Juicer Technology

Life is not cheap. But many of those going under the knife for the bio-comp and other implants to convert them into the most potent super-soldiers in the world might think it is. They often spout nihilistic phrases like, “Live fast, die young, and leave a great-looking corpse!” Most of them might even mean it at the time.

Inevitably, they come to understand differently as their short years pass by in a haze of bullets and blood, and their lives burn away faster and faster. A Juicer sells his most precious commodity— his very existence on the planet—for the gifts of chemical enhancement through nanotech augmentation, all managed and moderated by an internal bio-comp system. Speed, strength, and endurance 10 times that of a top athlete make a Juicer a powerful combat machine. He trades his natural lifespan to become a killing machine, rented to the highest bidder or committed to an ideal that matters more than his own life. In many cases, he does it just to see that his family gets a decent, safe place to live and three square meals a day. Whatever the reason, the Juicer is a powerful and dangerous being for a few short years at best, and then he’s either dead or (in very, very rare cases) a shattered husk of a person yearning for glory forever lost.

Manufacturing

Hyperion Juicer Augmentation Cost: Typically 80,000- 120,000 credits, sometimes more.

Titan Juicer Augmentation Cost: Typically 100,000-150,000 credits, sometimes more.
Phaeton Juicer Augmentation Cost: Typically 90,000-140,000 credits.
Mega-Juicer Augmentation Cost: Typically 200,000-400,000 credits.
Delphi Juicer Augmentation Cost: Typically 150,000-200,000 credits and is currently available only at Ishpeming.

The Coalition States have outlawed the Juicer Augmentation made it a point to turn its back on all forms of human alteration. Its leaders turned to power armor, armored vehicles, robots and trained mutant animals. Far more efficient, its leaders insisted,was to use (intelligent) mutant animals and robots to fight and die for Humankind than the needless sacrifice of human life. For the Coalition States, the idea of putting human lives at risk was stupid and destructive. The preservation of humankind and what made them human was more precious than ever in this new world of mutants, aliens and monsters. As a result, they regarded most types of augmentation as deforming and dehumanizing, so such procedures were outlawed in Coalition States territories. This also included the M.O.M augmentation