Filanwizard wrote...
exelsis wrote...
Nerve-stim requires only a single electrode at a single point on the spinal cord. We've been doing this for years, and are pretty damn good at it. However, full body stimulation would require electrodes at thousands of points along the spinal cord, or a massive network within the brain. Neither are easy to do, or cheap.
I figure its trivial for the quarians, considering they where being forced off their planet by AI powered killbots before humans had powered flight.
The options are:
Open up the entire back, from tailbone to brain stem, and insert dozens of electrodes into the joints between every single vertebra, each electrode going to a seperate point on the spinal cord, and a single mistake carrying a high risk of permenant paralysis
Opening the skull in several places, and again inserting hundreds or thousands of electrodes throughout the entire brain, including areas in the centre of the organ, near the pituitary gland, each electrode still needing to go to an exact place in the brain, except this time, that place can be a few milimetres away from what you expect. And again, a single mistake carries the weight of permenant paralysis or severe brain damage.
I DON'T LIKE THOSE ODDS.