As mentioned-Jovians accept use of implants and basic biomorphs. The Jovian spy in rulebook has a flat because he has chosen so. The background options for Jovian characters allow splicer mods. For spec-ops I would see Jovians using combat biomods-although not synths, since they are too easily influenced by hacking and exsurgent virus. However they sleeve into them only for combat time, and not during normal life. Also while they have backups, they stay away from cortical stacks. A backup is safely in the hands of Ministry of Security or Military Defense Ministry, while a stack can be captured. It alse ensures loyalty to the state-as it decides if you are brought back from the dead.

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so how do we make Jovian People able to fight Titan War Machines ?

Besides strong military, it is suggested in the book that they experiment a lot with software and AGI-they probably have strong virus and hacking capabilities-developed in part by scientists from RAND they are rumoured to keep.

My understanding is the Jovians do not deal with the Factors. This is indeed to the disadvantage of the Jovians, but to the advantage of the rest of transhumanity (as it eliminates, or at least reduces, the possibility of a system-wide arms race). I'm sure the Factors aren't too happy about that, but the Jovians are probably the group most able to defend themselves against the Factors if they decide to get uppity.

You know what I've been thinking? Slavery! They don't consider people who have been put in a cortical stack as people right, so... why bother giving them rights. Heavy use of Psychosurgery to make the egos incapable of turning against their masters and soon enough they have all the advantages of a modern Transhuman civilization while keeping their upper crust "pure". I was thinking that historically speaking every great civilization has had their share of Slaves, although not always called that way, there was still a lower class that goes the heavy labor and produces the majority of products. The Planetary consortium has indentured servants infugees, and the Commonwealth has mandatory military service, why shouldn't the Jovians have their own slave class or prisoners of war that have so many safeguards built in to make rebellion all but impossible? And in return have THEM to all the dirty work that requires sleeved and robotic bodies.