What little knowledge remains from the golden age of mankind, lead to the preservation of life-saving procedures and artificial integration of non-organic substances into the body. Such medical practices lead to the development of the Augmented, a class of humans who poses cybergenic implants or other machine-driven functions.

Although it can be life saving, the augmentation process is not a perfect science, and many whom survive the operation face difficult life style changes and diseases. More than half of Augmented humans would either opt to have nonessential augments removed, or in extremes cases, die from self inflected injury in an attempt to preform self-guided removal.