Leopold Fitz had encountered combinations of machinery and flesh before, the most famous being Deathlok.
Although Deathlok, enhanced with Centipede Serum, also had numerous Mechanical Implantations, he still retained a basic human form. The Ranger Cavalry's modifications went even further, reaching a point that even a normal person like Leopold Fitz would find unacceptable—a "Frankenstein," as he put it. Frankenstein himself was more intact than these cybernetic warriors.
That was why, when Leopold Fitz first accidentally caught sight of the implantations beneath Alpha-Bronze 2's robe, he was so frightened that he became incoherent. A body packed full of implants was practically something out of a nightmare. The crude stitching showed no regard whatsoever for anything connected to the concept of beauty. Even the human body that had served as the basis for modification was covered in unnaturally grown muscle, as though machinery mattered more than flesh and blood. The Ranger Cavalry never showed what lay beneath their robes to anyone except Mars Sages, but that was not entirely to spare ordinary people's fragile nerves and worldview. It was also because, beyond the standard implant modifications, the cybernetic warrior guards belonging to every Mars Sage also bore their master's own creativity and technical expertise.
The hormonally stimulated, overdeveloped muscles implanted in Alpha-Bronze 2 could not only accommodate denser bioelectric cables and receive stimulation from more electrical signals, but also preserve his original mobility, keeping muscle load, balance, and energy expenditure in a relatively even state. Other Ranger Cavalry created using Alpha-Bronze 2 as a technical model possessed similar technology, because they had all been modified by the same Mars Sage: Epsilon-Rodney-Radium 223.
Although Mars still had such a word as "patent," every Mars Sage had ocular modifications. With only a pair of basic electronic eyes and visual-nerve data storage devices, they