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'''Biomortic Assassins''' are cyborg [[assassin]]s that are used on the [[Hive World]] [[Necromunda (planet)|Necromunda]] and are more commonly known as '''Murder-Cyborgs'''.{{Fn|1a}}
==Description==
That is their entire purpose and the process to convert a [[Humanhuman]] into a Biomortic Assassin takes years of both physical surgeries and mental conditioning. This includes implanting a hard [[Ceramite]] endoskeleton, layers of subdermal armor and [[bionic]] limbs that allow them to move with an unnatural grace and silent precision that no biological creature can match. Biomortics are also grafted with [[Synth]]-skin around their arms and torso to hide weapons within, which can be activated or emerge with a mere flicker of a thought. They are given enhanced senses as well, like spectral vision eyes that see through bodies to view hidden armor, weapons and biological enhancements. The entire process leaves them with a body that is more machine, than Human. But the results allow the Assassins to appear like a blur to those who see them in action, while to the Biomortic everything will appear like its moving in slow motion, as they go in for the kill.{{Fn|1a}}
Mental conditioning during their creation buries a Biomortic's original personality and replaces it with one that is cold and absolutely focused on killing the targets their masters' have given them. Despite this, a small part of a Biomortic's mind will still contain a fragment of who they once were and this will even occasionally cause them to have flashbacks to their past lives. While they are aware of this part of their minds, the [[Assassin]]s will not dwell on it and their conditioning will quickly suppress anything from their past. However, they are able to think and can even contemplate the chances of their survival while on missions. In the end, though, Biomortics are conditioned to accept that they are not intended to survive. Upon being activated, all that matters to their masters and to the Biomortics, is that they ensure their targets are dead.{{Fn|1a}}
