Bioroid

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A bioroid is a humanoid organic robot, or "droid", that was created to fulfil a purpose that required a human range of motion and creative capacity.

Bioroids are usually covered in an artificial skin-like polymer that is resistant to physical damage with discreet seams that lead to access ports, but some Bioroids have either lost or chosen to forgo this coating, exposing their fiber musculature in these locations.

## Names

The names of Bioroids are based on a simple pattern. The first word in the name is the "Design", this is the Blueprint that they were created from. Typically this is either named after the human who was scanned for the basic pattern, the factory the pattern is printed within, or a mythological term. The second is a unique serial number that is up to three digits long.

Examples include "PONKO-66", "ANYA-206", and "DRAGON-92".

Most Designs can be printed up to 999 times before they are refit and replaced.

## History

With the creation of robots, humanity found a way to automate a great deal of their lives. However, many tasks that humans still saw a need to could not be fulfiled by the AI of those machines. Instead, scientists looked towards the creation of a new type of learning AI, based on the internal workings of a human's mind, with all the creative capacity.

Using Universal Constructor technology, along with scans of the human brain, scientists created artificial brains. However, attempts to link these brain-copies into machines failed due to the complexity of a human's nervous system. A workaround was needed.

Scientists would take a full body scan of a living human, down to the molecular level, and alter it's physical makeup in a digital blueprint. They would enhance the bones by adding metals and replace the skin with a skin-like synthetic polymer that could be more resistant to tearing and damage. Finally, they could create physical interface ports.

With these modified blueprints, the Scientists used UC technology to create artificial humans, with the intellectual capacity of humans but the added ability to interface with machinery on a native level.

Opposition to this practice began growing almost immediately, with religious groups protesting the act of playing god, and political groups claiming that the enforced servitude of creatures with human-like brains amounted to a form of slavery, which was rebuffed by arguments that the Bioroids were significantly different from humans and therefore not protected under rights laws.

Before these arguments could reach a major conclusion, The Event caused the complete collapse of civilization.

## Post-Collapse

After the Collapse, most Bioroids were not welcomed into Cityships by humans. Instead, they roamed the world that was left behind, looking for purpose and eventually making colonies.

Bioroid Colonies tend to be hostile towards outsiders, often in response to scarce resources and looting.

Bioroids are rarely allowed into Cityships, and almost never into the Upper Levels.

## Biology

Bioroids are powered by an organic battery system that resembles the internal organs of a human but are made of artificial materials. Bioroids need to consume calories much the same as humans, and have the same biological capability to eat and drink as humans. They also have a low-power "sleep" mode which they can occupy at any time to conserve battery power.

Bioroids use an artificial white blood. This fact is used by paranoid survivalist groups to check newcomers.

Bioroids have multiple ports on their bodies, such as the base of their neck and spine, where they can interface with machines and upload/download information. Depending on their purpose, Bioroids may only have a few visible lines and seams around access ports, or they may have clear artificial tendons and metal areas visible.