Caretaker Cog
1,166 points
A large, vaguely spider-like robot used for general maintenance and terraforming in a few habitats of the Maia Dyson sphere.
ST 63 (Size, -40%) [378]
DX 12 [20]
IQ 9 [-20]
HT 13 [30]
HP 63 [0]
Will 10 [5]
Per 12 [15]
FP n/a
Damage: Thr: 7d-1 Sw: 9d
Basic Lift: 793 lbs.
Basic Speed: 4.50 [-35]
Basic Move: 4 [0]
Size Modifier: +4
TL: 10 [0]
Cultural Familiarity: Maia Robots [0].
Languages: Maian [0]; Phenulan [6]; Olebic [6].
Advantages: 360° Vision [25]; Absolute Direction (Requires Signal, -20%) [4]; AI Meta-Trait [32]; Ambidexterity [5]; Claws (Hooves) [3]; Damage Resistance 40 (Hardened 2, +40%; Can’t Wear Armor, -40%; Innermost Layer) [200]; Damage Resistance 20 (Can’t Wear Armor, -40%; Partial: Torso and Head Only, -10%; Outermost Layer) [50]; Detect (Rare: Radioactives) [5]; Discriminatory Taste (Soil/water analyzer) [10]; Doesn’t Breathe [20]; Doesn’t Eat or Drink [10]; Enhanced Tracking 4 [20]; Extra Arms 5 (Long (+1 SM), +100%; Foot Manipulators, -30%) [85]; Flexibility (Double-Jointed) [15]; Hard to Subdue 3 [6]; High Pain Threshold [10]; Hyperspectral Vision (Extended Low-Band, +30%) [33]; Immunity to Metabolic Hazards [30]; Indomitable [15]; Injury Tolerance (No Blood, No Head, No Neck, No Vitals, Unliving) [42]; Pressure Support 2 [10]; Protected Sense (Vision, Hearing) [10]; Radiation Tolerance (PF 100) [30]; Sealed [15]; Telecommunication (Radio; Video, +40%) [14]; Telescopic Vision 2 [10]; Unaging [15]; Unfazeable [15]; Vacuum Support [5]; Sanitized Metabolism [1].
Disadvantages: Attentive [-1]; Broad-Minded [-1]; Cannot Speak (Can produce loud beeps and tones) [-15]; Dead Broke [-25]; Dull [-1]; Ham-Fisted [-5]; Incurious (15) [-2]; Mistaken Identity [-5]; Odious Personal Habit (Ignores sophonts unless it would otherwise harm them) [-10]; Pacifism (Cannot Harm Innocents) [-10]; Stubbornness [-5]; Unhealing (Total) [-30].
Features: Doesn’t Fatigue [0]; No Extra Effort [0]; Sterile [0].
Skills: Area Knowledge (Assigned Habitat; IQ+5)-14 [16]; Biology/TL10 (Earthlike; IQ+1)-10 [12]; Chemistry/TL10 (IQ+3)-12 [16]; Climbing (DX+0)-12 [2]; Engineering (Civil; IQ+1)-10 [8]; Expert Skill (Hydrology; IQ+2)-11 [12]; Expert Skill (Landscaping; IQ+2)-11 [12]; Farming/TL10 (IQ+1)-10 [4]; Gardening (IQ+2)-11 [4]; Geography (Earthlike; IQ+4)-13 [20]; Physics/TL10 (IQ+3)-12 [20].
Background: Caretaker Cogs are huge, iron-gray, seven-legged robots dedicated to large-scale terraforming (though they can be reprogrammed to work on other projects). Their long legs (each with four joints and capable of doubling as an arm) support a massive, heavily armored spherical body twelve feet in diameter. These globes are studded with hundreds of tiny sensor ports.
Each Cog is thousands of years old. The two score of them currently tending three habitats were responsible for simulating an earth-like environment and ecosystem using nothing but millions of tons of raw materials and a rather simple AI-run biolab. Since the basic completion of that task, they’ve been devoted to perfecting and diversifying the landscape with minor guidance from the habitat mainframes.
Notes: Sources of inspiration for this character: Laputa: Castle in the Sky (anime),
Terra Incognita: Special by Paul Drye (recent Pyramid article).