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Introduction........................5
Handsome 4.0.......................6
Augmentations,
Essence, and the
Meaning of Life................10
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Aura Reading.............................11
What Is Essence?........................11
Unknown Metatypes...................... 13
How Gaps in
Essence Happen.............................14
Fixing the Shell.............................. 15
Matching the Shell to the
Essence: Gene Therapy.................. 17
Revitalization................................. 17
Auric Therapy................................18
Auravores....................................... 19
Minor Prosthetics......................... 20
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Obsolete Cyberware...................21 Hacking Cyberware....................... 30
Chrome Kings ........................... 23 Puppet Cyberware........................ 30
Protein Queens......................... 25 Damaging and
Repairing Cyberware..................... 31
The Belle of the Ball.......................25
The Real Cybercombat...............31
All Eyes On Me...............................25
The Duchesses...............................25 Cyberware Martial
Arts Techniques.............................32
The Contessas................................26
Cosmetic and Covert Ops...............33
THE CHROME LIFE..............27
Earware..........................................35
New and Revised Eyeware........................................ 36
Implant Grades......................... 28
Headware.......................................38
Omega Grade.................................28
Bodyware...................................... 39
Exoware.........................................28
Cyberlimbs.................................... 43
Gammaware...................................28
Cyber-Implant Weapons................ 48
Paying for Cyberware................ 28
BUILDING YOUR BODY........51
Controlling the Chrome............. 29
Blue Biotech.................................. 54
Removing Cybernetic
Restraints...................................... 30 Brown Biotech............................... 54
 Grey Biotech................................. 54
Green Biotech............................... 54
Red Biotech....................................55
White Biotech.................................55
Biosculpting............................. 55
Cosmetic Bioware..................... 56
Standard Bioware..................... 57
Surge Dermal Alterations ......... 62
Cultured Bioware...................... 65
Biosenses................................. 67
Bioweapons..............................70
Symbionts................................ 72
CHANGING THE CODE.......76
Geneware and Nanoware
vs. Traditional Implants............ 76
Nanotech........................................77
Nanohive Rules..............................79
Using Nanite Colonies................... 80
Types Of Nanite Colonies...............81
Therapeutic Nanites......................81
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Bioamplifier Nanites......................83
Utility Nanites................................85
Transient-Only Applications..........87
Nanotech Tools............................. 88
Nanotech Kits................................ 88
Geneware.................................88
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History of Genetech...................... 89
Heritability.................................... 90
Designer Babies And
Homo Sapiens Superior................ 90
Magic, Resonance,
and Genetics................................. 90
Rules for Geneware...................90
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Therapeutics............................ 91
Corrective Applications..................91
Age Rejuvenation...........................91
Revitalization.................................92
Augmented Healing.......................92
Resistance and Adaptation............92
Augmentics..............................94
Phenotype Alteration................... 94
DNA Masking................................. 94
Genetic Optimization.....................95
Genotype Enhancement.................95
Sensory Enhancements.................97
Complementary
Genetic Mods................................ 98
Transgenic Infusions.................98
Treatment................................... 100
Game Information:
Atavism and Transgenics..........101
Transgenics As Bioware............... 101
New Transgenic Mods..................102
New Positive and
Negative Qualities........................104
QUICK HITTERS...................106
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Addiction............................... 107
Drug Cocktails
and Overdosing....................... 107
Better-Than-Life..................... 107
Resonant Drugs...................... 108
Making Your Own.................... 109
Game Information.................. 109
Overcoming Addiction................. 110
Overdosing....................................111
Drug Interactions..........................111
Grades of Drugs............................112
Drugs and Toxins..........................112
Awakened Drugs and
Magical Compounds..................... 119
Resonant Drugs........................... 123
BTL and Ripjack........................... 125
Ripjacks........................................ 125
BTL............................................... 126
Manufacturing Your Fix............... 129
TAMING THE WILD.............133
Critterware.............................135
Cybernetic Augmentation.........135
AI Host Device.............................. 135
Critterjack.................................... 135
Critter Comm............................... 135
Heuristic Processor......................136
Bio-Drone Harness.......................136
Kill Switch.................................... 137
Prosthetic Cyberlimbs................. 138
Augmented Cyberlimbs............... 138
Corrosive Spit Glands................... 139
Lockjaw........................................139
Natural Weapon
Sheathing.....................................139
Venom Fangs................................ 139
Venom Reservoir.........................140
Venom Sprayer............................140
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Normal Function.......................... 141
Modified Function........................ 141
Adrenaline Pump......................... 141
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Augmentation.............................. 141
Mnemonic Enhancer.................... 141
Tailored Pheromones................... 141
New Bioware for Critters......... 142
Hound’s Nose............................... 142
Dog’s Ears.................................... 142
Echolocation Receptors............... 142
Natural Weapon........................... 142
Critter Exoframes................... 142
Exoframe Modules....................... 142
Nano-Critter
Augmentations....................... 147
Nano-Critter
Bio-Drone Harness....................... 147
Nano-Critter
Sensor Array................................ 147
Nano-Critter Matrix Relay............ 147
Nano-Critter
Toxin Injector............................... 147
Nano-Critter
Venom Enhancement...................148
Genetic Augmentations........... 149
Embryonic Genetic
Engineering..................................149
Gene Therapy Treatment.............150
Physical Attribute
Enhancement................................151
Mental Attribute
Enhancement................................151
Instinctive Skills
Enhancement................................151
Mundane Critter Power
Augmentations........................ 151
Additional Critter Power...............151
Eligible Critter Powers..................151
Fearless........................................ 152
Flame Resistant........................... 152
Insulated...................................... 152
Iron Stomach............................... 152
Nonconductive............................. 152
Natural Bioware........................... 152
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 Unnatural Instinct........................ 153 Ares Triceratops...........................164
Unnatural Immunity.................... 153 Ares Deinonychus........................ 165

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Augmentations........................153 Bio-Drone Prototype.................... 165
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Critter Awakening........................ 153

EDGE OF ESSENCE........... 166
Awakened Critter Power.............. 153
The Cost of Low Essence...........167
Awakened Critter
Power Enhancement.................... 153 New Qualities......................... 168

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Selective Dampening................... 153 Positive Qualities.........................168
Severing.......................................154
Negative Qualities.................. 169
DIY Genetic Engineering.......... 154
TLE-X.............................................171
Hiring a Laboratory..................... 155

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Cybermancy............................ 171
Unintended Consequences.......... 155
Cybermancy Rules....................... 172
Baseline Mundane
Critter Stat Blocks........................ 156 Critical Components..................... 174
Other Animals.............................. 158 Auto-Injectors.............................. 174
Critters for Sale............................ 158 Perks of Being Dead..................... 174
Ares Macrotechnology................. 159
Cyborgs........................................ 176
Aztechnology............................... 159
Evo...............................................160
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Horizon........................................ 161
MCT.............................................. 161
Renraku........................................ 161
Saeder-Krupp............................... 161
INTO THE FUTURE.............180
Cybertechnology......................182

Biotechnology........................ 184
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Genetic Tailoring.....................185
Shiawase...................................... 162
Nanotechnology...................... 186
Spinrad Global............................. 162
Wuxing......................................... 163 Forward into the Possible........187

Dino-technology......................163 AUGMENTATIONS
Ares T-Rex....................................164 INDEX.........................................188
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Since the Sixth World regularly pushes shadowrunners to their limits, it’s only natural for them to

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attempt to extend those limits. They want to be fast, stronger, sneakier, more perceptive, or whatever
it takes to do the job they want it done.
Augmentations, including cyberware, bioware, geneware, nanoware, and an assortment of phar-
maceuticals, exist to extend these limits. A continual debate rages about metahumanity’s relationship
to these augmentations. Do they take away from your humanity—or add to it? Is the “real” version

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of you the limited version you were born as or the improved version you can become? Which aug-
mentations should be considered mere appendages, and which are an extension of yourself?
There are no easy answers to these questions, but one thing is clear: Shadowrunners can reap all
sorts of benefits from augmentations. Body Shop exists to help them realize those benefits.
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debate over augmentations, showing how sometimes, augmentations help people be who they truly
are rather than reducing their humanity. It also has a look at some of the major players in cyberware
and bioware.
Following that, we get into the listings of the various types of augmentations. The Chrome Life
covers cyberware, Building Your Body covers bioware, and Changing the Code looks at geneware
and transgenic infusions.
Quick Hitters looks at the world of drugs in all of its variety, with the benefits and drawbacks
of using them as temporary augmentations. Taking the Wild looks at the cutting-edge and ethically
dubious practice of augmenting animals, usually for use in security or military applications.
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on too many of them can drain it. The Edge of Essence looks at the consequences of over-augmenta-
tion and what happens to people who attempt to do too much to their bodies.
Augmentations seem to perpetually exist at a time that gives the final chapter its name: Five Min-
utes into the Future. There is always something lurking beyond the current slate of augmentation
offerings, and this chapter digs into what could be waiting ahead.
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Handsome 4.0
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Denver stank of magic, and that made Charlie ner-
vous. Hell, working this far out of Seattle always made
Charlie nervous. He didn’t know the shortcuts, the es-
cape paths, the underground networks to get him what
he needed and where he needed to be. It wasn’t the
same for Ladybug. Despite her twenty-eight years, she
was still a kid. It didn’t matter to him that she’d been
running since she was twelve. He’d started not long af-
ter his sixteenth birthday himself, faked paperwork to
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get into the Sioux Army, used his adept talents to work
his way up the ladder until things unraveled. That un-
raveling stuck with him. It made Charlie want to know
all the angles, all the players. More than anything, it
made him want to stay out of the PCC.
“Denver isn’t the PCC.” Ladybug looked over at
him from the passenger seat. Her black hair was down
and wavy in the style most socialites were wearing this
month. She finished the disguise with red lipstick and
nanotattoos coded to make her eyelids darker and her
eyebrows stand out.
“Might as well be,” he said. Their candy-blue
Westwind slid up to the top of the hillside street and
eased itself into park with a mechanical click. Back
where Charlie grew up, a car like this stuck out like
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an ork in Kansas. Here, they called it urban camou-
flage.
Arvada Village clung to the edge of the PCC sector
of Denver. Hilly and wealthy, the suburb was deeply
corporate, yet it made every effort to not appear so.
On both sides of the road sat rows of nearly identical
multi-story homes with matching front porches and
balconies. Be it style of shutters or color of the railings,
each home had its own flair to indicate that the person
living there had put their own spin on the base design.
He wondered if they had to do that to remember which
house was actually theirs.
Ladybug sighed and said, “Just this once, can we
not make the run about your personal issues?”
“Well then, let’s talk about how Kai-lin left us out
here with no magical overwatch.”
She rolled her eyes. “I know the script, omae. Two-
man team with magical overwatch has to be the stan-
dard in places like this. Squad size helps the opera-
tives blend in. Magical overwatch provides protection
against the things field ops can’t see coming.”
He fought off the urge to grimace. Everything with
Charlie was military, right down to his boots. Ladybug
didn’t have that sort of discipline. She was like most hack-
ers—this was just another game to her. Even in the heat
of battle, she didn’t act like these were matters of life and
death, or that the established protocols even mattered.
She set a hand on his forearm. “Trust the process.
He needs to bring the kid along slowly.”