I don't think losing the Technopolitan kit will affect Yuki's perfomance at all now. That's the bit of data that nobody had because nobody, even Yuki, realised it.

Imagine how hard it must be to get a human brain to deal with the very different sensory and nervous inputs of an electronic body; a thousand different senses and mechanisms to those one is used to.

My way of explaining "this is why Al B. doesn't make one of these bodies for everybody in a wheelchair in the world" is that the brain/body interface is a bit of complex Technopolitian tech. Al can understand it but the processes don't exist on Earth to replicate it. Al reused a component captured during the Technopolis War when he was constructing Yuki. People can operate cyborg bodies without it, but not at anything like the level of performance that Yuki gets, computer-fast with human savvy, better than a comparable pure machine.

But Yuki's been doing this brain/body interface stuff for a while now. She doesn't need the Technopolitan training wheels any more. She's the only person on Earth to develop the mental disciplines to do what the Techno[politan interface can do in her own head. That's why she was able to get past what should have been a permanently crippling bit of damage and do the hero stuff regardless; that and a good deal of heroic willpower.




That's a smart upgrade.




Yep. Could be time for a line-up change. This issue.