Artificial Organs
Also known as Argans, Fake-ans, Arties and Cyber-Organs, Artificial Organs are a recent creation in Boreal, combining mechanical engineering with bio-technology.
Utility
Throughout the histories of all sentinet people in Boreal and Solar the need for organ transplants has existed, though one major element stopped them from being readily avaliable, to harvest a donor organ, the donor will most likely be dead. Arties were created to fufill this need, without a donor needing to be dead or willing to donate part of their organ.
Arties function the same way as an organic version of the organ, an Artie heart will pump blood around the body, Artie lungs will oxygenate the blood, an Artie liver will filter out toxins. It has been theorised that Arties could be used to enhance a persons bodily functions, in a similar way to Cybernetic Augmentations do for limbs and other extremities, though at this point this hasn't been attempted outside of small tests in simulations.
The only organ not able to be replicated with an Artie is the brain, being so complex and unique to each person, the brain is unable to be replicated. The closest technology has come is the processing units inside Androids, but the idea of replacing a brain inside a persons body has been met with both ethical and moral obligations. If the brain cannot be completely cloned and replicated one for one, is it the same person? Would the orignal brain and person not die so the new one could walk?
Complexity
The main related technology needed for Arties is bio-energy power generation. Each Artie is built to work as close to the original organic organ as possible, but it is still technology not biology, so each is outfitted with bio-energy power generators on an extremely micro and unique scale and case. Whilst typical bio-energy generators convert biological matter (plants, food waste, bodily waste) into energy, breaking down the components and redistributing them to provide power, Arties take the only widely avalibale biological matter inside the body. Blood.
Like organic organs, the Arties take the blood, removing the Oxygen and using it to generate power inside the Artie.
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