[odd] IAmA Panzer Kunstler, AMA

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To the removed redditor....

Let's just say, life after dark isn't boring.

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Reply to #61800 by Valkyriesride2012
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There're a couple of ways really.

The majority of people are referred here by their doc. That's how I joined and it's still the most common method. A lot of high-level cybers find they have problems controlling their bodies, and that's the first we have to teach them. It's also why most students start training with us. All they want to know is how to properly control themselves, and how not to break handles off the doors. We also handle accidental cyberisations, usually referred to our door by the doctor who's first examined them.

A few cybers find out about us on their own. Usually they get in contact with us directly and arrange an appointment to meet either here on Grunthal, or at their home.

The other method is to go the other way. We've got a referral agreement with Ares nearby and, if someone comes to our door and says they'd like to be a combat cyborg, we'll subsidise the conversion in exchange for a commitment of a minimum of five years. Decent combat-ware is expensive. We're also extremely careful to properly vette anyone applying this way.... there're a few people who really shouldn't be given the power we have. We now require at least two character references, or a statement of a person's good name from a major faction before referring them forward.

Right now, the only training's available on Mars. There's no reason why someone couldn't set up another school, but our sole base is here in Noctis Labyrinths. We aren't that large a faction. We have a few people on Kandor, mosly liasing with SHIELD and the like to maintain relations, or crosstraining. Crosstraining with Supers is fun.

I can confirm the egg thing. It's especially tough with metal hands. It's not a spectacular trick, but it requires far more concentration than block breaking. Most ordinary humans find it hard. I love just flicking it up in the air, while contuining to explain what I'm doing without overn watching it, then just nonchalantly sticking my hand out to catch it without shattering it. All without ever breaking eye contact. It's a trick that demonstrates multitasking, self awareness and use of the tracking and targetting systems built in to my body, beyond my visual eyesight.

Training can be quite intensive, especially over the first few weeks and months. It has to be. It wouldn't be unusual to be doing more than 12 hours a day. You've got to remember that most of us are quite capable of going without sleep for days at a time. That's also split up a lot and spread across the whole day, it's not just one block of 12 hours work. There's time to rest, there's time for individual hobbies. There's time to commute to Port Adelaide or Helium. A lot of us play motorball in our downtime.

Without getting into too much detail, what we do depends a lot on what stage a person's training is at. Anfanger spend most of their time just getting familiarised with their hardware and comfortable with their cybernetics, along with some very basic foundation exercises such as coordination development, and self awareness excersises (Like the egg) and important lifestyle things how to handle atmospheric transitions and low gravity environments, and why skimping on maintenance or going beyond what your instructor tells you is safe is a bad idea. This is where the egg thing comes in, once you can do that you're well able to move on the Tzereter level. Tzereter start learning how to actually defend themselves against an attacker, aswell as how to maintain their personal conditioning without outside help. Tzereter are a lot more physically active. Most training is conducted out of doors, either on the Martian surface or in outer space by more advanced members of the gruppe

Most people (4/5) will leave the Gruppe after completing Tzereter instruction.

That's basically what we do. Actual schedules can vary a lot, however, especially for Lehrling level and beyond, where the curtains get drawn and the students start taking mission

It's not easy by any means.

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Meta ( It took me much longer than I expected to put that together. Whew)
EDIT: Original answer was to the wrong question.
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