A dull brain wrought with things forgotten...-Shackspear<br /><br />In the Frontier we have the mysterious cybot- a cybernetic construct of living tissue and metal- one has to ask just what living tissue goes into a cybot? Science fiction has typically answered this with either a brain or as in the case of the Terminators- skin. I dont see much else making sense (not that either of the above options make much sense either). So what is the nature of the ill defined Frontier Cybot?<br /><br />The rules only list Missions and Functions for extrapolating a robot's behavior and give no special case for the cybot. This implies that the cybot functions exactly like any other robot. So why would you put a human or any other species brain into one? a standard robotics processor is probably going to have a longer life and easier time reprograming.<br /><br />I've always characterized it as that the brain is wiped of conscious memories and that its connected to the regular robotics processor and the net result is that it allows these high level robots to think more creatively then otherwise possible.<br /><br />I'd be curious as to other peoples opinion on that.<br /><br />Another idea hit me- the sathar are into removing brains, putting them in a jar and hooking them up to stuff- Volturnus obelisk. It would seem clear that the sathar personality is still preserved in this disembodied brain. So I was also thinking that perhaps cybot tech came about in the Frontier because sathar tech had fallen into Corporate and or military hands and the Frontier Cybots were reverse engineered from sathar tubed brains.<br /><br />That said I think there would be story potential to explore this development of the cybot in the Frontier.
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