13 20:03

uwtartarus uwtartarus's picture

Changing Pods

How difficult or extreme or time consuming would it be to change a Worker or Pleasure Pod into a Shaper Pod? Or a facsimile thereof? I would examine it would just be easier to create a Shaper Pod morph than to waste time converting an existing Pod, but how feasible would it be to make a Diet or Discount Shaper via Pleasure Pod or Worker Pod? Like if you could get a bunch of the cheaper pods in bulk or such, and wanted to create an army of face-changing assassin pods? Just brainstorming, came upon some troubling kink in the plot bits and wanted to poll the fora as it were.

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Fri, 2015-02-13 20:06

ORCACommander ORCACommander's picture

actually i think ti would be

actually i think ti would be fairly hard. much like trying to swap out parts between a ford truck and dodge

Fri, 2015-02-13 21:44

UnitOmega

I mean, you could just

I mean, you could just install the modifications and augmentations which allow a shaper to be a shaper into a Basic Pod. However, such a a variety of aftermarket augmentations would be time-consuming (though not as much as build-growing a Shaper from scratch) and costly, especially when they might be illegal in many jurisdictions. It is a thing you can do, but your cost-effectiveness is going to take a real hit, or your actual effectiveness is going to take a hit. Skinflex is pretty cheap, though as a nanoware I'm sure it's a commonly regulated item. The real kickers are the Shaper's Gait Masking and Nanotat ID Flux, which are both expensive and I'm sure super illegal. You can maybe argue skinflex has cosmetic uses, the Gait Mask or the ID flux basically only exist to fraud ID systems. Basic Pods as disposable armies is a pretty decent tactic, now beating the previous "waves of Cases", and you can probably equip them to change their face on the fly but it's probably real easier to buy them in bulk and huck 'em in Healing Vats and have a decent bodysculptor alter their features so they don't all look the same.

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Sat, 2015-02-14 01:27

uwtartarus uwtartarus's picture

I am contemplating a really

I am contemplating a really crazy and extensive long con involving a lot of body doubles, so wondering if starting with the massive number of cheap pleasure pods and then loaded with those illegal mods and set loose for mayhem, was cheaper or easier. Probably less time consuming to install mods than build shapers from scratch? Plus not sure how mobile the full morphworks to build bodies from scratch versus a large uhaul with some healing vats for the Pleasure Pod modification procedure. I appreciate people's insight into this. Gives me things to consider.

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Exhuman, and Humanitarian.