[HarshRhettoric]

So you are an evil AAA megacorporation and you have just perfected your first cyberzombie and sent him on a few spectacularly devastating shadowruns, only to have him come back and die between missions because he finally bottomed out.  What do you do with that body?  Recyke?  No..

You rig that body--the ultimate deniable asset (hope he doesn't get hacked).  You put systems in to keep individual organs alive and then you have the perfect front-line soldier.

Rigging a human?  Yes?  No?  Who's with me?

[RHat]

Closest you get is biodrones.  And those need to be alive.

And besides that, in a world where things like Shedim exist, this is a really bad plan.  Really, suicidally bad.

[Reiper]

Closest you get is biodrones.  And those need to be alive.

And besides that, in a world where things like Shedim exist, this is a really bad plan.  Really, suicidally bad.

This.

And I don't think you can rig a sentient animal with a biodrone (minus the campaign I'm working on where a corp is actually trying to do that for one of my missions).

[ProfGast]

In one of the 4a supplements, I think it was Vice, there's a "most wanted" list that details a criminal who "rigs" metahumans and forces them to commit murder-suicides.  Just a plot hook so far but he's called "Charlie Wire." and the method seems to involve using modified skillwires.   But yeah, why would you use a cyberzombie body when you can just build and rig a big robot instead?

[Michael Chandra]

You'd build a Cyborg frame probably, that way you can use it still after the brains die down. Perhaps (in SR4 terms) a Tomino with MilSpec.

[SlowDeck]

Did this idea come from that mission in Dragonfall where you can rig a troll cyberzombie?

In any case, this seems an easy way to gain notoriety.

[HarshRhettoric]

Nope.  I was thinking of the scene in Deus Ex when you walk in on the Purity First hacker and he's wired to the gills and, himself, being hacked by someone else in Hengsha.