Robots

Machine Intelligences designed to fill a variety of roles, robots are a diverse lot whose personality is often reflected by their original programming- Security bots tend to be highly protective beings, Builders enjoy fine arts and crafts of all sorts, Agribots tend to have a deep love of greenery and the sounds of nature, Workers respect feats of strength and those who toil hard, and so forth. But, robots are not confined to any one body. Any machine which can connect to their Datacore (a black box roughly the size of a handheld gaming device) can become their body for however long they please. Thus, a robot can be anything from a small Ratter droid to an entire Land Carrier. It only takes about 1d4 hours to acclimate to most bodies, except for larger warframes which require 1d4 days instead, though they can try to clumsily operate new shells at a -2 penalty to physical Skill checks, Attack Rolls, and Evasion saves if need be.

Generally, robots are simple and straightforward- their original programming forms the core of their personality, and while new data can help adapt and change that personality over time, robots rarely deviate too far from their original self. Some societies are deeply distrustful of Machine Intelligence, due to the fact that robots can (with difficulty) be hacked and forced against who and what they are to serve the (usually malevolent) interests of hackers. This is by and large considered an atrocity, though, and robots who see people they once thought of as friends and allies are likely to turn on them in a heartbeat if witnessing them perform such an act save for the most dire of straits. The only fate worse than being Hacked, is being Reset- the total wiping of the Datacore and setting it back to its original factory specifications, completely destroying the previous personality along with all of its memories. A fate reserved for those robots who have turned criminal, usually.

In the last few centuries, robots have been slowly building their own little niche culture; forming enclaves of like minded individuals with similar life experiences to create companies, families, and even religious organizations. While most cities and nation-states recognize that Machine Intelligences are individuals with fully functional personalities and desires and goals, most people generally just see robots as particularly fancy machines rather than full on personhood; a fact which more than a few newer groups claim is a form of bigotry, and demand full recognition as artificial persons, complete with synthetic souls.

While Robots can learn to speak almost any language, they have their own personal language- Trinary- which is a series of 3 different beeps spoken so rapidly that organic beings, even Kikaians, cannot properly replicate (though they can still learn it).

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