The Biohackers are a decentralized collective active in the Belt by 2131, distributing self-administered gene therapies — engineered stimulant and muscle-density modifications paired with focus-sharpening neurochemical adjustment — that claim to match entry-level cybernetic augmentation without any embedded mechanical component. Structure and leadership are deliberately opaque; distribution is informal and cash-or-barter. A representative using the handle Splice described the collective’s purpose as “the same outcome without asking anyone’s permission to modify their own body, and without a company or a UN office owning the hardware inside you.” The group’s emergence exposed a regulatory void: the 2052 Charter on Embodied Cognitive Systems was written to govern embodied platforms with cognitive intelligence, not human augmentation of any kind — cybernetic or genetic — leaving both the Biohackers’ gene therapies and the cybernetic augmentations they compete with in a space no legislature designed.