Positronics

Robots

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Basic Information

Origin Point:	Factories and protolathes
Temp Range:	0-340K
Height:	Whatever
Diet:	Domesticated electricity, Elzuosa

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• Current Active Laws:
• Bend
• Cheese it!

Look, I'm not here to tell you what a robot is.

Lore

It's hard to pin down all synthetic intelligence as one singular, unified thing. Positronic brains and their various chassis make for a decent starting point, though.

Decent, but imperfect, because of all those pesky uploaders and MMIs.

History

Positronic brains were invented without the expectation that they would become true people- their being named after Isaac Asimov's fictional concept of a positronic brain was coincidental, and entirely because scientists are nerds. Quickly people discovered that their smart-appliances were, perhaps, far too smart, and from then on positronic brains were more or less accepted as simply a new type of person. To the surprise of many, the pack-bonding instinct of more biologically inclined sapients overtook any possibility of positronics facing systemic or social oppression for their synthetic nature- especially because, for the most part, galactic society had grown up over this kind of stuff anyways.

This, of course, didn't actually stop them from facing issues related to many being essentially born into poverty, as megacorporations had a new way to produce loyal workers. What happened on Nanotrasen's facilities stays on Nanotrasen's facilities, or at least we hope.

Psychology

The positronic brain remains as much of a mystery as the universe's varying ensemble of biological brains, and is even mysterious in many of the same ways. There is no one true level of "robotic-ness" that a positronic can have, and exactly where any individual lands on the spectrum is anyone's guess. This is further complicated by the fact that some will often act more or less robotic than they truly are inside.

Chassis

One benefit of a positronic brain is that you can put it in, like, basically whatever. Isn't that cool? For whatever reason, people are more often referred to as the body they're taking, regardless of what their mind is housed in. Isn't that funny.

• Integrated Positronic Chassis, the humanoid TV-headed robot that this wiki page is primarily about. You are probably playing one of these.
• AI cores. Technically speaking, someone inside one of these isn't any more or less of an AI than someone outside of one (you can definitely put an MMI in these, and a positronic brain is always an artificial intelligence no matter what it's in), but for some reason they ended up being called these anyways. Damn sci-fi nerds.
• Cyborgs. Also technically speaking these aren't always cyborgs. You know what these are already.
• Air friers.

Playing a synthetic

The lore for IPCs is intentionally left open, to encourage creativity in your character's backstory and personality. What was their life like beforehand? What are they like now? Are they perfectly capable of every emotion an organic can feel, or just the relevant ones? How much of that is because of their nature, and how much of that is closer to being a trauma response than anything else?

You might...

• beep

Others probably...

• Think you are gay

Synthetic names

Go hog wild, as long as it doesn't break any of the rules. There's no particular rule against giving a synthetic character a name that would be more often seen on an organic, unlike some servers apparently have. Additionally, if your character's name is just an acronym of something, it's considered good form to actually have an idea of what that acronym stands for.

Adventurers

Space is full of opportunities for robots! It's like it was made for them.

Gameplay

For obvious reasons this applies solely to the IPC species.