Cyborgs are very real! Well, in this world, at least.
Baltia’s importance for the NCE is two-folded. In order to maintain its local influence, the NCE needed to avoid areas of its territory to go rogue to form an independent country. However, the biggest loss for the NCE was Baltia’s next gen industry: body augmentation.
Baltia was considered the center of technological development inside the NCE. Almost all new advances related with cyberization and NInternet (New Internet) came from Baltian companies and industries. The large international support for Baltia’s cause was, in part, related to this. If the country was independent, anybody could buy these technologies without having to deal with the NCE.
Once Baltia was free from NCE’s control, the civil and military markets were flooded with affordable and excellent quality cyber augmentations and prosthetics. More and more people, due to health conditions or hazardous occupations, or just mere curiosity or vanity, decided to augment parts or even their whole bodies.
Most, if not all members of Geist have some sort of augmentation. New recruits are offered basic cyberization kits, military grade, so they can expand their abilities if needed.
What kind of augmentation would you like to have?