Hyper Humanists

basic description:
A faction of humans who heavily augment their body with metal extensions, often amputating limbs to replace them with artificial prosthetics, but also creating new limbs regardless of the human form. These augmentations (augs) are almost always self made, and inserted without professional medical assistance. They are made of metal, articulated with chains, hydraulics, gas, gears, motors, normally a combination. Because they have metal sticking out of them with open flesh everywhere, it would get infected so they use extremely potent antibiotics constantly, which kills off their gut biota. They have to have appendix removed to make sure new bacteria don’t replace them, because that would lead to bacteria eventually developing a resistance to the antibiotics. As another side effect of the lack of gut bacteria, their diet has to contain low fiber, they are all lactose intolerant, and they appear skinny and malnourished because they can’t digest their food properly.

Ideology:
Without gut bacteria telling them what to do, they think they are the only true human race, because all other people are controlled by their bacteria, so they don’t even think of them as people. They’re hyper humanists, in that they worship this idealized humanity they’ve constructed. "It is within human nature to extend one’s own abilities from the invention of the spear to fire to the wheel etc. Therefore augmentations are simply a natural continuation of that process." (pendipicum technorium)