Full Metal Slang

The Word on the Street about FullConversion Cyborgs

by Robert Farquhar ( imagines@nlc.net.au )

In 2020, the field of advanced cybernetics took the next logical step, and a new phenomenon - what some consider a new racial class - swept the world: full body cybernetic conversion. With people discarding their organic bodies(voluntarily or otherwise) for new, faster, stronger (better?) cybernetic bodies, it is inevitable that the Street would find new ways of talking about/insulting this new class, and vice versa.

If anyone can come up with some more slang that would be used by/around/at full 'borgs, send me some email and I will include it as part of this list, citing you as a contributor. If you took the slang from another source, please cite it with the entry so I can add it to the Sources list.

Last Updated: May 23, 1998

Slang as of 2020

Aquaman: A full conversion cyborg designed for aquatic operations (e.g. Dynalar's Aquarius).

Body-Swap: Change a Biopod between full-conversion bodies.

Boomer:A full conversion borg; the term is often used to refer to those borgs near- or completely cyberpsycho.

Brain-Swap: Undergo full-body conversion.

Canned Meat:Derogatory term applied to full-conversion cyborgs by non- or lightly-augmented persons.

Canned Pork:Derogatory term used toward full borgs serving in the police forces.

False-Face:

  1. Dummy facemask cyberware.
  2. A cyborg equipped with such an appliance.

Fleshie:An un-augmented or lightly augmented human.

Fleshling: See Fleshie.

Fully Enhance: To fully enhance: To undergo full-body conversion. E.g.: "Henderson went fully enhanced after that bombing took most of his body."

Fullfaker:

  1. A Trooper, whether in Assisted Combat Personal Armour or not.
  2. Anyone in Assisted Combat Personal Armour.

Gemini:Full borg designed to look human. From the first human-design borg, Raven Microcyb's Gemini.

Ghost: The personality, consciousness or conscience; the humanity of the cyborg. Often referred to as if it were a tangible, distinct and separate body part. Used similar to 'gut' in gut feeling: "I have a whisper in my ghost...".

Go Panzer: To equip oneself for heavy combat, usually by upgrading the borg body/switching limbs (see Panzer).

Haunted:Derogatory term used by "true borgs" when referring to a full borg with a demonstrated conscience/high Empathy.

Inquisition: The Cyberpsycho Squad of any police force; as opposed to the street gang known as the Inquisitors.

Meatboy/girl: See Fleshie.

Meathead: See Fleshie.

Metalhead: See CannedMeat.

Meat-Lover: See Haunted;also, a full conversion cyborg who has a regard for non-enhanced life/spends most of time with non-full conversion cyborgs.

Near-True:Moderately- to heavily-augmented human without full-body conversion.

Panzer:

  1. A combat-oriented full conversion cyborg.
  2. A full-conversion borg trained in the martial art of PanzerFaust.

PanzerFaust: The martial art designed for full conversion cyborgs. See Solo of Fortune 2.

Pure Chrome:A full conversion cyborg. Most commonly used by full conversion cyborgs with low Empathy as an adjective for themselves.

Pure Metal: See Pure Chrome.

Robocop: Full borg serving in the police forces. Typically not derogatory (unlike CannedPork).

Shell: A full-conversion borg body, typically one built to accept an Interchangeable Biopod option. This term is most often used by such cyborgs. E.g.: "I think I'll take the Enforcer shell today."

Softie: See Fleshie.

Spam-in-a-Can: See CannedMeat; more often applied to full-conversion cyborgs with Interchangeable Biopods.

Squishie: See Fleshie.

Tank: From "walking tank": any full-conversion borg intended for heavy combat/warfare (e.g. IE's Dragoon).

True Borg: See PureChrome. Often shortened to "True".

Truefaker: See Fullfaker.

Voomer See Boomer.

Wannabe Fleshie: See Gemini.Mostly used as an insult by undisguised full conversion cyborgs.(Also Wannabe Softie; Wannabe Squishie)

Wannabe True:

  1. A more derogatory version of Near-True.
  2. Someone wearing Assisted Combat Personal Armour (see Fullfaker).

Slang as of 2022

Smasher's Run: Any direct confrontation orduel between a full conversion cyborg and an un-augmented or lightly augmented human; typically for the purpose of settling an argument over whether "Metal is better than Meat".

Sources

Ghost In The Shell, anime feature, Masamune Shirow(Manga Entertainment dub)
Solo of Fortune 2, Cyberpunk 2020 Supplement, R.Talsorian Games
Chromebook 2, Cyberpunk 2020 Supplement, R. TalsorianGames
Robocop, feature film, Orion Entertainment
AD Police, anime series (Manga Entertainment dub)
Bubblegum Crisis, anime series (AnimEigo dub)
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