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One who looked for consistency in Skitarii augmentations would be sorely disappointed. A soldier of the Adeptus Mechanicus may have a punch card skull slot and leather bellows for lungs, whilst at the same time housing quantum bioware in his brain. It is often said that were one of these enhanced warriors to be rendered down, traces of nearly every element known to its masters could be found somewhere in the remains. The Tech-Priests know this to be no exaggeration, for dissection is but one of the dark fates a skitarius might undergo in order to satisfy their masters' predatory curiosity.{{Fn|39}}
Some possible skitarii upgrades include steel teeth, a 5 chambered heart, gyroscopically balanced legs, and [[plasteel]] augmetic limbs. Alongside this , a skitarius will often have an [[emotional partition]] implanted to manage their emotions, blunting individuality so that they might perform more like an unquestioning machine. This implant renders the skitarius unable to feel any emotion, rendering them disassociated with their own natural instincts, thus becoming more obedient and mechanical in their demernour. However, an active emotional partition can be damaged due to combat injury or severe emotional overload, no longer effectively suppressing their emotions.{{Fn|51}}
Despite their many bionic upgrades, a skitarius can suffer from disassociation with their cyborg bodies. Issues such as pain from phantom limb syndrome might prompt a [[Magos Biologis]] to simply prescribe the individual to conduct the [[Daily Canticles of Defragmentation]] until symptoms cease. Other symptoms of this bodily disassociation include: momentary visual hallucinations of augmetics instead appearing as a flesh counterpart, a sense that one's body is lagging behind where their cybernetically augmented body parts actually are whilst moving, and progressively increasing phantom pains or other biological sensation in cybernetic limbs. Said symptoms are normally put aside for defragmentation.{{Fn|51}}
