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[[File:S-II Augmentation - Negative Side-effects..png|thumb|right|300px|A candidate experiencing the negative side-effects of augmentation.]] | [[File:S-II Augmentation - Negative Side-effects..png|thumb|right|300px|A candidate experiencing the negative side-effects of augmentation.]] | ||
Although the subject is in a state of unconsciousness during the procedure, he or she may experience excruciating pain. Physiological stress brought on by the augmentations can produce cardiac arrest,<ref name ="halsey2"/> in addition to cross-chemical complications that can result in augmentation failure. | Although the subject is in a state of unconsciousness during the procedure, he or she may experience excruciating pain. Physiological stress brought on by the augmentations can produce cardiac arrest,<ref name ="halsey2"/> in addition to cross-chemical complications that can result in augmentation failure.{{fact}} | ||
Each procedure is marked by a particular type of excruciating pain. The carbide ceramic ossification is said to feel like the subject's bones are breaking, and as if their marrow is made of glass and is being shattered.<ref name="onyx">'''[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]]''', ''page 63''</ref><ref name="ghost">'''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx''', ''page 101-102''</ref> The catalytic thyroid implant and muscular enhancement injections produce extraordinary pain, as if the subject's veins had been "injected with napalm";<ref name="ghost"/><ref name="pariah"/> another sensation is pulsating and the feeling of the veins being torn out of the subject's skin. The effect of the muscles increasing in density is said to feel like the entire body is on fire, mixed with the feeling of "plated glass shattering" and being worked in the subject's body.<ref name="pariah"/> The superconducting fabrication of neural dendrites is said to feel like fire burning along the subject's spinal nerves.<ref name="onyx"/> | Each procedure is marked by a particular type of excruciating pain. The carbide ceramic ossification is said to feel like the subject's bones are breaking, and as if their marrow is made of glass and is being shattered.<ref name="onyx">'''[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]]''', ''page 63''</ref><ref name="ghost">'''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx''', ''page 101-102''</ref> The catalytic thyroid implant and muscular enhancement injections produce extraordinary pain, as if the subject's veins had been "injected with napalm";<ref name="ghost"/><ref name="pariah"/> another sensation is pulsating and the feeling of the veins being torn out of the subject's skin. The effect of the muscles increasing in density is said to feel like the entire body is on fire, mixed with the feeling of "plated glass shattering" and being worked in the subject's body.<ref name="pariah"/> The superconducting fabrication of neural dendrites is said to feel like fire burning along the subject's spinal nerves.<ref name="onyx"/> | ||