Whew... what a lot to read...<br/><br/>Okay so 26 characters on base is actually doable.... Brings the total to 77, because two of them (me and Atlas) rode up front in the shuttle. The other two shuttles will have 25 passengers, pilot and copilot, but those two will go back up... (actually there ate only two physical shuttles and we're keeping one).<br/><br/><strong>The implant:</strong><br/><br/>I think I explained this somewhere, but I'll recap. It's basically the same as the CPU of your tablet computer, except it is wired directly into your head. You can have additional memory chips there too.<br/><br/>It willk do ANYTHING a present day computer will do, plus it can do some other pretty amazing stuff too. It has wireless intranet access (there is no internet on Mars yet), it can make long distance phone calls, picking up your voice and relaying it, and sending the reply to your aural nerves, it can play music the same way.<br/><br/>It can play video directly to your optic nerve - in fact your optic nerve is it's main display medium. It has two display modes - black-out and see-through, so you can be totally immersed in what you are doing or can overlay ot over the real world.<br/><br/>You can open a spreadsheet, put numbers and formulas in just by thinking about it, zip the file and email it to your boss, all within a second, all just by wanting to.<br/><br/>With the optional hard-jack - which is compulsory to the military, and to civilian pilots, you get secure thought control over whatever you happen to be driving or flying. Other non military ground vehicles can be controlled by a standard blue-tooth link.<br/><br/>You might have noticed a rather odd device listed in the habitat room's inventory?<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">1 bluetooth implant link base station</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>This device links your implant to the room's smart-systems. So, just by thinking about it, you can turn on the screen, lock the door, start the shower, play music from your implant over therooms speakers, or<em>vice versa</em>- play music from the base's library in your head.<br/><br/>Basically, use your imaginations.<br/><br/>Just as there are a quadrillion and one aps for smart phones, so there will be aps for your implant. Monitor your heart rate. Monitor your calories. Go shopping. Pay your bills. book a holiday. Speak a foreign language. Control a robot arm. Make everyone look like smurfs. Record a full-sense porn-movie of your lovemaking and then swap with your lover to see what it felt like from their perspective....<br/><br/>The cancer risk is 0.000,000,001% - if you already have a brain tumour it will make it worse, but implants have been know to cause two in sixty years of use by billions of people...<br/><br/>The greatest risk is having your implant hacked by a "brain worm" virus. There are fifty or so brain-worms out their and they have various effects from simply wiping your implant to killing you outright. The worst one is called "puppet". It uploads a virus program into the implant which then spreads into the subjects brain, scrambling neurons. It wipes human memory, and leaves what is effectively a cabbage. The virus then writes a new personality in, and opens an internet link to a server in Japan. The server has long sinse been shut down and victims of the virus now stand like cardboard cut-outs (or abandoned RP characters) until help arrives, but previously they would head via the fastest possible route to the home of one Yushiko Amasato, the author of the virus. He had amassed quite a harem when he was arrested!<br/><br/>These days, of course, all implants come with free AVG software pre-installed with the option to upgrade to the full package for a reasonable fee.<br/><br/><hr/><br/><strong>IMPORTANT NOTE:</strong><br/><br/>Please can I remind everyone that we are in :<br/>Play-By-Post: Light »<br/>Light: Human Small Groups<br/><br/>Light means just that. Keep things light please.<br/><br/>If you are after heavy BDSM, serious kinkiness, rape, whatever, you are in the wrong game.<br/><br/>This doesn't mean you can't have fun. The odd spanking, the odd tying up, I<em>think</em>we will get away with, but we WON'T is it becomes the main theme of the sex.<br/><br/>LIGHT, as in not heavy. So, no rubber hose and lube, please.... unless it becomes necessary as an actual medical procedure, and then I'd prefer it not be described in detail, thanks.<br/><br/>I enjoy BDSM as much as the next pervert and I'm 50/50 switch so I D and S. Those of you who know me, know I'm almost as kinky as it gets. I put the game in light because I wanted it to be as inclusive as possible. That means there might be people playing who are turned off by a slap on the backside, however playfully delivered.<br/><br/>Hence my rule about respecting O/Os.<br/><br/>This is a gentle reminder. Please don't make me start PMing people?