Bio Drone and Essence ? |
Bio Drone and Essence ? |
Jan 25 2010, 10:18 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 628 Joined: 13-December 09 From: Montreal, Quebec Member No.: 17,963 |
Question, if someone make a biodrone and over mods it with cyberware ... will it become crazy or it will be still manageable to be used ?
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Jan 25 2010, 10:34 PM
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The back-up plan Group: Retired Admins Posts: 8,423 Joined: 15-January 03 From: San Diego Member No.: 3,910 |
Running Wild, p. 26-27 has all the rules on Critter Implants and Critter Psychoses.
Manageable becomes a matter of scale--do you want something highly trainable and good with kids, or released in a secluded area and will simply maul anything that moves? |
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Jan 25 2010, 11:21 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 628 Joined: 13-December 09 From: Montreal, Quebec Member No.: 17,963 |
It's a biodrone ? Shouldn't it be offline when the rigger switch it off ?
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Jan 25 2010, 11:49 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 663 Joined: 30-June 06 From: Memphis, TN Member No.: 8,811 |
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Jan 25 2010, 11:53 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 628 Joined: 13-December 09 From: Montreal, Quebec Member No.: 17,963 |
So if you implant it into a human being ?
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Jan 25 2010, 11:56 PM
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The back-up plan Group: Retired Admins Posts: 8,423 Joined: 15-January 03 From: San Diego Member No.: 3,910 |
You can't really implant a biodrone into a person. Some of the bio-drone implants may be usable in peeople, but the costs given are for simple creatures and will be exponentially higher than listed for complex neural structures like monkeys, and even further for human beings.
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Jan 25 2010, 11:59 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 628 Joined: 13-December 09 From: Montreal, Quebec Member No.: 17,963 |
So it would not be possible for an AI to have a bio-drone/metahuman body ?
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Jan 26 2010, 12:06 AM
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The back-up plan Group: Retired Admins Posts: 8,423 Joined: 15-January 03 From: San Diego Member No.: 3,910 |
It would be possible for an AI to get a wimpy (full clone) and have a stirrup implanted into it, though the cost would be up to the GM. (I'd start at 20-30 times the standard cost) From there, the AI would make it the home node, and start going to town. This has been discussed at several points in previous threads, and if I recall correctly it is generally viewed that the costs and penalties don't balance against the gains.
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Jan 26 2010, 01:09 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 628 Joined: 13-December 09 From: Montreal, Quebec Member No.: 17,963 |
It was just to know. Because if the AI is jumped in it can modify it until it get to cyber zombie without spells.
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Jan 26 2010, 01:52 AM
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The back-up plan Group: Retired Admins Posts: 8,423 Joined: 15-January 03 From: San Diego Member No.: 3,910 |
Once you hit zero Essence, the creature/body is going to die. Cyberzombies are maintained through magic, to keep it "alive" even after Essence goes below zero. If you just want to go to basically zero essence, I'd recommend a cyborg instead, and replace the jar with the AI's nexus.
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Jan 26 2010, 03:07 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,479 Joined: 6-May 05 From: Idaho Member No.: 7,377 |
Yeah, just get an Otomo. They are supposed to look pretty normal and you can kit it out with some crazy armor to boot (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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Jan 26 2010, 03:33 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 103 Joined: 20-October 09 Member No.: 17,773 |
Take a motorcycle, add on walker legs (but leave the wheels too), add 2 arms, a crapload of armor, and a nexus, and call it a transformer!
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Jan 26 2010, 04:08 PM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,925 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 948 |
Take a motorcycle, add on walker legs (but leave the wheels too), add 2 arms, a crapload of armor, and a nexus, and call it a transformer! Been there, done that. I took a sportscar - looked cooler. He had amnesia but a vague memory of something called the "Creation Matrix" |
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Jan 26 2010, 07:52 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 628 Joined: 13-December 09 From: Montreal, Quebec Member No.: 17,963 |
LOL, I just wanted to know if a overly cybered body with energy cells would be able to walk. It's the AI that is controlling it not the victim. Anyway my AI is in an Otomo body.
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Jan 26 2010, 11:42 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,849 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Melbourne, Australia Member No.: 872 |
Once you hit zero Essence, the creature/body is going to die. Cyberzombies are maintained through magic, to keep it "alive" even after Essence goes below zero. If you just want to go to basically zero essence, I'd recommend a cyborg instead, and replace the jar with the AI's nexus. Does a cyborg require a 'soul' for the body to work? Like a cyberzombie would? Different mechanics I realise as a CZ needs a soul to be anchored to the body in order to function but you get the drift. - J. |
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Jan 26 2010, 11:44 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,849 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Melbourne, Australia Member No.: 872 |
Yeah, just get an Otomo. They are supposed to look pretty normal and you can kit it out with some crazy armor to boot (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Our AI has an Otomo, kitted with a chameleon coating, armor and rigged for underwater diving and propulsion. - J. |
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Jan 26 2010, 11:56 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,444 Joined: 18-April 08 Member No.: 15,912 |
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Jan 27 2010, 12:03 AM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,849 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Melbourne, Australia Member No.: 872 |
Were they allowed to start with it? Or did you buy/steal/build it at some point? Sorry I just realised... they had the Manservant (the one with reduced movement) and beefed it up. Despite the reduced movement, it did ok. They don't have the Otomo (that's the combat drone, right?). The player was planning on stealing a combat drone body. Sorry, I'm away from the books atm, so I forget the drone names. - J. |
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Jan 27 2010, 12:15 AM
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Immortal Elf Group: Members Posts: 10,289 Joined: 2-October 08 Member No.: 16,392 |
Does a cyborg require a 'soul' for the body to work? Like a cyberzombie would? Given that we can grow meat in a lab, I don't see why a "dead" biodrone would be an issue for an AI. It'd still need to be fed (for keeping the organic bits alive at a cellular level, at least) and such, which an AI would have trouble remembering to do (remember, that's a "flesh bag" problem). |
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