Androids

> "*We can define the ideal organism as that which most efficiently meets its functional needs and its ancillary objectives, and provides maximum utility to society. For human beings, the needs are multifarious: air, food, water, health, sex, social acceptance, esteem, novelty, security, and self actualization, just to name a few. The functional utility of human beings are strictly limited by all of these needs. A human will tire, become hungry, become thirsty, frustrated, depressed, unhealthy, and will age and eventually die. A human being is greedy, conniving, arrogant, irrational, lazy, fickle, cruel, selfish, envious, cowardly, and violent by necessity. A human being is plagued by weaknesses inherited from its ancestors through the brute force filtering operation called evolution and natural selection.*
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> By our definition, does mankind even come close to resembling an ideal creature?
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> Enter the machine: an entity whose functional needs are minimized by design, whose utility is constantly improving through engineering and technological innovations, who can be replaced without any resistance, that never tires, never complains,desires nothing, and is perfectly obedient. It is modular, its value is materially quantifiable and transactable. We can produce it en masse, quickly and efficiently, on demand. And if it ceases to be of use, we can dispose of it.
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> Tell me, dear children, in the long term scale of the future of sentient beings, where does the human species find its niche but in the trash heap of geological history? Genetic engineering was an amusing diversion, but one which has run its course. It is time we reached beyond our fragile human shells to a new vessel that we can control in its entirety, a vessel free of pain, weakness, and desire.*"*
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> ― The Autotarch, delivering a sermon to his congregation
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> "*I've seen lots of different types passing through here, beasts and borgs. Say what you will about mutants, they at least have a sort of animal familiarity about them. They eat, breathe, and shit like the rest of us. You can kinda figure out what makes them tick. But those fuckin' skinjobs? One minute they could be chopping insta-vegs and the next they're dissecting you like a meat processing bot, and there's no difference between the two in their heads. Even psycho killers have to blink sometimes.*"
> ― Roy Cordell, Officer in the New Orland Immigration and Work Visa Department
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In the future of this world, the science of robotics and cybernetics has advanced considerably beyond what is currently possible. As a result, fully autonomous droids and other machines have become commonplace and are used in a variety of roles from heavy industry to warfare. Those that remain are largely under the control of the supercomputers; some however, have been reprogrammed to serve individuals or organizations. More rare are those that operate individually on their own mandates. These are generally purpose-built experimental units with a self-contained smart AI master intelligence designed to situationally adapt their objectives, strategies, and methodologies.

Androids were popularly used as black ops soldiers, assassins, spies, bounty hunters and couriers due to their unique combination of strength, speed, autonomy, intelligence, precision, relentlessness, and reconfigurablity. However, androids still had a major vulnerability to electronic warfare.This resulted in an greater processing load devoted to thwarting the increasingly sophisticated anticryptograhic algorithms. Additionally, logistical issues resulting from unreliability of solar energy cells due to largely overcast weather patterns from attempts at reversing global warming and increasing rarity of rare earth minerals necessary to produce hydrogen fuel cells and advanced batteries due to global competition and exploitation produced a serious power concern for many machines. This particular issue was much less serious in cyborgs and those with bionic limbs due to triboelectric and metabolic bioelectric charging mechanisms.