{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/d3athrow/vgstation13/issues/4457","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/d3athrow/vgstation13/issues/4457/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/d3athrow/vgstation13/issues/4457/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/d3athrow/vgstation13/issues/4457/events","html_url":"https://github.com/d3athrow/vgstation13/issues/4457","id":76534655,"number":4457,"title":"Expand cortical stacks to the crew","user":{"login":"Midaychi","id":1968809,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1968809?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/Midaychi","html_url":"https://github.com/Midaychi","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Midaychi/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Midaychi/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Midaychi/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Midaychi/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Midaychi/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Midaychi/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Midaychi/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Midaychi/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Midaychi/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":1,"created_at":"2015-05-15T00:16:23Z","updated_at":"2015-05-15T01:46:11Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Cortical stacks are something that are in-game but not universally understood by the playerbase. You mostly find them when digging around in Vox heads, are a legacy feature from Bay, and despite their existence are made redundant by the incredible powers of the cloning machine.\r\n\r\n(basically just 1 2 and 3, the rest are just ideas for future expansion)\r\nWhat I'm wondering though, is how unbalanced/ridiculous would it be to:\r\n\r\n**1)**  - Make cortical stacks contain the ghost (May already be entirely coded and implemented at this very moment), but be ignored by cloners. Cloners would simply look at the meat brain and go \"Nothin' there\"\r\n\r\nBrain damage would still affect the person, but it would be the completely capable and fine ghost trying to communicate through the damaged brain, so essentially similar to being a meatbrain, and functionally the same result.\r\n\r\nSince cortical stacks are shielded and based around magic diamond tech or whatever, EMPs wouldn't affect them directly. (as is the case now)\r\n\r\n**2)** - Have cortical stacks a thing that science can make with enough materials and research, with them having a built in SPS that can be disabled/enabled. \r\n\r\n**3)** - Have a machine that handles the implantation/uploading, functionally like a cloning scanner. Step into machine, have someone fiddle with a nearby console and upload a backup to (Vulnerable) servers (Ostensibly R&D). You would separately also be able to insert just a cortical stack that contains a ghost to achieve the same thing.\r\n\r\nThrough quantum space magic, the device can then tell if that person gets dead-ed, and would allow you to insert an empty cortical stack and a living being of some sort into the machine, and POP goes the stack.\r\n\r\nThis device can also remove cortical stacks painlessly from organics.\r\n\r\n--\r\n \r\n4)  _(Optional and a bit silly)_ - Still retain the meat brain's ability to contain a ghost, in situations where a ghost containing stack is installed into a ghost-containing organic. (so you can have a situation where two ghosts exist in one mob. Probably a byond nightmare. )  Additionally having cloners only pick up on the meatbrain ghost.\r\n\r\n5) _(Optional)_ - Have stacks able to be put into/removed from almost any neurologically compatible living host. Ie: Ian, a chicken, a Catbeast, Someone's Mom, etc.\r\n\r\n6) _(Optional)_ - Have the potential for even higher science allowing for a built-in radio functionality, super high science could have short range machinery operation (though still respecting ID levels)\r\n\r\n7)  _(Optional)_ - Have surgery no longer work for implanting cortical stacks. Something about the fine nano and picoscale wiring that surgical startrek hands just can't do. \r\n\r\nThe cortical stack can be put in; just won't have any control over the mob. Useful for smuggling.\r\n\r\n Removing them works just fine though.\r\n\r\n8) _(Optional)_ - Uploading someone, killing them, downloading them into a cortical stack, and stuffing them in your pockets counts for abduction and/or killing objectives for the syndicate\r\n\r\n9)  _(Optional)_ - Cortical stacks can be loaded/unloaded into/from empty ai cores, but ai cards don't work for these individuals (The ai card tells you to pop the stack rather than swipe, if you try). Ostensibly the action would be about as difficult/easy as using an ai card. Laws would also apply the same as legacy methods of making AI.\r\n\r\n10)  _(Optional)_ - Ability to do as 9, but for mechs and cyborgs as well.\r\n\r\n11)  _(Optional?)_ - Some sort of identity md5-like Hash and tools/a database for assisting the detective in adapting to these new transhuman times.\r\n\r\n12)  _(Super Optional)_ - Super high level science ability to make an enhanced version of the bioprinter. This device can do all of the bioprinter things, but can also accept biomass and chemicals and output a customized living body to your specifications (Though, printing/growing takes some time). Can also have a cortical stack inserted so the printed being comes out with one implanted if a suitable ghost is available and chosen.\r\n\r\n13)  _(Super optional addon to 12)_ - A device analyzer-like tool that works for scanning lifeforms into the upgraded bioprinter to expand its available morphs.  Also the ability to set the printer to automated mode (off by default), so ghosts can print their own morphs out (if there's material and free stacks left in the printer, anyways.)    \r\n\r\nThis one sounds kind of powerful until you count that someone will have to actually build the machine in the first place, set it up, turn it onto automated mode, keep it operational and safe from dangerous hands/clowns that might want to print out catbeasts instead, and restock the machine with materials and expensive stacks.\r\n\r\n14)  _(Optional)_ - Lore and future expansion/adoption of this to Nanotrasen. Safeguard its cheap labour further by keeping/transmitting their ghosts digitally, and have them built/unbuilt on site rather than spending resources shipping them around.  Turn permabrig into a ghost server.\r\n\r\n15)  _(Ultra optional addon to 14)_ - Ghost space for uploaded ghosts with no presence in meatspace. They could have a simulated zlevel all to themselves to dick around on. Permabrig could have a virtual component."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/d3athrow/vgstation13/issues/comments/102218463","html_url":"https://github.com/d3athrow/vgstation13/issues/4457#issuecomment-102218463","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/d3athrow/vgstation13/issues/4457","id":102218463,"user":{"login":"Ephx1","id":6224074,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6224074?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/Ephx1","html_url":"https://github.com/Ephx1","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Ephx1/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Ephx1/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Ephx1/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Ephx1/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Ephx1/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Ephx1/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Ephx1/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Ephx1/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Ephx1/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-05-15T01:46:11Z","updated_at":"2015-05-15T01:46:11Z","body":"![dizzy](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/6224074/7645383/699d23f4-fa82-11e4-9a0b-169e32b359ea.gif)\r\nI thought Cortical Stacks were just the magical vox brains that were made from science."}}