...I thought that sort of thing was frowned upon by people of your station.
[The elites certainly spare no expense when it comes to purely functional technology, of course - a missing limb will be replaced with a brain-controlled prosthesis that's nearly indistinguishable from the real thing. But recreational hack-mods are generally a pastime of the lower classes. Back-alley doctors on Westerley are happy to install entertainment data ports and gun arms and infrared vision for a modest amount of joy, but the rich have neither the need nor inclination for such things. Visible modification are as gauche as showing up to a Qreshi garden party in an old t-shirt.
So the blue eye that Tieria had initially taken for some sort of novelty contact lens must actually be cybernetic... but if Rhys had merely suffered an unfortunate accident, he surely would have gone with something unnoticeable. That means there's some purpose to his hack-mod eye and data port. Tieria gives him a wary look.]
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[The elites certainly spare no expense when it comes to purely functional technology, of course - a missing limb will be replaced with a brain-controlled prosthesis that's nearly indistinguishable from the real thing. But recreational hack-mods are generally a pastime of the lower classes. Back-alley doctors on Westerley are happy to install entertainment data ports and gun arms and infrared vision for a modest amount of joy, but the rich have neither the need nor inclination for such things. Visible modification are as gauche as showing up to a Qreshi garden party in an old t-shirt.
So the blue eye that Tieria had initially taken for some sort of novelty contact lens must actually be cybernetic... but if Rhys had merely suffered an unfortunate accident, he surely would have gone with something unnoticeable. That means there's some purpose to his hack-mod eye and data port. Tieria gives him a wary look.]
You can run scans with that, right?