Mekanobe

A mekanobe martial-master

A mechanical race created by human innovation and lust for immortality.

## Background

The Mekanobes are a race of beings born from a desire to transcend the limitations of the flesh and the rapid advances made in artificial intelligence. They are not mere machines, but something more. Mekanobes are as diverse and adaptive as humans, capable of a wide range of functions and emotions.

Some Mekanobes are mass-produced for general purposes, while others are specialized for specific tasks such as warfare, medicine, or construction. They can be cold-hearted killing machines or compassionate companions with a full range of emotions. Some Mekanobes have become so advanced that they rival the intelligence of the Hymn.

#### Upgraded

The advent of the neural link allowed many to forgo their human form and become Mekanobes. Some did it out of necessity due to incurable diseases or lifelong paralysis, while others sought to become something more than human. This led to tensions with some religious groups who opposed the idea of playing god and tampering with the soul.

However, the arrival of the Hymn from the emptiness of space changed everything. The advanced technologies of the Hymn smoothed out some of the kinks in the early Mekanobe systems, and some Hymn even joined the Mekanobe race. This caused some nations to recognize the Mekanobes as a distinct race, separate from humans.

#### Mekanobe Laws

As Mekanobes became more integrated into society, laws had to change to accommodate them. In most developed countries where people could pay to be upgraded, the laws for Mekanobes were the same as for normal humans. However, in other places, Mekanobes were treated no differently from slaves.

To create a place of their own, the Mekanobes founded Mektopia. This land is vastly different from human cities and more accommodating to Mekanobes. Mektopia allows the Mekanobes to live as they please and develop their own culture, free from human interference.

                             ~Dikkbott q(╯ᆺ╰๑)

## Mekanobe Traits

* ***Age***. Anything from 0 to ∞.
* ***Size***. Medium.
* ***Tags***. You are tagged as mechanical and as humanoid.
* ***Alignment***. It can be anything, but most are more geared towards the logical, lawful, side.
* ***Language***. English
* ***Tough plating.***Your starting hp is equal to 20 plus your constitution modifier, plus 1 hit point per level beyond the first, but you cannot be healed through most conventional means. This is due to your mechanical origin.
* ***Speed.*** Your base walking speed is 30ft per round.
* ***Mechnical Corpus.*** Due to your mechanical origin, you defy the laws of biology.
	+ ***Food.*** You no longer require Food or water to survive, instead you consume 1 battery a day or need to be hooked to a power source for 1 hour, can be during sleep.
	+ ***Sleep.*** You only need 2 hours of actual ‘charging’ to complete a sleep rest, the remaining 6 hours you can keep watch without a penalty.
	+ ***Immunity.*** You can no longer be poisoned or diseased.
* ***Thinking Module.*** A Mekanobe is made of different parts. First is the “mental” part which does the thinking.
* ***Body Type.***  This section describes the “body” part and how it has been designed.

#### Thinking Module

There are 2 types of Mekanobe thinking modules. You can choose between Artificial intelligence or upgraded:

* **Artificial Intelligence** - You have overcome the hurdle and become sentient, the degree of sentience is up to the player. From full emotions to just complex thoughts.
	+ Upload: You can upload yourself to the cloud, when you die you can inhibit a new mekanobe body. Roll a sanity check to see if it is all uploaded if you fail the check you gain a permanent stack of insanity.
	+ Extra language: Mekanobe, the language of the Mekanobes.
* **Upgraded** - You have forgone your flesh and become one with the machine.
	+ You gain one feature from your original race that defines the race. You also gain their respective race language.
		- Human: You gain the feature Rich Personalities.
		- Hymn: You gain the feature Apathy and the tag gain tag: alien.

#### Body Type

There are 3 types of Mekanobe body design. You can choose between rounded, specialized or adaptable.

* **Rounded** - Your Mekanobe body has been designed for a broad range of tasks.
	+ Ability Score Increase. Two different ability scores of your choice increase by 1.
* **Specialized** - Your Mekanobe body has been designed for a specific set of tasks.
	+ Ability Score Increase. One ability score of your choice increases by 4 to a max of 18. but one ability score is reduced by 2.
* **Adaptable** - Your Mekanobe body has been designed to be adaptable with various interfaces.
	+ Adaptable Interface The amount of maximum implants you may have is increased by 1.