[MAJOR UPGRADE][[ROBOTICS]] Cybernetic Augments

[DyssalC]

I'm not a fan of having X-Ray/Heat Vision eye augments. If we have glasses for it, we shouldn't be able to get eye augments for it too. Instead, I'd be interested in some BRAIN augments. How about a brain augment that allows you to use computers remotely, like cyborgs? Or a brain implant that gives you station-camera-vision?

Those are both good ideas, but the main reason the eye augments I came up with are based around visors is the idea that you can never actually have them removed. Like, anybody can strip you of your thermals as detective, but nobody can remove your eyes. Well, not quickly anyways.

Having some end game where both materials science and robotics meet so you can have an arc reactor in your chest providing power to all your cyborg doodads and serving as a flashlight would be cool.

Of course allowing the crew to make reactors that could explode with shoddy workmanship is probably a terrible idea unless there's lots of overhead.

Ya, robotics is like genetics in the sense that it's a field trapped between many categories with specific needs.

It's a medical field because it requires quick access to the morgue and involves surgery, but it's also kind of an engineering field because of the heavy resource consumption and need. I feel that robotics should eventually start making its way closer to the half-way point between engineering and medbay if it ends up taking the augment path. Maybe even get its own NanoMed.