Short delay (Patreon)

No matter what my frequent posting might suggest, I don't have a fixed update schedule. That isn't what this post is about, though.

Someone at Royal Road made a comment about it not making much sense that all cyberware had open nodes connected to the mesh, and thinking about it; I have to agree with them.

It makes much more sense to me that all cyberware transmits data between the neural link and themselves. Then, that data may or may not go to the mesh through the neural link instead of them all sending it independently. Hence, I'll go back and change that.

It will mostly affect small sentences that I'll have to rewrite in combat scenes and such, making it plain that Rei targets their neural link and its ICE to get into their cyberware. Editing so many different chapters still takes some time as I have to find all instances of it being mentioned.

For those reading, just know that nothing will change in the outcome of the story, only the wording used, so there's no need to reread or anything.

It will probably not take long, but I wanted to give the heads-up anyway.

EDIT:
Thanks to your suggestions, I've worked out how to fix it without impacting the story so far other than needing to change a few sentences.

All cyberware is connected to the neural link, but it's mostly the low to mid-range civilian-grade stuff that has nodes connecting directly to the mesh for data collection by corporations. More expensive cybernetics or military-grade cyberware only has split nodes (sNodes) connecting them to the neural link, meaning that they're completely cut off (split) from the public mesh, and the only way to force access is through the connected neural link.

This should cover the corporate greed I've been establishing in the story while also not leaving too many holes for Meshmagi to exploit against people who are more capable.

Cheers,
Dynorion