Dee loves being a taur - but loves trying out new cybernetics of her own design even more.

She originally massed around 60 kilograms. After losing her limbs, her head, torso, and tail add up to about 30 kilograms. In a 1-gravity environment, such as Earth, she weighs about 65 pounds; in the 0.02 gravities found in Eichsfeldia, she weighs about 1.5 pounds. Her new prosthetic masses about 40 kilograms, bringing the total weight to around 3 pounds. A couple of astonishingly small, rather low-powered ducted fans are more than capable of countering that weight, allowing her to hover in mid-air for over six hours without needing a recharge.

Dee has used enough of a variety of differently-shaped prosthetics that the sensory and motor homunculi in her brain have become relatively fluid, compared to most furs'. However, in order to make this particular prosthetic as easy to use as possible, she's arranged matters to overlay each tentacle's input and output onto an individual finger, allowing her to control them as precisely as any keyboardist. However, this approach also means that this prosthetic works best when she leaves off her usual prosthetic arms and hands.

One of the least flashy, but interestingly fundamental, technologies in this setting is gecko-tech, aka "geck". A piece of geck is made up of flat strips, covered in microscopically fine hairs with spade-like tips. When one current is run through a piece of geck, the hairs all line up, and it becomes extremely adhesive; when the opposite current is run through, they release. Each square centimeter can support over a hundred pounds of force - that's about 50 kg in 1 gravity, or 2500 kg in 0.02 gravities. Geck can replace clothes fasteners, nails, screws, duct-tape, air-mask seals, suction cups, and velcro. It costs about 65 New Attican Bucks per square meter.

The central part of this prosthetic is a body-glove, covering her from the waist down. It's derived from the socket of her taur-shaped prosthetic, which is itself derived from the lowerhalf of a vacuum skinsuit. Thus, her prosthetic is also able to function as the lower half of a spacesuit. It uses geck to adhere to her (thus, it works best if she keeps more than just her stumps shaven). Geck-sealed flaps allow for all the normal biological functions when desired, and preserve her modesty at other times.

The tentacles' sculpting gives them a fully lifelike appearance when no tools are deployed. Each has a modular socket in the tip, filtered intakes for the ducted fans, a battery, flexi-motors, a structural framework, its own CPU, internal laser-ring gyroscopes for positioning, and assorted minor details.

She's decided to number the individual tentacles like a clock - 1 and 2 on her front-right, 3 and 4 on her back-right, 5 and 6 on her back-left, and 7 and 8 on her front-left. This reference shows a typical module load-out of:

1: Variable-strength laser torch. Usable as a fire-lighter, sight/designator, flashlight, cooker, dazzler/blinder, welder, cutter, combat pulser, and the emitter for a laser chemscanner.

2: Mechanical tools (pliers, screwdriver, drill, wrench, etc)

3: Sonic probe

4: Spraygun and tank - at the moment, filled with fire extinguisher foam

5: (This module space left empty to hide away small objects, eg a roll of geck-tape)

6: Cablejack and spool of optical fiber

7: Electronics tools (logic probe, soldering iron, etc), also usable as electronic lockpicks or taser

8: micromanipulators for extremely fine work (also suitable as mechanical lockpicks); and a microscope

Other modules she's built include:

• Other spray tanks: quick-hardening construction foam, pesticide, slipspray, adhesive, spray paint, aerosol smoke, etc
  
• Chainsaw
  
• Medical tools: surgical tools, biosensors, pneumohypo and selection of drugs, bandage spray
  
• Hive for swarm of insect-sized microbots
  
• Additional batteries

Drawn by Seth Triggs ( https://www.furaffinity.net/user/sethtriggs/ )