Cyborg

Cyborgs, for a board definition, are any organic life form that has been augmented by mechanical or technological prosthesis be it limbs to varying degree, as well as organs or some form of implant within the body to aid in it's continued, sometimes improved function. Most modern cybernetic technology available to the public is extremely limited, but advanced forms of cybernetic augmentation have been applied to humans and animals under experimental circumstances, usually by fringe-science organisations such as Black Labs, but companies such as Kitech Tengan Technologies and Midori Bioscience also provide experimental work with cybernetics and bio-robotics for future public use.

### History

The earliest known true definition of working cybernetic interfaces between living being and machine were actually in operation as far back as the victorian era with experiments into "bio-galvanic-mechanisms" but it wasn't until Black Labs began experimenting, rather cruelly, with animals that highly advanced interactions between mechanical operations and neurological biology began, however in public these experiments were considered far to invasive and painful, not to mention actual mechanical technology at the time was still underdeveloped. Even in the deep hidden depths of Black Labs and the later Argent didn't begin the development of true 'bionic' systems and interfaces until the 1980's and 90's when a few more public companies began experimenting with prosthetic limbs; this eventually led to military interest in bionics, but so far no major military force has official cyborg solders or operatives.

Because of this, those who have had extremely advanced cybernetic augments, either by themselves being highly skilled inventors, or due to fringe-science experiments, often keep their upgrades low-key, or play them off as standard medical prosthesis.

### Known Cyborgs

**Ace -** Catherine Kite is daughter of Robert Kite, founder of Kite Technologies of Australia saved Cat's life after she was brain-damaged when she was hit by a truck, the chips placed in her brain allowed her to regain her motor-neuron functions; after rehabilitation she discovered her reflexes and mental processing began to grow to superhuman levels.

**Aquila**- Wez Caruso*,* a winged **cyborg** and ex-military man supposedly cybernetically enhanced by an Augustine Corporation and Argent Scientific project.

**Mech** - Alex Schmidt was a young German airforce lieutenant who was seriously injured during a crash in Afghanistan, losing his right arm but kept fighting behind enemy lines, Schmidt was discovered by Black Labs and used in their bionics experiments, replacing his arms with a cybernetic ones. When neohuman doctor Amal Harrak saw his potential he aided Black Lab's and the two became MiB. He is the older brother of Twist.

**Kamakiri** - Goro Imai also known as "Kamakiri" was head of head of Clan Kamakiri, a group of Yakuza who broke away from the standard family-based clan system of the organisation, instead Goro took the Japanese name for "Mantis" and gathered a following of Yakuza, driven by their own personal gain, interest in advanced technology and goal to become the predominant ruling clan of Japan's mob empire. His mechanical arms could transform into razor-sharp mantis claws and had improved leg and foot joints and muscular implants that let him leap considerable distances and run at over 70 mph in short bursts and brain implants increase his senses and reactions.

**Kikashia -** A Japanese cyborg altered by Midori Bioscience who had mechanical legs, she was an enemy of Supersamurai.

**The Proletarian** **-** Alexei Goncharov was altered by Nestor Kuznetsov for an early human-machine interface program, during the rule of the Soviet Union, which later became Slava Rossii, but turned on them during the transition; he had enhanced strength and could transform his right arm into a cycle and his left a hammer; all evidence of his existence and link to the CCCP was erased and Alexei, being a symbol of the old Union was to be killed, but Alexei escaped.