One of the players in a game I GM has picked up a "Cybernetic Brain Implant" (a la Lobot from ESB) and in the next session he will be visiting a surgeon to get it installed. I have a bunch of high jinks planned where the surgeon calls the Empire who turn up just as the Implant is rebooting and he will need to be rescued but what I'm curious about is how any of you have used this implant (or others) in-game? It gives a +1 to Intellect and has a comlink and computer access link so beyond allowing him to slice (somewhat) remotely, how else would you utilize this to further the plot?

https://star-wars-rpg-ffg.fandom.com/wiki/Cybernetic_Brain_Implant

Since he quite apparently a cyborg, having people mistake him for a droid or discriminate against him for being "part-droid" is certainly an option. Adding Setback, increasing/upgrading difficulty on social checks, for example.

1 hour ago, P-47 Thunderbolt said:

Since he quite apparently a cyborg, having people mistake him for a droid or discriminate against him for being "part-droid" is certainly an option. Adding Setback, increasing/upgrading difficulty on social checks, for example.

Great suggestions, thank you!

Read the Lando comics for a portrayal of the ways Lobot struggled with his implant.

1 minute ago, DaverWattra said:

Read the Lando comics for a portrayal of the ways Lobot struggled with his implant.

I forgot all about that. I will have to dig it out. Doesn’t it become a race against time to stop him becoming one with the device or similar?

10 minutes ago, Bojanglez said:

I forgot all about that. I will have to dig it out. Doesn’t it become a race against time to stop him becoming one with the device or similar?

Yup. It was a fun one. Kinda sad, though.

In season 1 of Rebels, one of these implants was used to smuggle data off-world. So data-smuggling is a thing!

Remember, not all installations go smoothly...

27 minutes ago, penpenpen said:

Remember, not all installations go smoothly...

You'd think it would be cheaper to just buy a droid, than going to the trouble of kidnapping a person, cutting off the brain case and attaching a droid brain to a human body. Not to mention the moral implications.

10 minutes ago, Eoen said:

You'd think it would be cheaper to just buy a droid, than going to the trouble of kidnapping a person, cutting off the brain case and attaching a droid brain to a human body. Not to mention the moral implications.

Does this look like a man concerned with moral implications?

On the other hand, his rates are very reasonable and he is a doctor. Or maybe "Doctor" is just his first name...

Anyway, he'll get that brain implant installed in a jiffy as soon as you sign the "finders keepers" waiver. It's standard procedure when cracking the old brainpan open.