[Kincaid]

There are various examples in canon of non-standard locations.  Riser had one on his back, for example.

[DeathStrobe]

Data jacks are wireless anyway. You can connect to your commlink wirelessly if it's inside a skin pocket.

[All4BigGuns]

Does the Datajack description actually specify a location?  Or can it go on your Kneecap?  I know historically it commonly goes somewhere in the skull, but you can find Artwork examples of the Datajack ports being on the neck, on the temple, on the back of the head...   

If not in the head, I don't see it making sense to put one anywhere other than somewhere along the spinal column. The only way it could even feasibly make sense anywhere else is if it's using capacity in a cyber limb.

[Hobbes]

You're okay with a datajack in a Cyber Foot, but not a meat foot?   

[All4BigGuns]

*rolls eyes*

Full limbs... Don't even know why someone would bring the cyber-foot/hand up...

[Herr Brackhaus]

Wouldn't a foot need just as much of a neural interface as a full leg? It's not like a full leg would need to connect to the spinal column any more than a foot would, which is to say not at all.

[Marcus Gideon]

Does the Datajack description actually specify a location?  Or can it go on your Kneecap?  I know historically it commonly goes somewhere in the skull, but you can find Artwork examples of the Datajack ports being on the neck, on the temple, on the back of the head...   

AFB so I can't check.  As a GM if a player asks for a datajack belly button I really don't have an issue with it.  Clearly YMMV.

Datajacks are listed as Headware, so I'm pretty sure they have to go in your Head someplace.

Data jacks are wireless anyway. You can connect to your commlink wirelessly if it's inside a skin pocket.

Not the point... if you have an implanted Commlink in your head, you have a neural connection (not DNI) that allows you to mentally control basic functions whether or not the wireless is enabled. So even if the wireless were disabled, you could still check your calendar and such.

If you have a Datajack in your head, and a Commlink in your pocket, and you disable the wireless on the Commlink, then you will need to physically interact with the Commlink to turn that back on again.

And as for relocating Datajacks... their purpose first and foremost is to provide DNI. They pipe digital data straight into the various sensory centers of your brain. Which means there need to be connections to those places in your brain. You can't get to the visual, auditory, or any other cortices from the foot...

[Nightmare]

Actually Marcus Gideon, there isn't anything that says the datajack can't be placed elsewhere. In fact, in 2E's Cybertechnology book they give you the chance at a finger datajack and a subdermal datajack in the palm of one's hand.  Also, if you check 10 Jackpointers, you'll notice that Turbo Bunny has one datajack in her navel.  The navel is definitely not a section that attached to the brain but it does attach to the nervous system.  Just saying...

[gradivus]

Actually Marcus Gideon, there isn't anything that says the datajack can't be placed elsewhere. In fact, in 2E's Cybertechnology book they give you the chance at a finger datajack and a subdermal datajack in the palm of one's hand.  Also, if you check 10 Jackpointers, you'll notice that Turbo Bunny has one datajack in her navel.  The navel is definitely not a section that attached to the brain but it does attach to the nervous system.  Just saying...

This is not 1e,2e,3e or 4e... induction datjacks and the rest have not been introduced in 5e.
HEADware- nothing else says it goes iin the head quite like this.
Of course, do as you please in your own game as always.
If it makes sense to your group it's all good.

[Rooks]

SR3E had it so you could have smartlink processor induction jack and a datajack and that would be the same ask a smartgun system cyberware, trodes probably shouldnt be able to be placed anywhere but with data jacks you should be able to feed it through anywhere internetally

[Novocrane]

Given SR5 is the edition where internal wires beyond the standard cost an extra 0.7 essence, I'm a bit leery of saying data jacks can go anywhere that isn't part of your skull.

[Rooks]

Ya true it's the future, things should be more ass backwards than bleeding edge just look at the matrix

[Marcus Gideon]

Ya true it's the future, things should be more ass backwards than bleeding edge just look at the matrix

Ass backwards indeed... kinda like taking all the inner workings of an implanted Trode headset



And grafting that to your foot... somehow? And expecting that to still only require 0.1 Essence, as the Cybersurgeon proceeds to run wiring the entire length of your body so they can connect it to all the proper cortices in your brain for it to work right.

I'm all for fun and games, but this is a whole different level of pretend.

[Pap Renvela]

HANDWAVEUM, because you know, it's magic.

[Rooks]

Ya true it's the future, things should be more ass backwards than bleeding edge just look at the matrix

And grafting that to your foot... somehow? And expecting that to still only require 0.1 Essence, as the Cybersurgeon proceeds to run wiring the entire length of your body

cause you totally could do it twenty dreking years ago he'll cyberpunk let's you do it