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Tamara Stone - 15 Years Later

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Don’t be mistaken by the radical alteration to her body: Tamara did not get into a serious accident. There were no incidents with cars, no massive cancerous growths, no slip of the saw. In fact, this is purely by choice. Maybe her workplace sort of forced her hand a little, but she was perfectly healthy when she decided to get her lower half removed.

I might as well fill you into the whole story…

Tamara’s ultimate goal in her field is to develop neural interfacing bionics - prosthetic limbs that connect directly to the nervous system to provide full human-like movement. This has been her goal since high school, going into and graduating (with honours) a double major of human biology and robotics.

At the Colorado Institute of Biological Research, she quickly climbed the ladder to become a senior scientist, then took over as lead scientist of the bionics department. There she could call the shots on which projects to undertake, and her first decision was to start research into the neural interface she so longingly desired to create.

Surprisingly, a focused mind was all it took. Within a year or two she and her team managed to design and develop a way to translate neural impulses into electronic information, which could easily be used to control prosthetics. Tests were increasingly positive, with a success rate for test animals starting in the mid 70s.

But the administration for the institute was less than eager to expand into human testing. For five long years they held it off, forcing Tamara to stay with animals. Five long years in which Tamara tried to convince the administrators of the benefits of expanding the testing. Five years where they told her that they’d “Look into it”. But they weren’t, and Tamara knew it, so she took matters into her own hands.

Getting in contact with the lead amputative surgeon, Tamara worked her way into getting a hemicorporectomy: the removal of everything below her waist. She knew the risks, she knew that in the very slim chance that the experiment failed she’d either be left with half a body or dead. But she also knew that such an extreme measure would create one test subject for the experiment, and that’s all she needed to prove her case.

And that’s pretty much what happened. The plan worked, and Tamara gets the occasional test subject (obviously potential hemicorporectomy patients - they don’t want completely healthy people), as well as a set of bionic legs. There are some obvious downsides, such as the fact that she can’t really hold digested matter in her body, but she doesn’t really mind them.

Oh, and she can move them independently from her body. She felt it made them easier to deal with, and it reminds her of her days as one of the most popular magicians in the world.

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What on her underside do her bionics connect to?