June 2018
June 2018
Well, is it cybernetics for Shepard or bio-engineering? I haven't really delved into that topic but I didn't get the feeling that when Shepard was rebuilt it was as a cyborg.
As for Ryder, well, that sounds like a riskier situation. That implant must have a power source to keep it running and shutting that down with an EMP could be conceivable.
To be honest, I really don't like this idea of an AI enhanced protagonist myself. It's the implant that makes you special basically and it can potentially be hacked as well so an EMP hit is not the only concern there.
June 2018
June 2018
Yeah they do talk about cybernetics but Miranda in her logs also states there was no genetic or neural tampering. So it sounds to me that cybernetics may have been used to reconstruct Shepard but it sounds to me like it was more in support of structural elements like the skeleton and allowing the regeneration of Shepard as very much a living being, which was the idea behind it I suppose. So enhanced but still Shepard's own genes and neurology.
So I don't think that there are cybernetics in the sense of them being electrical systems running the body that can be shut down by an EMP. But that's just how I interpret that.
It's hard to really say...it's still Cerberus we're talking about here
July 2018
July 2018
Huh...Never thought about it that way. That actually makes alot of sense . That settles the matter of Shepard and I guess S.A.M. Node would be Ryder’s vulnerable point for electronic/cyber attacks instead of Ryder themselves, although we see throughout the game that S.A.M. isn’t the most well defended especially if directly tampered with. Sure the implant going down doesn’t kill Ryder but it sure has a significant impact on them.