No, Rancke's right. There's the adventure you mentioned and a dribble here and there, but denying it doesn't make it go away: despite Marc's article and the later supplement, Classic Traveller really hasn't featured much in the way of robots in the milieu. Mercenary and Striker offered drone brains, but the Striker drone vehicle needs to be in communication with a gunner who orders it about. The best we've been able to do so far is to offer rationalizations for why the bots might be either unwanted or "invisible".
I notice a distinct lack of Bots and Droids
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No, Rancke's right. There's the adventure you mentioned and a dribble here and there, but denying it doesn't make it go away: despite Marc's article and the later supplement, Classic Traveller really hasn't featured much in the way of robots in the milieu. Mercenary and Striker offered drone brains, but the Striker drone vehicle needs to be in communication with a gunner who orders it about. The best we've been able to do so far is to offer rationalizations for why the bots might be either unwanted or "invisible".
A number of early 3rd party "Approved For Use With Traveller" items had some. Police bots, warbots.
mike wightman
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The there is the Zhodani warbot, mentioned as early as AHL.
Does The Empire, or any other civilization in any version of Traveller, have the capability to notice nanobots ? If not, then they are essentially invisible...
Robots are given a default AP count of 20 in Snapshot...
I did some work with a team at a uni a few years ago on artificial learning, very interesting stuff.
At the other end of the spectrum, during our game session the other night the players were at Jewell preparing to jump into the Consulate. They've neural nets that interfere with telepathic probes but don't stop them. They were worried about a Zho customs officer picking up thoughts of guilt about being there, so they thought they'd mask the real reason and paid to have a short VR movie put together before they left 3I space, knowing that it would most likely get confiscated in the Consulate if they were caught with it, hence generating the reason for their thoughts of guilt.
Oh, the name of the movie? Zombie ⌧bots of Jewell.
I was appalled of course.
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selunatic2397
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Give your gamers an "AWESOME PLAN!!!!" from me...my gamers haven't been nearly so creative lately.
We had the original ritalin kid in a guest-starring role as he was visiting interstate for work on the Mon and Tues. That extra spark added to the fire was a bit like tossing a bit of thermite into a campfire: it was bright before, but for a short while became just incredible.
It did lead to an interesting discussion briefly about whether bots would do much to replace the oldest profession. Another timeless set of skills gone the way of the dodo at the hands (as such) of automation. That sort of thing might work for the average Joe, but professionals working like the Companions from Firefly would, we collectively generally agreed, be valuable still as one more human service.
It did lead to an interesting discussion briefly about whether bots would do much to replace the oldest profession. Another timeless set of skills gone the way of the dodo at the hands (as such) of automation. That sort of thing might work for the average Joe, but professionals working like the Companions from Firefly would, we collectively generally agreed, be valuable still as one more human service.
GypsyComet
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I think that's going to be world and region dependent. Some areas will consider robogirls anathema, others will carefully ignore it (as we ignore the human practice quite a bit now), and some will *ahem* embrace the idea. In some cases it may be as seen in A.I. (the movie), or any of the other social structures that have evolved around the profession.
We may even see a flipping of the meme as portrayed by the Intellectual Call Girl: having a secretly programmed and databased robot that looks human to have possibly illegal and socially unacceptable discourse about off-world news, books, and thought under the disguise of "companionship". And you thought high Law Level worlds were boring...