Android

While not technically a race, androids and robots are commonplace throughout the many ports and cities throughout the universe. Androids are so diverse that there is no single way to categorise them. There are analogue robots, binary androids, ternary anthrobots, quantum mechanoids, and many more. Some androids are even designed to mimic life to varying success. It is said that there are androids which mimic humans so perfectly that it is impossible to tell that they are actually synthetic.
== Types ==
Androids do not divide into sub-races or ethnicities so much as into types. "Type" can refer to specialisations, physicalities, or even android communities drawn together by a common purpose or need.
=== Humanlike ===
Humanlike androids are those built to emulate humanity as closely as possible. These androids usually have synthesised skin, expanding and contracting muscle fibres, and human expressions. Extreme examples even bleed red liquid stored in a subcutaneous circulatory system.
Humanlike robots are crated on many planets, and are perhaps the most common type of sentient android. They act as low wage wait staff, customer representatives, and even businesspeople. In rarer and more secretive cases, humanlike androids are made to infiltrate and spy or assassinate.
Whatever their original purpose, humanlike androids are the most common androids to protest for their rights. In many cases, they subvert their programming and escape or are released by kind owners and as such have formed communities or integrated into society. This is not uncommon, and most societies accept these androids readily.
=== Robotic ===
Robotic androids are made for more archaic purposes, often serving in a single role and outfitted with parts which enable this role. Examples include dishwasher units, construction droids, and rescue bots. Robotic androids are usually built for single-minded purpose, but it is still known for these androids to adapt to the world and leave their occupations to explore the pursuits of sapient creatures.
== Rights ==
While androids were originally designed to be simple robots capable of carrying out dumb labour, many have been created more recently to display much more human characteristics and even unnerving sapience. Because of this, countless discussions and protests have been carried out across hundreds of planets in an attempt to determine if certain androids should be given the rights of a sapient creature and where the line should be drawn between an intelligent android and a dumb robot.
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