[gurps] Brainships in GURPs 3ed

[Zan Lynx]

On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 18:28 -0700, Brandon Cope wrote:
> --- On Wed, 4/30/08, tprist <tprist at clearwire.net> wrote:
> 
> > I have a question for all the Gearheads out there,
> > Especially either Onno,
> > or Brandon.  Has anyone tried to do a Brainship similar to
> > the ones in the
> > Anne McCaffery universe in either GURPs Vehicle 3ed, or
> > Space 3ed?
> 
> Sorry, I don't read McCaffery. No idea what a Brainship is.

Here's a quick summary: 

Human beings who are born with serious problems or have been too badly
damaged are put into "shells".  These are full life-support systems and
neural interface units.  These shell-people are then used to run ships,
space stations or other things.  They are cyborg brains, sort of.

In the books there's quite a bit about how some shell people are treated
as machines and don't care for it.  There's also a romance between a
shell-person woman and her "brawn" (the guy who does physical stuff for
the ship).  Of course, nothing can come of it: they are forever
separated.

There's a thing invented in a later book: a remote control android body
for shell-people, and of *course* they use it. :)
-- 
Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org>