…PMC-18 extraction kits, and the presence of these kits in a clinic's inventory is an unofficial indicator that the clinic serves a clientele that encounters this kind…

The PGM-4 is a spherical micro-projectile designed for the CDP-2 'Bruiser' platform, consisting of a 4mm gel bead with an embedded piezoelectric crystal arra…

The DUF-3x22 is an unlicensed black market flechette manufactured in illicit workshops using depleted uranium alloy instead of the standard tungsten-ceramic …

A mellow, slightly creamy soda built on synth-jackfruit base with a clean star anise finish. Calu markets it as a 'slow sip' drink — something you nurse rath…

…e lobbies of mid-grade corporate towers and at BCI-wellness clinics. There is a persistent, unverified rumor that Celani contains trace compounds that improve BCI lat…

A caffeinated soda built on real mate extract cut with synth-guava, positioned as a cleaner, less aggressive alternative to pure energy drinks. Delvek market…

…in Tier 4 corporate wellness programs and BCI-optimization clinics. The health claims are aggressively vague and technically legal. Its gold color photographs except…

…3 professionals who consider pharmaceutical stimulants too clinical. Korrath markets aggressively to BCI-augmented users, claiming the formula pairs well with focus-…

Soft, translucent gummies in tamarind-coconut flavor carrying a light synth-serotonin precursor compound intended to produce a mild mood lift over 3-4 hours …

…served at Tier 3 meditation lounges and biometric wellness clinics. Some users drink it before BCI calibration sessions, claiming it smooths the sync process — Orave…

…s considered mildly stress-relieving — therapists in Tier 2 clinics actually recommend them as a tactile focus tool. Counterfeit Solgrip wraps exist; regulars can tel…

…both require recovery periods, and Sorra markets heavily to clinics and post-op care facilities. It's become associated with vulnerability and healing, which gives it…

…ve. It's rarely advertised — it spread through augmentation clinic waiting rooms and chrome-tech forums.

…d mild norepinephrine precursor — legal stim-candy, sold in clinical-looking amber vials of 20. Flavor is yuzu and crystallized ginger. Zestral Drops are the socially…

Lazarus Pharmaceuticals emerged from the wreckage of the 2136 Corridor Plague — a synthetic respiratory pathogen that killed an estimated 800,000 corridor re…

…dependency-forming than original Clarity — and Nightshade's clinical services division profits handsomely from treating Clarity dependency. Internal documents leaked…

Novafold was created in 2144 through the hostile merger of seven mid-tier pharmaceutical firms by a financier-turned-bioethicist named Cassius Ren, who had m…

…ware of research programs, pharmaceutical developments, and clinical practices that the Tribes might find relevant. This is not classic espionage. These are not agen…

…tualistic reputation: getting one installed in a back-alley clinic is treated as an initiation rite in certain courier collectives, even knowing the hardware is unrel…

…system for short combat bursts or throttle it down to near-clinical calm for precision work, hostage negotiation, or resisting interrogation-grade stress stimuli. Th…

…ying. Helix markets it as a 'clarity architecture,' and the clinical literature supports the framing — decision latency under duress drops measurably, and fine motor…

…re. Helix Biosystems markets it discreetly through licensed clinics under the euphemism 'cognitive wellness infrastructure.' The Second Skin occupies a peculiar socia…

…consider a basic quality-of-life necessity. Sleep disorder clinics offer licensed versions; corporate employees use it to synchronize perfectly with demanding shift…

The Surge is a bioengineered adrenal augmentation developed by Lazarus Pharmaceuticals that replaces or supplements the natural adrenal gland with a syntheti…

…disorders in high-risk occupational environments, and this clinical framing remains central to how it is licensed and prescribed. What distinguishes Stillwater from…

…can be refilled through a licensed Lazarus Pharmaceuticals clinic or, more commonly, through black-market refill kits of variable and sometimes dangerous quality. T…

…nnot afford the recovery time that normal pain demands. The clinical framing is accurate. The NTA genuinely improves quality of life for people in persistent pain, an…

…genuinely common — Lazarus distributes it through licensed clinics as a bone health intervention, and it is not exotic or expensive by augmentation standards. This m…

…mselves quietly. Lazarus Pharmaceuticals markets it through clinics under the brand name 'ClaroVite Ocular Therapy,' a naming choice considered cynically transparent…

…Lazarus-controlled medical zones — locals who find one in a clinic bathroom know better than to touch it, having learned that lesson the hard way. In Lazarus-controll…

The Lazarus Shade is a subcutaneous thermal management system produced by Lazarus Pharmaceuticals in conjunction with a hardware subsidiary, combining a shor…

…cture, the Armature is used in post-exposure detoxification clinics and in corporate medical facilities where executive-tier patients require rapid clearing of either…

The Neuroshock Suppression Patch is a transdermal medical device developed by Tessera Corponation's medical subsidiary as a countermeasure to neurogenic shoc…

…orate wellness divisions and licensed cosmetic augmentation clinics, positioning it as much as a luxury product as a tactical one. However, the same units sold to cor…

…Dao Bioelectric's answer to a problem the company frames in clinical language — 'cumulative neural stress load' — but which its users describe in blunter terms: the s…

The Fascia Conductor Mesh is a sub-dermal augmentation woven directly into the connective tissue layers between muscle and skin, threading bioelectric condui…

…ing in its own right. The Galvanic Dermis Overlay carries a clinical, almost intimate quality that sets it apart from conventional armor — it is worn against the skin…

…The survey protocol adds time to resuscitation — a genuine clinical tradeoff that has been the subject of significant debate. Zheng-Dao's position is that a defibril…

The Confessor's Ear is a neurological augmentation developed by Zheng-Dao Bioelectric that grants the user heightened sensitivity to the involuntary physiolo…

…patients for whom pharmaceutical approaches had failed. The clinical version allowed psychiatrists to make adjustments through an external interface; the commercial v…

The Neural Cipher Bridge is a subdermal implant that encodes all outgoing communications — voice, text relay, and data burst — through a biometric cipher gen…

…n or error. The Cartographer was originally developed as a clinical tool for individuals with severe proprioceptive disorders, and Zheng-Dao still markets it in that…

…ance Day ## Getting Your Augmentations Serviced at a Shelf Clinic The sign says CHROME CHECK — WALK-INS WELCOME, but the wait time written on the board beneath it s…

…ance Day ## Getting Your Augmentations Serviced at a Shelf Clinic The sign says CHROME CHECK — WALK-INS WELCOME, but the wait time written on the board beneath it s…

# What Cyberware Rejection Smells Like ## A Clinic Nurse's Account I have worked the augmentation recovery ward at Shelf Medical Station 14 for eleve…

# What Cyberware Rejection Smells Like ## A Clinic Nurse's Account I have worked the augmentation recovery ward at Shelf Medical Station 14 for eleve…

…ians maintaining neural interfaces in environments far from clinical facilities.

…nments. The underlying sensor array is derived from Helix's clinical diagnostic hardware, miniaturized and ruggedized for continuous wear. What the device does that c…

…ractures under compression loads are less frequent. Helix's clinical literature frames the suit as a medical device rather than armor, a classification that carries i…

…luntness. Unlike precision nanite therapies administered in clinical settings, this device floods the body with a broad-spectrum swarm designed to handle the most com…

The Pulmonary Resection Bellows is a compact, accordion-framed pneumatic device designed to maintain respiratory function in patients whose pulmonary muscula…

…tely two to three minutes, with a success rate that Helix's clinical trials put at 71% — a figure that field medics call 'brutally honest and somehow comforting.' The…

…the medical device regulatory framework that would require clinical trials, manufacturing certification, and GLMZ's notoriously slow approval process. The result is…

The Coagulant Bloom Injector is a single-use autoinjector loaded with a proprietary Lazarus compound designated LP-Heme-7, a synthetic fibrinogen catalyst su…

…s to make survivability calls is seen as an encroachment on clinical authority, and several high-profile cases where CRISPIN deprioritized a wound that a human surgeo…

…lly targets — it is found in community centers, underground clinics, and housing collectives that cannot afford licensed access and will not tolerate surveillance of…

…extensively modifying Fold Vans into rolling homes, medical clinics, and workshops, given their spatial flexibility. The vehicle appears in dozens of Vantablack Media…

…devices. The Cuff can be worn for up to four hours without clinically significant nerve damage in healthy tissue; in compromised tissue, Zheng-Dao recommends two hou…

…than an automated protocol that cannot account for the full clinical picture. The clamp's signal generator is powered by a rechargeable cell good for approximately fo…

Seam Registry did not begin as a hacker collective. It began as a mutual aid documentation project in 2178, when a cohort of Tier-3 and Tier-4 citizens in Th…

The Aperture Communion began not as a political movement or a criminal enterprise but as a grief support group. In the aftermath of the ZHENG-DAO BIOELECTRIC…

…h generates steady business from chop shops and gray-market clinics. Everyone despises them. Even criminals who deal in stolen augments find the Bone Parish distaste…

…d, augmentation maintenance outside of corporate-controlled clinics, and peer-based labor arbitration. Their membership numbers are disputed — PALLADIAN CONSTRUCTION…

…ll-arms training program for residents, maintains a medical clinic with a retired combat medic, and enforces a strict no-hard-drugs policy in their territory that has…

…running parallel civic infrastructure: unlicensed legal aid clinics, tiered citizenship audit services, and a shadow bureaucracy that helps Tier 5 and 6 residents for…

…rteen unlicensed medical practitioners who operate a mobile clinic network across Chicago's Shelf. They're not a gang in the conventional sense — they don't control t…

The Gradient Compact began as an informal professional association among a specific and unusual labor category: human 'behavioral texture consultants' employ…

The Hollow Census emerged from a specific bureaucratic catastrophe in 2181, when TESSERA CORPONATION and PALLADIAN CONSTRUCTION jointly lobbied the GLMZ Civi…

…— is that they're not wrong about being necessary. The free clinics they fund are the only healthcare most Shelf residents will ever see. Their protection, while expe…

…ARUS PHARMACEUTICALS' hostile absorption of three community clinics in the Shelf district roughly eleven years ago. When those clinics shuttered and their patient rec…

The Pure Hand is an anti-augmentation militant group operating across the GLMZ, with their largest cell — about seventy members — based in the remnants of Mi…

…verse. Construction crews buy recovered building materials. Clinics buy pre-collapse medical equipment. Data brokers buy recovered server contents. The Reclaimed sell…

…cenary work. They're not subtle operators. They hit augment clinics, rob couriers carrying implant shipments, and ambush lone travelers to strip them of whatever chro…

…them, sell it. The extraction process ranges from crude to clinical depending on which Skinner is holding the blade and how cooperative the victim is. Some targets w…

Restructures the human pinna into feline-form ears positioned higher on the skull, complete with independent muscular control allowing the ears to rotate, fl…

A hybrid of geneprint and chromatophore technology that produces small, localized patches of dynamic pigment cells that animate in response to physiological …

Introduces bioluminescent protein expression into the iris and optionally the sclera, causing the eyes to produce their own visible light. The glow is soft —…

…hift throughout the day. Street versions from backroom gene clinics are often stuck on a single color and brightness, turning the user into a permanent lantern. In th…

…ide 10–15 minutes of backup circulation — enough to reach a clinic.

…full-body coverage costs three times as much. Street-level clinics offer a budget version that only shifts between two or three preset colors. High-end Helix Biosyst…

…heap, poorly sequenced gene modifications from black-market clinics layered on top of each other without compatibility testing. Chimeric splice users display a patchw…

Introduces chromatophore cells into the nail beds of fingers and toes, allowing voluntary color-shifting of the nails across the full visible spectrum. The n…

…clude bioluminescent elements that glow in darkness. Street clinics offer static geneprints for less than the cost of a meal. The technology has essentially replaced…

Elongates and reshapes the human ear pinna into a pointed, elfin configuration — taller, narrower, and tapering to a point. Unlike the cat ear modification w…

A streamlined version of the Prometheus Mod focused purely on toxin processing speed without the regeneration component. Enhances the liver's cytochrome P450…

Converts hair follicles along the scalp's mohawk line into feather-producing follicles, creating a crest of genuine feathers along the crown of the head. The…

Introduces bar-headed goose hemoglobin variants that bind oxygen with extraordinary efficiency, combined with enhanced lung surfactant production and expande…

Enhances the liver's natural regenerative capacity using zebrafish organ regeneration genes and axolotl dedifferentiation factors. The modified liver can reg…

Extends the vestigial webbing between human fingers and toes into functional swimming membranes. The webbing is thin, translucent, and vascularized, extendin…

Rewrites the melanocyte stem cells in hair follicles to produce chromatophore-like pigment cells that shift color in response to electrical signals from a su…

…ification is so subtle and universally flattering that some clinics include it as a default add-on to any eye-related geneware installation.

Suppresses the myostatin gene that limits muscle growth, combined with enhanced myofibril density genes from Belgian Blue cattle. The result is significantly…

Introduces a functional nictitating membrane — a translucent third eyelid that sweeps horizontally across the eye from the inner corner. The membrane protect…

Introduces multiple copies of the TP53 gene complex from elephants — animals that virtually never develop cancer despite their massive cell counts — along wi…

Induces growth of osteoderms — bony plates beneath the skin — modeled on armadillo dermal armor. The plates form a flexible mosaic covering the torso, upper …

Modifies pain receptor sensitivity and neural pain processing to elevate the user's pain threshold significantly without eliminating pain awareness. The user…

Extends the human coccyx into a fully articulated, muscle-sheathed tail ranging from 60 cm to 120 cm in length. The basic cosmetic version is covered in skin…

…unmodified brown or blue eyes are more distinctive. Street clinics occasionally produce heterochromatic results by accident, which has become its own fashion trend.

Replaces the fingernails with retractable claws housed in modified nail beds. In retracted position, the claws lie flat and appear as slightly thick, curved …

Introduces an ultra-dense melanin layer beneath the skin that functions as both UV shielding and mild impact resistance. The melanin is structured in layers …