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2006-11-04, 03:23 AM
Androids
Welcome back to JackPoint, omae; your last connection was severed: 2 hours, 42 minutes, 13 seconds ago
--Today's Heads up--
Scan the android tag to learn what these strange robots are, and what they mean to you. Mysterious denizens of the shadows, or elaborate corporate plot, you decide.
A Primer on Androids
From: Strange Marvels of the 21st Century
--Only the title an allready this article has flaws. The term android only applies to males, females, are properly refered to as Gynoids. In fact, and/gynoid may not be appropriate at all as that implies that they are robots. While artifically constructed, and/gynoids have very few mechanical parts, being almost entirely organic like humans.
--JadeFox
Androids are the source of much confusion and mystery in the sixth world. To a casual observer an android is identical to a human, they can possess any of the physical traits common among humans, are about the same height as a human, and are a little heavier then humans. Unlike other metatypes, androids are not naturally born, but are created artificially by a process that is not publically known, even to the androids themselves.
--Some people (myself included) suspect that the megacorp Sauder Krupp is behind the androids, though that cannot be proved as no android remembers before waking up on the street of some random metroplex. While their motives for creating them are unknown, it seems to be a little too strange to be a coincidence that they are the only megacorp who gives them full rights as humans, a fact which causes many androids to seek employment with them.
--Phreak
Androids first appeared in Germany approximately ten years ago. Initially there where very few androids, and those who did exist tended to share similar similar traits such as pale skin, straight blond hair, blue eyes, and few, if any, identifying marks. Early androids also tended to be very cold and distant by human standards, and unfailingly logical. As time went on androids started popping up in every major metroplex in the world. As the androids got older their personalities became more diverse and human, a trait they share with newer androids who also happen to be more physically diverse as well, sometimes even to the point of being bizarre with some rare androids possessing unnatural skin, hair, and eye colors and unusual body shapes and proportions.
--Androids are capable of any emotions you are chummer. Love, hate, fear, curiosity, the whole shebang. In fact some androids have even mated with metahumans and gotten children out of the deal, though the children are always the metatype of their metahuman parent and not androids.
--Ozzie
With rare exception, androids appear to all but the most sophisticated tests as human. They require food, water, and air just like a human, they possess a physiology almost identical to human including having human DNA.
--All androids DNA is identical to one-another, which is really useful for an android who wants to be a runner, but really annoying for an android who wants to get a legitimate SIN. It is also due to this fact that androids cannot breed with each other, only with metahumans.
--Phreak
Androids are usually considered to be living beings by most circles. Their physiology and the fact that they possess DNA is one reason, by perhaps the primary reason for this conclusion is that they have an aura. Like all living creatures, an androids aura is visible in astral space, and is identical to a humans.
--That's not entirely true, and/gynoids aura is much weaker then a metahumans, and while they can be affected by mana spells, they are highly resistant to them. In addition there have been no reports of awakened androids, or technomancer androids for that matter. Plus, I haven't found a spirit yet who's held a positive image of and/gynoids, but then again, when you're a black mage it doesn't seem like the spirits like much of anything.
--JadeFox
Androids are not without their differences though. They tend to be tougher and stronger then humans, and are able to resist most human toxins and diseases. Android's bodies are very accepting of cyberware and bioware, and are able to withstand more then a normal metahuman would. Androids are also inherently tied to the matrix, and are able to access it without the aid of a commlink
--Interesting fact. Even androids made before the launch of the wireless Matrix 2.0 can access it, though ever single android can has a blank period in their memory for a few weeks around the time of the crash. More then a little suspicious.
--Galahad
Androids have had some trouble integrating themselves into metahuman society. While they can fairly easily pass for humans, most countries don't allow them to obtain citizenship, with the Japanese Empire and the Sauder Krupp megacorp being two notable exceptions. Many people also find androids to be overly logical and emotionless, but in truth newer androids personalities are very similar to humans, and older androids while once like that, have developed themselves very complex personalities of their own life. Another issue facing androids is their age. Though all androids appear to be approximately 25 years of age, the oldest androids are only 10 years old. And while their bodies are full grown, and show no size of aging, some androids are still fundamentally childish, though most are quite mature by metahuman standards.
--End Transmission--
Android Attributes
BP Cost: 55
Body: 3/8(12)
Agility: 1/6(9)
Reaction: 1/6(9)
Strength: 1/7(10)
Charisma: 1/5(7)
Intuition: 1/6(9)
Logic: 1/6(9)
Willpower: 1/6(9)
Initiative: 2/12(18)
Edge: 1/5(7)
-- +2 Dice on body tests to resist toxins and pathogens
-- +1 Natural Armor(cumulative with worn armor)
-- Unarmed attacks deal physical damage
-- +2 Dice to resist mana spells
-- Androids have 1 point of essence and do not loose essence for installing cyberware or bioware
-- Androids have 7 augmentation points. When installing cyberware or bioware them must spend augmentation points equal to the normal essence cost. An android may not install more essence worth of cyber/bioware then they have augmentation points left.
-- Androids cannot take the following qualities: magician, mystic adept, adept, technomancer, or any other quality that would grant a magic or resonance score.
-- Natural image link, sound link, eye recording unit, and ear recording unit
-- Natural internal commlink with response equal to intuition(+1 in full VR), signal equal to charisma, system equal to logic, and firewall equal to willpower. Androids are always considered to be in hot sim while in full VR, but they gain +2 dice on checks to resist the attacks of black programs(cumulative with biofeedback filter programs). Otherwise this functions identically to a normal internal commlink.
Welcome back to JackPoint, omae; your last connection was severed: 2 hours, 42 minutes, 13 seconds ago
--Today's Heads up--
Scan the android tag to learn what these strange robots are, and what they mean to you. Mysterious denizens of the shadows, or elaborate corporate plot, you decide.
A Primer on Androids
From: Strange Marvels of the 21st Century
--Only the title an allready this article has flaws. The term android only applies to males, females, are properly refered to as Gynoids. In fact, and/gynoid may not be appropriate at all as that implies that they are robots. While artifically constructed, and/gynoids have very few mechanical parts, being almost entirely organic like humans.
--JadeFox
Androids are the source of much confusion and mystery in the sixth world. To a casual observer an android is identical to a human, they can possess any of the physical traits common among humans, are about the same height as a human, and are a little heavier then humans. Unlike other metatypes, androids are not naturally born, but are created artificially by a process that is not publically known, even to the androids themselves.
--Some people (myself included) suspect that the megacorp Sauder Krupp is behind the androids, though that cannot be proved as no android remembers before waking up on the street of some random metroplex. While their motives for creating them are unknown, it seems to be a little too strange to be a coincidence that they are the only megacorp who gives them full rights as humans, a fact which causes many androids to seek employment with them.
--Phreak
Androids first appeared in Germany approximately ten years ago. Initially there where very few androids, and those who did exist tended to share similar similar traits such as pale skin, straight blond hair, blue eyes, and few, if any, identifying marks. Early androids also tended to be very cold and distant by human standards, and unfailingly logical. As time went on androids started popping up in every major metroplex in the world. As the androids got older their personalities became more diverse and human, a trait they share with newer androids who also happen to be more physically diverse as well, sometimes even to the point of being bizarre with some rare androids possessing unnatural skin, hair, and eye colors and unusual body shapes and proportions.
--Androids are capable of any emotions you are chummer. Love, hate, fear, curiosity, the whole shebang. In fact some androids have even mated with metahumans and gotten children out of the deal, though the children are always the metatype of their metahuman parent and not androids.
--Ozzie
With rare exception, androids appear to all but the most sophisticated tests as human. They require food, water, and air just like a human, they possess a physiology almost identical to human including having human DNA.
--All androids DNA is identical to one-another, which is really useful for an android who wants to be a runner, but really annoying for an android who wants to get a legitimate SIN. It is also due to this fact that androids cannot breed with each other, only with metahumans.
--Phreak
Androids are usually considered to be living beings by most circles. Their physiology and the fact that they possess DNA is one reason, by perhaps the primary reason for this conclusion is that they have an aura. Like all living creatures, an androids aura is visible in astral space, and is identical to a humans.
--That's not entirely true, and/gynoids aura is much weaker then a metahumans, and while they can be affected by mana spells, they are highly resistant to them. In addition there have been no reports of awakened androids, or technomancer androids for that matter. Plus, I haven't found a spirit yet who's held a positive image of and/gynoids, but then again, when you're a black mage it doesn't seem like the spirits like much of anything.
--JadeFox
Androids are not without their differences though. They tend to be tougher and stronger then humans, and are able to resist most human toxins and diseases. Android's bodies are very accepting of cyberware and bioware, and are able to withstand more then a normal metahuman would. Androids are also inherently tied to the matrix, and are able to access it without the aid of a commlink
--Interesting fact. Even androids made before the launch of the wireless Matrix 2.0 can access it, though ever single android can has a blank period in their memory for a few weeks around the time of the crash. More then a little suspicious.
--Galahad
Androids have had some trouble integrating themselves into metahuman society. While they can fairly easily pass for humans, most countries don't allow them to obtain citizenship, with the Japanese Empire and the Sauder Krupp megacorp being two notable exceptions. Many people also find androids to be overly logical and emotionless, but in truth newer androids personalities are very similar to humans, and older androids while once like that, have developed themselves very complex personalities of their own life. Another issue facing androids is their age. Though all androids appear to be approximately 25 years of age, the oldest androids are only 10 years old. And while their bodies are full grown, and show no size of aging, some androids are still fundamentally childish, though most are quite mature by metahuman standards.
--End Transmission--
Android Attributes
BP Cost: 55
Body: 3/8(12)
Agility: 1/6(9)
Reaction: 1/6(9)
Strength: 1/7(10)
Charisma: 1/5(7)
Intuition: 1/6(9)
Logic: 1/6(9)
Willpower: 1/6(9)
Initiative: 2/12(18)
Edge: 1/5(7)
-- +2 Dice on body tests to resist toxins and pathogens
-- +1 Natural Armor(cumulative with worn armor)
-- Unarmed attacks deal physical damage
-- +2 Dice to resist mana spells
-- Androids have 1 point of essence and do not loose essence for installing cyberware or bioware
-- Androids have 7 augmentation points. When installing cyberware or bioware them must spend augmentation points equal to the normal essence cost. An android may not install more essence worth of cyber/bioware then they have augmentation points left.
-- Androids cannot take the following qualities: magician, mystic adept, adept, technomancer, or any other quality that would grant a magic or resonance score.
-- Natural image link, sound link, eye recording unit, and ear recording unit
-- Natural internal commlink with response equal to intuition(+1 in full VR), signal equal to charisma, system equal to logic, and firewall equal to willpower. Androids are always considered to be in hot sim while in full VR, but they gain +2 dice on checks to resist the attacks of black programs(cumulative with biofeedback filter programs). Otherwise this functions identically to a normal internal commlink.