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Chakat Thornbrier Technical Detail: Arms, Breasts, Implants by ThornBrier

In response to foxboyprower's question regarding how I got my extra arms and computer I wrote up a few notes. I think I will also write other Technical Detail journals about other things from my characters lives.

Extra Arms:

The arms were grown in special vats from my own tissues on a carbano-silicate alloy bone mesh much denser than the 'real' arms above. As such, my lower arms lack proper bone marrow which leads to a reduced white blood cell count in the lower arms. They took about 5 years to grow. The entire structure they grew too was modified from normal arms to include the necessary mounting and blade set up to fuse with the existing rib/spine structures in place rather than a normal shoulder assembly. While shrugging the lower shoulders ends up looking roughly like one would expect the method of achieving that movement is very different than normal shoulders and notably different from those of my daughter Florence NightGale who's arms are natural (transporter accident modified hir DNA during gestation, the arms are not hir only genetic oddity).

Extra Breasts:

The tech advanced considerably over the years and by the time I added my extra breasts, since no hard structures were required I was able to do small incisions to implant 'seed cells' programmed to grow under the skin to generate the end structure desired. My calculations were thrown off a little by the hormones generated during pregnancy causing the new breasts to be almost a full size larger than originally intended. Following pregnancy they reduced to almost the desired size.

Computer Implant:

The first computer was implanted into my spine at the age of 8 to be 'more like mommy' who had regular surgeries for testing out various neurologically controlled robotic legs (her lower body having been blown off in the terrorist bombing that killed her wife). This vastly opened up my childhood from being just me, mom, uncle, and the servants in our Ivory Tower to suddenly having quick and easy access to the collected knowledge of the internet. I learned much from it and started becoming an engineer and hacker. Over the years I upgraded the computer, added interface ports, a cooling system, more efficient batteries, and eventually a small generator. Between my front legs I have an interface plate hidden by a flap of skin with organic elastic fibers to hold shut when not in use. From this plate I have two long prehensile cables (with small lazer cutters) that are strong enough to lift light objects on their own, but the primary purpose is to snake into a computer housing to find a suitable port or cabling to hack in through. The super computer is almost as powerful as those used aboard the smaller Federation star ships, but cranking it up that high requires plugging into an external liquid cooling system or I boil my blood, so I tend to run most of my high end simulations on either my home computer system or my star ships computer system. On rare cases I will plug myself in and run all three networked on a single problem.

Implant Interface:

Interface wise the implant taps into my ocular nerves to 'show' me a semi-transparent display across the entire world similar to a holographic HUD. Through a combination of mental commands, physical gestures, voice, and hardware input I command the programs (most of which I wrote or modified specifically for my needs) to do anything from hacking, warp field simulation, tracking my company and ships, to controlling my house, the portal projectors, and common websurfing. Each mental command takes focus and time, so typing mentally is generally not quite as fast as typing. Thus my work desk has a set up with the two common physical keyboards many chakats use as well as 'holo' keyboards I can move around in my retinal display to 'type' in the air with whatever hands are not at the physical keyboards. Physical keyboards are also maintained on much of my home and star ship equipment so they maybe used by those without implants.

Chakat Thornbrier Technical Detail: Arms, Breasts, Implants

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