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Technician Android

As their name implies, these androids specialize in one main technician skill area, but often have minor qualifications in other skills, too. They were originally designed to serve alongside either industrial or scientific models, but were widely dispersed throughout the old world. Of course, with their knowledge and access to essential services, those that were corrupted by the Mecha caused devastating damage to the infrastructure of human cities and industry, and left vast swaths of the human population without food, water, heat, virtual reality up-link, air conditioning and power.

Assorted Android Characters From page 31 of The Mutant Epoch Expansion Rules book, Android Original Purpose Descriptions and Details.

Female Patterned Android

Android Original Purpose Descriptions and Details Art from page 31 of The Mutant Epoch RPG Expansion Rules book

Civilian androids were mass produced and easily the most commonly found models that dig teams unearth. These humanoid robots usually had plastic bones — although many featured fully biodegradable sheathing, bones and parts which have long since decayed into dust. This unique android, however, is built different from other models. It is either a customized variant, from a limited edition, or a prototype of some rare, purpose-built and perhaps one of a kind design. Roll on the following table to determine what its original intended job was, with each model gaining trait bonuses or penalties. See the description text to follow for each unit’s intended, pre-play ‘job’ for potential starting skills and other features.

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Android Character, skinless Skinbots are immune to many of the hazards of organic beings, including drowning, venom, poison gas, and mental attacks such as telepathy, mind crush, mental dominion and the like. Androids, like cyborgs and robots, are however highly vulnerable to electromagnetic pulse attacks or EMP, some electricity shooting mutations and relics, as well as being hacked and taken over by hostile artificial intelligences and digital beings. Often, a digital being is housed in the body of an android, and both the digital being and an android body must be rolled using two separate character sheets to construct one character. Android characters do not feel pain, are immune to mental attacks that afflict a living brain, and if decapitated, and utterly lose their body, they are still considered alive and their head can be collected and either carried about like a talkative computer and pet, or eventually put onto the body of a different android or robot — although this is a tricky procedure handled best by very talented NPC robotics technicians. When reduced below zero endurance, or its willpower or intelligence trait are drained below zero, the android becomes dormant until repaired — or self-healed in some cases — and can survive in low battery mode for 1d100+6 years before its CPU suffers some irreversible corruption and is deleted. If the head of an android is incinerated, crushed, or shot apart, then it is dead.

Android Player Character Type All new for The Mutant Epoch RPG Differing from a digital being, these entities are more self contained, exhibit hard-wired CPUs and a more independent nature, blending the best of a physical robotic body and stand-alone digital brain. Like living humans, however, they are very mortal. Typically, when their head is destroyed, they are erased and lost forever. Also like humans, who their creators wished to emulate as much as possible, unique androids can learn as they endure the ordeals of the twisted new world, improving their skills, enhancing their mechanical body, and advancing as other intelligent beings do. Hand drawn ink art from page 29 of The Mutant Epoch RPG Expansion Rules book