The easiest thing to restrict is the special waved whisky. Brains doesn't know how to make it, and he's completely failed in his attempts to analyse it (it keeps coming up as just 'insulin'). Whoever is making it is handing out very limited supplies, and hinting that this is for both practical and 'religious' reasons. It's possible that it's very, very, difficult to copy.
Fortunately, you don't need very much. But whoever has a supply will likely hang on to it.
Getting a brain into a squish-bot is a risky process for all but the most expert biotech Mad, or someone who needs to be lucky to live. Biomod does give an indefinite lifespan, but is unpredicatable, and likely gives you an unconscious empty body that heals well, and can't be further biomodded to get a brain into it. Good for medical research, assuming handwavium contamination isn't a problem, but useless for much but brain-only cyborgs (the sort with an inorganic (upper) brain in an otherwise living body). Cyborging a biomodded squish-bot is going to require pretty good med tech.
If you want a really interesting restriction say that Stage Two squish-bots can only be activated in contact with 'living' soil (including at least a handful from the Celtic country the whisky was made in). And, for even more fun, only on Terra; need enough spare 'life force' or something. Need for a desecrated ex-holy place for variant rituals is up to you... [grin]
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind
Fortunately, you don't need very much. But whoever has a supply will likely hang on to it.
Getting a brain into a squish-bot is a risky process for all but the most expert biotech Mad, or someone who needs to be lucky to live. Biomod does give an indefinite lifespan, but is unpredicatable, and likely gives you an unconscious empty body that heals well, and can't be further biomodded to get a brain into it. Good for medical research, assuming handwavium contamination isn't a problem, but useless for much but brain-only cyborgs (the sort with an inorganic (upper) brain in an otherwise living body). Cyborging a biomodded squish-bot is going to require pretty good med tech.
If you want a really interesting restriction say that Stage Two squish-bots can only be activated in contact with 'living' soil (including at least a handful from the Celtic country the whisky was made in). And, for even more fun, only on Terra; need enough spare 'life force' or something. Need for a desecrated ex-holy place for variant rituals is up to you... [grin]
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind