08-22-2013, 05:26 AM | #31 |
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Re: Military Cybershells - just how ubiquitous are they?
Because they're self-motivated heavily armed death machines. You've got to trust the inhuman mind (or, just possibly, the formerly-human but dedicatedly transhumanist mind) running them not to decide to use those capabilities. But everyone knows that the minds installed in combat shells will be, specifically, designed and trained as killers.
They're really highly disciplined and law-abiding killers, of course. But trust rarely comes cheap.
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08-22-2013, 10:29 AM | #32 |
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Re: Military Cybershells - just how ubiquitous are they?
How does that differ from a guy walking around in full armor with an assault rifle? (or the TL 10 equivalent).
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08-22-2013, 11:45 AM | #33 | |
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Very little, if you don't know anything about the guy. But if the guy is identifiable, and has deportment appropriate for a community or tribe member, that's reassuring that he has something like normal ties and behavior and fear of ultimate consequences and needs to be provoked along the spectrum from Friendly Defender to Grim Reaper. Death-dealing combat machines can conceivably go from 0 to amok in nothing flat. |
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08-22-2013, 11:55 AM | #34 | |
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Re: Military Cybershells - just how ubiquitous are they?
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( I'll need to edit this post to include a page reference when I can get unpacked. ) EDIT: TS corebook p.25, BOX "Human Obsolescence..." Last edited by jeff_wilson; 08-23-2013 at 12:01 AM. |
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08-22-2013, 12:47 PM | #35 | |
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Taking a SWAG, we can split the -4 Monstrous into: Visibly Armed: -1 Visibly Armored: -1 No/Obscured Face: -1 (also applies to an opaque helmet) Inhuman Shape: -1 That means the battlesuit (which could actually be a robot still) would only have a -3, because it's more human-shaped. |
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08-22-2013, 02:32 PM | #36 | |
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None of this is likely to be rational or articulable by the people in question, and eventually most of them can come to get used to it if the behavior continues to appear self-consistent and harm fails to come. |
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08-22-2013, 07:08 PM | #37 |
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Re: Military Cybershells - just how ubiquitous are they?
That guy gets negative reaction modifiers too. The RATS can't stop being a RATS short of downloading into a less threatening shell (and it loses the disadvantage when it does so).
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08-24-2013, 07:27 PM | #38 |
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08-24-2013, 08:27 PM | #39 |
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08-24-2013, 08:52 PM | #40 | |
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Re: Military Cybershells - just how ubiquitous are they?
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And 5th wave bioroids are better than 4th wave ones... I guess I just see bioroids and cybershells as filling different roles. Sometimes bioroids are better, sometimes cybershells are better. You can make a Cyberdoll+SAI that is better at customer relations then your average bioroid but it will cost a lot. Similarly, you can suit up a human or bioroid in top-of-the-line power armor to take on average combat cybershells but it will cost a lot. |
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