Need some help with my novel I am writing. Anyone familiar with the Syndicate games? Specifically Syndicate wars. I am interested in how I can describe the process by which an agent could receive such invasive implantation or augmentations. Would it be using open surgery, or even nano-technology, how do you coat bones with alloys or even replace them? I can't imagine some kind of non-invasive magic laser beam type job. Thanks for any and all suggestions. Regards Ollie
Unless you go through some alchemical/magical process. Otherwise, yeah, nanobots would be great. Real Life, that surgery would be insanely invasive, unless I am way off base. Recovery would be a pain... lots of pain for a long time.
Seeing as bone is a living tissue, you would be dead either way. Turns out life without an immune system is maybe not so good...
Well if you are a cyborg they would probably heavily augment the rest of the body anyway. I have actually been reading a lot of Warhammer 40K background and the process described for space marines seems quite plausible. I think I will go with the open surgery and bone replacement option, lengthy, costly and a sort of major one way operation. Of course this is the future so medical science will have advanced by then. Microfusion reactors worn on the lower back are out, hydrogen fuel cell are in. That takes care of the power supply for weapons etc.
Ok, so just how realistic is a rail gun that can fire an aluminium bullet at the speed of light? This writing lark is difficult.
Not at all realistic. If the firing itself doesn't doesn't deform the bullet, surely the travel at that speed would.
Aluminum also does not work well with magnetic acceleration. Really needs to at least have some iron in there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss_Cannon speed of light is a giant no no, since it would violate laws of physics and kill anyone shooting with sonic wave. edit: it doesnt have to be iron, any ferromagnetic would do really http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Ferromagnetic_materials
What about a rail gun that fires magnetically controlled plasma? That could conceivably go near the speed of light.
Hadn't thought of that. Presumably a strong enough magnet could conceivably accelerate any material. Plasma I'm not so keen on, even more exotic. The best thing about writing is the interesting areas and content you can explore and draw on multiple sources of inspiration. I guess the bonus of a futuristic environment and timeline is that you can really push the envelope. I was going to start with a stalker type novel initially, heavily based on the game for its source material, but that is on the back burner for now.
http://www.slideshare.net/duncanpatti/single-replacement-reactions Easy peasy lemon squeezy. Kinda the same way Wolverine got his Adamantium bones. Comics vary, but basically calcium is a metal and you could make the argument (in a fantasy novel) that with the proper chemical reactions/experiement/injection therapy.....you could replace the calcium in your bones for another metal. Or, something as simple as "electro-plating" like how they chrome other metals or put that nice Rhodium plating on your "white" gold ring. But not as sexy as first option.
You could, except that your brain and several other critical organ systems require calcium specifically, namely the heart, the musculoskeletal system...
Perhaps the price of augmentation would come at a price, forever requiring you to take supplements to replace what you lost. Or in other cases an extra specially cloned organ to produce certain hormones or chemicals your augmented body needs to function. And muscles, perhaps replace them with artificial plastic muscles like Myomer, or maybe just superior biological proteins of some sort. Either way, the augmentation process whether invasive or non-invasive would probably take a long time to accomplish anywhere from weeks to months through successive surgeries, and months again for recovery.
I'm guessing the issue would also be with red blood cell production, and suplements can only take you just so far
Oh, another good idea, enhanced blood to improve oxygen or whatever energy transfer required for the new muscles, as well as perhaps a coagulant to clog bleeding wounds faster along with some other healing factor to promote skin growth to close said wounds quickly. I've heard of an artificial skin that uses some sort of polarized nickle alloy in the skin that helps repair skin in under 30 min simply by pressing the two torn sides back together.
