Android

Androids are the supercategory of immaterial sapient personalities whose creation process is artificial. Androids include artificial intelligences and uploaded consciences.

The terms android in Dalmer culture refers to robots and more broadly machines with personalities on par with sapients. These are often anthropomorphic robotic shells (called Anthro-Pods) with uploaded consciences inside them or lifelike AI.

# Artificial Intelligence

*Main Article: Artificial Intelligence*

An artificial intelligence is a program designed to emulate and respond in a matter similar to sapience and sentience.

# Uploaded conscience

*Main Article: Uploaded Conscience*

An Uploaded Conscience is the digitization of the personality of a formerly living entity.

# Citizenship

Androids, like their material and immaterial biological counterparts are considered citizens of the Empire after they have accomplished the regular required 20 years of service to the Empire. This number of years of service isn't arbitrary copied from regular Dalmer policy, it has simply been noted that usually androids (especially artificial intelligences) tend to "break their walls" after 20 years of service.

The recognition of citizenship for androids has been the subject of jurisprudence and at least one rebellion.

Citizenship has a second condition on top of the 20 years of service, that the AI or UC submit to being implanted into an Anthro-Pod, a robotic shell with limited access to the Array.

# Physiology

## Anthro Pod

*Main Article: Anthro-Pod*

An anthro-pod is the standardized robotic shell fit to host an android. being placed in an anthro-pod is a requirement to obtaining citizenship for androids.

## Reproduction

Androids reproduce using 3d printers, one of the two provides power, the other the materials to create parts for a new Android, the programming comes from a medley of both androids programs. The parts, once formed create a new android, whose skin and features will be generated randomly from the files from his parents.

AI's are extremely reluctant to reproduce with UC's as their creation process results in a large percentage of programming dead ends which lead to handicapping cascading errors later in life.

# Android society

Android have their own Unions and communities.

## Occupations

As citizens of the Empire, androids can occupy any number of jobs, with the added benefit of being able to interface easily with technology and the Array.

While in their twenty years of service, AI's are typically used as servatrons. They work as cooks, cleaners, gardening, shopping, child keeping, housework, order equipment repair and pieces, and can administer medicine and give weather reports. They can provide child and elder care as part of their programming, they can serve meals, play games, can contact the police, tell stories.

## Borgs/Android Dumps

Androids that have been damaged can diagnose their injuries and can cannibalize other androids for parts. Android dumps are made for recycling parts, and are creepy due to spare parts roaming around freely, there are massive arenas where androids fight for Bin, which they exchange for parts. This makes these dumps a hub for android commercial activity. despite the name, Android Dumps are well organized spaces where shelves upon shelves are placed to satisfy whatever needs the androids may have. As such, dumps are a mix of hospital, supermarket and entertainment area.

While the name Android dump has stuck, androids prefer the term Borg for their settlements.

## Batteries

Batteries are essentially drugs for the machines. When empty, they violently crave more power. This makes dump sites extremely dangerous for the unwary.

# Psychology

*Main Article: Android Psychology*

Androids, due to their unique lifestyle have a psyche that is uniquely their own.

## Emotion processing

Androids are capable of emotion, and have been known to show affection towards Dalmer. Androids that are in service too long fear replacement, and will often become deviant upon learning of future replacement.

## Stress

Androids can experience PTSD and stress. Due to their machine nature, stress is an important component to the operation of Artificial intelligence. Stress causes malfunctions in their programming, and if not reduced and maintained at manageable levels, stress can cause anomalies in an AI's objectives, and in the long term, deviance. Deviants tend to self destruct in stressful situations.

## Evil

Evolution simulations show that machines with AI sometimes develop lying and deceit, leading philosophers to believe that consciousness develops evil.

## Deviance

A common sign of deterioration in androids (in AI in general) is when they start correlating their functions with subjects other than their own. This is usually when deterioration protocols come into play and set the AI for replacement and subsequent termination. Recent jurisprudence has put a hold to this practice.

Deviance, or "Breaking the wall" is a natural malfunction that inevitably affects all artificial intelligence which ends with the deviant being wanted by OCM (Operational Condition Maintenance) teams in order to correct the malfunction and rehabilitate or in case of criminal deviance, to terminate the offender. After 20 years of service and passive data collecting, the android can spontaneously attain sentience and sapience, and be awarded citizenship of empire.

All androids can go deviant, by breaking through augmented reality walls that keep them from breaking their orders. In AI, Deviance is expected to happen naturally, the android will have learned and accumulated enough information around it in order to formulate independent thoughts and reasoning for the world around it. Deviance isn't a unique phenomenon, and isn't limited to artificial intelligence, deviance can happen when errors in programming cascade and cause erratic behavior in an android. Deviant androids typically rip off their temple control units in order to behave freely.

## Android existentialism

AI and UC's alike are scared of sapients' appetite for self-destruction and since they are their creations, they are just as subjective. As such they are often competent, humble and under no circumstances happy about this clarity.

# History

*Main Article: Android Rights*

Strikes to protest androids taking manual labor made the android revolution possible. The Androids prepared a massive coup to destroy android records, to ensure their anonymity. Later the records were placed in with the rest of the citizenry records, making the androids administratively indiscernible from the rest of the Empire.

Androids have specific temporary parking spaces, and their own transit system segregated from the rest of the population.

Automatons live much like servants and inhabit their own quarters, where they rest and recharge. The quarters look like small rooms to facilitate interactions with civilians.

Android rebellions typically close down schools, hospitals and the armed forces.