From: bluemoon@gator.rn.com
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Subject: BIOCON a Corporation for CP2020
Date: 12 Oct 92 18:22:31 GMT
Organization: Blue Moon BBS ((614) 868-998[024])
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A corporation for use in CP2020.

 

 

BIOCON [BIOlogical CONcepts]

 

Biocon is a joint venture by Biotechnica and Zetatech.  The Biocon series 
chips

use a new organic based medium for the fabrication of nanocircuitry 
involved.  

 

Background

 

      Biocon was a small independent unaligned company working on CASIC 
(Cyber

Application Specific Integrated Circuits) for various models of Cyberware, 
mainly

New Tech designs, i.e.  a solo has a smart gun interface link, Biocon 
might

develop a compatible replacement chipset that increases the speed of the

interface by up to 5% over stock, or a neural interface that operates so

efficiently that it gives the user a interface mod of +2 over stock.  Then 
one

of their researchers, Kiryo Matabimisha, stumbled across the beginnings of 
what

is termed as CRYSTAL BRAIN (CB) technology while working on an ATTR chip 
design. 

Kiryo, however, was also working for both Zetatech and Biotechnica at the 
same

time, a little industrial espionage, and sent the findings to both 
companies

hoping to drive up the price for the information some.  Instead of a 
corporate

skirmish, the two companies cooperated and made an offer to Biocon's board 
of

directors, an offer that could not be refused.  There was a rumor that

Biotechnica contracted with Arasaka to perform a corporate extraction, but 
all

reports have been silenced.  To perform the extraction and clean up 
operations,

Arasaka was given 2 seats on the board of directors, for access to certain

military facilities Militech was given 2 seats on the board, 3 seats went 
to

Biotechnica and 3 seats went with Zetatech, while 1 seat remained with 
Biocon. 

Because of the makeup of the board of directors there is a lot of tension 
and

maneuvering.  

 

Financials

 

Area                          Expenditures            Intake            
Profit

==========================  ==================  =================  
=============

R & D                         100M eu                 20M eu            
-80M eu

3rd Party Cyber Upgrades       10M eu                 40M eu             
30M eu

Military/Paramil. Upgrades     25M eu                150M eu            
125M eu

Entertainment                  15M eu                 75M eu             
60M eu

 

Product Line

 

Crystal Brain (CB)

Armourlite Ballistic Plastic (ABP)

Space Skin (SS)

Intelli Products

New Youth Products

Aquatech Products

 

Product Description

 

CRYSTAL BRAIN

 

The Crystal Brain (CB) for short, involves the augmentation of a human 
brain with

a more efficient synthetic brain... The CB technology allows the body to 
perform

at the MAXIMUM potential, [game terms add +2 to Body], because the CB is

controlling the production of hormones and the body's own immune system, a 
person

that is CBed will be the most physically fit and healthy looking person

imaginable.  The CB technology takes the organic human brain and moves it 
to the

chest area in a container made of ABP [see below],  all vital organs are 
replaced

with the IntelliProducts equivalent, thereby giving additional boosts, the

combination of CB and Intelliproducts acts like speedware, allowing 
greater

reflex response, bone and muscle act as if they have been laced.  The CB 
uses the

organic brain for a storage medium so a CBed individual could learn 
quicker and

have an intelligence attribute increase based upon the efficiency of the 
CB.  

 

Now the downside: The CB technology requires the organic brain to be in 
Alpha

Sleep, not fully asleep, not fully awake, like in a dream that never ends. 


Because of this the CBed individual is required to have a phychiatrist on 
call

at least 3 times a week or more depending on the efficiency rating of the 
CB. 

The Higher the efficiency the more this person will need "personality

adjustment".   The CB technology requires that the individual has a 
fitting for

a recepticle containing Varact 5, a multipurpose drug that acts as an 
Endorphine

Catalyst, Adrenaline Actuator, and a Narcotic Sedative.  The sedative 
keeps the

organic brain in the right "sleep" state, while the Endorphine controls 
the pain,

and the Adrenaline helps the body with enhanced strenghth on demand.  
However,

if Varact 5 is not available, the individual can go into Suicidal 
Depression,

Psychosis, or even Homocidal Rages, as the organic brain tries and take 
control

back from the CB, [ever see Robocop2?], *[an aside here----RoboCop and the

RoboCop 2 characters would be the ultimate in CBed....we have taken and 
totally

built a Robocop type character in one of our CP2020 Games, based upon the 
movies

and disection of the actions in the movies, if anyone is interested I can 
post

more details on this.]  Once a year the CB must go in for a refill, and 
every six

months he must go to a European Body Shop for "attitude adjustment".  A CB 
can

"Bare Brain" it into a network plug and play with the equivalent of the 
best deck

available, except he can have up to 3 extra programs available.

 

ARMOURLITE BALLISTIC PLASTIC

 

ABP is a new step in polymer technology.  The polymer is structured just 
like

living tissue, and is self replicating, a living plastic.  ABP has a very 
dense

cellular structure so it has the added benefit of being puncture 
resistant.  ABP

may be grown into any shape and trained to retain the shape as much as 
possible. 

In the CB technology, a container made of ABP is grown to house the 
organic

brain... the walls of this container are only 2.5 centimenters thich and 
has an

SP 60 rating, it also has neural receptors integrated to accept the 
connections

to other cyber attachments.

 

SPACE SKIN

 

Space Skin is a hybrid ABP and Skinweave, except it has the ability to 
withstand

temperatures of -150 C - +400 C.  It can withstand internal and external

pressures up to 175kg/square centimeter, without rupture and has a 
photosynthetic

ability, SS is required for all colonists on Mars or other Space bound 
colonists. 

the SP base is 20 on all exposed skin areas.

 

TO BE CONTINUED

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