Amnesiac PCs in THS

[Michael Thayne]

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

Aside from the necessity of in-the-tank learning to the whole bioroid concept? No, but that probably is paramount.

That's not obvious! Aside from the two vignettes I cited you might think bioroids just learn very quickly once out of the tank.

I can remember suggesting to David during the orignal playtest that bioroids probably did something like combine an infant's speed of learning (or faster becaue the brain is even more blank) with the adult horsepower of a fully developed brain.

That would make sense, but some of the quote above seem to go beyond that. Notably, the main book and Deep Beyond both have David as the author, but Personnel Files and Bio-Tech 2100 both have Phil Masters as the author, and those are the books that seem to move more in the direction of bioroid brains, or at least new bioroid brains, being significantly more "programmable" than even a young human brain. So maybe different authors have slightly different visions.

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It's s general principle that when the hardness of the science of any particular area gets wobbly it's because wiggle room was needed to make that aspect of the setting possible so as to achieve the original vison.

I'm not super-interested in hard-science justifications here. More interested in just how far a devious bioroid creator can go in messing with the brain of a newly-built bioroid.