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You’re lying. | |
No, that’s an empirical fact. Your skin conductivity just went up 13 percent. | |
Your eye saccades increased by 24. And you don’t want to get into your vocal stress harmonics. | |
You may think you sound pretty solid, but believe me: In the upper registers you’re squealing like a little girl. | |
I can tell stuff like that now. It’s not the augments—it’s not just the augments. | |
I’m not reading numbers off a tactical overlay or anything, it’s more—integrated. | |
I just know this shit. I know a lot of things I’m not supposed to. | |
Crysis: Legion, PROPHECY |
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My vision fuzzes and clicks into a kind of high-def crystalline focus that doesn’t quite seem real, | |
you know that ultra-high rez you find in raw tactical sims and cheap video games. | |
Alphanumerics start scrolling up across my field of view, boot sequences and tactical overlays, | |
but they’re inside me somehow, you know? It looks subjectively like a head-up display | |
but we’re not talking about your usual HUD: Something’s planting these glyphics directly into my head. | |
More of a, a Brain-Up Display I guess. | |
A BUD. | |
Crysis: Legion, PROPHECY |
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On the plus side—if you can call it that—I’m not dead. | |
And according to the medical diagnostics racing across my field of view, I should be. | |
My back is broken in three places. My larynx is crushed. My femoral artery is torn. There’s more blood in my lungs than air. | |
The list goes on. Nanosuit 2.0’s rattling off diagnostic and wet-repair capabilities like I’ve never seen outside a full-blown VA hospital— | |
and while it’s got me rooted in place like a garden gnome, it’s also pumping me full of antibodies and autocatalytic fibrinogen and a | |
dozen kinds of engineered osteoblasts to knit my bones back together. | |
All things considered, immobilized in a custom-fitted body cast is not a bad place to be right now. | |
Crysis: Legion, ASSAULT AND BATTERY |
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Not that we’ve ignored the hardware, mind you. | |
Our latest offering comes with all the bleeding-edge features you’d expect from CryNet: | |
radhardened ceramic epidermis, dynamic Faraday mesh for unsurpassed EMP shielding, state-of-the-art countercurrent heat-exchangers for | |
thermoneutrality in firestorms and LOx spills alike. CryNet remains at the forefront of Moore’s law—and maybe a little bit beyond. | |
Crysis: Legion, PERFECTION2 |
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But the N2’s got its own comm center, and it’s not only smart enough to decrypt your freqs, | |
but also smart enough to figure out which specific chatter is mission relevant. | |
I’m really impressed when it first starts doing that—I had no idea our voice-rec tech was anywhere near that good— | |
but my waregasm evaporates the moment I realize that you’re all trying to kill me. | |
Crysis: Legion, ASSAULT AND BATTERY |
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It takes a moment for that to | |
sink in. I haven’t worn a cloak | |
since Annapolis but I know the | |
tech: fast-fractal pattern-matching, | |
Bayesian wraparounds. Same basic | |
thing an octopus does when it | |
wants to blend in. But this Jackal | |
doesn’t pack a cloak, and neither | |
do the ammo and supply clips I’ve | |
scrounged, and all of that’s just |
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I almost miss the little shrinking bar | |
down in the lower-right corner of | |
my eye, don’t notice it at all until | |
the whole readout goes red. By the | |
time I clue in I’m already starting | |
to cast a shadow. I barely get back | |
behind the cookie-cutter in time. | |
The Urinating Soldier hesitates, | |
looks back over his shoulder. | |
Grunts. Keeps going. |
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tenth generation | |
nonsentient biochip | |
is built around a 10^13-synapse | |
core that runs at a blazing 1.5 BIPS. | |
Crysis: Legion, SANTA’S LITTLE HELPER |
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SANTA* instantly | |
integrates remote telemetry and | |
first-person input from up to | |
six thousand distinct channels | |
—ranging from full-spectrum | |
EM to acoustic, barometric, and | |
pheromonal—presenting clear, | |
concise tactical summaries and | |
recommendations via an | |
interface integrated directly |
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SANTA’s most truly innovative | |
feature, however, is its ability | |
to not only monitor the | |
physical and emotional states of | |
the soldier, but to actually | |
optimize those states for | |
mission success. SANTA | |
continuously regulates | |
dopamine, lactate, and | |
corticosteroid levels, |
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