Ability score increase and personal upgrade


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I'm not a 100% sure how ability score increases and personal upgrades interact. Or if I overlooked something.
Is the personal upgrade "on top" of your ability score (as indicated by the character sheets having an "upgraded score" section)?
Or is it integrated (since I can't see any way to "remove" the upgrade either.)?

So, if I have a 14 in a score, get a personal upgrade and THEN want to put a ability score increase into it, what do I get?

E.g.:
Do I have
variant 1) 15+increase+(2) = 17+(2) = 19 (effectively)
or
variant 2) (15+2)+increase = 17+increase = 18

(Personally I'd think the increase goes on the base score and the upgrade is always "on top", variant 1.)


Upgrades do not count when increasing your stats. A 16 Str with a MK I upgrade (18 total) will increase to 20.


Thanks, can you point me to a source? I'm mostly curious where I overlooked that.


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