#cyber lin kuei

[incognitobobcat]

Tomas’ Birthday and Zodiac Sign is…

Here’s my take on this. So far, the only mention of any kind of birthday in MK1 is in the intro between Cyrax and Tomas, where she mentions his sister’s birthday:

Cyrax made her debut in September 24, 2024, and if we are to take the above date to be the actual date that this intro took place, then sister’s birthday is on September 24. Going by Cyrax’ mentioning only his sister’s birthday points to the fact that Tomas was either born before midnight on September 23 or in the early morning of September 25, shortly after midnight.

While we don’t know Tomas’ year of birth, I’m going to use 2023, which is the year that Mortal Kombat 1 came out, which makes our boy a Libra cusper either way!!

Okay, I can totally see him as one now 😊 I, of course, have my own ideas, buuut this works 👍🥰

[important-bass-1127]

When Ninja clan introduced Technology be like…

List of Ninja with technology

Lin kuei

Sektor, Cyrax, Cyber Sub-Zero, Cyber Smoke

Shirai Ryu

Takeda Takahashi

[malthric]

This is an art that I commissioned Hayley566 to make, depicting my non-binary oc Cyrcuit remembering the day they got turned into a cyber lin kuei cyborg.

Here’s a link to check out other art works of Hayley566.

[randomstoreroom21c]

Shang Tsung destroying Cyber Lin Kuei

[ultraviolencegaming]

Mortal Kombat 11 (2019) NetherRealm Studios

[cienie-isengardu]

No offense but why the fuck does Triborg have a dick? Like when Cassie does her move, the x-ray shows he has genitals. Why do the Cyber Lin Kuei even have reproductive parts anyway? I doubt they're functional(at least I hope they aren't) and even if they are, I'm not having Cyber babies I'd all too productive when you just convert them through force.

I don’t think MK lore even clearly stated how much original human body and organs the Cyber Lin Kuei still possess and some earliest prototypes could be less mechanical than the later, upgraded versions. As Triborg was introduced in Mortal Kombat X, and was accidently created by Special Forces when they "brought the drives to a secret S-F weapons lab, then downloaded several files into a test body", he could be the less advanced type, especially compared to Kronika’s design done to Frost, however most likely his whole body was artificial to begin with - unless Special Forces did some nasty experiment with human body.

However I would not pay mind to X-Rays, as this is just one of cool game mechanics to emphasize damage done to character. Cassie’s move to hit her opponent in the genitals is shown as it is done on any other human male, most likely to avoid additional cost, as I imagine animating the whole sequence just to acknowledgeTriborg’s robotic body and what is inside alone would cost money and time while the change wouldn’t add anything important to story mode - even if the X-Ray as it is may be seen as the implication Triborg still can have sex. But then again, the X-Ray also shows that Triborg has human bones that are shattered during attack or that a normal blade can pierce his metal armor which also makes little sense if we think about that for too long. Especially breaking Triborg’s neck vertebrae as he can literally detach his own head to use it as a weapon and if he still had human bones, muscles and spinal cord that should not be possible for him to do. 

So worry not, even if for some reason Triborg was not deprived of his reproductive organs, I doubt his programming includes the desire for natural reproduction or just sexual pleasure. As Triborg’s ending shows, he would mass produce bodies for his brothers and sisters by using advanced technology of Special Forces, not by making babies himself in natural (human) way.

[mikka-minns]

Why do I get the feeling the Cyber Lin Kuei will be unnamed drones? Bi Han maybe evil but not insane enough to do that.

Sektor likes the idea of being dressed up as a robot Fucking weirdo

Bi han will see him dressed in crayon painted boxes and he'll destroy all the tech before they can even make a real robot.

They will not speak of this ever.

[malewifefirestar]

Honestly I think the idea of cybernetics in mortal kombat could be explored more as the level of cybernetics is clearly more advanced but also the different ways it’s handled based on the characters that have them is interesting

There are the more simple cyborgs with some cybernetic parts compared to the entire body being cybernetic. Untop of the time line difference from Mk9 that takes place some time in the 90’s while mk11 takes place in 2019.

Such as Jax having cybernetic prosthetic arms due to the loss of his. They act as an enhancement for super strength in those limbs.

Then you have Kano who has an cybernetic eye that can shoot laser beams and can scan objects or people to easily identity damage or get a layout of it.

Then their is the opposite more extreme end with the Lin Kuei Cyborgs, with full cybernetic bodies, made to enhance the clan member behind the limits of a regular human no matter how trained.

Yet are more slow and bulky then before but with strength and weapons installed into the body. (However cyborgs of the Lin Kuei haven’t won a canonical fight since they turned into a cyborg)

However when frost becomes a cyborg in mk11 her design is much sleekier and faster then previous Lin Kuei cyborg designs, more human like, clearly a more advanced level as her version of a cyborg is much more newer in design and technology.

So their was an advancement in technology in between the events of mk9 and mk11 but have little to know of knowledge of how or when this advancement in tech came to be in mk verse despite it’s clear importance in most characters journeys and claims of power.

Especially when a lot of Lin Kuei members like Cyrax, Smoke, and Subzero have clear disdain for it(Subzero is also an interesting case because in one timeline he favors advancement in the clan like this but in the new timeline detests it).

However Sektor pushes for it because of the idea of becoming a perfect assassin this way.

[licoricelump]

they be recruiting anyone into the clan except a therapist

[incognitobobcat]

[ironladders]

if nrs was smarter, they would've included frost in the same group as cyrax/sektor and have their subplot be a parallel to tomas/kuai liang/bi-han: a lin kuei trio that has a falling out with one of its members due to disagreements on what the clan is doing

[malthric]

Art made by @froppy-butterflyfan2000 for my fanfic on Wattpad.

[sairitaikutsu]

UUUUAAAUUUYGHRHRR IM GOING CRAZY

IM GOING TO FUCKING CRY MY BABY NOOB IS HOME BUT TITAN HAVIK DONT FUCKING TOUCH BI-HAN I DONT KNOW HOW TO FEEL

[ultraviolencegaming]

Mortal Kombat 11 (2019) NetherRealm Studios

[cienie-isengardu]

Do you have any theories or explanations on why cyborgs in MK lore are plain useless? In MK9 and MK11 it's shown that to defeat a cyber ninja covered in armor and a lot of advanced weaponry you don't need much force (like Kitana easily decapitating them with her fan) and Sektor is pretty much a useless jobber who lost all his fights, same as Cyrax who in MK9 lost every encounter after being turned into a cyborg.

The easiest explanation of course is game mechanics which simply doesn’t allow them to win, and Cyber Sektor (alongside with Noob Saibot) is the victim of this at least since MK9 (2011). At the same time, the same game mechanics allow a relative normal human to defeat a powerful god(s) and for context, the last time Shinnok was beaten down happened when the Elder Gods battled him eons ago. So yeah, the MK universe doesn’t really follow sensible logic when it comes to fighting abilities. 

As for in-universe explanation, I would go with this reasoning:

The first matter is that members of Lin Kuei weren’t intended to fight in an honorable one on one specifically. Bi-Han was one of the best but his specializations, as we were told in Sub-Zero: Mythologies, was assassination and theft. Of course, Bi-Han was a skilled fighter, otherwise he wouldn’t be hired to take part in the Mortal Kombat Tournament, the same as Cyrax and Sektor. However in his line of job, he was trained to steal and kill from hiding and by any necessary means. The clan’s original motto says We are the Lin Kuei, more stealthful than the night, more deadly than the dawn! putting emphasis on stealth and even MK1’s Lin Kuei, though no longer an assassin clan but still definitely a special forces/ black ops in service of Earthrealm, as before favors this tactic on their missions. 

"Stealth is the only tactic I need!" [Scorpion/Kuai Liang vs Shang Tsung character intro]

The C.I. project was meant to perfect members of Lin Kuei by erasing human flaws, but that does not necessarily mean their original purpose (assassination and theft) changed. Frankly, the Lin Kuei cyborg were effective when it comes down to stealth, as in MK9 they twice successfully managed to approach and catch their target without anyone noticing their presence, as was seen with Smoke (saved only by Raiden’s intervention)

and younger Sub-Zero.

For the record, Cyber Lin Kuei managed to sneak up into Colosseum full of guards, people with special powers including two excellent sorcerer (Shang Tsung and Quan Chi) and Emperor himself. Granted, everyone was focused on Tournament and Kuai Liang’s attempt at murder but that is the point isn’t? Cyborg Lin Kuei had means and experiences with using that kind situation for their benefit.

And let’s not forget Cyber Lin Kuei and Sindel's attack on the heroes. Only Cyber Sub-Zero managed to detect other cyborgs before their attack - most likely due being one of them. Now let’s compare it to Sindel’s attack, when the Earthrealms were warned about by Kitana who senses her mother’s presence. So the Cyborg Lin Kuei  ambush did not fail due to Lin Kuei’s lack of skills but because Earthrealm luckily had a cyborg on their side before they could sneak up and assassinate humans.

Additionally, older source material like Cyrax's bio and ending specifically point out that lack of the soul makes a cyborg undetected:

Mortal Kombat 3: "Cyrax is unit LK-4D4, the second of three prototype cybernetic ninjas built by the Lin Kuei. Like his counterparts, his last program is to find and terminate the rogue ninja Sub-Zero. Without a soul, Cyrax goes undetected by Shao Kahn and remains a possible threat against his occupation of Earth."

Mortal Kombat 3: "Cyrax is captured by Sub-Zero and reprogrammed with new orders: Destroy Shao Kahn. With Kahn unable to detect the assassin's soulless presence, Cyrax delivers a successful sneak attack. But, after eliminating Kahn and saving Earth, Cyrax awaits new orders from his Lin Kuei headquarters. The orders never come and Cyrax malfunctions. He ends up stranded in the middle of a vast desert, blindly heading towards his base."

Also thing worth to keep in mind: Cyber Sektor and Cyrax may lost their fight in MK9, but Cyber Sub-Zero defeated both Goro and Kintaro, Kano and Noob Saibot in almost one go and none of those fighters, especially not Prince Goro, the Champion of Mortal Kombat Tournament, could be called a weakling.

So, one of things constituting the problem may be that Lin Kuei were the most adapted at stealth and ambush attack but once they lost the element of surprise they could lose the fight against more experienced warriors. The clan may have great individual fighters like Sub-Zero brother, Smoke, Cyrax and Sektor, but the average member not necessary must be on the same level as those named warriors (additionally, even those named characters worked in pair for most of time, with Bi-Han being the biggest exception in games however in some older comics he too had a partner, Hydro).

The other disadvantage the cyborgs face is definitely the existence of magic and generally speaking a different “reality” laws between realms, for example - earthrealm technology does not work properly on Shang Tsung’s Island (the best example comes from MK film 1995, in which Sonya’s radio and compass stopped working once she has arrived there but of course, this aspecy varies between sources). The Lin Kuei, as a clan familiar with magic and super powers for ages, probably took into account such a problem, however even the best calculation can’t compare to first hand experiences, so there is a chance in some settings the cyborg technology will be affected by specific factors and maybe even a place itself - here is a good moment to wonder if Kitana’s fans are enhanced by some sort of magic that gives the control over weapon  “against the  laws of physics” during her fatalities? Whether introduced as Shao Kahn or Empress Sindel’s daughter, she is a princess so it is very likely her gear is of the best quality and may be made of either magic material or magically improved when crafted. Such a weapon combined with her skills honed for hundreds of years make her a very dangerous enemy to face. 

Another matters connected to cyborg technology is that MK lore proved 

A) programming may be prone to corruption which definitely affects the cyborgs abilities. This is especially seen with Sektor in original timeline:

Tournament Edition: "Sektor's programming had become corrupted during his many violent battles with Outworld Forces [...].

and

Bio Kard: "One of the original cyborgs manufactured by the Lin Kuei clan, Sektor has grown more and more corrupt over the years. As his programming deteriorates, he becomes a bigger threat than ever. He may prove to be a danger to all, regardless of their alignment.

B) the cyborgization could improve Lin Kuei warriors’ skills yet the programming may as well kill their natural assassin predispositions and human’s ability to adapt. Which is something that Cyrax feared: "I am among those speaking out against the Grand Master's plan. Surgically transform the Lin Kuei into glorified robots? It kills our intuition, our instincts." [MK9] Since some clan members were forced into C.I. Project against their will, their units requested a slave protocol to keep them under control. The survivors of said program or those who managed to elusive the change attempted to destroy Cyber Lin Kuei (and whenever Cyber Cyrax regained control over himself he turned against the robotic Lin Kuei and that happened on a few different occasions). The threat of rebellion forced Cyber Sektor to limitate subordinates’ autonomy, which in result definitely redacted their primal efficiency. This is best seen in Mortal Kombat X comics series, as cloned cyborgs can’t function independently and need a central master to operate.

and would stop working properly if central master (Sektor) was eliminated until they found the replacement

(and there is something to say about Cyber Sektor’s own programing that was supposed to transcend humanity yet he pathologically kept Cyrax around as his second-in-command despite the danger Cyrax poses).

Another matter worth taking into account about events of MK11 (2019) is how the misplaced through time Cyber Lin Kuei needed to update their technology (“The Cyber Lin Kuei factory is modified to your specifications. Production exceeds projections.”), however I feel only once they were used truly in line with their main advantage - stealth. And that most likely happened during the attack on Lin Kuei Temple, as the game made it clear Cyborgs managed to capture Kuai Liang’s men and change into robots. In all other events, like during the attack on the Special Force’s base or the final battle between allied heroes and Kronika’s army? The Cyber Lin Kuei were treated like cannon fodder and it was their number that mattered, not quality. Which I guess adds to the feeling of their incompetence.

So if I was looking for an in-universe explanation why Cyber Lin Kuei is not effective despite the advanced technology, the most sounding answer for me is the mix of above presented reasons. Their main advantage is stealth and lack of souls make them undetectable however this is rarely used these days to fullest while Cyber Sektor’s fear of losing control handicapped their efficiency from within. The less autonomy the cyborgs have, the less capable they are of adapting to the situation (and turning it to their favor). But also, the named fighters that faced the machines are not novice and each are experienced, dedicated to their cause and skilled - in some cases, also equipped with either magic or special powers including controlling elements like electricity, ice and fire that easily can disrupt cyber technology. But the biggest fault definitely lies with how cyber programming limits their natural instincts in favor of maintaining control over enslaved people/machines.

[mikka-minns]

Also another theory why the Cyber Lin Kuei will be unmanned drones or like the super commando droids but with superpowers (think Cyber Scorpion) is that Bi Han wants to be seen as a good leader. If he does it the old fashioned way, a lot of people will see it as insanity and will deem him unfit to lead. Plus it’s the Lin Kuei, they’d rathe die with flesh and blood than being shoved in a metal body.

Pretty much, yeah

Im realy not sure how they would pull it off

Bi han doesnt seem like Someone who would like droids/robots much

But he did imply in the story that he wants apsolute power.....

Im scared yall

Idk

And yes, i doubt the lin kuei would do this willingly and if all of the are against Bi han then he probably cant do it at all.