Augmentation Grades

Cyberware and bioware implants are available in five distinct grades: standard, alphaware, betaware, deltaware, and used. Omega grade and exoware implants are detailed further below.

The prices for cyberware and bioware presented in item descriptions are for standard ’wares. When purchasing implants of other grades, apply the Essence cost, cost, and Availability adjustments as noted on the Implant Grades table. All accessories and add-ons must be of the same grade as the implant to which they are added.

Surgery/Recovery

Getting cyberware and bioware requires surgery and therefore damage. When you have an augmentation implanted, your Physical and Stun Condition Monitors each take a number of boxes of damage equal to the item’s Essence Cost x 3 (minimum 1 box, but never into Overflow).

Most cyberclinics and body shops offer recovery rooms for patients to rest and heal up after cybersurgery, but beware the sterility and cleanliness of the less-reputable chop shops. The price of these services is not included with the cyberware and should be added on if the runner wishes to use them.

Augmentation Overdrive

Cybeware can be boosted, but there’s always a potential for problems.

Spend a Minor Action to set a single system to overdrive, increasing the rating of any Attribute-boosting cyberware by 2 for a single action - this bonus may exceed the augmented maximum.

One of the bonus dice must be a Wild Die. Glitches in overdrive cause the affected system to cramp up and shut down for a number of Combat Rounds equal to the rating of the cyberware. Critical Glitches seize the muscle and reduce the affected attribute to 0 for a number of combat rounds equal to the rating.

In addition, any cyberware with a rating can utilize the overdrive bonus as long as the rating can be applied to any test, not just to attributes. For example, a cybereye with vision enhancement can use augmentation overdrive when used to make Perception tests.

Omega Grade

Used/omega-grade implants are not necessarily prior implanted; this grade also refers to brand new cyberware that is cheaply or shoddily manufactured. Omega grade still has the same x1.1 Essence cost, x 0.5 nuyen cost, and the –1 Availability modification as Used cyberware.

Additionally, it also imposes the Bad Luck quality (p. 75, SR6) on the user for any test that involves use of this augmentation, meaning both 1s and 2s count toward glitches on tests where the augmentation adds to a dice pool.

The long-term effects of cut-rate omega-grade bioware are said to include cell mutation and metastasizing tumors spreading through the body. Some runners, though, wonder if the ’ware will allow them to survive long enough to worry about long-term effects

Exoware

Exoware reduces cost by moving sections of the cyberware to the exterior of the user’s body. Cyberlimbs made to this standard use exposed pistons and actuators, with many of the interface controls mounted in the limb itself. Cybereyes feature large lens assemblies in bulky housings outside of the orbital socket, and cyberears are usually boxy modules mounted outside the skull. Even items that would normally be completely internal have exterior sections containing access ports and panels.

Exoware adds ten percent to the base Essence cost, and users suffer -4 Social rating if they have one or more exoware augmentation. However, the nuyen cost is multiplied by 0.8, and its rugged construction adds a bonus box to the user’s Physical Condition Monitor for every full point of Essence it costs(after modification), which stacks with the bonus box gained from full cyberlimbs.

Modify any Build/Repair threshold to repair exoware by –1. Exoware grade can only be applied to cyberware.

Cyberjacks

As the Matrix protocols have become stiffer and stiffer, work has raced forward to keep hackers operating. The latest tool that has advanced quickly from neat to necessary is the cyberjack, which represents one of those times when shadowrunners turned the tables on the corps. Based on corporate research on technomancers, the cyberjack harnesses the immense processing power of the brain to take on Matrix protocols and encryption schemes. It happened rapidly, but it now seems that a decker without a cyberjack is about as effective as one without a cyberdeck. The cyberjack provides a decker’s primary defense against hacking, offering Data Processing and Firewall ratings that cyberdecks no longer possess, and they also function as a standard datajack.

Cyberjack (Rating 1)

Data Processing:

Firewall:

VR Matrix Initiative Dice Bonus:

Availability:

3 (Legal)

Essence:

Cost:

¥10,000

Cyberjack (Rating 2)

Data Processing:

Firewall:

VR Matrix Initiative Dice Bonus:

Availability:

3 (Legal)

Essence:

Cost:

¥20,000

Cyberjack (Rating 3)

Data Processing:

Firewall:

VR Matrix Initiative Dice Bonus:

Availability:

3 (Legal)

Essence:

Cost:

¥30,000

Cyberjack (Rating 4)

Data Processing:

Firewall:

VR Matrix Initiative Dice Bonus:

Availability:

4 (Legal)

Essence:

Cost:

¥40,000

Cyberjack (Rating 5)

Data Processing:

Firewall:

VR Matrix Initiative Dice Bonus:

Availability:

5 (Legal)

Essence:

Cost:

¥50,000

Cyberjack (Rating 6)

Data Processing:

Firewall:

VR Matrix Initiative Dice Bonus:

Availability:

6 (Legal)

Essence:

Cost:

¥60,000

Headware

Active Control Rig (1 - 2)

Active control rigs are based on EuroWars-era military R&D. Because this early form of control rig does not permit jumping-in remotely or entering VR, it fell out of favor compared to the now-standard form of control rig. This older control rig technology hasn’t fallen completely into obsolescence due to its relevance in corporate sponsored and funded motorsports. Motorcyclists do not want to be VR-comatose while competing in combat sports like combat biker or urban brawl, and the inability to remotely pilot is no downside in racing leagues where remote control is prohibited. Naturally, it also sees use in the shadows thanks to go-gangers and wired samurai who also wish to turn a mean wheel.

Essence:

(Rating) x 0.8

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

(Rating) x ¥25,000

Notes: An active control rig functions as a Control Rig (p. 283, SR6) but it does not require (or permit!) the rigger to be in VR to jump-in, and neither does it permit the rigger to remotely jump into a vehicle they are not physically driving.

Active control rigs must employ a physical data cable to establish and maintain a direct connection between the implant and the vehicle’s control board.

Wireless Bonus: An active control rig is inherently a throwback device and can never be wirelessly enabled.

Attention Co-Processor (1 - 4)

Implanted tactical computers have been available since the 2050s, and modern systems are more efficient than ever. Cybernetic processors expand the biological brain’s capacity for multitasking while sophisticated algorithms parse sensory data fed to the brain for potential threats, warning the user via AR or neural tug.

Essence:

(Rating) x 0.3

Capacity:

[Rating]

Availability:

4 (Legal)

Cost:

(Rating) x ¥5,000

Notes: Each rating of an attention co-processor grants +1 Dice Pool Modifier for Defense tests.

Augmentation Overdrive: Add the Attention Coprocessor's Rating to a Perception test. One of these die must be a Wild Die.

Wireless Bonus: The Attention Coprocessor also adds its bonus to Surprise tests.

AutoVoice (1 - 6)

The concept of a cyber-augmented throat has been around for decades and is present in some highly illegal hardware that allowed for voice modulators to be used to duplicate other people’s voiceprints. Amore musical-aligned (and legal) version has been around since the early ’70s. Known as “AutoVoice,” it led to a brief flurry of cybernetic-voiced artists who, before the addition, couldn’t carry a tune. Used at a normal setting,the AutoVoice controls airflow through the voice box, and the voice box’s own vibrations, to hit and hold notes as needed. With some software tweaks, this can be turned into a more mechanical sound (creating that distinct AutoVoiced sound of a few years back) or used to pitch the user’s voice up or down but still recognizable only as their own. Software hacks to allow more illegal operation now circle the Shadownet.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Rating

Cost:

Rating x ¥1,000

Notes: Gain a +1 Dice Pool Bonus to all Con (Performance), Con (Acting), and Con (Impersonation) tests.

Wireless Bonus: The AutoVoice allows the user to broadcast their voice to a local audio network without a microphone.

Chipjack (1 - 6)

The return of an old classic! This expanded bay allows a number of additional, physical skillchips to be slotted into a user’s skilljack, saving time from manual switching. The chipjack further comes with an expanded buffer, allowing more chips to be accessed simultaneously, though the raw power of those chips is controlled by the strength of the core skilljack processor.

Essence:

Rating x 0.05

Capacity:

Availability:

Rating x 2

Cost:

Rating x ¥1,000

Notes: Each Chipjack Rating adds one slot for an additional, physical skillchip that can be accessed by the skilljack along with any skillsofts already in storage. In addition, the chipjack Rating adds to the skilljack Rating when determining the total skillsoft Ratings that can run simultaneously.

For example, a Rating 1 Chipjack paired with a Rating 3 Skilljack can handle a total of (1 + 3) x 2 = 8 skillsoft Ratings (or 12 with wireless enabled). The maximum Rating of any single skillsoft is still the skilljack Rating, however.

Note that chipjacks are not compatible with Hardwires.

Commlink

The implanted version of the Commlink comes with a Sim Module at no additional cost.

An integral headware commlink is popular with corporate operatives, company men, and sararimen on the go. Generally speaking, commlinks with a Device Rating of less than 5 are not installed inside your skull for security reasons.

A bricked headware commlink causes 6P damage resisted by Body.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥2,000 + Commlink

Notes:

Control Rig (1 - 3)

This implant harnesses the raw data-coordinating and synchronization power of the middle brain for the express purpose of directly manipulating rigged vehicles and drones (and other devices with rigger interface, like turrets). It has a built-in sim module, allowing DNI with other devices. It also comes with a universal data connector and about a meter of retractable cable that functions like a datajack.

Essence:

Rating x 1

Capacity:

Availability:

4 (Legal)

Cost:

Rating x ¥30,000

Notes: When you’re jumped in the Control Rig provides its rating as a Dice Pool Bonus on all tests involving the operation of a vehicle. It also reduces the threshold on all Piloting tests by its Rating and grants a bonus dice reroll when directly operating a vehicle.

Cortex Bomb (Kink)

An illegal method of coercion, cranial bombs come in three flavors: kink, microbomb, and area bomb.

Kink bombs are designed to damage only part of the victim’s head, either rendering specific headware useless or damaging the brain to cause blindness, stuttering, hearing loss, or some other trauma. Of course, sometimes when something in your head explodes, things don’t go exactly as planned and the result is a bit... much.

The bombs can be remote- or time-detonated, or even set to discharge by sound recognition.

If installed in cyberlimbs, kink bombs are designed to destroy specific components.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

6 (Illegal)

Cost:

¥10,000

Notes: When a Cortex Bomb (Kink) is detonated, a user takes 5 Physical damage, resisted with Body and may lead to status effects depending on the body part it is installed upon.

Removing a standard cortex bomb is a Biotech + Logic (16, 10 minutes) Extended test.

Cortex Bombs may be outfitted with Anti-Tamper Measures.

Cortex Bomb (Microbomb)

An illegal method of coercion, cranial bombs come in three flavors: kink, microbomb, and area bomb.

The microbomb version is just powerful enough to kill the unfortunate bearer.

The bombs can be remote- or time-detonated, or even set to discharge by sound recognition.

If installed in cyberlimbs microbombs are designed to destroy an entire limb.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

6 (Illegal)

Cost:

¥25,000

Notes: When a Cortex Bomb (Microbomb) is detonated, a user takes 18 Physical damage, resisted with Body and may lead to status effects depending on the body part it is installed upon.

Removing a standard cortex bomb is a Biotech + Logic (16, 10 minutes) Extended test.

Cortex Bombs may be outfitted with Anti-Tamper Measures.

Cortex Bomb (Area Bomb)

An illegal method of coercion, cranial bombs come in three flavors: kink, microbomb, and area bomb.

Area cranial bombs are intended to kill the victim and then also affect a blast area of the same size of a fragmentation grenade.

The bombs can be remote- or time-detonated, or even set to discharge by sound recognition.

If installed in cyberlimbs area bombs are designed to blast an entire area, damaging the bearer and anyone else around it.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

6 (Illegal)

Cost:

¥40,000

Notes: When a Cortex Bomb (Area Bomb) is detonated, a user takes 18 Physical damage, resisted with Body. They also take an additional 16 Physical damage, resisted separately. The blast radius and damage of the Cortex Bomb (Area Bomb) is the same as a Fragmentation Grenade.

Removing a standard cortex bomb is a Biotech + Logic (16, 10 minutes) Extended test.

Cortex Bombs may be outfitted with Anti-Tamper Measures.

Cranial Sculpting

Aural Helix Dysmorphia (AHD) is recognized as a metagenic expression, but those who accept this augmentation gain anthropomorphic facial features through cybernetics rather than SURGE. Avian, bovine, canine, caprine, equine, feline, leporine, and vulpine features are all common examples among cosplay and body modification enthusiasts. Even more extreme sculpts, such as cephalopodan and insectoid features are also possible, but users should be wary of being mistaken for hybrid-form insect spirits.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥2,500

Notes: The unusual anatomy resulting from this augmentation places a ten percent markup on any worn face or headgear (see Using Unadapted Gear, p. 247, SR6).

Cranial Shield

The Cranial Shield system is a series of emitters implanted into the skull. The emitters throw off a low-level interference signal that inhibits wireless connections between devices in the cranium and outside. A bypass, like a datajack, can be used for access, but all wireless connections fail. The system was supposedly designed to protect couriers from getting their headware hacked, but the existence of datalocks and the ability to shut down wireless capability made plenty of skeptics. Digging around for the original design traced the whole thing back to MCT, and some additional specs showed that the system also blocks technomancers from accessing the Matrix.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥5,000

Cyberdeck

Simply put, you’ve got a deck in your body. This is very convenient for the hacker on the go and is often sported by G-men and military deckers.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

4 (Legal)

Cost:

Cyberdeck + ¥5,000

Notes: Bricking a headware deck causes 8P damage resisted with Body.

Datajack

A datajack gives you a direct neural interface. It also comes with a retractable spool of micro-cable (a meter long) that lets you directly interface with any electronic device via a universal access cable. Datajacks are equipped with their own cache of storage memory for downloading or saving files. Two datajack users can string a fiberoptic cable between themselves to conduct a private mental communication immune to radio interception or eavesdropping.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥1,000

Datajack Plus (1 - 3)

Every corp is trying to innovate a little to get a bit more of the market share. And then another corp takes their idea, re-labels it, and eventually, every corp has an offering, too, with almost the exact same features. The datajack plus is the latest in these efforts to get everyone to upgrade or buy the newest tech. Its basic functionality is identical to a standard datajack, offering a DNI link to devices and a filter to handle some of the local interference, but the Plus offers a small cache of memory and a processor system that links up with your commlink (or cyberdeck) with the ability to run programs. The d-plus system comes in a variety of processor speeds and cache sizes to offer a variety of options for the executive with an eye on the top spot or the electronic security specialist that needs an edge because the shadows keep getting faster and more deadly.

Essence:

0.15

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

Rating x ¥3,500

Notes: The Datajack Plus operates as a normal Datajack, except that it ran run a number of programs equal to it's Rating.

The Datajack Plus comes preloaded with a number of free programs equal to it's Rating.

Datalock (1 - 12)

This special datajack is popular with couriers, spies, diplomatic aids, and executive liaisons. Effectively, it turns the character in whom it is installed into a walking data safe. The bearer of the implant doesn’t have mental access to the data - they’re only a carrier.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

Rating x ¥1,000

Notes: The datalock has a Device Rating equal to its own rating, and it protects the data from anyone not authorized to access it (possibly including you). Datalocks are not wireless enabled; they can only be accessed via universal data connector.

Dream Link

A dream link creates simsense records of neural activity associated with thought. This augmentation allows its user to replay and thereby re-experience dreams, which is entertaining for some individuals and useful in psychotherapy for others. Dream links are sometimes used as an insidious control mechanism. Few people have control over what they dream, so regularly monitored dream links can give prisons, bunraku parlors, and other such equally distasteful institutions intel about the goings-on among their captives such as escape plots, gang affairs, and so on. Dream links can also be employed while awake to journal active thought for later replay. A dream link can store up to eight hours of generated simsense data.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥2,000

Notes: A dream link can export saved thought to an external device such as a commlink or replay an externally saved recording.

Enhanced Augmented Reality Reflex System (EARRS)

Can you hear me? Maybe you need a nice set of EARRS?! I’m so funny. The EARRS system is a unique blend of meat and Matrix, designed to allow faster Matrix activity without the need to fully immerse yourself in the virtual realm. Functioning as a bridge between your central nervous system and the Augmented Reality Matrix around you, EARRS allow you to process Matrix input at Matrix speeds while also letting you respond to it via physical actions combined with DNI and without the total nervous override of full ASIST.

These were field-tested by several special-operations groups, and most came back with rave reviews. They saw their operator’s ability to interact with both worlds at once, a far greater option than being restricted to slow AR interaction or slumping and being hauled by the team while they went full-VR to deal with electronic hazards.

Essence:

0.75

Capacity:

Availability:

5 (Legal)

Cost:

¥30,000

Notes: The EARRS implant allows users to roll their Matrix Initiative in a Physical encounter but limits the actions which can be performed.

While running the EARRS implant, the user can move normally and perceive events in the physical world through their standard senses, but all Physical and Social Skill actions face a –10 dice pool modifier due to the system’s confusion of physical and Matrix input. Matrix Actions can be performed as normal.

False Face

Although it was invented for use in theater and cinema, spies and shadowrunners quickly appropriated false face technology. Facial bones are replaced with ceramic plates, gel reservoirs, and cybernetic servos. A false face allows the user to resculpt their facial featuresto any possible expression for their metatype.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

6 (Legal)

Cost:

¥20,000

Notes: It takes one minute of concentration to complete a facial transformation. This augmentation grants +2 Dice Pool Modifier and a +1 Dice Reroll for disguise or impersonation tests.

Wireless Bonus: A false face can match the facial biometrics matched to a given SIN or fake SIN.

Horn Compartment

Similar to a tooth compartment but larger, the horn compartment gives a slick way to carry credsticks, RFID tags, or other small items. As with the tooth compartment, it can be equipped to remove the enclosed items with either a wireless signal or a hidden catch. Unlike the tooth compartment, it cannot be used for self-poisoning purposes, because of course it can’t.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥1,000

Infrasonic Generator (1 - 3)

A modiied version of the standard voice modulator, this model adds infrasonic tones as an underlayer to your normal voice. Infrasound hovers at a frequency just at the edge of human hearing, causing feelings of anxiety and fear.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

3 (Illegal)

Cost:

Rating x ¥4,000

Notes: When activated, this modification adds its Rating to any Influence (Intimidation) tests.

Wireless Bonus: Gain a free point of Edge for use on Influence (Intimidation) tests on targets affected by the the Infrasonic Generator is active.

Infrasound Emitter (1 - 4)

Infrasonic sound waves elicit feelings of discomfort or fear on a subconscious level even when they lie outside the afflicted target’s audible range. This implant augments the user’s vocal tract to broadcast powerful sound waves on these frequencies when performing a low growl.

Essence:

(Rating) x 0.1

Capacity:

[Rating]

Availability:

Rating (Illegal)

Cost:

(Rating) x ¥5,000

Notes: An infrasound emitter grants the ability to use a non-magical version of the Fear critter power (p. 224, SR6) that affects all other metahumans and vertebrate critters within 5 meters of the user. The infrasound emitter’s Rating is used in place of Magic. If a target lacks the ability to hear these frequencies, they do not identify the user as the source of this effect and would instead consider their current location as the source of their fear. If the user also has a vocal modulator (p. 285, SR6), an infrasound emitter also permits the user to perform regular speech that is imperceptible by those without augmented hearing.

Augmentation Overdrive: An infrasound emitter’s range is doubled, and its rating is considered 2 higher, ignoring the maximum rating of 4. One of the user’s dice for using the Fear critter power is converted to a Wild Die

Wireless Bonus: The sound waves can be directed to exclude specific, potential targets.

Knowledge Hardwires (1 - 6)

The classics never really die, they just get shunted to overlooked nations. Skill hardwires have been around since the ’50s but fell out of favor with prosperous countries due to the simple fact that a permanent installation of a skill isn’t the best investment in today’s ever-changing economic conditions. In less resource-rich parts of the world, however, the ability to simply absorb a medical degree or legal complexities can’t be overstated. KITT is the biggest supplier, naturally, but Renraku keeps Africa well-stocked with hardwires, though they focus more on Active skills than Knowledge skills.

Essence:

Rating x 0.05

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

Rating x ¥2,000

Notes: Knowledge hardwires are simply an implanted skillchip and a processor designed to run only that single skill. The skill can be neither upgraded nor replaced without removing the entire unit and implanting a new one. On the positive side, you may have several knowledge hardwire units installed, giving you access to a wide array of abilities. Note that the hardwire Rating must be equal to or greater than the Knowledge skill installed into it.

Math SPU

An implanted cranial sub-processing unit (SPU) handles complicated mathematical functions so the user doesn’t have to, such as converting imperial measurements to metric. A math SPU maintains a mental calendar and tracks multiple timers that may be of interest to the user, such as “how long has my girlfriend been asleep” and “how long until my wife gets home from work.”

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥2,500

Notes: A Math SPU grants a bonus Dice Reroll to Cracking, Electronics, and Build/Repair Tests.

Augmentation Overdrive: A Math SPU increases the Dice Rerolls on the aforementioned tests by 2 (retaining a minimum cost of 1), and a Wild Die is added to the test.

Wireless Bonus: A Math SPU maintains an internal chronometer synced with global Matrix timekeeping.

Matrix Visualizer

There are few tools better than a Matrix visualizer for constructing AROs and sculpting VR. This augmentation permits the user to “print” mental images as virtual Matrix iconography. A creation requires the user’s full concentration for a period ranging from a single combat round for a basic geometric design, to hours for an immersive landscape or true work of art.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥2,000

Notes: When attempting to render details from memory, the user rolls a Memory Test (p. 67, SR6) against an appropriate threshold (see Threshold Guidelines, p. 36, SR6).

Wireless Bonus: A Matrix visualizer can sync with a wireless printer to create physical 2D or 3D objects.

Medullan Parallel Processors (1 - 2)

This cyberware adds additional circuitry and nanoprocessors to the brain stem, and it must be used in conjunction with a control rig. With this augmentation, the user is able to accept and react to a broader spectrum of simsense. This results in a deeper connection with a jumped-in vehicle than otherwise possible.

Essence:

Rating x 0.5

Capacity:

Availability:

4 (Legal)

Cost:

Rating x ¥20,000

Notes: Each level adds 1D6 initiative, which stacks with cold sim and hot sim VR user modes. This bonus only applies while the user is jumped-in.

Olfactory Booster (1 - 3)

This cybersnout enhances, identifies, and records smells, and can play them back later. The massively enhanced olfactory capabilities of a sniffer open up a whole new world of sensory data to you - you’ll be able to sense things that ordinarily only a scenthound would. You can smell people’s emotions in their sweat (and if applicable, the maker’s mark of their tailored pheromones), traces of ammunition propellant, explosives, or biological and chemical warfare compounds - the list goes on and on. A cut-off function allows you to completely ignore intense odors, possibly the most convenient feature for use in your daily life. The olfactory booster can even be used in VR to create an even more immersive experience.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

Rating x ¥4,000

Notes: The user gains a bonus Edge for all scent-based Perception tests.

Wireless Bonus: Add the booster’s rating as a Dice Pool Bonus to your scent-based Perception tests.

Radar Sensor

An implanted radar sensor differs from aviation or military radars by using a shorter wavelength in the terahertz range and transmits in a linear frequency-modulated continuous wave (LFMCW). This type of radar is optimized for high-resolution imagery, low power requirements, and reduced background clutter.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

6 (Legal)

Cost:

¥15,000

Notes: An implanted radar sensor functions as an ultrasound sensor (p. 277, SR6) with a sixty-degree field of view originating from the user’s forehead and has a maximum range of twenty meters. This form of “sight” has the added functionality of being able to see through any barriers or materials with structure rating 15 or less.

Radar ignores all Invisibility and Silence statuses, but it is susceptible to jamming. The user loses 2 dice for radar-based Perception tests for every point of jamming noise they are subjected to. Radar signals are unsubtle; any Matrix user within fifty meters can triangulate the exact position of an active radar sensor with a successful Cracking (Electronic Warfare) + Logic (3) test.

It takes a Minor Action to activate or deactivate the system.

Augmentation Overdrive: A radar sensor can “see” for fifty meters during one Perception test. Gain two dice, one of which must be a wild die, for that test.

Wireless Bonus: If the user also has a wirelessly enabled Math SPU, radar targeting data permits ranged attacks at a detected target while ignoring Blindness and Cover statuses, or any other visibility modifiers. Any barriers between user and target will still degrade the damage normally (see Barriers, p. 111, SR6).

Rigger Command Console Headware

Simply put, you’ve got an RCC in your body. Since RCCs are not much different in size and complexity than a cyberdeck, this is a convenient way to make sure you never leave home without it.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

3 (Legal)

Cost:

¥4,000 + RCC

Notes: Bricking a headware RCC causes 8P damage that is resisted with Body.

Simrig

This headware implant allows you to record sensory data for later replay. It can record experience data (sensory and emotive) from you or whoever is wearing it. Simrigs are used to make most of the simsense chips sold on the market. (or sale, if you live a very interesting life).

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

4 (Legal)

Cost:

¥4,000

Simsense Interface Overdrive (1 - 4)

This augmentation adds parallel simsense processors to the brain, amplifying reflexes and associated functions.

Essence:

Rating x 0.2

Capacity:

Availability:

4 (Legal)

Cost:

Rating x ¥15,000

Notes: Each rating of this cyberware adds to the user’s Intuition. Since the augmentation must accept simsense input, this bonus only applies while in a VR Matrix User mode.

Skilljack (1 - 6)

This headware interprets knowsofts and linguasofts for your brain so you can use them as though they were your own.

Essence:

Rating x 0.1

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥20,000

Notes: A Skilljack can also run activesofts, but they only act as Knowledge Skills unless you have Skillwires. The total of all skills running on a Skilljack cannot exceed its Rating x 2, and the maximum rating for a single skill is the Skilljack’s rating. Starting skills from storage and stopping skills doesn’t require an action. You can’t use Edge with skills you have through a skilljack.

Wireless Bonus: The extra boost from the Matrix increases the total Rating limit to the Skilljack’s Rating x 4, and Edge can be used in associated tests.

Synthlink

A simple interface akin to a smartlink that allows the user to interface with smart instruments, improving the link between musician and instrument.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥1,000

Notes: Users who are equipped with linked “synthstruments” gain a +2 Dice Pool Bonus when performing with them.

Wireless Bonus: The user gains an additional +2 Dice Pool Bonus to performance skills emplying a linked synthstrument.

Taste Booster (1 - 3)

The taste booster performs the same function as the olfactory booster, except that it enhances your taste buds. The taste booster also lets you experience gustatory data in AR and VR environments with a “taste track” - caveat emptor on that one, chummer.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

Rating x ¥3,000

Notes: The user gains a bonus Edge for all taste-based Perception tests.

Wireless Bonus: Add the booster’s rating as a dice pool modifier to your taste-based Perception tests.

Tooth Compartment

The oldest cyberware on the market, these hollow teeth come in storage and breakable models. The storage model is used to smuggle really, really tiny contraband, no larger than five millimeters on a side. Items can be removed with a wireless signal or hidden catch. The breakable model triggers a linked effect (such as starting a tracking signal or releasing deadly poison into your mouth - make sure you remember which is which!) with a wireless signal, or it may trigger when you bite down hard on the tooth.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥800

Ultrasound Sensor

This cyberware is exactly like the ultrasound sensor. When active, it replaces your normal vision.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥3,600

Notes: The Ultrasound Sensor can be switched between active sonar, passive sonar, and off with a Minor Action.

Visualizer

One of the most-beloved creations of the past 10 years, the Visualizer allows the user to export a 2D or 3D image from their mind to augmented reality, or directly to paper by interfacing with a wireless printer. The Visualizer requires extensive concentration and rare mental imaging ability to create more than a rough realization of the image in someone’s head, but it’s an emerging art form.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥2,000

Notes: Every hit on a Memory Test is another relevant detail the individual is able to visualize. It takes between 5 seconds (for a simple geometric design) to 1 hour (for detailed landscapes or persons) to create the image.

Voice Mask

A much-downgraded version of the voice modulator, the voice mask doesn’t allow for modification of the volume or frequency of the user’s voice, nor does it allow recording, rebroadcasting, or replication of someone else’s voice. What it does, however, is use dissonant frequencies to totally distort the user’s voice and make it completely unrecognizable and useless for identification.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

4 (Illegal)

Cost:

¥2,000

Voice Modulator (1 - 3)

This implant gives you perfect pitch and enormous vocal flexibility and distortion capabilities. You can speak with an increased volume (up to one hundred decibels) without strain, shift your pitch to make perfect bird calls or mellifluous singing, and most importantly, uncanny vocal impressions. The modulator can also play back (and more or less perfectly imitate) a recorded or captured voice.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

4 (Legal)

Cost:

Rating x ¥5,000

Notes: The user gains a bonus Edge for sound-based Con skill tests.

Wireless Bonus: Add the rating of the modulator to your dice pool for sound based Con skill tests.

Eyeware

Cybereyes (1 - 5)

The basic cybereyes system features 20/20 vision for both eyes, an image link, and a built-in camera, as well as Capacity for vision enhancements.

Essence:

Rating x 0.1

Capacity:

Cybereyes 1: 1
Cybereyes 2: 4
Cybereyes 3: 8
Cybereyes 4: 12
Cybereyes 5: 16

Availability:

Cybereyes 1: 2
Cybereyes 2: 2
Cybereyes 3: 3
Cybereyes 4: 3
Cybereyes 5: 3

Cost:

Cybereyes 1: ¥1,000
Cybereyes 2: ¥4,000
Cybereyes 3: ¥6,000
Cybereyes 4: ¥10,000
Cybereyes 5: ¥16,000

Single Cybereye

Cybereye basic systems (p. 285, SR6) are normally sold and implanted in pairs, but not everyone wants to replace a perfectly good eye just because the other one was diseased or damaged.

Essence:

[Rating x 0.5]

Capacity:

Half of the Rating's normal Capacity.

Availability:

See Cybereyes (1 - 5).

Cost:

Half of the Rating's normal cost.

Notes: A single eye can be replaced for one half the Essence and nuyen cost, leaving the other biological eye intact.

A single cybereye only has one half the capacity of a matched pair.

Additional Eye Mount

Ever wanted eyes in the back of your head? Well, now you can! Each additional eye mount allows the user to attach a cybereye to any part of their body that they wish.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥1,000

Notes: Due to the disorienting nature of such extra eyes, the user has a cumulative penalty of –1 Dice Pool Penalty to their Physical tests, and all weapon Accuracies, for each eye active beyond two.

A user can close one normal eye and use an additional eye mount as the second without penalty, or close both natural eyes and use two additional eye mounts as well.

Placement of this additional eye can provide tactical advantages for the cunning shadowrunner. The most common placement is one in the back of the head, to be aware of ambushes, or to a hand, allowing someone to look around corners. The listed cost is for the mount; the cybereye itself is sold separately.

Using one eye in front and one in back grants a +2 Dice Pool Bonus to Surprise tests.

Eye Protectors

These are simple protective covers that go over the user’s eyes, preventing them from being harmed by dust and debris. They’re available in a wide array of color and style, as well as in plastic or ballistic glass.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥100 (Plastic)
¥200 (Ballistic Glass)

Notes: Activating or deactivating the Eye Protectors requires a Minor Action.

Eye Protectors reduce damage exclusively from headshots by 3 (plastic) or 6 (ballistic glass).

Wireless Bonus: Activating or deactivating the Eye Protectors grants a bonus Minor Action.

Eye-Light System

Eye-lights are miniaturized light emitters that are implanted into the user’s inner eye, coupled to a secondary iris and pupil that allow the light to shine outward without interfering with the regular field of view. The light allows persons with low-light vision to see for twenty meters in total darkness. The light can emit any color of light, but red is most common because it best preserves night vision. Ultraviolet, or black light, is also possible.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥500

Notes: It takes a Minor Action to activate or deactivate the system, or to change the color of the light being emitted.

When emitting ultraviolet light, users gain a bonus dice reroll when searching for items or substances that glow under black light.

Augmentation Overdrive: Gain a +2 Dice Pool Modifier, one of which must be a Wild Die, when performing a visual Perception test while benefitting from low-light vision, or when using black light to search for appropriate substances.

Wireless Bonus: Gain a bonus Minor Action after spending a Minor Action to activate, deactivate, or change the color of the light.

Flare Compensation

An implanted version of the flare compensation enhancement. It protects you from blinding light as well as simple glare and reduces the penalty from flashing lights, like from a flash-pak.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥1,000

Notes: Reduces the penalty from flashbangs, flash-paks, etc. by 1 level.

Image Link

This lets you display visual information (text, pictures, movies, the current time, etc.) in your field of vision. This is usually done with AROs, but you can display pretty much whatever you want on it. You and your team can use it to share tactical and situational info in real time. An image link is what you need to truly “see” AR and participate in the modern world.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥800

Low-Light Vision

An implanted version of the low-light vision enhancement, this accessory allows you to see normally in light levels as low as starlight. It doesn’t help in total darkness, though.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥1,500

Notes: Gain a Dice Reroll to Perception tests in partial lighting, dim lighting, and near darkness.

Microscopic Lenses

Microscopic lenses allow the user to focus their vision on tiny details. This augmentation allows up to 1,000X magnification, but the automatic stabilization is not much good beyond canceling out the user’s own breathing and other involuntary micromovements of the head and neck. This augmentation is popular with gem experts, including forgers, to read microscopic numbers etched on gemstones. The zoomed-in vision can only be focused on a stable or stationary item within 30 centimeters of the eyes.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥1,000

Notes: It costs a Minor Action to shift into or out of microscopic vision mode. When in use, microscopic lenses grant bonus Edge to tasks involving very fine detail work such as surgery, repairing circuitry, painting wargame miniatures, and so on.

When microscopic lenses are active, the user’s eye is unsuitable for any other task. An item further away than 30 centimeters is beyond the focal ability of active microscopic lenses.

When microscopic lenses are being used, in addition to the obvious use, they provide a +4 Dice Pool Bonus on Perception tests to examine the material in question.

Augmentation Overdrive: The microscopic vision can be applied to a non-stationary subject, such as a gunshot wound while the victim is rolling about in pain. Gain +2 Dice Pool Modifier for an appropriate test, and one must be a Wild Die.

Wireless Bonus: The microscopic lenses can sync with online databases when examining scientific, technical, or medical subjects. Gain bonus Dice Reroll when attempting to identify such items.

Ocular Drone

This enhancement only affects one eyeball per purchase. A small droneis placed in your ocular cavity. The spyball functions as a normal cybereye (with all the relevant enhancements) until you remove it and control it as though it were a drone.

An ocular drone is obviously a fake eye.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥6,000

Notes: When the Ocular Drone is out, you have only one eye and suffer the Blindness I Status effect for all tasks. If you replace both eyes with drones, you gain the Blindness III Status Effect while those drones are operating apart from you.

The Ocular Drone has the same stats as the Horizon Flying Eye (pg. 299, SR6).

Retinal Duplication (1 - 6)

This highly illegal modification can be loaded with a recording of someone else’s retina to create an almost perfect reproduction.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

5 (Illegal)

Cost:

Rating x ¥20,000

Notes: When using an appropriate retinal duplicate, make an opposed test between the retinal duplication rating and the retinal scanner rating.

The system can actively store a number of retinas equal to its rating.

Changing retinal patterns requires 1 minute.

Rolling Video Recorder

Cybereyes can be equipped with a function that digitally records a minute’s worth of video in a self-overwriting perpetual loop.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥500

Notes: By spending a Minor Action, the user can permanently save the last minute’s worth of video seen by the cybereyes.

Wireless bonus: If the user also has a wireless-enabled rolling audio recorder, both augmentations can be commanded to save the last minute’s worth of data with the same Minor Action.

Smartlink

This is the vision accessory side of the Smartgun System. The smartlink receives the range to various targets, ammunition level (and type), and offers a targeting dot wherever the gun is pointed if within the visual field of the user.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

3 (Legal)

Cost:

¥4,000

Spider Eyes

Spider Eyes Spider eyes walk the evolutionary path forged by animals that employ primitive eyes in clusters. Spider eyes are simple sensors that individually have poor perception for detail or color, but when deployed in number they allow for excellent motion detection. Spider eyes deploy clusters of these basic eyes around the head and neck. They do not replace the user’s primary sense of vision; they instead augment it without distraction.

Essence:

Capacity:

[2]*

Availability:

Cost:

¥2,000

Notes: Users with spider eyes reduce the threshold for Surprise tests to 2. If they are not wearing a helmet or other headgear, they also reduce the cost for Plot Point actions on Surprise tests by 1, to a minimum cost of 1. Spider eyes do not consume cybereye capacity, but they can be placed in cyberskulls.

Augmentation Overdrive: Spider eyes grant a +2 Dice Pool Modifier, one of which must be a Wild Die, on a Defense test.

Wireless Bonus: The user gains a bonus Dice Reroll on visual perception tests.

Thermographic Vision

An implanted version of the thermographic vision enhancement, this enhancement enables vision in the infrared spectrum, enabling you to see heat patterns. It’s a very practical way to spot living beings in areas of total darkness, to check if a motor or machine has been running lately, and so on.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥2,000

Notes: Gain a Dice Reroll to Perception tests in partial lighting, dim lighting, and near darkness.

Vision Enhancement

An implanted version of vision enhancement, this sharpens a character’s vision at all ranges, providing visual acuity closer to that of the average hawk than that of the average metahuman.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥4,000

Notes: +1 Dice Pool Modifier to all visual Perception tests.

Vision Magnification

An implanted version of the vision magnification enhancement, this zoom function digitally magnifies vision by up to fifty times, allowing distant targets to be seen clearly.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥2,000

Notes: +2 Dice Pool Modifier to Medium, Far, and Extreme weapon attack rolls, assuming the attack being used has a non-zero attack rating in that category.

Earware

Cyberears

Ordinarily, cyberears replace only the inner ear, although the whole thing can be replaced as well if you like.

Essence:

Rating x 0.1

Capacity:

Cyberears 1: 1
Cyberears 2: 4
Cyberears 3: 8
Cyberears 4: 12
Cyberears 5: 16

Availability:

Cyberears 1: 2
Cyberears 2: 2
Cyberears 3: 3
Cyberears 4: 3
Cyberears 5: 3

Cost:

Cyberears 1: ¥1,000
Cyberears 2: ¥3,000
Cyberears 3: ¥4,500
Cyberears 4: ¥7,500
Cyberears 5: ¥11,000

Notes: Cyberears offer hearing within normal ranges (like an omnidirectional microphone), a sound link, and Capacity for modifications and enhancements.

Antennae

Antennae grant their user enhanced Matrix reception and broadcast range. They are implanted as a pair on either side of the head and can retract behind the ears when not in use. They are available in a wide variety of shapes and colors, many of which are branded tie-ins to popular trideo franchises.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥1,000

Notes: It takes a Minor Action to deploy or retract the antennae, and while they are deployed, the user reduces the total noise affecting them by 2

A user may only have 1 set of implanted antennae.

Augmentation Overdrive: Reduce noise by 4 instead of 2 during a single Matrix action. Convert 1 die to a Wild Die for that test.

Wireless Bonus: The antennae must be wirelessly enabled to function at all.

Audio Analyzer

A simple bit of hardware that measures and identifies both pitch and timbre, audio analyzer is quite useful for musicians and impersonators, but it can also allow eavesdropping of old touch-tone datapads.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥1,000

Notes: The Audio Analyzer grants a +4 Dice Pool Bonus for identifying pitch, and grants a +1 Dice Pool Modifier for musical performances for the user.

Audio Enhancement

An implanted version of audio enhancement, Audio Enhancement allows the user to hear a broader spectrum of frequencies, including high and low frequencies outside the normal metahuman audible spectrum. The user also experiences fine discrimination of nuances and can block out distracting background noise.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥4,000

Notes: Gain a +1 Dice Pool Modifier on all aural Perception tests.

Balance Augmenter

The balance augmenter enhances the inner ear’s natural balance mechanism.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥8,000

Notes: You receive a +1 Dice Pool Bonus on all tests involving balance, such as climbing, walking across a narrow platform, landing after a jump, and so on.

Damper

This implant protects the user from sudden increases in sound as well as damaging sound levels.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥2,250

Notes: The damper diminishes the Deafened status by 1 level for any instance in which it is inflicted.

Ear Protectors

Adding cups over a user’s ears provides protection not unlike eye covers for cybereyes.

Essence:

0.05

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥250

Notes: Activating or deactivating the Ear Protectors requires a Minor Action.

When active, reduce the Deafened status effect by 1 level.

Wireless Bonus: Activating or deactivating the Ear Protectors grants a bonus Minor Action.

Increased Hearing Spectrum

This augmentation expands the user’s hearing beyond metahuman capability. The user is capable of hearing infrasonic and ultrasonic frequencies from as low as 5 Hz to as high as 120 kHz. Having access to a wider range of audio frequencies enables the user to hear sounds that are ordinarily drowned out by distance or muffled by intervening barriers. Not only can a user hear dog whistles and ultrasonic motion detectors, but also certain types of aural frequencies used in radio transmissions.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥1,000

Notes: -

Augmentation Overdrive: Gain a +2 Dice Pool Modifier - one of which must be a Wild Die - for an audio Perception test.

Wireless Bonus: Increased spectrum hearing can sync with cyberware that augments the user’s voice to permit speech solely in infrasonic or ultrasonic frequencies that cannot be heard by those with standard hearing range.

Modular Mount

Using a universal connector not unlike the tactical rail of a modern firearm, the modular mount allows a single gun accessory, or a similarly sized hand tool, to be attached to the user’s ear, providing a hands-free option for essential gear.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥250

Notes: Attaching or removing a modular item requires the use of a Minor Action.

Small handheld items such as a flashlight or handheld sensor can be modified to be mountable for ¥50 for each item.

Wireless Bonus: Removing a modular item grants a bonus Minor Action.

Orientation System

In addition to serving as a global positioning system (GPS), this upgrade includes an internal gyroscope (for when GPS signals are unavailable), an internal compass, an inertial compass, an altimeter, a barometer, and an external port for holding a mapsoft. It doesn’t include a display, so some kind of overlay (such as an imagelink in cyber-eyes) or other visual aid, is needed to process data properly. The orientation system can further chart paths, provide redline instruction (projected via AR to your field of vision via your PAN), make projections, measure your time of travel, distance, and ETA, as well as record your path for future map updating.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥500

Notes: The user reduces any Outdoors (Navigation) test thresholds by 3, to a minimum of 1. The system also displays the user’s current and prior positions on a mapsoft.

Augmentation Overdrive: Add a +2 Dice Pool Modifier - one of which must be a Wild Die - to an Outdoors (Navigation) test.

Wireless Bonus: The orientation system connects with commercial global positioning systems, allowing knowledge of the user’s location anywhere on the globe. Furthermore, the user’s position can be displayed in AR to the entire team PAN or on a mapsoft.

Perfect Pitch

This audio analytic augmentation is an ear implant that measures pitch and timbre. It is widely used by musicians and sound technicians.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥500

Notes: Perfect Pitch grants a single die reroll for tests involving musical performance.

Wireless Bonus: The implant can sync with wireless instruments and sound equipment. This allows for the use of a bonus point of Edge on any tests involving musical performances.

Rolling Audio Recorder

Cyberears can be equipped with a function that digitally records a minute’s worth of audio in a self-overwriting perpetual loop.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥500

Notes: By spending a Minor Action, the user can permanently save the last minute's worth of audio heard by the cyberears.

Can only be installed in cyberears.

Wireless Bonus: If the user has a wireless-enabled rolling video recorder, both augmentations can be commanded to save the last minute's worth of data with the same Minor Action.

Select Sound Filter (1 - 6)

An implanted version of the select sound filter audio enhancement. This system blocks out background noise and can focus on specific sounds or patterns of sounds. It even includes speech, word, and sound pattern recognition.

Essence:

Capacity:

[Rating]

Availability:

Cost:

Rating x ¥3,500

Notes: The system can load a number of select sounds up to its rating (such as the footsteps of a patrolling guard, a particular word, or the rotors of a distant helicopter). You only actively listen to one group at a time, but you can record the others for later playback or set them to trigger an alert if they are activated.

Soundlink

The audio equivalent of image link, sound link can play audio (recordings, movie soundtracks, music, etc.) from linked sources within the user’s PAN (or headware memory, or datajack) directly into the user’s cyberears. A sound link is a common component of immersive AR environments, adding a sonic component.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥1,000

Spatial Recognizer

An implanted version of the spatial recognizer enhancement,

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥4,000

Notes: You get a bonus Edge on your Perception tests to find the source of a specific sound.

Wireless: You get a +1 Dice Pool Bonus to your aural Perception Tests when looking for a sound’s source.

Translation Ear

Renraku invented an entire cyberware niche with the release of their trademarked Translat-Ear ten years ago. Shiawase and Evo have since released their competing MoshiMoshiMimi and Babblefish products respectively. No matter the brand, translation ears fundamentally operate the same way: Smart systems detect perceived language and provide a real-time translation. Translation ears effectively allow the user to understand, but not speak, a foreign language.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥4,000

Notes: Because this understanding is at the basic skill level (p. 99, SR6), idioms and other figures of speech are translated directly rather than being put into context, so both slang and nuanced conversation can potentially confuse the listener. If the user also has an image link, this augmentation can translate written text as well.

Wireless Bonus: Translation ears must be wirelessly enabled to function at all.

Vestibular Stabilizer

The inner ear is responsible for sensing motion, but it is vulnerable to false perceptions and thereby causing dizziness or motion sickness. A vestibular stabilizer regulates the biomechanics of the inner ear to nullify such sensations. Acrobats, figure skaters, sailors, and spacers commonly employ this cyberware technology.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥1,000

Notes: The user is immune to the Nauseated status.

Wireless Bonus: If the user is being subjected to centrifugal forces, a wireless vestibular stabilizer will inform the user of the number of revolutions per minute for this motion and calculate the distance between the user and the point of rotation

Bodyware

Active Hardwires (1 - 15)

Active Hardwires are a popular - if not aging - form of augmentation which allows a user for a near-instantaneous acquisition of a learned skill.

Essence:

Rating x 0.05

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

Rating x ¥4,000

Notes: Programmed with a single, unchangeable, active skill, active hardwires are a dedicated Skillwire system that holds only a single skill. While this skill may not be changed, multiple Active Hardwires may be implanted into a person, each granting one active skill.

Note that the Active Hardwire system includes its own processor, meaning that no Skilljack is needed to operate it.

Biomonitor

A cybernetic version of a standard biomonitor factors other augmentations into its calculations. For instance, it will not mistake an active adrenaline pump as symptoms of shock or cardiac distress.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥5,000

Augmentation Overdrive: If a biomonitor is wirelessly synchronized with a medkit, the user’s Essence is considered 1 point higher (maximum 6.0) while the user is receiving medkit healing. One die on this test is converted to a Wild Die.

Wireless Bonus: When a predetermined amount of Physical and Stun damage has been accumulated, a wireless auto-injector can automatically trigger itself, or call DocWagon if the user has a contract.

Biowaste Storage Extension (1 - 7)

Not everyone can “hold it” indefinitely. With biowaste storage, you can!

Essence:

Rating x 0.1

Capacity:

[Rating]

Availability:

Cost:

Rating x ¥500

Notes: Each rating point allows the user to store a day’s worth of solid and liquid waste without needing to excrete. The waste can be removed via the usual methods or directly via an external port. Gloves are recommended.

Wireless Bonus: Biowaste storage can communicate to a wireless biomonitor if there are any warning signs of parasites, toxins, or disease in the user’s waste.

Bone Lacing (Plastic)

Your bones are laced with lattice chains of reinforcing plastics or metals, improving their integrity and tensile strength. Bone lacing comes in three types: plastic, aluminum, and titanium - you can only have one installed at a time.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

3 (Legal)

Cost:

¥8,000

Notes:

Body: + 1
Defense: + 1
Unarmed DV: (STR/2 + 1) Physical

Bone lacing is incompatible with other augmentations that add to or alter your bones (such as bone density augmentation).

Bone Lacing (Aluminum)

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

4 (Legal)

Cost:

¥18,000

Notes:

Body: + 2
Defense: + 2
Unarmed DV: (STR/2 + 2) Physical

Bone lacing is incompatible with other augmentations that add to or alter your bones (such as bone density augmentation).

Bone Lacing (Titanium)

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

6 (Legal)

Cost:

¥30,000

Notes:

Body: + 3
Defense: + 3
Unarmed DV: (STR/2 + 3) Physical

Bone lacing is incompatible with other augmentations that add to or alter your bones (such as bone density augmentation).

Cyberfins

Retractable webs and supporting struts are implanted as a pair into the user’s hands or feet.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥500

Notes: While deployed, the user gains a Dice Reroll on Athletics (Swimming) Tests and increases the base swimming speed by 2 meters per Combat Round per pair of cyberfins. It takes a Minor Action to deploy or retract a pair of cyberfins, and they cannot be deployed while the user is wearing gloves or footwear on the relevant body parts. Note that deployed cyberfins are rigid and complicate fine motor work. The user cannot spend Edge on any test when the affected body parts are involved in an Agility test other than swimming. This includes attacks made by handheld weapons, running, etc.

Augmentation Overdrive: Reduce the threshold for an Athletics (Swimming) test by 1, to a minimum of 0. Convert one die to a Wild Die.

Wireless Bonus: Gain a bonus Minor Action after spending a Minor Action to deploy or retract a pair of cyberfins.

Cybergills

Bottled air works as advertised at atmospheric pressures or in shallow water. But once you dive deeper than twenty meters or so, the water pressures require more and more air to supply each lungful, so breathing consumes air more quickly. Cybergills avoid this problem, as well as other problems such as nitrogen narcosis involved in breathing atmosphere at depth. With this augmentation, the user draws water into the lungs, where oxygen is extracted from the water directly. While breathing water in this way, the lungs and vocal tract are completely full of water, making regular speech impossible.

Essence:

0.25

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥2,000

Notes: It costs a Minor Action to take water into the lungs and begin breathing it, but it takes a Major Action to forcefully expel all the interior water in a somewhat painful fit of coughing before the user can resume breathing air.

Cybergland (1 - 6)

This augmentation is a bit like an auto-injector for those who love sharing. A cybergland is an artificial reservoir that is most commonly installed within cyberlimbs, dermal plating, or other cyberware. It can hold a small amount of fluid, usually a toxin or drug, although more benign substances like pheromones, perfume, or artificial flavorings are possible. With a thought, the reservoir releases its contents in liquid form or as a small puff of aerosolized mist. If installed in conjunction with a cyberweapon, the fluid can be applied when the weapon is fired or unsheathed.

Essence:

Rating x 0.2

Capacity:

Rating x [1]

Availability:

4 (Illegal)

Cost:

Rating x ¥12,000

Notes: If the weapon is a melee weapon, the dose is considered expended after the first successful strike.

The cybergland can be refilled through a concealed external port (takes 1 minute).

The number of doses a cybergland can hold is equal to the Rating.

Cybersafety

A simple implanted RFID chip informs your cybersafety-equipped weapon that you are a valid user. Thcybersafety itself is a program consisting of an RFID broadcaster, held by the weapon owner, and an RFID detector built into the weapon.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥100

Notes: If the RFID safety isn’t within 30 centimeters of the weapon, it simply will not fire. The coding for this is standard-issue in all smartguns, and the technology may be added to any non-smart firearm for ¥100. A bracelet or ring equipped with the RFID broadcaster is ¥50.

Cyberwings

Gravtech vehicles have only been available to the impossibly wealthy for a few years, but that amount of time is an eternity when it comes to state-of-the-art. Evo was the first to successfully miniaturize the technology for deployment on a personal scale, but it wasn’t long before knockoffs became available.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

6 (Legal)

Cost:

¥50,000

Notes: When extended for flight, cyberwings feature wide and flat lift panels that are laid out similarly to the feathers of an avian wing. Folded cyberwings are about the size of a worn backpack and prevent the user from spending Edge on tests to squeeze through tight spaces. The wingspan of extended cyberwings is almost four meters, so walking through a standard doorway is usually only possible while entering sideways. Extended cyberwings allow a flying movement rate of 10/30/+3. Cyberwings can only store enough power to generate flight for (Body) minutes.

Augmentation Overdrive: When using cyberware overdrive with the Sprint Major Action while flying, gain a +2 Dice Pool Modifier for the Athletics (Flight) test. One of these dice must be a Wild Die.

Wireless Bonus: Cyberwings recharge one minute’s worth of power per hour when they are wirelessly engaged.

Dermal Plating (1 - 4)

Hard plastic and ceramic fiber plates are bonded to the user’s skin. The plates are clearly visible, and are even more obvious to the touch, but they can be cosmetically stylized for color and surface texture.

Essence:

Rating x 0.3

Capacity:

Availability:

4 (Legal)

Cost:

Rating x ¥4,000

Notes: Dermal plating gives you a Defense Rating bonus equal to its rating.

Dermal plating cannot be combined with other augmentations to the skin that provide a Defense Rating bonus, including orthoskin.

Fingertip Compartment

This compartment is hidden in the hollowed-out last joint of one finger, with a catch that allows the fingernail to be lifted up as an access panel, or the entire fingertip removed. A fingertip compartment allows the storage of micro-sized items, like a micro-drone, RFID tag, or datachip.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥3,000

Notes: A fingertip compartment allows the storage of micro-sized items, like a micro-drone, RFID tag, or datachip.

Inserting or removing an object takes a Major Action. Items held within are completely concealed, and the compartment itself has a Concealability threshold of 8.

One popular trick is to use a fingertip compartment to hold a monofilament whip, with the fingertip acting as control weight. Extending a monofilament whip from a fingertip compartment takes a Minor Action, while spooling it back up requires a Major Action.

Wireless Bonus: Inserting or removing an item in a fingertip compartment takes a Minor Action, including spooling up a monofilament whip.

Flex Hands

The bones and connective tissues in the user’s hands are replaced with smart materials that can shift between rigid and flexible states. Flex hands allow the user to unnaturally compress their entire hand and then return it to its normal state without adverse effect or discomfort.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

4 (Illegal)

Cost:

¥1,500

Notes: They reduce the escape threshold by 4 (minimum 0) for tests involving squeezing the augmented hand into or out of a tight space, such as handcuffs.

Flex hands cannot be implanted in hands that have been cybernetically replaced or have any other bone augmentations.

Foot Anchor

Gas-driven tungsten spikes are implanted in the user’s feet and are designed to punch into the floor the user is standing upon. Each foot may only have one anchor implanted.

Essence:

0.25

Capacity:

Availability:

5 (Legal)

Cost:

¥2,000

Notes: It takes a Minor Action to fire or retract a single foot anchor.

The anchor cannot function on materials with 13 or more Structure Rating. While the user has at least one foot anchor deployed, they gain the Immobilized status and they cannot gain the Prone status. When making ranged attacks, they do not suffer the –3 Dice Pool Penalty for immobilization and instead reduce all penalties for firing mode attacks by half, rounded down.

Note that a foot anchor is not restricted to use on a horizontal surface; if the user has an anchor in each foot they can potentially, and very carefully, walk up a wall.

Gastric Neurostimulator

A simple set of electro-stimulators that respond to nausea by correcting the stomach, inner ear, or other affected areas with tiny electrical impulses, rendering the user immune to the effects of nausea or motion sickness. Quite popular with sailors, acrobats, and those orbital-intended workers.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥2,000

Notes: The user becomes immune to the Nauseated status effect.

Gastric Pulverizer

Need a convenient way to dispose of something? Why not eat it! A gastric pulverizer augments the user’s stomach lining to produce and survive using more powerful acids that can even break down inorganic materials. A mechanical diamond-tipped grinder replaces the lower esophageal sphincter, reducing any matter entering the stomach into tiny and more easily dissolved chunks. It also prevents the user from experiencing any acid reflux or even being capable of regurgitation.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥2,000

Notes: A gastric pulverizer allows the user to break down and ultimately harmlessly pass any material they can swallow. If the user also has a Tough Gut, they can even derive nourishment from normally inedible substances.

Grey Mana Armor (1 - 4)

The Grey Brothers’ marvel of technology has entered the realm of applied cybernetics. A proprietary blend of orichalcum, rare minerals, and oils is available as an aftermarket runic modification to existing dermal plating.

Essence:

Rating x 0.1

Capacity:

Availability:

5 (Legal)

Cost:

Rating x ¥10,000

Notes: Each rating point of Grey Mana armor grants one boosted spell defense die (p. 143, SR6) against any spell, power, or other magical effect that includes the user as a target. Even beneficial effects are automatically resisted, with the user rolling Body + Willpower + boosted defense dice if no resistance test is given.

Any hits on this test deduct the number of hits generated by the caster. Grey Mana armor rating cannot exceed the user’s dermal plating rating and must match the same grade as the dermal plating.

Internal Air Tank (1 - 4)

The internal air tank replaces part of one lung with a pressurized internal air reserve that allows you to hold your breath for up to (rating) hours. This allows extended underwater operations and complete protection from Inhalation-vector toxin attacks as long as you’re holding your breath.

Essence:

0.25

Capacity:

[Rating]

Availability:

Cost:

Rating x ¥4,500

Notes: Activating or deactivating the tank is a Minor Action. Refilling the air tank with pressurized air through an intake valve (located under your ribcage) takes five minutes, or you can refill it through six hours of normal breathing.

Wireless Bonus: You gain an extra Minor Action during any turn when you activate or deactivate the tank.

You’re always aware of the tank’s exact air level and purity.

Internal Router (1 - 4)

Modern cybernetics rely heavily on wireless communication. Protection against hackers is a major concern on both sides of the law. Ordinarily, the best defense against exploitation is to disable wireless and operate any implants solely via neuro-mechanical control, but this tactic degrades the full effectiveness of one’s cyberware. An internal router employs the user’s neural network as “hardwired” direct connections so other cyberware do not need to be wireless-enabled to benefit from any wireless bonuses they may have.

Essence:

Rating x 0.2

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

Rating x ¥2,000

Notes: The internal router must still wirelessly connect to a communications device such as a datajack or commlink. When any of the user’s augmentations are targeted by a Matrix action or complex form, add an amount of dice equal to the internal router’s rating to defend against that attack.

Keypad Sequencing Fingers (1 - 6)

This implant replaces all four fingers on one of the user’s hands with cybernetic digits. When activated, these fingers each split in half, and then each of those then split again, resulting in sixteen independently operating digits controlled by an implanted sequencing processor. When the user touches these digits to a keypad, they tap through possible codes in a blur of motion. The system also broadcasts a short-range RFID signal that spoofs the device into overriding its own timeout functions that would ordinarily prevent rapid-fire code entries.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

4 (Illegal)

Cost:

(Rating) x ¥1,000

Notes: Keypad sequencing fingers make an Opposed test, rolling its rating vs. the maglock’s rating; it doesn’t require the user to first open the maglock’s protective housing.

Cyberware Overdrive Bonus: Gain a +2 Dice Pool Modifier on a test made to bypass a keypad. One of these dice must be a Wild Dice.

Wireless Bonus: Gain a point of Edge when using an implanted maglock sequencer.

Magnetic System

Electromagnets anchored to the skeleton generate magnetic fields that allow the user to attach ferrous metals to their body, or vice versa. Each limb is limited to one implanted magnetic system, but the torso can house two: one in the front and one in the back. While a magnetic system is active, the user is virtually incapable of dropping or being pried off of metal objects, and if the user has two or more magnetic systems they can be used sequentially to move along surfaces with iron or steel construction or reinforcement.

Essence:

0.25

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

Contents x ¥1,000

Notes: While engaged, a magnetic system has Strength 6 for the purposes of how much weight it can bear. Note that this may well end up being more weight than the user can even lift. It takes a Minor Action to activate or deactivate a given magnetic system.

Augmentation Overdrive: The magnetic system’s Strength is increased to 8 during one test. Convert one die to a Wild Die.

Wireless Bonus: Gain a bonus Minor Action after spending one to engage or disengage a magnetic system.

Morphing Fingerprints (1 - 6)

Much like retinal duplication cyberware, morphing fingerprints were designed for use by intelligence services and are always illegal outside of such agencies. Morphing fingerprints replace the fingertips of one hand with lifelike synthetic skin that uses myoelectric fibers to alter the fingerprint patterns. Any fingerprint verification systems roll their rating in an Opposed test against the morphing fingerprints rating to detect the falsified biometrics.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

5 (Illegal)

Cost:

(Rating) x ¥10,000

Notes: Keypad sequencing fingers make an Opposed test, rolling its rating vs. the maglock’s rating; it doesn’t require the user to first open the maglock’s protective housing.

Cyberware Overdrive Bonus: Gain a +2 Dice Pool Modifier on a test made to fool a fingerprint-based biometric vertification system. One of these dice must be a Wild Dice.

Wireless Bonus: Morphing fingerprints can adopt a pattern downloaded from the Matrix or a biometric reader.

Move-By-Wire (1 - 2)

Cyberware that deliberately puts its user into a permanent epileptic seizure rightly seems like a radical idea. In fact, move-by-wire systems are among the oldest cybernetic technologies designed to enhance combat reflexes. Originally inspired by hundred-year-old aircraft fly-by-wire systems, move-by-wire has since been supplanted by less radical wired reflex systems. Thousands of computer-directed corrections are issued to the user’s nervous system every second, taming the seizure down to a state of small twitches and tremors. However, the cybernetic processors assist rather than dampen movement in the direction the user wishes to perform, resulting in preternaturally quick and graceful fluidity of motion.

Essence:

I: 3.0
II: 4.0

Capacity:

Availability:

I: 4 (Illegal)
II: 6 (Illegal)

Cost:

I: ¥125,000
II: ¥205,000

Notes: Each point of move-by-wire rating grants +2 Reaction, +2 Agility, and an additional 2 Minor Actions per round that can only be spent on actions that involve physical movement.

Move-by-wire is incompatible with other augmentations that modify Reaction. Once implanted, a move-by-wire system cannot be deactivated. If move-by-wire is bricked or otherwise rendered nonfunctional, the user suffers the Stilled status until the system is repaired.

Augmentation Overdrive: Move-by-wire grants +4 Dice Pool Modifier to a test involving Agility or Reaction. One of these dice must be a Wild Die.

Wireless Bonus: Move-by-wire’s bonus to Reaction stacks with Reaction Enhancers but is still subject to the user's augmented maximum.

Muscle Replacement (1 - 4)

Vat-grown synthetic muscles replace or augment your own, and calcium treatments and skeletal reinforcement contribute to your overall strength.

Essence:

Rating x 0.7

Capacity:

Availability:

3 (Legal)

Cost:

Rating x ¥30,000

Notes: Muscle Replacement increases both your Strength and Agility attributes by its rating.

It cannot be combined with other augmentations to the muscles, including muscle augmentation or muscle toner bioware

Nutrition Storage System (1 - 6)

Food paste and water are stored in implanted reservoirs that release into the user’s stomach and mouth. These storage systems are refilled via external ports. Each rating point allows for a day’s worth of food and water to be consumed internally.

Essence:

Rating x 0.1

Capacity:

[Rating]

Availability:

Cost:

Rating x ¥500

Notes: If equipped with DNI or a taste booster, you can experience the taste of the paste being pressed directly into your stomach.

Reaction Enhancers (1 - 4)

By replacing specific, isolated vertebrae of your spinal column with segments of superconducting material, your reactions to events become quicker.

Essence:

Rating x 0.3

Capacity:

Availability:

4 (Legal)

Cost:

Rating x ¥15,000

Notes: Add the rating of reaction enhancers to your Reaction attribute (and remember to adjust your Initiative Score accordingly).

Reaction enhancers are incompatible with all other enhancements to Reaction, including wired reflexes.

Wireless Bonus: Reaction enhancers are compatible with a wireless wired reflexes system.

Retractable Climbing Claws

These claws are essentially hand razors that curl inward when extended.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥2,000

Notes: A single set grants a Dice Reroll on Climbing tests.

If both hands are enhanced, using the pair together improves this bonus by reducing climbing thresholds by 1.

An additional pair can also be installed in the feet, resulting in a total threshold reduction of 2 (to a minimum of 1).

It takes a Minor Action to deploy or retract a set of claws. Although the hooks can potentially cause gruesome flesh trauma when used offensively, they are suboptimal close combat weapons. They inflict (STR/2) Physical Damage.

Sensor Dazzler

A sensor dazzler is a specialized version of the general-purpose jammer that targets wireless sensor Matrix traffic without interfering with other signals.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

4 (Illegal)

Cost:

¥10,000

Notes: While the sensor dazzler is active, the user and anyone within 2 meters of them benefits from the Invisible (Improved) (4) status effect against cameras, millimeter-wave sensors, motion sensors, metal detectors, and chem sniffers that are both wireless and within five meters of the user.

Sensors roll Rating + Rating against this threshold, and if they fail they cannot perform their usual detection function while the implanted jammer is in range.

Anyone monitoring a jammed camera feed will only see static.

Drones and cyberware are not blinded by this sort of jamming.

It costs a Minor Action to begin or end the jamming, and each Combat Round the sensor dazzler is active it consumes 1 charge.

A fully charged sensor dazzler has 10 charges and regains 1 charge per hour when attached to a power source.

Cyberware Overdrive: Increase the benefit to Invisible (Improved) (5) until the beginning of your next turn. The Sensor Dazzler consumes 2 charges instead of 1.

Wireless Bonus: A Sensor Dazzler must be wirelessly enabled to function at all.

Skill Hardwires (1 - 6)

Skill hardwires are a cheaper alternative to standard skillwires. This dedicated system is implanted with a hard-coded skillsoft that is already included in the price.

Essence:

Rating x 0.05

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

Rating x ¥8,000

Notes: The rating of the artificial skill equals the skill hardwire rating. The software cannot be changed, but multiple skill hardwires can be implanted without interfering with each other or with skillwires.

Because the system includes the necessary processors, skill hardwires do not require a skilljack. As with standard skillwires, the user cannot spend Edge on tests involving this artificial skill.

Augmentation Overdrive: Skill hardwire rating increases by +2, ignoring the maximum rating. One of these gained skill dice is converted to a Wild Die.

Wireless Bonus: The user can spend Edge while using skill hardwires.

Smart Articulation

An advanced procedure that replaces the user’s connective tissues, ligaments, and tendons with modern materials and resettable tensile strengths, smart articulation can set users’ bodies for either loose or tight joints, in addition to the standard that a metahuman body expects.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥6,000

Notes: When loose, the user’s body is easily contorted, with joints dislodged and pushed into position limited only by the user’s skin, bones, and imagination. The user gains +2 Dice Pool Bonus to Athletics (Escaping) and grapple tests, and can further fit through any opening no smaller than their head.

When tight, the user’s joints are as unyielding as the long bones they are connected to and equally as inflexible. The user gains +2 Body when comparing to the attacker’s Strength in unarmed combat, and they have a +1 Dice Pool Bonus for any test involving endurance, such as climbing.

Unfortunately, in either loose or tight settings, the user will find themselves with difficulty moving, traveling at half their normal speed.

Smart articulation is incompatible with Enhanced Articulation or Cyberlimbs.

Smuggling Compartment

For items that won’t fit in a fingertip but you still can’t afford to have found, smuggling compartments can be placed in parts of the body that can be easily hollowed out/replaced. This includes ribs and the space between them, hip bones, shoulder blades, and so forth.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥7,500

Notes: These compartments allow the storage of small and miniature items (nothing bigger than a light pistol typically; your gamemaster will let you know if something’s too big). The compartment has a Concealability threshold of 8. Inserting or retrieving an object requires a Major Action.

Wireless Bonus: Inserting or retrieving an object takes a Minor Action

Speed Booster (1 - 2)

Speed boosters are a derivative technology developed from research based on the new generation of move-by-wire augmentations.

Essence:

Rating x 0.5

Capacity:

Availability:

4 (Illegal)

Cost:

Rating x ¥25,000

Notes: This augmentation allows the user to use the Move and Avoid Incoming Minor Actions an additional time per Combat Round per rating point.

Targeting Laser

This is a large visible-dot laser (available in your choice of color) built into the user’s trigger hand, allowing it to act as a laser sight for all carried ranged weapons without using a top mount.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥1,000

Notes: Activating or deactivating the Targeting Laser requires a Minor Action.

The targeting laser provides a +1 Dice Pool Bonus on ranged attack tests, not cumulative with smartlink modifiers.

For people with infravision capabilities, an IR version is available so that your targeting activities are not overly obvious.

Wireless Bonus: Activating or deactivating the Targeting Laser grants a bonus Minor Action.

Touchlink

Haptic input and response are cornerstone technologies of augmented reality (AR). While AR gloves and other haptic clothing are available, those dedicated to the experience can have a touch link implanted so they’ve always got the immersive advantage in dating or gaming sims.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥250

Wired Reflexes I

This highly invasive, painful, life-changing operation adds a multitude of neural boosters and adrenaline stimulators in strategic locations throughout your body to catapult you into a whole new world where everything around you seems to move in slow motion.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

3 (Legal)

Cost:

¥40,000

Notes: The system includes both manual and wireless triggers to turn the wired reflexes on and off; activating or deactivating the trigger manually requires a Major Action, while doing so wirelessly is a Minor Action. When activated, each rating point of wired reflexes gives you +1 Reaction (with accompanying bonus to your Initiative Score) and 1 additional Initiative Die (with accompanying Minor Action).

Wired reflexes are incompatible with augmentations that affect Reaction or Initiative.

Wireless Bonus: The system is compatible with wireless reaction enhancers, and activation or deactivation of the system requires a Minor Action.

Wired Reflexes II

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

3 (Legal)

Cost:

¥150,000

Wired reflexes are incompatible with augmentations that affect Reaction or Initiative.

Wireless Bonus: The system is compatible with wireless reaction enhancers, and activation or deactivation of the system requires a Minor Action.

Wired Reflexes III

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

4 (Illegal)

Cost:

¥250,000

Wired reflexes are incompatible with augmentations that affect Reaction or Initiative.

Wireless Bonus: The system is compatible with wireless reaction enhancers, and activation or deactivation of the system requires a Minor Action.

Wired Reflexes IV

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

6 (Illegal)

Cost:

¥400,000

Wired reflexes are incompatible with augmentations that affect Reaction or Initiative.

Wireless Bonus: The system is compatible with wireless reaction enhancers, and activation or deactivation of the system requires a Minor Action.

Auto-Injector

The earliest auto-injectors were pre-cybernetic implants that released medication into a person’s body. Today, a cybernetic auto-injector releases pharmaceuticals on command rather than over pre-programmed intervals. Of course, nothing stops a user from replacing medicine with something recreational, or even a combat drug. A standard auto-injector stores one dose of a chemical, which is normally refilled via external access port.

Essence:

0.05

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

Contents + ¥500

Notes: If the user also has a chemical gland (see p. 57, Body Shop) then that bioware’s output can be stored in this cyberware.

It takes a Minor Action to activate an auto-injector, and the drug or toxin effect takes place according to its Speed (p. 121, SR6).

Wireless Bonus: An auto-injector can sync with a wireless biomonitor to keep the user updated with information about the drug’s effects, including an estimated time they will wear off.

Expanded Reservoir

An auto-injector can have its reservoir expanded to hold more doses before requiring refill. A reservoir cannot mix doses of different kinds of drugs, but multiple auto-injectors can be implanted and loaded with the various components of a juicer’s cocktail.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

Contents + ¥250

Notes: The Expanded Reservoir adds 5 doses to the Auto-Injector.

Killswitch

A killswitch is a variant modification of auto-injector where the user has no control over the implant.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

4 (Illegal)

Cost:

Contents + ¥750

Notes: The killswitch dispenses its payload upon preset conditions being met, or upon receipt of a special wireless signal from its true owner.

Cybertails

The state-of-the-art options in the 2080s for adding a tail to one’s body lie in bioware and geneware. However, the classic chrome look never goes out of style, and only cyberware can deliver the pastel motif that is all the rage in Harajuku. Cybertails are controlled by processors implanted at the base of the spine and receive input from the user’s subconscious mind, often twitching about without the user’s awareness.

A user with a cybertail pays 10% extra for any worn or fitted clothing

Balance Tail

Essence:

0.25

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥2,000

Notes: Gain the Catlike Positive Quality.

If the user already has this quality, then they gain a +1 Dice Pool Modifier in addition to the bonus Edge.

Augmentation Overdrive: Gain a +2 Dice Pool Modifier on a test made using the cybertail. One of these dice must be a Wild Die.

Prehensile Tail

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥5,000

Notes: A prehensile tail is more invasively connected to the user’s nervous system. This allows the user to control the tail as if it were an additional limb, but it has 1 Strength and 1 Agility and cannot perform tasks more complicated than picking up or holding an object. A variant of this augmentation can be installed facially, resulting in a prehensile, elephantine proboscis.

Augmentation Overdrive: Gain a +2 Dice Pool Modifier on a test made using the cybertail. One of these dice must be a Wild Die.

Swimming Tail

Essence:

0.25

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥2,000

Notes: These tails can take the form of a paddle, a long flat crocodilian tail, or a piscine appendage that terminates in a fluke or fin. No matter the form, a swimming tail grants a +2 Dice Pool Modifier for Athletics (Swimming) tests.

Augmentation Overdrive: Gain a +2 Dice Pool Modifier on a test made using the cybertail. One of these dice must be a Wild Die.

Thagomizer Tail

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

5 (Illegal)

Cost:

¥5,000

Notes: Like the prehensile tail, a thagomizer tail is under conscious control. It cannot manipulate or grip objects, but it is powerful, armored, and armed with vicious spikes that can be employed as a weapon. An attack uses the Exotic Weapons (Thagomizer) skill, and the user’s own Strength and Agility. It does (STR/2 + 4) Physical damage, and increases the user’s Armor by 3.

Augmentation Overdrive: Gain a +2 Dice Pool Modifier on a test made using the cybertail. One of these dice must be a Wild Die.

Cyberfingers

Sometimes, you don’t need an entire hand; other times, you want to add a few tricks to the cyberhand you already have. Regardless, individual finger upgrades are available that add functionality to your digits.

Finger Gun

No longer just a hand gesture! A finger gun functions as an implanted hold-out pistol.

Essence:

0.05

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥500

Notes: The pistol must be purchased separately.

Finger Key

The memory-metal fingertip can reshape itself into pre-recorded key configurations or into lockpicking tools.

Essence:

0.05

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥500

Notes: May act as a Lockpick Kit for Engineering (Lockpicking) tests.

Finger Lighter

Available in electric arc or classic butane cartridge models.

Essence:

0.05

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥500

Notes: -

Frag Finger

Why flip them off? Pull your finger off and give them a proper “frag you.”

Essence:

0.05

Capacity:

Availability:

2 + Grenade

Cost:

¥500 + Grenade

Notes: This finger incorporates a High-Explosive Grenade, but its damage value is reduced by 4 at all ranges.

Torch Tip

A simple, small flashlight. Also available in black light, low light, or thermographic models.

Essence:

0.05

Capacity:

Availability:

2 + Grenade

Cost:

¥500 + Grenade

Finger Glass Cutter

Suitable for cutting conventional glass - but don't go expecting this to work on Armorglass.

Essence:

0.05

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥550

Finger Injector

A small needle extends from the tip of the finger that can hold one dose of a toxin, drug, or other similar substance.

Essence:

0.05

Capacity:

Availability:

4 (Illegal)

Cost:

¥650

Cyberlimbs

The metahuman form is soft, but it becomes much stronger when replaced with steel. The entirety of the metahuman form can be replaced with cybernetic alternatives. Limbs are operable appendages, skulls are a shell but also offer neck and face movement, and a torso is casing for the ribs but also replaces all the muscles of the core (having abs of steel becomes a literal thing).

Every replacement has two possible versions: synthetic or obvious. Synthetic limbs sacrifice some space for options in order to keep the person looking like a human. Obvious replacements are cold metal, induction pads, and visible pistons and myomer muscles.

Attributes for limbs may vary, but dice pools are always built from the lowest attribute of all the limbs unless the test solely involves that singular location (gamemaster’s discretion). Various enhancements, which can be purchased along with the limb, allow certain skills to be used with a heightened attribute.

Basic limbs are installed with 4 Agility and Strength at the time of purchase. Each cyberlimb adds 1 box to the character’s Physical Condition Monitor.

Skull

The skull replaces the bones and muscles of the head, face, and neck. Having a cyberskull means you also have a cyberjaw that can deliver a powerful bite.

Essence:

0.75

Capacity (Obvious):

Capacity (Synthetic):

Availability:

Cost (Obvious):

¥10,000

Cost (Synthetic):

¥15,000

Torso

The torso replaces the bones and muscles of the body’s core below the neck to the genital region. Obvious torsos remove genitalia and genital function with the exception of excretion. Internal organs are not replaced, but they are all protected in individual compartments. Synthetic torso design doesits best to appear natural in every way. Some recipients choose to avoid the sculpted look and go for a slim, toned appearance; others go for an “average” body type to help them blend in with the masses.

Essence:

Capacity (Obvious):

Capacity (Synthetic):

Availability:

Cost (Obvious):

¥20,000

Cost (Synthetic):

¥25,000

Arm

Basic arm replacement takes everything from the shoulder joint down, but partial replacement of the forearm or just the hand is available. Partial limb replacements must have attributes equal to the rest of the limb or greater.

Essence:

Capacity (Obvious):

Capacity (Synthetic):

Availability:

Cost (Obvious):

¥15,000

Cost (Synthetic):

¥20,000

Forearm

Partial limb replacements must have attributes equal to the rest of the limb or greater.

Essence:

0.45

Capacity (Obvious):

Capacity (Synthetic):

Availability:

Cost (Obvious):

¥10,000

Cost (Synthetic):

¥12,000

Hand

Partial limb replacements must have attributes equal to the rest of the limb or greater.

Essence:

0.25

Capacity (Obvious):

Capacity (Synthetic):

Availability:

Cost (Obvious):

¥5,000

Cost (Synthetic):

¥6,000

Leg

Basic leg replacement takes everything from the hip joint down, but partial replacement of the lower leg below the knee or just the foot is available. Partial limb replacements must have attributes equal to the rest of the limb or greater.

Essence:

Capacity (Obvious):

Capacity (Synthetic):

Availability:

Cost (Obvious):

¥15,000

Cost (Synthetic):

¥20,000

Lower Leg

Partial limb replacements must have attributes equal to the rest of the limb or greater.

Essence:

0.45

Capacity (Obvious):

Capacity (Synthetic):

Availability:

Cost (Obvious):

¥10,000

Cost (Synthetic):

¥12,000

Foot

Partial limb replacements must have attributes equal to the rest of the limb or greater.

Essence:

0.25

Capacity (Obvious):

Capacity (Synthetic):

Availability:

Cost (Obvious):

¥5,000

Cost (Synthetic):

¥6,000

Partial Cyberskull

The partial cyberskull is another throwback classic that’s seeing a comeback. By upgrading one side of the skull with a large interface board, quite a few upgrades can be installed directly into it, rather than requiring difficult surgery repeatedly, but it is less invasive and far less dangerous than a full cyberskull.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥8,000

Notes: Partial Cyberskulls are always Obvious.

Primitive Cyberlimbs

Crudely articulated limbs that terminate in clamps or rubber stoppers rather than hands or feet are common sights on drones, but less so on metahumans. Such primitive limbs are built to provide basic functionality and little else. Since these prosthetics are built from solid materials without any regard for lifelike aesthetics, they are robustly constructed and always benefit from cyberlimb hardening. Primitive limbs are much cheaper than other cyberlimbs, but you get what you pay for.

A user loses 1 meter of movement for each full or partial primitive leg replacement, and the user can not spend Edge on any tests involving Agility using a primitive cyberlimb. Primitive cyberlimbs cannot be custom fitted and are not available in alphaware or higher grades.

Full Arm

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥5,000

Notes: -

Augmented Overdrive: A primitive cyberlimb gains +4 Strength for one test, which may exceed the augmented maximum.

Forearm

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥2,500

Notes: -

Augmented Overdrive: A primitive cyberlimb gains +4 Strength for one test, which may exceed the augmented maximum.

Full Leg

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥5,000

Notes: -

Augmented Overdrive: A primitive cyberlimb gains +4 Strength for one test, which may exceed the augmented maximum.

Lower Leg

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥2,500

Notes: -

Augmented Overdrive: A primitive cyberlimb gains +4 Strength for one test, which may exceed the augmented maximum.

Digitigrade Legs

Anthropomorphic cyberlegs that “bend backward” are popular variants on the standard cyberleg design. They are also known as satyr legs, raptor legs, or “Kid Stealth” legs. Contrary to first impressions, the knee does not actually bend backward, the ankle joint does. The limb stands on the ball of an extended foot and still possesses a hip and knee joint between thigh and shin that are both shortened to compensate for the rearrangement.

Synthetic

Essence:

1.25

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥20,000

Notes: If only one leg is replaced with a digitigrade leg, that leg functions as a standard but unconventional-looking cyberleg. If both legs are replaced with digitigrade legs, however, the user gains a bonus +1/+2/+1 meters to their movement and +4 Dice Pool Modifier for jumping tests. The user also becomes about 10 to 15 centimeters taller. Digitigrade legs function in all other ways as a full cyberleg.

Augmented Overdrive: A digitigrade leg gains +2 Strength and +2 Agility for one test. These bonuses may exceed the augmented maximum. It requires 2 Minor Actions to use cyberware overdrive on both legs at once.

Obvious

Essence:

1.25

Capacity:

Availability:

Cyberleg

Cost:

¥25,000

Additional Cyberarm

Standard cyberarms are built to mimic natural biological function, but there are also limbs designed to push the body beyond what evolution designed. Additional cyberarms do not replace the user’s natural arms but reinforce the torso to accept more mechanical arms than standard for their metatype.

They can be modified in all the same ways as full cyberarms can except as follows: They can be added singularly or in pairs, with a maximum of two additional pairs. Either side of the body cannot have more than one more arm than the other side has. Due to the difficulty in finding clothes, any fitted gear costs 5% more per additional cyberlimb.

Every two additional cyberarms grants the user a bonus Minor Action while not in VR or projecting on the astral plane.

Synthetic

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥20,000

Augmented Overdrive: An additional cyberarm’s Strength and Agility are increased by 2, ignoring augmented limits for the duration of one test. Convert one die to a Wild Die for that test.

Obvious

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥15,000

Augmented Overdrive: An additional cyberarm’s Strength and Agility are increased by 2, ignoring augmented limits for the duration of one test. Convert one die to a Wild Die for that test.

Modular Systems

There are construction toys where pieces can be interchanged with some snaps of plastic. Modular cyberware systems are no toys, but the plug-n-play aspect remains the same! A modular mount is implanted into the body or into a cyberlimb, establishing a mechanical joiner that can mate with adapted cyberlimbs or partial replacements.

With a modular system, a user can replace a cybernetic body part as quickly as changing their clothes.

A modular mount only works with a chosen, specific cyberlimb style. For example, a modular mount for a forearm replacement cannot accept an entire cyberarm, nor can a mount for a full arm accept a leg. Lower Body Replacements require two modular connectors to interface with two modular mounts, but these mounts can also accept a full cyberleg each while the lower body replacement is not in use.

Modular mounts may also be installed on drones of small size or larger where they consume one standard weapon mount and grant a user the utility of trading arms with their drones! For those who enjoy the mecha motif, even a smart firing platform may be modified with a modular connector designed to mate with a full cyberarm modular mount. This permits a gun to be tacked directly onto the side of their torso or drone’s hull where an arm should be.

It takes a Major Action to attach or detach a modular connector to or from a modular mount.

Modular Connector

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥250

Notes: The modular connector is attached to a specific cyberlimb.

Modular Mount

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥2,000

Notes: The modular mount attaches to the body.

Cyberlimb Optimization

For decades, cyberlimbs have been modified and analyzed, producing results that are greater in one area at a small cost in other areas, a general tradeoff that’s been largely accepted in the name of efficiency. Primarily, this market is in the fields of sports or entertainment, but new arenas are always being explored.

In each case, this requires a full cyberlimb dedicated to the cause, and they’re usually intended to be taken in pairs for maximum result. As you might imagine, a limb may only be optimized in one way.

Evo Atlantean

The first set of optimized limbs that had both matching arms and legs. Thanks, Evo!

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cyberlimb + 2

Cost:

Cyberlimb + ¥2,000

Notes: Gain a +1 Dice Pool Bonus to Athletics (Swimming) tests.

Fuchi Virtuoso

The line that started it all. Virtuoso allows musicians to achieve their dreams.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cyberlimb + 2

Cost:

Cyberlimb + ¥2,000

Notes: Gain a +1 Dice Pool Bonus to Con (Performance) tests.

Kalenjin

A single name brings a legacy of unequaled supremacy in running to this Renraku brand, proudly constructed in Kenya to exacting specifications.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cyberlimb + 2

Cost:

Cyberlimb + ¥2,000

Notes: Gain a +1 Dice Pool Bonus to Sprinting tests.

Kuroko

One of the extremely rare optimized cyberskulls, Renraku’s Kuoko is fantastic for ease of redesign.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cyberlimb + 2

Cost:

Cyberlimb + ¥2,000

Notes: Gain a +1 Dice Pool Bonus to Con (Disguise) tests.

Munden QuickDraw

A rare entry from Lone Star, the QuickDraw is both fast and accurate.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cyberlimb + 2

Cost:

Cyberlimb + ¥2,000

Notes: Gain a +1 Dice Pool Bonus to Firearms (Pistols) tests.

Spinrad NeverRest

Rock climbing, Joel! Available for both arms and legs, these limbs come with thin digits and powerful grips that make climbing any surface a breeze.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cyberlimb + 2

Cost:

Cyberlimb + ¥2,000

Notes: Gain a +1 Dice Pool Bonus to Athletics (Climbing) tests.

The Greatest

The fastest fists in piston power. Throw those punches in bunches!

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cyberlimb + 2

Cost:

Cyberlimb + ¥2,000

Notes: Gain a +1 Dice Pool Bonus to Close Combat (Unarmed)

Yankee Pitcher

Major League approved, Major League sanctioned!

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cyberlimb + 2

Cost:

Cyberlimb + ¥2,000

Notes: Gain a +1 Dice Pool Bonus to Athletics (Thrown Weapons) tests.

Cyberlimb Accessories

A basic cyberlimb is nice and functional and all, but where it really starts to become powerful and useful is when you pack it with all sorts of modifications and gear to do cool things.

Armor (1 - 6)

By customizing a cyberlimb with more durable materials, induction pads, and ballistic-grade myomer muscles you can easily make your entire existence a little less fragile.

Essence:

Capacity:

[Rating]

Availability:

Rating (Legal)

Cost:

Rating x ¥5,000

Notes: Increases to Armor increase your Defense Ratings at all times - it is part of your overall protection, which is what Defense Rating represents.

Articulated Weapon Mount

A common desire among those seeking additional arms is to have more hands that can hold more guns. Articulated weapon mounts serve this niche without the expense and invasiveness of adding full limbs to the user. Little more than a cybernetic smart firing platform mounted on the shoulder, these systems consist of a retractable, articulated basic arm thirty centimeters in length when fully unfolded. This arm terminates in a weapon rail that can accommodate a firearm no bigger than a shotgun, automatically tracking the weapon in the direction of the user’s focus.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

3 (Legal)

Cost:

¥10,000

Notes: The user can attack with a mounted weapon as if it were equipped in their hands. It takes a Minor Action to deploy or retract an articulated weapon mount, and it takes an additional Major Action to snap a weapon in or remove it from the mount. The system cannot retract while a weapon is attached. The user can only implant up to two articulated weapon mounts.

Augmentation Overdrive: An articulated weapon mount can deploy while the user is wearing sleeved clothing, pushing hard enough to tear through fabric. Armor torn through in this way grants no Defense Rating until repaired.

Wireless Bonus:

Attribute Increase (1 - 6)

Building a limb for a variety of bodies is important, and increasing an attribute can take a normal cyberlimb and put it on the level of a troll - even if they're not a troll.

Essence:

Capacity:

[Rating]

Availability:

Rating

Cost:

Rating x ¥5,000

Notes: Cyberlimbs can be used to add to either Agility, Armor, or Strength of the user. The maximum augmented increase of 4 (or half your Attribute Maximum, whichever is is higher, rounded up.)

Increases to Agility and Strength only apply when the limb is used in some way in the process. For example, if a cyberarm has an increase to the user’s Strength, that would increase their damage when doing an unarmed attack with that arm, but not when kicking. If an activity could reasonably be interpreted to use the whole body in some way (e.g., sprinting, climbing, swimming), then the cyberlimb increase would not apply.

Note that Strength and Agility increases have no effect when they are included in a cyberskull.

Built-In Medkit

Just as cyberdecks or commlinks can be implanted into a skull, medkits can be built into a full or partial cyberlimb. The limb becomes equipped with useful surgical implements and a smart system to help with diagnoses and treatment. This system only involves the housing and connections for cybernetic control; a medkit still must be purchased separately for installation.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

Medkit + ¥1,000

Wireless Bonus: Same as a standard medkit. Additionally, if the user is in a VR Matrix user mode, they can employ a wireless built-in medkit on their own comatose body.

Built-In Utility Kit

A cyberlimb can house any assortment of specialty tools. A kit can include tools such as drills, clamps, saws, or virtually anything else required for technical tasks. A built-in utility kit must be selected for a specific skill and functions as a cybernetically controlled tool kit.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥2,000

Wireless Bonus: The user’s mental control of tools for delicate work is superior to manual manipulation. Gain a bonus dice reroll for any test involving the built-in utility kit.

Bulk Modification (1 - 4)

Full and partial cyberlimbs can have their volume expanded to encompass more modifications or tools within.

Essence:

Capacity:

+ (Rating)

Availability:

+ (Rating)

Cost:

Rating x ¥500

Notes: Each rating of bulk modification adds one Capacity to the affected cyberlimb. The nuyen cost for adding bulk modification to exoware is halved.

Custom Fitted Cyberlimb

Most cyberlimbs are manufactured to a one-size-fits-all standard. The top-of-the-line models are customized specifically to the user with attention to detail worthy of the finest tailors of Paris, Milan, or Neo-Tokyo.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

Notes: The custom-fitted cyberlimb modification can be applied to full arm, full leg, or additional torso cyberlimbs. Both synthetic and obvious cyberlimbs can be custom fitted.

Instead of beginning at 4 Strength and 4 Agility, a custom-fitted cyberlimb matches the user’s unaugmented attributes and can accept further attribute increases but is subject to going no higher than +4 (or half, whichever is higher) beyond the user’s unaugmented values.

The custom fitting process modifies the base limb’s cost by 7,000 nuyen for each point of the user’s Strength and Agility that is higher than 2.

Used-grade cyberlimbs cannot be custom fitted.

Cyber Holster

You can hold a taser or any pistol or smaller-sized weapon within the holster, completely enclosed until you activate it.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

4 (Legal)

Cost:

¥2,000

Notes: Inserting or retrieving a weapon takes one Minor Action.

A cyber holster can also be used as a smuggling compartment to store items no larger than a pistol.

Wireless Bonus: Receive an additional Minor Action when inserting or retrieving an item from the Cyber Holster.

Gecko Tips

Gecko grip technology has long been commercially available, and gecko tips apply it to cyberware.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥500

Notes: Gecko tips function as gecko tape gloves for the affected hand. If both hands are augmented with gecko tips, the user benefits from assisted climbing.

It takes a Minor Action to activate or deactivate a limb’s gecko tips. All bonuses from activated gecko tips, including cyberware overdrive, only apply while climbing or holding dry, non-greased surfaces.

Augmentation Overdrive: If the user has gecko tips on two hands and two feet and they are all wirelessly enabled while using cyberware overdrive, the user gains a non-magical version of the Wall Running adept power. Convert one die on the Sprinting test to a Wild Die.

Wireless Bonus: Gain a Minor Action after spending one to activate or deactivate a limb’s gecko tips.

Grapple Hand

A winch, a feed system with thirty meters of cable, and a pneumatic launcher that propels the entire cyberhand as a grappling hook are installed into a full arm cyberlimb or a forearm partial cyberlimb. Due to the complexity of the grapple gun, it always costs Essence when installed.

Essence:

0.45

Capacity:

[10]

Availability:

3 (Legal)

Cost:

¥2,000

Notes: The winch is strong enough to pull the user’s body weight the length of the cable over the course of three combat rounds. It takes a Major Action and a successful Athletics (Climbing) + Agility test to secure the grapple on a stationary target, or an Exotic Weapons (Grapple Hand) test to successfully grab onto a hostile target. It takes a Minor Action to unhook and retract the grapple hand.

Augmented Overdrive: The grapple hand can hoist or drag twice the user’s body weight the length of the cable over the course of one combat round. Roll 1D6; on a 1, the grapple hand system fails and cannot function until it is repaired.

Wireless Bonus: The user retains control of the disembodied hand, allowing it to “walk” about on its fingers and reach a better grip to hang on to.

Gyro Mount

This articulated and motorized gyro-stabilized arm can be built into a cyberlimb, allowing for a substantial recoil reduction in augmented individuals.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

5 (Illegal)

Cost:

¥6,000

Notes: The system negates the Dice Pool Penalty for Semi-Automatic and Burst Fire.

Decrease the Dice Pool Penalty for Fully Automatic fire by 3.

Shifts the Strength requirements for Medium and Heavy machine guns to 2+ and 4+, respectively.

Attaching or removing a weapon from the mount takes a Minor Action.

Holster

A holster holds a weapon - for convenience, not concealment. The holster should be reasonably appropriate to the size of the limb.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥2,000

Hydraulic Jacks (1 - 6)

This modification increases your capabilities when attempting to leap. Popularly banned outside of the augmented leagues in many sports - and perfect for a good getaway.

Essence:

Capacity:

[Rating]

Availability:

Cost:

Rating x ¥2,500

Notes: For these to function properly, you need one in each leg, and they need to have identical ratings.

When making jumping tests (Athletics + Strength) subtract the hydraulic jacks rating from the threshold, with a minimum modified threshold of 1.

Improved Synthskin (1 - 4)

Advances in lifelike drones have also been adapted to core synthetic cyberlimb technology. Where once flesh was passable for viewing but betrayed by a touch, the more advanced synthskin of today is giving, warm to the touch, and more expensive blends sweat or even bleed when pricked. It’s like real, only better!

Essence:

Capacity:

[Rating x 2]

Availability:

Cost:

Rating x ¥5,000

Notes: Where normal synthetic limbs may be detected automatically by touch, those coated in improved synthskin require a Perception Test to be detected; Perception Tests require 2 Hits, plus 1 for each Rating.

Cyberware scanners are as effective as normal.

Modular Limb

Any cyberlimb may be purchased with a modular connector, allowing it to be connected to another modular connector. This allows the user to have several limbs, such as a synthetic arm for casual life and a tricked out chrome arm for business, several optimized limbs for different occasions, and so on. Some simply choose to purchase multiple modular limbs, just in case they lose one!

Essence:

Hand/Foot: 0.25
Partial Arm/Leg: 0.45
Full Arm/Leg: 1

Capacity:

Hand/Foot: Cyberlimb - 1
Partial Arm/Leg: Cyberlimb - 2
Full Arm/Leg: Cyberlimb - 3

Availability:

Hand/Foot: Cyberlimb
Partial Arm/Leg: Cyberlimb
Full Arm/Leg: Cyberlimb

Cost:

Hand/Foot: Cyberlimb + ¥1,000
Partial Arm/Leg: Cyberlimb + ¥2,000
Full Arm/Leg: Cyberlimb + ¥3,000

Prehensile Foot

Also called “monkey feet,” these cybernetic replacements are popular with those who work in orbital microgravity. A user can do anything with a prehensile foot that they can do with a hand, such as fire a weapon, enter a code into a keypad, and so on.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥5,000

Notes: Reduces Climbing thresholds by 1 (minimum of 1) for each prehensile foot. On the other hand, they are not as well suited for running as regular cyberfeet, suffering –2 dice for sprinting tests per prehensile foot. A prehensile foot cannot be combined with other foot augmentations.

Raptor Foot

Another form cyberfeet can take is an avian appendage that has four taloned toes, with one facing backwards. It is very hard to find footwear for raptor feet, but the augmentation allows for great traction on all kinds of surfaces.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

4 (Legal)

Cost:

¥5,000

Notes: If a pair of raptor feet is combined with digitigrade legs, they double the digitigrade legs’ bonuses to movement. The talons also serve as non-retractable hand razors (p. 290, SR6) and cyber implant weapons. Raptor feet cannot be combined with any other foot augmentations.

Remote Cyberhand

A subtle way to sneak a drone into an area, the this modification turns a cyberhand into a detachable cyberhand that includes remote rigger controls and a computer system to allow for remote operation. The middle digit is further equipped with a sensor suite (if a poor one), while the other four are used for locomotion. The hand has manipulative ability that similarly sized drones lack, but it isn’t as quick or nimble due to the shape constraints of the metahuman hand.

Essence:

0.25

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥8,000

Notes: Due to the size of the drone system, the Remote Cyberhand lacks any Capacity for further upgrades.

Remote Cyberhand Stats (Drone):

Handling:5
Acceleration: 2
Speed Interval: 2
Top Speed: 10
Body: 1
Armor: 1
Pilot: 2
Sensor: 1

Retractable Skates

A simple modification for cyberfeet is to place retractable wheels into them. These wheels can be in-line or arranged side by side.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥250

Notes: Although one foot with retractable skates does not provide a meaningful benefit, if the user has both feet augmented with retractable skates they gain a modified movement rate of 10/30/+2. It takes a Minor Action to deploy or stow retractable skates. A simple modification for cyberfeet is to place retractable wheels into them. These wheels can be in-line or arranged side by side. Although one foot with retractable skates does not provide a meaningful benefit, if the user has both feet augmented with retractable skates they gain a modified movement rate of 10/30/+2.

It takes a Minor Action to deploy or stow retractable skates.

Wireless Bonus: Gain a bonus Minor Action after spending one to extend or retract the skates.

Simian Modification

Cyberarms are not required to exactly duplicate the size and shape of a user’s natural limb. Simian modification extends the forearms significantly. With this added length, the user’s hand reaches the ground with only a slight stoop.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥500

Notes: When making a Close Combat attack with a simian cyberarm, the user gains the Long Reach Positive Quality. Only partial forearm and full arm cyberlimbs can employ simian modification.

Sinister/Dexter Coprocessor

Because cyberlimbs are interconnected with the user’s neural network, any natural handedness they have carries over to the artificial limb. A user’s deficiency in using their “off-handed” limb can be compensated for via specialized electronics added to the cyberlimb’s standard neural interface.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥500

Notes: A sinister or dexter coprocessor allows a cyberlimb on the left or right side of the body to avoid any penalty for off-hand use.

Skimmers

A more complex option for cyberfeet is the use of ground-effect platforms, based on skimmer drone technology, to provide a cushion of air beneath the user and allow them to hover a few centimeters above the ground. It takes some practice to get the hang of it, but once mastered, the skimmers allow the user to move faster than they could without them!

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥2,000

Notes: Activating or deactivating the Skimmers requires a Minor Action.

When engaged, the user's base Move and Sprint speeds are doubled.

The fragile balance required to maneuver them has the user suffering a -2 Dice Pool Penalty to all Physical actions.

Skimmers are useless if the user attempts to carry any significant weight and are useless unless taken in pairs.

Wireless Bonus: Activating or deactivating the Skimmers grants a bonus Minor Action.

Slide

This slide can accommodate a single knife-, Hold-Out, Taser-, or Light Pistol-sized weapon or object. With a hand gesture, the slide releases the weapon/ object right into your hand.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

5 (Legal)

Cost:

¥3,000

Notes:

-1 Concealability
Up to 3 throwing knife sized weapons, a light pistol, hold-out pistol or taser can be loaded with a Minor Action.
With a specific movement, the slide moves the weapon(s) into your hand with no action cost.

Wireless:

You get a bonus Minor Action on any turn when you activate the slide.

Smuggling Compartment

For items that won't fit in a fingertip but you still can't afford to have found, smuggling compartments can be placed into cyberlimbs easily - so long as they aren't too large.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥6,000

Wireless: Inserting or retrieving an object takes a Minor Action.

Smuggling Compartment (Large)

This is a larger version of the smuggling compartment, meant for items a little more substantial than a pistol.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥8,000

Notes: The Smuggling Compartment (Large) can hold something the size of a Heavy Pistol or a small SMG (GM’s discretion - think breadbox size as a guide).

Getting something out of or putting something into it takes a Major Action.

Wireless Bonus: Getting something out of or putting something into it takes a Minor Action.

Snake Fingers

A hand with snake fingers can rotate the fingers at the knuckle and extend or retract fifty percent of their length, providing a wider range of motion than is ordinarily possible.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥1,000

Notes: Snake fingers reduce the threshold for Escape Artist tests involving that hand by 1 (to a minimum of 1) and grant bonus Edge when performing sleight of hand.

Snake fingers cannot be combined with other finger augmentations.

Telescopic Cyberlimb (1 - 2)

Reach out and touch someone! Telescoping cyberlimbs allow a user to elevate themselves to see over walls, reach the top shelf in a Stuffer Shack, or do many other useful things with additional reach. While this modification is useful, it poses engineering challenges to maintain full structural integrity while extended.

Essence:

Capacity:

I: [2]
II: [4]

Availability:

I: 4
II: 4

Cost:

I: ¥500
II: ¥500

Notes: For each level, a telescoping limb can extend by one meter. However, while extended the limb suffers –1 Strength per meter. It costs a Minor Action to extend or retract a telescoping cyberlimb.

Wireless Bonus: Gain a bonus Minor Action after spending one to extend or retract a telescoping cyberlimb.

Tentacle Modification

Most cyberarms have three points of articulation: the shoulder, the elbow, and the wrist. Tentacle cyberarms have hundreds of articulated joints and have infinite options available in how they move, twist, or undulate. This flexibility is hugely advantageous when grappling with foes.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥2,000

Notes: Gain a bonus dice reroll during a grapple test for each tentacle cyberarm the user possesses. The downside of these flexible limbs is they terminate in very basic grasping hands. The user may not spend Edge on any delicate work using a tentacle limb, such as picking a maglock or firing a gun. Only full cyberarms and additional cyberarms can be modified into tentacle cyberarms.

Augmentation Overdrive: A tentacle cyberarm gains an additional option when using overdrive: instead of the cyberlimb’s usual Strength and Agility bonus, a tentacle cyberarm can instead gain 2 dice for a grapple test, one of which must be a Wild Die.

Water Jet

A water jet system includes an intake, compressor, and exhaust port all installed into a cyberlimb. A maximum of one water jet can be installed per cyberlimb.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥1,000

Notes: For each water jet system, a user gains one bonus hit on an Athletics (Swimming) test.

Augmented Overdrive: A water jet system adds +2 dice to an Athletics (Swimming) test, but one die must be a Wild Die. If the wild die is a 1, the water jet system will not function until repaired.

Cosmetic Cyberware

In an ideal world, this category would have almost entirely gone extinct, but the advantages of cybernetics, primarily cost, keep these mods in circulation well past their actual use-by date. Oh sure, there are some aspects that bioware can’t mimic, like fiber-optic hair or LED screens, but breast implants date to the previous century. Cosmetic chrome has a sort of retro-cachet that keeps it hopping in the underground club scene, and it isn't typically seen on most wageslaves.

Casemodding (1 - 4)

Casemods are to street samurai what yerzing is to riggers. Casemodding began with custom-etching cyberlimbs with infinitely customizable artwork, but the fad rapidly expanded to adding physical and AR bling to any externally visible cyberware.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

(Rating) x ¥250

Notes: Casemodding adds +2 Social Rating for each rating point. The particulars of its appearance are customizable, and this bonus is subject to gamemaster discretion as to whether the “look” is appropriate to impress given the social setting.

If the casemod is truly unique, the wearer gains the Distinctive Style quality and gains a permanent +1 Edge as long as the casemod is easily visible.

Cosmetic Surgery

Bigger lips? Thinner lips? Butt implants? Tummy tuck? You want it, we got it! Modern technology allows for any ugly duckling to become a beautiful swan, and the media will pound that into your skull until you submit. Conform, you drone!

As with casemods, there is a vast selection of cosmetic surgery options, each a simple clinic appointment away. The more popular the trend, the more expensive the surgery, rather than the level of invasiveness.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥100 - ¥20,000

Notes: This is a gamemaster’s call in terms of pricing, ranging from a ¥100 for minor work, like mole removal, to ¥10,000 for rib removal or facial reconstruction.

Cosmetic Implants

Some of the very first implants ever created were invented to enhance a user’s physical appearance. Gel implants have enhanced breasts, biceps, buttocks, and many other anatomical regions for over one hundred years. Modern cybernetic implants are capable of dialing the physical enhancement of one area of the body up or down as the user desires.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥1,000

Notes: In addition to its obvious advantages in getting dates, a cosmetic implant system grants bonus Edge for tests made to disguise oneself, or to impersonate another individual.

It takes a Minor Action to alter the physical size of the augmented region or body part.

Wireless Bonus: Gain a bonus Minor Action after spending a Minor Action to alter the augmented body part’s size.

Cyber Genitalia

Available for both sets of reproductive organs, cyber genitals might well be considered a cyberlimb, but doing so opens the door for a lot of uncomfortable discussions.

Available in a wide variety of colors, textures, and sizes, cybergenitals have almost entirely been phased out by modern biotech and genetic treatments. Still, there are those who enjoy the mechanical benefits that only battery-operated devices can bring.

Essence:

0.25

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥2,000

Fiber-Optic Hair

The user’s hair follicles on the scalp, and optionally the face, are replaced with thousands of receptors that are each mated to a myoelectric fiber optic filament. These filaments can broadcast any color, mix of colors, or even digital imagery in the same manner as the electrochromic clothing feature.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥3,000

Notes: The filaments can extend or contract their length by up to fifty percent. It takes a Minor Action to alter the color or style of electrochromic hair, but the change takes 2 Combat Rounds to complete.

Wireless Bonus: Gain a free Minor Action after spending one to perform an alteration or down load a new pattern.

LED Tattoos

A simple LED display is implanted under the skin, bright enough to be seen through the dermal layer when active, vanishing from sight when inactive. Available in three general sizes - small (placed on a wrist, ankle, or behind an ear), medium (covering much of a forearm or upper arm, the small of the back, or over the heart), or large (covering most of the back or the scalp) - LED tattoos combine the showcasing of one’s interests and expression of personality with the ability to remove or change those that are no longer quite so definitive.

The ability to deactivate them further allows for someone to switch between club mode and work mode. It should be noted that there is some division between those with “real” tattoos, and “light posers” who are unwilling to get proper ink done.

Essence:

Small: 0.05
Medium: 0.1
Large: 0.2

Capacity:

Small: [1]
Medium: [2]
Large: [4]

Availability:

Small: -
Medium: 2
Large: 4

Cost:

Small: ¥100
Medium: ¥500
Large: ¥1,000

Notes: Gain +1 Edge as long as the LED tattoos are on.

If the LED tattoo is truly outrageous, the GM may assign the player the Distinctive Style quality.

Wireless Bonus: The user may download new color patterns as a Minor Action.

Metagenic Cosmetic Alteration

Minor cosmetic alterations such as eye-color changes and bosom enhancements predate cybernetics. A wide variety of subcultures from cosplayers, furry fandom, fetishists, and all manner of sports and music fanatics embrace more extreme SURGE-like enhancements. The following metagenic qualities from Sixth World Companion can be purchased as cybernetic enhancements

Essence:

1/10th of the quality's Karma cost in Essence.

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥1,000 per point of Karma Bonus or Cost.

Available Enhancements:

Animal Pelage: Camouflage, Insulating Coat, Quills
Metagenic Morphisms: Bone Spikes
Negative Metagenic Qualities: Striking Skin Pigmentation, Unusual Hair, Feathers, Insectoid Features, Scales.

Metatype Reduction

More a series of treatments and surgeries than a single modification, metatype reduction is generally aimed at goblinoids, a.k.a. “the ugly ones,” rather than surgically rebuilding an elf as a human or something. Jawlines are shattered and rebuilt with tusk removal, body hair is lasered off for good, bone deposits and hard plates cut away, and even some delicate work with sweat glands and body oil production to reduce their output and make them more friendly to human noses. Mostly seen in Japanacorps, but there’s a cultural shame-spiral that drives even western goblinoids to the procedure.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥6,000

Notes: Orks who undergo the procedure gain the Human-Looking positive quality.

Trolls who undertake the procedure have their racial Charisma maximum increased by one.

This augmentation cannot be combined with the metaposeur genetic treatment.

Skin Toner

Skin toner involves implanting a lattice of electrochromic polymers under the dermis. This weave produces colors that bleed together through the skin but lacks the granularity to create sharp lines or fine details. The user can change their apparent skin tone, with the tone naturally darkening or lightening as appropriate to the part of the body. Hues beyond metahuman norms are possible, but the artificial nature of the coloration is immediately apparent.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥2,000

Notes: As with other electrochromic technology, it costs a Minor Action to change the current display but it takes two combat rounds for the transformation to complete.

Skin toner cannot be combined with other skin augmentations.

Wireless Bonus: Skin toner can download new colors and patterns via the Matrix by spending a Minor Action.

Skin Toner (Chameleon Processor)

A chameleon processor uses complex algorithms to enhance the coarse coloration. When mated to a chameleon processor, skin toner can broadcast more complex patterns and even use multiple colors rather than gradients of one. Tiger, leopard, zebra, Holstein cow, and many similar skin patterns are possible. The chameleon processor also permits the user to adopt a variety of camouflage patterns.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

6 (Legal)

Cost:

¥8,000

Notes: As with other electrochromic technology, it costs a Minor Action to change the current display but it takes two combat rounds for the transformation to complete.

Skin toner cannot be combined with other skin augmentations.

The chameleon processor grants a bonus Edge for Stealth tests while the user is camouflaged and most of their skin is visible.

Wireless Bonus: Skin toner can download new colors and patterns via the Matrix by spending a Minor Action.

Steamers

Nothing says cool like hotness. Steamers are small vents with compressed chemical reserves that allow you to vent water vapor at appropriate times. Steamers can be added to any part of the body and hold enough water for 5 releases. Note that the vapor is just released, not sprayed, giving you little control over where it goes

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥500 + Contents

Notes: While the Steamers are intended to hold only water, it isn't relegated to only water for the creative.

Lower Body Replacement

Also called liminal bodies or one-half shells, a lower body replacement involves the restructuring of the user’s body from the abdomen down. The augmentation incorporates a free Rating 1 Biowaste Storage System because of the requisite removal of the user’s genitalia and the terminal end of their digestive system. The user gains 4 Physical Condition Monitor boxes.

The lower body replaces both legs with one very large cyberlimb that can come in numerous different forms. As with other cyberlimbs, a lower body replacement begins with 4 Strength and 4 Agility. Any augmentations that must be implanted as pairs in the cyberlegs - for example, hydraulic jacks, must have two copies installed into a lower body replacement.

Centaur

A quadrupedal lower body is often equine in styling, but it can also take other forms such as feline or draconic.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥40,000

Notes: No matter the appearance, a centaur lower-body replacement sets the user’s base movement rate to 10/20/+4 and doubles the amount of weight the user can lift or carry.

Augmented Overdrive: The lower body replacement gains +2 Strength and +2 Agility. These bonuses may exceed the augmented maximum.

Serpentine

The lower body is replaced by a mermaid’s tail, an alligator body, or a simple snake body with or without dozens of centipede-like segments.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥40,000

Notes: With this lower body, add 3 meters to the distance for each net hit on a swimming test.

Augmented Overdrive: The lower body replacement gains +2 Strength and +2 Agility. These bonuses may exceed the augmented maximum.

Wheels

A wheeled lower body can be arranged as a two, three, or four wheeled chassis.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥40,000

Notes: With a wheeled lower body replacement, their movement rate is replaced with rules used by vehicles: the user has an Acceleration equal to the augmentation’s Agility x 2, and a Top Speed equal to its Strength x 10. The user still rolls Athletics rather than Piloting for any relevant tests. The user is treated as a vehicle if targeted by the Movement critter power (p. 226, SR6). Wheels are incompatible with speed boosters (see above).

Augmented Overdrive: The lower body replacement gains +2 Strength and +2 Agility. These bonuses may exceed the augmented maximum.

Spider

This kind of lower body replacement is short and wide with numerous bug-like legs.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥40,000

Notes: This augmentation grants a bonus Minor Action when the user spends a Minor Action to cancel the Prone status, and gains a free Edge on any climbing tests

Augmented Overdrive: The lower body replacement gains +2 Strength and +2 Agility. These bonuses may exceed the augmented maximum.

Cyber Implant Weapons

Weapons can be implanted into cyberlimbs, costing capacity, or directly into flesh, costing Essence. Many of them are there for different classes of firearms. In those cases, the implant only makes the space, and the firearm has to be purchased separately.

All forms of pistols increase their Concealability by 2 when they are implanted; larger guns receive no change, as they are still pretty noticeable, even when they’re implanted. Rifles and Sniper Rifles cannot be implanted. All implanted weapons can be readied with the Quick Draw Minor Action.

The only modifications or accessories implanted firearms can accept are laser sights and silencers/sound suppressors.

Buzzsaw

A buzzsaw is an unsubtle weapon with no place in polite society. The user’s hand and forearm are replaced with a circular, spinning saw blade or a long chainsaw and a power source to run the weapon. Splatter guards are recommended, but commonly omitted.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

3 (Illegal)

Cost:

¥2,000

Notes: A buzzsaw doubles its DV when employed against a barrier.

Implant Weapon Stats:

Type: Blades
Damage Value: (STR/2 + 4) Physical

Crab Claw

A crab claw cyber implant replaces the user’s forearm and hand with an oversized, pneumatically driven cutting clamp. These serrated blades have a bite strength similar to the jaws of life used by emergency responders.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

3 (Illegal)

Cost:

¥2,000

Notes: A crab claw doubles its DV when employed against a barrier that can be placed between its blades.

Implant Weapon Stats:

Type: Blades
Damage Value: (STR/2 + 5) Physical

Cyberjaw

The Cyberjaw adds extra biting power for those who like a special, close-in form of violence.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥1,500

Implant Weapon Stats:

Type: Unarmed
Damage Value: (STR/2 + 5) Physical

Drone Rack

Large cyberlimbs can serve as a launching point for smaller drones. Like vehicular drone racks (p. 143, Double Clutch), cyberarm versions allow storage and rapid deployment of a drone, but they can only house one drone at a time.

Essence:

Capacity:

Mini/Micro: [6]
Small: [25]

Availability:

Mini/Micro: 4 (Legal)
Small: 6 (Legal)

Cost:

Mini/Micro: ¥1,00
Small: ¥2,000

Notes: It takes a Minor Action to deploy a drone from an implanted drone rack, but it requires a Major Action to recover and stow it.

Fangs

Cosmetic fang implants can be installed by the same mall kiosks that do ear piercings, but cybernetic fangs are far more capable than simple replacement teeth. Cyber implant fangs can retract back into the user’s maxillary bone to conceal their presence. They can also deploy an injection toxin or drug when the user successfully bites a victim in a close combat attack.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

3 (Legal)

Cost:

¥500 + 2 doses of toxin

Notes: The fangs’ reservoir holds two doses, and it can be refilled via an external port.

Implant Weapon Stats:

Type: Unarmed
Damage Value: (STR/2 + 2) Physical

Foot Blade

This modification implants a retractable blade into the foot which can be used to deliver devastating kick attacks. Most commonly, the blade comes from the front of the foot or the heel.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

10 (Illegal)

Cost:

¥28,000

Implant Weapon Stats:

Type: Blades
Damage Value: (STR/2 + 2) Physical

Goring Horns

These cranial implants can take many forms, from a singular unicorn spiral to double bull horns to a complete crown of antler points. No matter the number or appearance, they are alike in performance.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

10 (Illegal)

Cost:

¥28,000

Notes: Add a +4 Dice Pool Modifier to an attack made by goring horns if the user moved at least 3 meters toward the target as part of the attack.

Goring Horns are not retractable, so the user cannot wear helmets or other headgear that are not adjusted for their altered anatomy (increase cost by 10%).

Implant Weapon Stats:

Type: Unarmed
Damage Value: (STR/2 + 3) Physical

Hand Razors

Hand razors go under the fingernails or just replace them, all the better for clawing.

Essence:

0.15

Capacity:

Availability:

3 (Illegal)

Cost:

¥1,000

Implant Weapon Stats:

Type: Blades
Damage Value: (STR/2 + 2) Physical

Retractable Hand Razors

Retractable Hand Razors are simple, small blades that are built into the fingernails or replace them entirely, popping in or out with a simple mental command.

Essence:

0.25

Capacity:

Availability:

3 (Illegal)

Cost:

¥1,250

Implant Weapon Stats:

Type: Blades
Damage Value: (STR/2 + 2) Physical

Notes: When retracted, the Hand Razors have a Concealability threshold of 8.

Handblade

The handblade is a simple blade built into the hand, placed opposite the thumb so it can be used with a swinging cut.

Essence:

0.15

Capacity:

Availability:

4 (Illegal)

Cost:

¥2,000

Implant Weapon Stats:

Type: Blades
Damage Value: (STR/2 + 3) Physical

Retractable Handblade

The retractable handblade is a simple blade built into the hand, placed opposite the thumb so it can be used with a swinging cut.

Essence:

0.25

Capacity:

Availability:

4 (Illegal)

Cost:

¥2,500

Implant Weapon Stats:

Type: Blades
Damage Value: (STR/2 + 3) Physical

Notes: When retracted, the Handblade has a Concealability threshold of 8.

Hardening

Through this modification process, the skin/limb is hardened to make it more club-like and damaging.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥2,500

Implant Weapon Stats:

Type: Unarmed
Damage Value: (STR/2 + 3) Physical

Heavy Implanted Weapon

The heaviest personally portable weapons cannot ordinarily be implanted, but with enough engineering virtually anything is possible. A heavy implanted weapon system provides the necessary volume and reinforcement coupled with retaining the field of motion necessary to make implanting a large weapon worthwhile.

Essence:

Capacity:

[16]

Availability:

6 (Illegal)

Cost:

¥4,000 + Weapon

Notes: Rifles, machine guns, assault cannons, and missile launchers can be housed in a heavy implanted weapon mount. These weapons do not gain any concealability when housed by this system.

Junkyard Jaw

A solid metal replacement for the lower jaw, and a more hidden upper mouth enhancement as well, thejunkyard jaw is only seen on barrens gangers who just don’t care about normal society at all anymore. Able to bite through bottles, knife blades, and even metal pipes with relative ease, the junkyard jaw’s a famous intimidation tool. Note that very few users are further modified to digest the inorganic matter that they bite, so they are forced to spit it out after a good chomp. A junkyard jaw can obviously do just terrible things to the metahuman body. Approach with caution.

Essence:

0.75

Capacity:

Availability:

4 (Illegal)

Cost:

¥2,000

Implant Weapon Stats:

Type: Unarmed
Damage Value: (STR/2 + 3) Physical

Notes: The junkyard jaw provides one additional box on your physical condition monitor, like a cyberlimb.

Oral Slasher

A weapon that is as concealable as it is impractical, the oral slasher hides a telescoping spike under the user’s tongue. A compact air compressor launches the weapon through the user’s open mouth in a vicious, lashing stab before spring-like polymers retract it back in place with almost as much quickness.

Essence:

0.25

Capacity:

Availability:

6 (Illegal)

Cost:

¥1,000

Implant Weapon Stats:

Type: Exotic Weapon (Oral Slasher)
Damage Value: (STR/2 + 2) Physical

Notes: If the oral slasher is employed against an unaware opponent who is mouth to mouth with the user (for example, someone engaged in a kiss) and the attack is successful, then the weapon automatically fills the victim’s Physical Condition Monitor with no Body roll to reduce the damage.

Shock Limb

This limb has electrodes built in at strategic points that can deliver a taser-like jolt to targets. Hands are customarily used, but some fighters have grown fond of the shock kick, and stories proliferate of fighters engaging in street head butts.

Essence:

0.25

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥5,000

Implant Weapon Stats:

Type: Unarmed
Damage Value: 4 Stun (Electric)

Shotgun Knee

Although this implant incorporates a shotgun, it is in practice only usable in close combat. Virtually everything other than the barrel and the chamber housing a single shell are stripped away and implanted in the user’s lower leg, aligned upward.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

3 (Illegal)

Cost:

¥1,000 + 1 Shotgun Round

Implant Weapon Stats:

Type: Unarmed
Damage Value: (STR/2 + 5) Physical

Notes: When the user connects with a knee strike, the impact triggers the shotgun to add its blast to the successful kick. A shotgun knee must be reloaded after discharge before it can be used again.

Spurs

These are spikes placed on the wrist or the back of knuckles, designed to give a stabbing puncture to a punch or slap.

Essence:

0.15

Capacity:

Availability:

4 (Illegal)

Cost:

¥3,000

Implant Weapon Stats:

Type: Blades
Damage Value: (STR/2 + 3) Physical

Retractable Spurs

These are spikes placed on the wrist or the back of knuckles, designed to give a stabbing puncture to a punch or slap.

Essence:

0.25

Capacity:

Availability:

4 (Illegal)

Cost:

¥5,000

Implant Weapon Stats:

Type: Blades
Damage Value: (STR/2 + 3) Physical

Notes: When retracted, the Spurs have a Concealability threshold of 8.

Wrecker

Junkyard-built, extreme close combat weapons are limited in form solely by the imaginations of those twisted creators who manufacture them. Categorically, any kind of blunt or spiked impact weapon is known on the streets as a wrecker. They don’t necessarily involve the complete replacement of a user’s forearm and hand, but they usually do. Like buzzsaws and crab claws, these weapons are crude, rude, and unwelcome in law-abiding society.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

1 (Illegal)

Cost:

¥500

Implant Weapon Stats:

Type: Blunt
Damage Value: (STR/2 + 6) Stun

Wrist Shield

A wrist shield is mounted in the user’s forearm and hidden until needed. When activated, spring action propels a spiral of plates to form a rigid disc one meter wide, interlocking into a usable shield in a fraction of a second.

Essence:

Capacity:

[10]

Availability:

5 (Legal)

Cost:

¥2,000

Implant Weapon Stats (Slashing):

Type: Blades
Damage Value: (STR/2 + 2) Physical

Implant Weapon Stats (Bashing):

Type: Blunt
Damage Value: (STR/2 + 3) Stun

Notes: The outer rim of each panel is edged, allowing the shield to tear through ordinary clothing as it deploys, but armor prevents the shield from opening unless the forearm is uncovered.

While the wrist shield is deployed, the user gains +4 Defense Rating. The edges of a deployed wrist shield can be employed as a slashing weapon, and of course the shield can be used to bludgeon with as well.

A deployed wrist shield still leaves the hand free to perform tasks.

The shield can be deployed anytime as a Minor Action, but it requires a Major Action to crank it back into the forearm.

Only one wrist shield can be installed per arm, and a user’s Defense Rating can never benefit from more than two shields at the same time.

Ranged Cyber Implant Weapons

Flametosser

The functional difference between an implanted flametosser and a military-grade flamethrower is the size of the fuel canisters. Both weapons are essentially a liquid sprayer that draws from two separate fuel tanks that are filled with chemicals that explosively combust when mixed. Each external refueling port is color-coded to ensure chemical residues are not improperly mixed during refueling.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

6 (Illegal)

Cost:

¥4,000

Notes: Flametossers make spray attacks (p. 117, SR6).

Implant Weapon Stats:

Type: Exotic Weapon (Flamethrower)
Damage Value: 5 Physical (Fire)
Firing Modes: Spray
Ammunition: 5 (¥500 per shots, Availability of 3 (Illegal))

Notes: The maximum range for the Flametosser is 20 meters.

Hold-Out Pistol

Hold-Out Pistols are very concealable and are perfect for use as a back-up piece.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

3 (Legal)

Cost:

¥2,000

Light Pistol

Light Pistols are highly accurate and fairly concealable, occupying a comfortable middle ground between Hold-Out and Heavy Pistols.

Essence:

0.25

Capacity:

Availability:

3 (Legal)

Cost:

¥3,000

Machine Pistol

Machine Pistols offer a high rate of fire in a compact package, typically that which is smaller than Heavy Pistols.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

4 (Legal)

Cost:

¥3,500

Heavy Pistol

Heavy Pistols are powerful sidearms that are a good compromise between concealability and firepower.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

4 (Legal)

Cost:

¥4,300

Sub-Machine Gun

Sub-Machine Guns are close-range and urban-combat kings, typically with high rates of fire and meant for easily putting down soft targets.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

5 (Legal)

Cost:

¥4,800

Shotgun

One of the most simple style of firearms available for implantation, shotguns carry with them unparalleled single-shot power and multiple ammunition types.

Essence:

1.25

Capacity:

[10]

Availability:

5 (Legal)

Cost:

¥8,500

Grenade Launcher

Grenade launchers are, essentially, upscaled shotguns in operation and fire explosive ammunition.

Essence:

Capacity:

[15]

Availability:

6 (Illegal)

Cost:

¥24,000

Weapon Launcher

An unusual modification of a cyber-implant weapon that takes the form of either a ballista-like or catapult-like upgrade, this augmentations allows weapons to be launched as short-range projectiles. This is obviously something of a desperation maneuver, but the surprise factor can, hopefully, overcome the obvious downside of no longer being armed.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

6 (Illegal)

Cost:

Weapon Cost + ¥500

Notes: An attack with this weapon is resolved with the user's Strength + Athletics (Thrown Weapons).

If the weapon launched can be gathered up for a reload, it takes 3 Major Actions to reset the launcher, then 2 Major Actions to re-attach the weapon.

Tesla Coil

After Ares introduced the Scylla, it didn’t take long for other weapons manufacturers to reverse-engineer their marvel of directed lightning. Although the term “tesla coil” isn’t strictly accurate, it’s stuck as a brand-agnostic description of the cyber implant version of this weapon.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

7 (Illegal)

Cost:

¥15,000

Implant Weapon Stats:

Type: Exotic (Tesla Coil)
Damage Value: 5 Stun (Electrical), Replacement Batteries cost 100 nuyen and have an Availability of 2.

Notes: A tesla coil projects electrical energy in a spray attack, much like a flamethrower. They prodigiously consume energy and require battery packs; the user’s natural bioelectrical current is nowhere near sufficient to power this weapon. A tesla coil is not designed to moderate its consumption of battery charges. Once a battery is drained by a tesla coil, it cannot be recharged.

The maximum range for the Tesla Coil is 20 meters.

Ranged Cyber Implant Weapon Accessories

External Magazine Port

This external magazine port allows for additional ammunition to be loaded into a cybergun.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥1,000

Notes: Unless a cybergun has this modification, a cyberweapon cannot be reloaded without considerable time taken to inserting new cartridges into it. With this modification, it operates as easily as any other firearm.

Laser Sight

This device uses a laser beam to project a visible dot (in your choice of colors) on the target. This increases the weapon’s accuracy considerably.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

Cost:

¥1,000

Notes: Activating or deactivating a Laser Sight is a Minor Action.

Gain a +1 Dice Pool Modifier when active up to 50 meters.

Not cumulative with smartgun modifiers.

Available in normal, low-light, or thermographic.

Wireless: Increase bonus by +1. You gain a bonus Minor Action on a turn when you activate or deactivate the laser sight.

Silencer/Suppressor

An internal barrel-mounted accessory that reduces the sound and flash of firing a weapon; not compatible with revolvers or shotguns.

Essence:

Capacity:

Availability:

4 (Illegal)

Cost:

¥1,000

Notes: Increases the threshold on Perception tests by 2 to notice the weapon's use or locate the weapon's firer.

Wireless: The suppressor features systems and simple software that alerts you via AR if someone or something nearby moves quickly after the sound of your suppressed weapon.

Cyborg Conversion

Cyborg creation involves isolating a metahuman brain and implanting it into a cybernetic body shell, depriving the mind of its biological environment and replacing it with an artificial one.

While most such cyborgs use cloned brains, others involve transplants from adult metahumans or children. The technology to transplant and sustain a brain outside a metahuman body has been around for more than a decade, though only recently has it become sustainable outside clinical environments.

The needed breakthrough came in the shape of a device capable of both keeping the brain alive and allowing it to interface with a wide array of electronic tools. The cranial containment unit (CCU), or “jar” as it is known on the streets, fulfills this role by maintaining a near-physiological environment for the brain with an integral commlink and a neural control interface similar to a control rig. The CCU also features modular hookups so that it can be physically hardwired to the shell. The mind essentially becomes a permanently disembodied rigger, interacting with the world only through their artificial body for the rest of the natural life span.

When compared to normal drones, a cyborg’s metahuman brain boasts notable advantages in terms of overall versatility, decision-making abilities, sophisticated behavior, and skill learning and use and they are also substantially harder to subvert.

The Procedure

The transplant procedure requires a delta clinic, a fully equipped medical facility, and a highly skilled team of dedicated cybersurgeons and specialist staff. The CCU itself is delta-grade cybertech, and not every brain is suited for such a radical surgery; extensive hormone and biochemical treatments are required to trigger neuronal growth necessary for survival as a “jarhead.”

Most adult brains react poorly to the treatment, and fully developed brains that survive tend to develop psychological disorders, including extensive memory loss, various phobias, and other psychoses. Those few adults who have prospered after the surgery have also undergone extensive psychological and pharmaceutical treatment in preparation for it. While it is believed that there are genetic factors associated with survival rates, those factors remain unidentified. Comparatively, child brains or the brains of newborn clones who have undergone unaccelerated gestation have proven quite successful. Since these brains are still growing naturally, the pharmaceutical regimen is reduced. Further, these brains have fewer memories to lose and less personality development. Fine motor coordination can be learned for the first time while in a simulated body, as opposed to having to unlearn a lifetime of natural reflexes. Finally, there is no paper trail or family for a vat-grown clone. This makes it substantially easier for a megacorp to dispose of a failed subject.

Man Meets Machine

Being contained to a CCU means cyborgs are metahumans with 0.1 Essence, permanently requiring robotic bodies for mobility and manipulation of the physical world. The most common body is a humanoid robotic body called a shell.

A shell is essentially an anthroform drone body generally made for cyborgs to function in environments designed for metahumans. Typically, though, even a cyborg in a humanoid body will be identifiable as inhuman. With the exception of rare and expensive customizations, the metallic frame, odd mannerisms, and synthetic voice will stand out even among a group of street samurai.

Similarly, a jarhead’s movements, personality, and decision-making ability are all obviously distinct from those of even the most sophisticated traditional drones. To allow maximum flexibility, even non anthroform drones or vehicles can be equipped with a docking station for a CCU. In order for a cyborg to jump into a shell, drone, or vehicle body, a CCU must be physically plugged into the body.

Cyborg Specs

When plugged into a shell, the cyborg follows the same rules as normal characters in combat (with the relevant stat adjustments). The following sections cover the basic differences between cyborgs and normal characters and provide guidelines on how to resolve mechanics issues or situations. If plugged into a shell, drone, or vehicle via a docking station, a cyborg functions as a jumped-in rigger.

Because their natural body is almost completely discarded, cyborgs never have innate physical attributes. Despite having a few juicy living bits left, they have a nominal Essence attribute set at a value of 0.1 that cannot be improved or recovered in any way. They cannot be targeted for first aid, medkit, or magical healing. They do not heal naturally over time. The brain itself is very vulnerable and without the CCU would die within five minutes if not transferred to a life support system capable of keeping it stable. Any damage they’ve suffered goes to the CCU and can only be removed via Build/Repair tests. The CCU itself can only be targeted directly when exposed, by either removing it from its shell or destroying the shell.

They are treated as drones when it comes to being targeted by magic (e.g., practical immunity to all mana effects and many physical effects like Heal and Venom).

Cranial Containment Unit

Availability: 6

Cost: ¥220,000

The CCU should be considered delta grade cyberware even though, in practice, it’s the metahuman brain that is installed into the device and not the other way round.

The CCU is typically an oval or cylindrical unit 50 centimeters long and 30 centimeters in diameter. It is a single device that incorporates a rating 4 cyberjack (with a fixed array of D/F 6/7), commlink, simrig, skilljack 5, skillwire 5, and control rig 2. Transplanting an adult brain into a CCU requires removing any pre-existing headware (with the possible exception of cultured bioware, at the GM’s discretion). This removal may be considered part of the surgery. In addition to requiring delta-grade medical facilities, the brain transplant surgery requires a Biotech (Cybertechnology) + Logic (20, 1 hour) Extended test.

At the end of the surgery, the cyborg is left with an Essence of 0.1. Removing the brain from its original body and implanting it into a CCU completely and permanently disrupts the individual’s magical or technomantic abilities. Any character who undergoes this procedure automatically has their maximum Resonance or Magic attribute reduced to zero.

A CCU contains all of the necessary medical support equipment to keep the brain it contains alive for up to four hours without being connected to a supporting device or shell. The CCU has a Body of 2 and a Condition Monitor of 6.

Docking Station

Availability: 5

Cost: ¥5,000

Specialized version of a rigger interface that allows a CCU to be plugged in a drone of medium size or larger, or into vehicles.

Cybernetic Shells

A shell is a complete cybernetic body that has been purpose-built to accept a CCU and provide full functionality of a metahuman body.

A base model without modifications comes equipped with the equivalent of a full cyberlimb replacement, plus voice modulator, cybereyes 2 with image link, low-light vision, thermographic vision, and cyberears 1 with sound link.

The Physical attributes of a shell can be modified and upgraded similar to cyberlimbs. In all cases, the augmented maximum for synthetic shells is 10, while obvious shells can go to 12.

Skills

One of the advantages of cyborgs over normal drones is skill learning and use. Instead of autosofts, some jarheads can possess and develop their own skill sets and may complement these with skillsofts. Cyborg-adaptation includes cybernetic skillwires that can run normal skillsofts accessed through the CCU’s onboard processors. Many cyborgs rely on skillsofts extensively, as they have had limited opportunity to learn how to do things via traditional training before being deployed.

Full-grown adult brains retain their own skills, and after a transition and adaptation period (a few months), they may use them at their normal levels.

Maintenance and Power

A cyborg requires a weekly maintenance session with shop-level equipment. This maintenance involves resupplying organic chemicals, refueling the drone body, and checking vitals on the living brain. These routine procedures also review the CCU’s sim levels and pharmaceutical infusions over the course of its activities—these must be monitored to ensure it is operating within accepted parameters. Extended exposure to unsafe levels of either chemical or electronic feedback can have serious psychological and physiological consequences.

Maintenance sessions require a Cybertechnology + Logic (20, 30 minutes) Extended test at least once a week. Each missed maintenance session increases the threshold of its monthly Sanity test (see below) by 1. Transferring a CCU into a new drone body is a simple matter of plugging and unplugging that takes less than a minute, assuming the technician has authorized access to the bodies in question. The cyborg requires at least a day to familiarize itself with a new body and is unable to gain or spend Edge on all actions until then.

With the proper contact, this maintenance costs 2,000 nuyen per week.

Psychology and Inhuman Behavior

A jarhead’s brain exists in an artificial and inherently unstable environment. It goes through frequent cycles of extended sensory deprivation, is subjected to dramatic changes of physical identity, and is constantly pumped full of psychotherapeutic chemicals. As a result, the mind will frequently develop a variety of disorders, represented by negative mental qualities (see Cyberzombie game information, p. 174). These reflect the unbalancing and dehumanizing effect of such an extreme conversion and serve as hooks for role playing. The most common issues are phobias and manias.

Each month, a cyborg must make a Sanity test of Willpower + Intuition (2). The threshold increases by 1 for every maintenance session (see above) missed since the last test. Failure indicates the cyborg has developed or worsened a psychological problem, burdening the character with a new 5 Karma negative quality, or increasing an existing quality by an additional 5 Karma. Alternatively, a character may choose to permanently lower a Mental attribute and respective maximums by 1 point. There need not be a logical progression of increased severity with a variety of disorders.

Instead, a new and more serious one may simply supplant an existing one. For obvious reasons, the negative qualities a cyborg accumulates in this manner are invariably mental or psychological in nature. As these flaws accumulate, the cyborg will need regular psychotherapy sessions added to its maintenance cycles. These sessions can help to overcome existing psychoses and slow the accumulation of new ones. For game purposes, this is accomplished by buying off the negative quality with Karma.

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