DESTROY ALL FLESH
Borg in action
A Metalhead solo speaks his transplanted mind

From Solo Of Fortune 2
Note: For complete article read SOF2. Partial text presented here

Faced with the decision of being parts in a ripperdoc's lab or being placed in a 'borg with a fifteen year contract you can tell which Adam Smasher chose.
In his own words he says about his 'borg body

Turned out to be the best decision I ever made. You want strong? How about using a 1000cc racing bike as an improvised melee weapon? You want fast? How about sparring with 3 black belts at once-with one arm servo removed? You want tough? How about the time I got shot point blank in the chest with a 40mm grenade? It knocked me off the building, and I fell nine stories onto the roof of a garbage truck! There was a 40-percent crater in the scow's roof, but I ran back up the building's stairs and punched the soldiers head off when I got the gonk! Not too shabby, I think.

But this is all about the specialist stuff only a 'borg can use.


Dummy Facemasks
Since there are only a limited number of Full Conversion models out there, individual 'borgs often go in for detachable faceplates to grant personalised features. They cost anywhere from 25eb for a cheap, primary colored one to 500eb for a fully armored custom design. If you have a different one in place each time you go on an op, who's gonna be able to figure out who you are? Slick, neh?

TRUE BORGS - LEARN THE ART CREATED ESPECIALLY FOR YOU!

The Panzerfaust (translates literally into "armorfist") martial art is a cutting-edge warfare application system. Designed specifically for True Borgs, PanzerFaust allows total exploitation of our superior physical abilities!
Additionally, the vast jumping and leaping range common to full borgs allows us to perform long distance kicks and inhuman dodges. If trapped in a hold, our flexibility and additional range of motion allow escape maneuvers impossible for men or Powered Armor. (Some fellow metalheads can spin their hands like propellers and even rotate their torsos 360 degrees!) The effect of a full speed, charging strikes are devastating, with penetration like a shotgun slug! Be taught the best, by the best! Join the Iron Tiger Dojo today.
Warning-Your body must undergo slight modification, involving magnetically-coated joints for full-range, high-speed motion; and specially-hardened plates installed on all striking surfaces (costing only 4000eb).
Iron Tiger Dojo in the Upper Marina district. Off Sterling St., upstairs from the American Bar. Night City, CA. Cash payments only, please.

Game Notes: Damage bonus is 1.5x the Martial Arts skill level, due to the blinding speed and structural strength of full-borgs. Leaping attacks receive +1D6 per 3m of leap performed. The attack is AP (SP is 1/2; damage penetrating hard armors is normal).
Only Full-body Conversions can use Panzerfaust; the structural stresses involved would do tremendous damage to muscles and bones in a flesh body. Panzerfaust cannot be chipped. This combat art relies so heavily on speed that the time required to access chipware would ruin it's effectiveness; this skill must be taught. Also if a 'borg learns Panzerfaust, because it requires constant training and practice, it's the only martial art he can learn and use. Any previously-learned Martial Arts or Melee skills must be forgotten, and their skill points are lost.
PANZERFAUST (5):
Strike Punch Kick Disarm Sweep Block
- +3 +3 - +1 -
Dodge Grapple Throw Hold Choke Escape Ram
+3 +3 +1 - - +4 +3

Of course life as a true borg isn't just mowing down civilians, despite my best wishes. You can still get killed off pretty easily is the opposition's packing military-level hardware; one HLAW and you can kiss your armor plated hinder sayonara. But hey! Once again cybertechnology comes to the rescue! See, there are these clever "blokes" in England somewhere who've come up with what they call Reactive Body Armor. No, it's not the kind that explodes off when it's hit! RBA is a suit of flexible body armor which is riddled with laser sensors; when someone's targetting you with a laser-aimed weapon, the RBA alerts you through your interface plugs. Believe it or not, this stuff is so efficient it actually allows you to dodge incoming bullets if your boosted (as any good True Borg should be)! No drek! The Beauty is, Cybermatrix is now making Reactive Body Plating for Full Conversions. It does the same thing, but it's built onto your frame. 'Course it means you gotta go into combat without wearing your fatigues, but so what? Extra Armor never layers well with body plating, and what've we got to be modest about? Lemme tell you, my RBP has saved my chassis on more than one blood-splattering occasion.

Cybermatrixtm Reactive Body Plating
HC=1D6, Surgery=MA, Cost= 6,000eb.
In game terms, RBP allows the Full 'Borg with a REF higher than 10 to actually dodge attacks made by laser-aimed weapons (lasersights and smartguns). The attacker must roll vs. the Full 'Borgs REF+Dodge+1D10 instead of against Range Difficulty Numbers. This is a new, hard-to-find cyberware; it is not restricted, but it is Poor availability


As a True 'Borg you also discover that you can finally put all those wannabe poser solopunks in their place. How many times have YOU gotten into a "my handgun is the world's most powerful and yours isn't" argument? Well it's no longer an issue when you're full metal. A couple of months ago, I wound up in just such an argument with some porky who insisted his wimpy 3516 couldn't be beat. I laughed in his face, which he took to mean that I didn't have a better argument. But I did. I dragged my Magnum Opus Hellbringer outta my overcoat and klunked it on the table in front of his gawking face. The stainless steel, 4kg revolver made his jaw hang open and his eyes cross. He just kept drooling as I showed him its three .666 Magnum steel-cased cartridges. It was a truly sad sight, so I shot that stupid expression right off his face. That brought him to his senses. I remember his head was just a balloon full of blood to my Hellbringer. I hear Magnum Opus is working on an .88 Magnum version. I can't wait.

Magnum Opus "Hellbringer" .666 Magnum Revolver [4,000eb]
P +1 J/L P 7D6+3 (.666 Mag) 3 1 VR 80m BOD MIN: 15
A massive double-action revolver, this huge weapon holds only three rounds in its solid titanium-steel cylinder, but each one is a .666 Magnum mankiller. It's a break-action design, engaged by a left -side thumb button. Each of the three steel-cased shells holds one .666-caliber lead slug which hits harder than most Magnum or Nitro Express hunting rifles! These rounds will but even the toughest armor to shame. The entire handgun is composed of steel and ultra-strong hybrid alloys (except for the ergonomic combat-style grips, which are made of neoprene), and the ported barrel has a heavy, full-length underlug for balance. While the Hellbringer comes with no fancy electronics, most owners supplement the blade-type sights with at least a laser sight; with only three shots, you have to make each one count!


SO DO HUMANITY A FAVOUR - BECOME A TRUE 'BORG
ANYONE WHO DOESN'T WANT TO BECOME FULLY CONVERTED... GETS WIPED OUT!


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