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Old 12-07-2018, 11:41 AM   #9
Black Leviathan
 
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Default Re: [GURPS 2e] Questions with IQ and Controls(A version of Compartmentalized Mind)

I'd say a tool can be IQ zero but an ally must have some IQ specifically because Ally implies autonomy. At IQ 0 The drone literally couldn't make any decisions such as elevation or attitude to take evasive action or direct itself. It's very ability to follow the user requires minimal IQ.

Even with animal intelligence the drone can interpret threats and evade them with surprisingly high Dexterity and speed.

Digital mind is the simpler form of sorting out how your drone works. If it has an IQ 0 it's just equipment and doesn't need any kind of mind.

The drone would have to have the ability to afflict you with the advantages to bestow them to you. Having to "log in" to the drone and being limited by it's view would be significant Limitations on the advantage.

Someone trying to hijack the drone would likely contest their hacking ability against the drone's Willpower (representing the complexity of it's programming). Likely the same way it would resist EMP attacks.
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