Does a mechanic's exocortex take up the brain augmentation system?

[Phformian]

Does a mechanic's exocortex take up the brain augmentation system?

Exocortex wrote:

You begin play with an exocortex, an artificial processor that interacts with and augments your biological brain’s cognitive functions, which can aid you in a variety of tasks, from combat to digital infiltration. Your exocortex is implanted within your physical body or brain, similar to a piece of cybernetic hardware, allowing your AI to access your mind and feed you information. As you gain levels, your exocortex advances in sophistication and processing power—see Exocortex on page 79. Only you can access or interact with your exocortex.

[Phformian]

My opinion is not, because:

• It acts similar to a piece of cybernetic hardware, not as one.

• Custom Rig specifically states that it can be installed as a cybernetic augmentation and goes into detail about how augmentation systems work, while the Exocortex section doesn't mention it at all.

I can see an argument for either interpretation though, and wasn't able to find a ruling either way.

[Ellias Aubec]

No it does not take up a slot.

[Wingblaze]

No. It would state that explicitly if it were the case.

[Magyar5]

Negative ghost rider. The pattern is full.

[Metaphysician]

Yeah, if it were meant to take up a slot, it really should have specified so when talking about Custom Rig options. So, nope, no slot. Or, at least, it does not exclude the installation of other cyberware ( ie, the exocortex "counts" as a brain enhancement, but it can have any other brain enhancement added to it at no extra difficulty ).

[whew]

I clearly DOES take up the slot. Shame on all of you.

[Xenocrat]

Nah. “Physical body” is an implantation option. If you had to pick a specific system it would say.

[Dracomicron]

It takes up a slot.

It actually specifies that you can also add a datajack if you install it in your brain, which implies that it is an exception to the rule of only having one augmentation in each slot.

[HammerJack]

That's the custom rig, that also allows a datajack, if implanted in the brain slot. Not the exocortex.

The exocortex says nothing about taking up a slot.

[Dracomicron]

HammerJack wrote:

That's the custom rig, that also allows a datajack, if implanted in the brain slot. Not the exocortex.

The exocortex says nothing about taking up a slot.

*facepalm*

I think I need an exocortex for my reading comprehension.

No, the exocortex does not take up an augmentation slot.

[whew]

Dracomicron wrote:

HammerJack wrote:

That's the custom rig, that also allows a datajack, if implanted in the brain slot. Not the exocortex.

The exocortex says nothing about taking up a slot.

*facepalm*

I think I need an exocortex for my reading comprehension.

No, the exocortex does not take up an augmentation slot.

Doh! I apologize for my previous post.

[Phformian]

Thanks for the answers, all. I was a bit concerned there might be some table variation there, but I feel a lot more confident planning exocortex + brain augmented characters now.