Working Up A Storm - Pt4

I'm kinda altering Tim/Tempest's (yeah, I'm changing her name from Terra because Tempest sounds cooler) prosthetic arms on the fly as I'm figuring out what works and what doesn't. Cybernetic augments are hard to draw and keep on model.

The way that hyronic augmentations and limb replacements work in Empire By is that they're made up of a thin composite metal skeleton within, surrounded by a (completely made up nonsense) material called hyro-carbons, a kind of semi-organic fiber strand that functions both as a muscle and as its own CPU. Each strand is about 10 times thicker than the average human muscle fibre and needs to be able to process the information that the central hyronic interface processor (located in Tempest's spine, but can also be installed in the brain for more optimization at the cost of being much, much more difficult to install) sends. The hyro-carbon strands are also able to transmit sensations like heat, cold and pressure, as the outer shell of the limb is made up of a complex weave of various synthetic materials.

In the end, this actually means that although the limbs can't actually grow in mass through training, the experience of having them installed is 1:1 with your own biological arms.

Sandoval Innovations, as a nationally incorporated corporation in Empire Bay, owns an indefinite and confidential patent on the hyro-carbon technology as well as the hyronic interface code. This code runs in ternary where the second bit activates the strands at fractional power rather than just 0% and 100% as in binary. This is because human, alterhuman and therian brains and bodies don't work in binary. The second bit is adaptive and the programmers working on the 60 trillion lines of code are not quite sure why it's like that, but they think it's because hyro-carbons are semi-organic.

Copycats of hyro-carbon technology exists, with the two biggest competitors being Wincock Industries and Yaojing Tech, the former making what's regarded as the worst cybernetic replacement limbs on the market but unlike the competition, sells and designs for militaries as well as the consumer market. Meanwhile, Yaojing Tech focuses on the high-end market, only developing a small number of highly optimized augments and replacements, their eye replacements are of particularly high-quality.

Anyway, Orc babe. Next we're gonna see her clubbing with her personal trainer ;)