An Augment with her cybernetically-enhanced body parts
An Augment is a cybernetically-enhanced human and a type of cyborg. However, the risk of the surgery that augments a person is high.[1] Augment technology is utilized by the Resistance in the Dark Fate timeline.
Overview[]
Augmented body parts.
Augments possess superhuman strength, agility, and senses.
An Augment is powered by a thorium reactor implanted in the body. Underneath the skin, which visibly bears some long and patterned surgical scarring that spans all across the surface as testament to the high-risk procedure they were inducted into, is a secondary artificial skin that acts as armor, protecting the bones and vital organs. They can withstand shock from a collision, including falling from a certain altitude, such as from a bridge to the ground.
Augment's HUD and targeting system
Augments possess a HUD to analyze, search for, and target. They also possess night vision.[2]
Grace accessing data in phone
Augments can connect to an electronic device and access data from it, such as a cellphone, simply via direct touch to its inner circuit board.
Weakness[]
Grace being cooled down by ice.
Augments' accelerated metabolism require them to take medical injections with a specific formula when "overheated" after intense battle for a few minutes to recover their strength and energy, otherwise they will "crash", "burn up", and die. During this period and unless the necessary medication has been administered, the Augment will gradually grow more disoriented overtime, even experiencing brief fainting episodes. In addition, water and ice can cool off their bodies during overheating periods.
As a result, an Augment can only go into a short, intense-burst mode (with physical strength matching of a Terminator) for a few minutes at a time. However, this limitation is an anticipated part of the combat philosophy in their design — the hit-and-run guerrilla tactics of the Resistance. Essentially, if they cannot win a fight against a machine within a few minutes, they probably never will, so they are geared towards high performance in short bursts.
When "overheating", an Augment needs a special injection composed of anti-convulsive medication, sodium polystyrene sulfonate, insulin, benzodiazepine, and possibly other drugs with a specific formula and it should be injected in the lower back or thigh.
However, Sarah Connor made an improvised version without the proper formula and injected it in the right side of Grace Harper's abdomen, doing so with some difficulty due to the strong but flexible subcutaneous armor beneath. It also worked out for Grace.
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- Specialist - augmented human from Jade's World
Cyborg
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