Biological modification

Biological modification is the modification of the human body to include cyborg or new biological elements.
Cetaceans are modified to breathe and swim underwater.
The Unspeakable Darkness have modified themselves into bizarre monsters.
Many Valkyries have been modified after injury to include powerful cyborg components.
There are people with nearly complete synthetic bodies, courting youth or power, or just replacing lost limbs and organs like Dr. Niide does for Valhalla.  The world in 2230 is right on the cusp of being able to simply plop a brain into a robotic body and keep a person alive until their nervous system dies of old age. Dr. Niide especially has been experimenting with robotics on a level that can hardwire fighting techniques into near-complete robotic forms so that the Valkyries don’t have to re-learn to fight every time they get a new limb.
The fastest advancing field is in transhuman brain augmentation. People project that within their lifetimes they’ll be able to grow smarter, think faster, and perform incredible feats of the mind. Beyond that, they expect within 50 years to be able to have computers that can mimic neural tissue and even transfer minds into quantum lattices, negating the need for corporeal form. Immortality is expected to be common within the century. In 2230 though, brains cannot yet be modified to be smarter, or less lazy.
Rather than surgically altering themselves some people prefer to have their body mods taken genetically. A company by the name of Genmod uses an as of yet unnamed noninvasive procedure to program body modifications directly into the recipient's genes. The results are apparent natural body modifications which can enhance physical attributes or even make the recipient look like a completely different person. 
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