Jump 187: GUNNM

Jump 187: GUNNM
>The Hermit, reversed (Self-imposed isolation from friends and loved ones.)
Well, it was my choice to go this route, but... yes.
>Age: 23
>Location: The Overlook (Bonuses: Knowledge of the Past, Mysterious Woman)
>Identity: Doctor
>Drawbacks: Deformed Body (+100), Legitimate Existential Angst (+200), Bounty (+200), Witch Hunt (+300)
So... a cyborg body that works at half the power that it should have for reasons no one can fathom, little to no knowledge of my past (not the first time), a price on my head... and a corrupt government in orbit that wants to kill me on top of it. Lovely.
>Medicine (Free, Doctor)
In a world like this, someone acting as a doctor is sorely needed.
>Cybernetics (1650, Doctor)
There are too many shoddy cyborgs running around. Perhaps I could make a living upgrading them into more human-seeming forms?
>Biotechnology (1350, Doctor)
Well, it's pretty important to be able to figure out how to upgrade a living being if they're going to be cyborgs. You definitely do not want to throw the baby out with the bath water. Save every cell you can, regenerate the damage if possible, and replace properly if not.
>Karmatron Dynamics (900, Doctor)
Now this is a whole new field. Chaos theory applied on the micro and macro scale. The possible implications of this combined with the rest of my technology is quite entertaining.
>Berserker Body (0)
Except it's not actually a Berserker, but an Imaginos v1. Well... no, more like Imaginos v0.5. It's running at half power, after all.

Now, this made for a very interesting jump. The first thing I knew, I was being put back together on a table, and who knows WHY I couldn't remember most things, but I must have struck my head when I was mugged and got retrograde amnesia. I could recall overarching themes, but not details, so it's a bit difficult to trust yourself as a doctor when that's the case.

Doubly so when I become suddenly aware that I'm in a cyborg body that no one's seen the like of before.

Triply so when suddenly people are coming after me, presumably because I have such a cyborg body and they want to know how I tick. I'm disinclined to share that information, though in time it becomes evident that this is NOT why they're after me, that's just a plus.

Quadruply so when I come to the gradual realization that I have friends that I should be seeing here and not a single one of them is to be found, not that I can even remember who they are, and now I've no longer got just bounty hunters after my head, but also what seem to be government agents, stepping up their game more as time goes on and escalating further. A near-miss with the Sword of Damocles was the worst of it - lost most of an arm, though luckily it regenerated with time. Let's hear it for going Imaginos.

I was not a part of the main plot, though Alita came after me a handful of times, initially for the (hilariously large) bounty on my head, and later because she became a TUNED agent - I had a habit of leaving the bounty hunters alive, and while I was generally not able to talk her out of fighting and every time she came after me, it meant that she knew I wasn't out there trying to kill anyone; I was just trying to survive like anyone else, and I'd have happily left the Scrapyard outright had its defenses not been seemingly programmed to stop me from leaving (lethally if need be).

I ran across Desty Nova once. Only once. He was not a fan of me, I was not a fan of him, but I was... interesting... because he found that I had a bio-chip. This was of course news to me, and raised ENTIRELY too many questions. Not even a year later, he went public with the bio-chips and the upper echelons of Tiphares' leadership quietly blamed me and wanted to eradicate me.

In the wake of that, I ran across a woman who called herself Haruka, who aided me in getting to the city of Tiphares even while they were blindly attacking where they THOUGHT I had been. I was not there, of course, but... regardless, the damage they did was unforgivable. As I said, I was not reacting with lethal force at that point, but when that happened... all bets were off.

Once we made it into the city of Tiphares, I stopped holding back - most of the idiots who tried to stop me survived, a few even willingly ran because their own leadership was in turmoil, but there was one particular idiot named Sechs who just would not stop. When I pointed out to her that the cyborg who she was based on was much more competent, it really made her lose composure.

I threw that unbalanced lunatic through a bulkhead. Pretty sure she wasn't going to recover from that, plummeting miles to the surface of the planet, but if she did she'd need a new body outright considering her head caved in as a result.

Shortly thereafter, I found what I didn't even realize I was looking for when I came for vengence - my companions. And myself. As I woke them, finding that my brain-in-stasis had (quite expectedly) regenerated a body, the jump ended.

What a strange decade.

Now, the thing with this is... I basically have no memory of any of this. All I remember is waking up, looking into the eyes of a copy of myself who was standing next to some woman who I did not recognize, and the jump ended there. It would seem that Legitimate Existential Angst was a mistake. But I already have a companion who is a clone that I synchronize memories with, so I got everything from a first person perspective afterward. And now I've got another companion who is myself, not to mention Haruka coming along for good measure thanks to the origin.

So was it me that jumped here, or was it Imaginos?