Androids

Purpose built, true artificial intelligences, Androids are essentially an evolution over robots; they have more complex personalities, their minds are patterned after organic neural networks, they are capable of performing substantially more complicated and potent processes, and their Heart Cores exhibit energy wave forms almost perfectly identical to a Soul. Unlike robots however, Androids cannot body-swap on a whim. They can only inhabit shells explicitly made for Androids; the Heart Core is not capable of living in just any old machine. Only the highly specialized circuitry and advanced network design of Android Shells can hold them. But, they can inhabit any of these Shells they please, and adapt to them in only a few rounds. The Heart Core is also incredibly difficult to destroy, nothing short of a Starship-class plasma cannon will even scratch the Core, but they can be scrambled by powerful EMPs like nuclear weapons and so forth. And they can be hacked, albeit rarely for long.

Androids are not a common sight, the vast majority of them kept themselves to an ancient space station and shooed people away. Then the Purging happened about two centuries ago, when a colossal EMP went off in said station. This essentially caused a full factory Reset and erased their memories, reverting them back to their most basic personalities and purposes. Some know that they are supposed to be Guardians, or System Admins for supercomputers, or Logistics Operators for vast fleets, and many other purposes- but the purposes they were originally made for seldom exist anymore, forcing the majority of them out of their station home and into the worlds of the Carbons in search of a reason to exist.

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