Hell, in Kanuckistan, a few hundred bucks and an afternoon are all it takes to change your species(albeit within limits; becoming, say, a dragon, takes more time and money and larger facilities, tho you can save time by prefabbing most of the body befor you go in, and major changes to the brain complicates matters) - it's made racism into something of a bad joke.Solar Communes wrote: Most ironic of all is that most Solarians shouldn't be classified as humans, from a scientific standpoint. They are so heavily modified, and so interdependent with the machines in their bodies that an EMP could kill one of them if it broke through the electronic hardening.
Tho most Kanuckistani cyberware is designed, if not EMP immune, then to fail non-catastrophically(tho you might be in a coma until they can repair the damage). And hardened, obviously; if it isn't EMP hardened, it might last a week befor someone busts a voltsink or something nearby and it catches a pulse.