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* ''[[Shadowrun]]'' and nearly every work of [[Cyberpunk]] has the datajack, a port or wire usually somewhere on the side of the head to hook up to a computer. A cyberpunk character who can't "jack in" with a port in their head is not trying hard enough.
** Later games, however, have caught up with WiFi and made wireless the prime mode of interaction with the Internet. People still have ports in their head that connect to the web, they just don't require the cables.
* ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]''. Obviously, what's with all the heavily cyborgized people. Even aside of the components required for bionic implants
** The Loxatl (reptile aliens who often work as mercenaries for others) use implanted interface to control a "flechette blaster" strapped to the chest, which leaves all limbs free for climbing.
** ''[[Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay]]'' series add more and get into details not relevant to battlefield. Thus there are:
*** Tech-priest specific implants: cranial circuitry (including an integrated MIU) and spinal cyber-mantle (also acting as a ribcage extension - it hosts the power unit and anchors all the mechadendrites).
*** Interface Port: the most common sort of a port (usually in the rear of the neck) for what amounts to a terminal used to read/monitor/browse data fast;
*** Electro-graft - a more "direct" network interface system, that requires training in binary communication and is limited to Tech-Priests;
*** Mind Impulse Unit (MIU) - standard universal interface used to control advanced machinery directly, whether to [[Cyborg Helmsman|pilot vehicles]], diagnose, fine-tune or program various systems. Tech-Priests, of course, see it as a tool of the holy communion with the machine, but it's not restricted; MIU Weapon Interface - limited variant specifically for linked weapons (e.g. to control a gun turret or fire a shoulder-mounted laser while driving a bike), good MIU include this functionality among the other enhancements;
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*** Vehicle Interface Circuits - convenient consumer grade MIU equivalent: limited to piloting compatible vehicles and diagnostics of the same, connects simply by placing one's hands on the vehicle controls;
*** Of course, there are also ''old'' systems, which can be so incompatible with anything that even Tech-Priests see fit to anoint their skulls with [[Nanomachines|Core Gel]] (which provides a short-living and expensive, but more universal equivalent of MIU) rather than building one more adapter for existing ports. Though some of them disagree with this practice.
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