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[X-Com: Enemy Within] so exactly why did Dr. Shen and Dr. Vahlen have to chop off all my soldiers limbs to make MECs?

i mean they basically turn my guys into heads on sticks. all that to allow them to wear exo-suits? why? why couldn't they just make a sort of gene mod that allows them to interface with the system. or a  suit of some kind?
gpt
They were working on a very tight deadline and the technology was brand new. Figuring our how to plug a soldiers nervous system into a giant robot without just lopping off limbs to access to larger nerves would have taken more than a few weeks.