The human body is not fully equipped to deal with having pieces of it excised and replaced with cybernetics. \u00a0There is always a period of adjustment while the mind comes to grips with the neural interface pathways required to use the new implant. \u00a0This often causes a feeling of dysphasia, where the user\u2019s mind does not recognize the implant as part of it, and perceives its actions as alien or controlled by some other. \u00a0Through the use of anti-dysphasia drugs and subtle tweaks in Angel code, most of humanity learns to deal with their cybernetics. \u00a0The adjustments become harder and harder as more of the body is replaced with cybernetics. \u00a0In some cases, the mind within the increasingly inhuman body fractures, and begins to create the Other that controls the cybernetics. \u00a0When this happens, the cyborg often goes on a killing rampage, requiring an intervention from the Cybernetics Enforcement division of the local police department. \u00a0These people are known as Headcases.<\/p>\n
In other cases, the human mind controlling the body shuts down entirely, no longer able to accept the changes in its reality. \u00a0Usually this means the person dies, but in some cases the body continues to function, supported by its cybernetics even while the meat dies around them. \u00a0Control of the body is subsumed by the Angel within, which in most cases will continue to try and accomplish the tasks that its previous owner would have done on a daily basis. \u00a0These creatures are called Zeroes. \u00a0Most Zeroes are harmless, but in the occasional rare instance the Angel somehow achieves sentience, possibly because of the greater demands placed upon it without feedback from the previous owner, and goes rogue. \u00a0In these cases, the consciousness controlling the Zero is totally alien to what humanity understands and its motives are inscrutable. \u00a0All that can be assured is that the Zero will take any steps required to preserve its own life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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