After her accident, Kyana could never be made whole again. Exactly how she has been kept alive by the Vexnal Corporation is a closely guarded secret. An array of cutting-edge scientific techniques are used to keep her body functioning, including implanted auto-injectors with resevoirs of necissary drugs and nutrients, nanites that continuously repair her cybernetic connections, and artificial stimulation of her memory centers to ground her awareness. This condition of 'life support' is incredibly complicated, dangerous and difficult, and is by no means permanent. Kyana's doctors and technicians must exercise constant vigilance and maintenance to keep her life force from drifting away. Yet all of these factors combine to produce a curious side effect: she is strongly resistant to empathic and telepathic powers.

There are three explanations for this:
-Firstly, each cybernetic implant Kyana has recieved has reduced her vital essence and cut away at her life force (which had already been crippled). The basic reason behind this is that cyberware is a foreign implanted object that is wired into a person's neuropathways. Basic brain research confirms that the human brain isn't too keen on being rewired to accept new things, especially those it identifies as foreign objects. In fact, the brain's acceptance of machine as flesh (as well as the constant work to maintain these connections) is what pushes Kyana so far away from humanity and towards 'machinery'. There is significantly less of her to be probed and interacted with.

-Secondly, Kyana is kept alive artifically. Her body wants to be dead, but extensive chemical, biological and mechanical forces intervene to keep it from expiring. The P46 gene system present in every human, which normally instructs the body to die in a preprogrammed fashion, no longer sends the right signals. Cells which are supposed to die remain alive, while other cells begin to suffer from advanced necrosis. The forced alliance between Kyana's spirit and body produces a being who appears dead to some Newtypes, while simply cold and unreadable to others.

-Finally, Kyana suffers severe mental detachment and apathy. If her mind was not regularly stimulated, her focus on remaining alive would rapidly diminish and she would fall into a catatonic state, lapse into coma, and quickly die. While her implanted memory stimulator helps prevent this, her will to live has dramatically decreased. While she does not consciously wish to die, at time she is creepy, hard to relate to, and generally shunned by others. Cosmeticly grafted tissue has reduced her otherwise monstrously inhuman appearance, but only to a point. It is not at all offset by what at time seems to be a complete lack of presence.