Knightwolf 1785Well I have some information here about relic AI from the EDRPG. From what I'm reading there was a rebellion before the third millennium AI was increasingly common to use self-aware and learning machines to a wide range of humanity's problems. The AI turned on humanity but a few brave souls wiped them from the computers. However before the programs were fully gone a large number of unmanned ships launched into the galaxy. So the threat is still out there.

Sakashiro But why would they grow fur and a tail?

Knightwolf 1785

OuberosThe Docking Computer and Supercruise assist suggest some automation would be possible for an Android pilot but its very clear that any artificial sentience is universally feared and avoided.

Ai relics are described as mostly fake or fragments.

A thinking machine walking into a bar would likely be shot, burned and launched into the nearest star by system authority. Other sentient non humans don't fare well in this universe. The Thargoids are just target practice these days and a long time ago there was a species on Alioth called The Mudlarks that might have been sentient but was wiped out.

Well I have some information here about relic AI from the EDRPG. From what I'm reading there was a rebellion before the third millennium AI was increasingly common to use self-aware and learning machines to a wide range of humanity's problems. The AI turned on humanity but a few brave souls wiped them from the computers. However before the programs were fully gone a large number of unmanned ships launched into the galaxy. So the threat is still out there. A lot of explores have run into them and were lucky to get away. Not all but enough to tell of the threat.

Knightwolf 1785the gene mods that are lore in Elite are another point as well. For goodness sake people can have purple eyes, and hair thanks to those gene mods.

Rebecca Hail

Knightwolf 1785

OuberosThe Docking Computer and Supercruise assist suggest some automation would be possible for an Android pilot but its very clear that any artificial sentience is universally feared and avoided.

Ai relics are described as mostly fake or fragments.

A thinking machine walking into a bar would likely be shot, burned and launched into the nearest star by system authority. Other sentient non humans don't fare well in this universe. The Thargoids are just target practice these days and a long time ago there was a species on Alioth called The Mudlarks that might have been sentient but was wiped out.

Well I have some information here about relic AI from the EDRPG. From what I'm reading there was a rebellion before the third millennium AI was increasingly common to use self-aware and learning machines to a wide range of humanity's problems. The AI turned on humanity but a few brave souls wiped them from the computers. However before the programs were fully gone a large number of unmanned ships launched into the galaxy. So the threat is still out there. A lot of explores have run into them and were lucky to get away. Not all but enough to tell of the threat.

I mean, they're not really a threat to humanity either. They'd be a threat if they could self replicate and develop themselves, but you'd need Vessels specced specifically for that.

JB Threepwood

Knightwolf 1785the gene mods that are lore in Elite are another point as well. For goodness sake people can have purple eyes, and hair thanks to those gene mods.

...so you're not talking about an alien but a gene-modded human?

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Rebecca Hail

Knightwolf 1785



Well I have some information here about relic AI from the EDRPG. From what I'm reading there was a rebellion before the third millennium AI was increasingly common to use self-aware and learning machines to a wide range of humanity's problems. The AI turned on humanity but a few brave souls wiped them from the computers. However before the programs were fully gone a large number of unmanned ships launched into the galaxy. So the threat is still out there. A lot of explores have run into them and were lucky to get away. Not all but enough to tell of the threat.

I mean, they're not really a threat to humanity either. They'd be a threat if they could self replicate and develop themselves, but you'd need Vessels specced specifically for that.

They can self replicate. It's just very slow making the new hardware for their bodies.

Knightwolf 1785Has anyone even read the bio for my character? Also the gene mods that are lore in Elite are another point as well. For goodness sake people can have purple eyes, and hair thanks to those gene mods.

Rebecca Hail

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Rebecca Hail



I mean, they're not really a threat to humanity either. They'd be a threat if they could self replicate and develop themselves, but you'd need Vessels specced specifically for that.

They can self replicate. It's just very slow making the new hardware for their bodies.

That's stated by official lore?

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Rebecca Hail

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They can self replicate. It's just very slow making the new hardware for their bodies.

That's stated by official lore?

Yes and no. I'm looking over their information in the EDRPG Exploration Supplement right now. There are two machine body type they use to control and repair/build other machines called Assembler (made up of dozens of micro computers inside a half-meter long body) and Progenitor (a one meter sphere scrap electronics form which a dozen or more metallic tentacles emerge.)

There's a ships list as well of possessed ships here too. Ghost Sidewinder, Possessed Krait, Cyber-Cobra, and a Aspwinder. That last one is a pair of Ghost Sidewinders on an Asp Explore that break off after you "kill" it.

M. Lehman

Knightwolf 1785Has anyone even read the bio for my character? Also the gene mods that are lore in Elite are another point as well. For goodness sake people can have purple eyes, and hair thanks to those gene mods.

And again: you're groping for even the slimmest excuse to roleplay something that isn't supported by the lore. We're not telling you this to be rude, disrespectful, or snobbish. We just have a grasp of what the lore does and doesn't entail. Humans in Elite stay, well... human.

The closest that one could get to what you're talking about are cybernetics, which are themselves deeply problematic due to the deeply entrenched stigma attached to them.

To wit: no cat ears.

M. LehmanTo wit: no cat ears.