It was more so for stasis while the body adjusted to their new augmentations.
❝ Your machinist likely does not understand the failings of the flesh as I do. ❞
The claw arm on his shoulder fires a beam into the area where the flesh and metal met, quite literally grafting it to their body. Then >>>
[ They've certainly never had people hooked up to devices like an art piece, that's for sure. ]