Autos

Many types of robots or automatons exist. Generally server automatons that are simply thought of as machines are called **"autos"**. Sapient automatons, or autos with consciousness, are referred to as "**voltaics**" or "**semblants**" (they have a semblance of humanity).

*or "mechanisms" (mechanical organisms), or more formally "mechona" (mechanical Aeoner), ferrona (ferrous ona), electrona. or just "synthetics"*

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Non-sapient AI: "AI"

Non-sapient but with convincing personality interface: "Persona" or "Intellect"/"Fascade"?

Sapient AI: "Volition" or "Artifice"?

Most ships have a AI or Persona that does most of the piloting.

Originally, the term "**cognition"** simply referred to a conscious super-intelligent AI but now refers to a specific set of AI "The Cognitions" that once governed Chiliad.

Now the general term for a conscious AI is "Volition".

## Bots / Autos

"Bot" is the general term for any kind of robot.

"Compact" (or Tasker, taskerbot, unit, utility, drone, module...) is the common term for non-humanoid service bots that are generally designed for a specific purpose.

* Glass Scorpions: window cleaner bots
* Ring spiders: habitat maintenance
* Courierbots

"Auto" is the general term for a humanoid robot (short for "automaton") but generally refers to non-sapient service machines. or autom, automa, or "automat". Or semblant

### Servants and law enforcement

* **Votives**, Service autos given to citizens of Chiliad by the Cognitions.
* **Orderlies**, law enforcement of Chiliad.
* Compellers/Compulsors/Compulsors , law enforcement of Ostrova? Hullgrave?

### Manufacturers

**Sentient Steel**: Earth-based company. Minimal automats

* Squire (personal assistance)
* Viscount (customer service/Attendant)
* Envoy (heavy labor / security)

Squire M3Viscount L200Envoy Elite
**Ancilor Automata**: Chiliad company. Complex automats.

* Underling (assistant)
* Orderlies (law enforcement)
* Cottar, Envoy, Adjuvant, Auxillary, Subordinate, Retinue, Vector, Exponent, consiglier, consig

**Syntaxic Engineering**: Chiliad-based company. Primarily make compacts / canbots

* Scurriers / monitor bugs / maintainer beetle
* Hull crawler / hull walker / hull medic / ring walker
* Canner / Canbot / CanAssistor
* Tasker
* Asynchron, Modulus, Enzon
* Coefficient, ,

**Zelenlos**: Elitran or Ostrovan. Geometric automats

* Diskus (Security?)
* Beschuzen (Security) (Void Piercer auto)
* (mechanic)
* Volstrecker (Enforcer)
* Gravitas
* Async

**Ueka**: Hullgrave company. probably just components

**Servonics**: Ancient manufacturer that created the Cognitions.

## Voltaics

    Sapient automatons, or autos with consciousness, are referred to as "**voltaics**" or "**semblants**" (as they have a semblance of humanity). (or just "synthetics/synths")

Types of Voltaics include:

* The **Hollows** of Hullgrave (which can be further categorized into Emergents, Echos, and Unities).
* The **Exactors**, specialized operatives of the Omniscials, more autonomous than the preceptors

### Hollows

Hullgrave is home to a unique race of semblants called "**hollows**". Types of hollows include:

* **Emergents**
* **Echos**, and
* **Unities**

## Legendary Voltaics

### Oliasons

The Luminaries created super advanced artificial beings called Liasons, or **Oliasons,** to act on their behalf.

### The Cognitions

Originally, the term "**cognition"** simply referred to a conscious super-intelligent AI but now refers to a specific set of AI "The Cognitions" that once governed Chiliad.

*(Or use "Volition" instead. if Cognition is the common term for conscious AI)*

Other Cognition related terms

* **Visages**, The many physical "auto" manifestations of the Cognitions (since they were not limited to one physical housing as most semblants are.)
* **Servonics**, The set of Cognitions that governed Chiliad through their golden age
* **Caretakers**, the new Cognitions created after the fall of the Omniscials.
* Volition? alt name for cogs, newer cogs?

## Remotes

Some humans use psychotronics to remotely pilot a robot. these people are called "operators" and their autos are called "remotes". sometimes it is for temporary tasks and for some it is a permanent lifestyle. Humans can only pilot 1-2 remotes at a time and can't do much with the operator body at the same time. One reason why memski and alamazi shtal remove or hide their skin is to make it harder to determine whether or not they are truly present or using a remote, making it harder for the paranoid to be killed.

"Proxies" are those who use remotes as a permanent lifestyle. They keep their bodies in a life support chamber, are unaware of their physical surroundings, and can only experience the world via their remotes. Because of the sophisticated psychotronic tech, their senses and experiences through their machine bodies are just as vivid as any shtal's. Many chose this life because they feel it is safer. If their remote gets in an accident, they simply buy a new remote. But some are genetically designed live life in a virtual world and can only visit the real world through proxies.

Definitions:

* **Remote**: the general concept of mentally piloting an automat through psychtronics. also the type of automat used for this purpose.
* **Operator**: the human piloting
* **Proxy**: A person who lives life as a permanent remote operator. Their bodies remain in a secure chamber that keeps them healthy. Proxy also refers to the type of automat used.
* Or "remote/proxy" is the bot, "remoter/proxier" is the person?

Proxy groups:

* **The Dreamwalkers**: a group of religious zealot Proxies from Ostrova
* **Comashtal**, Shtal from The Necropolis/Catacombs, a region of Ostrova where the majority of residents are Proxies who live in a shared "dreamspace" (virtual reality) called Idyllicia, but visit "hardspace" via proxies.

Proxy/Droners/avatars/controllers/remotes/dreamers/dreamwalkers. Comashtal/ Necroshtal,

## Nanites

Nanos: Nanobot Electronic maintenance. Doubles as currency. Precious. (more ubiquitous currency is digits)

Inexorable immortality nanites

Luminary Suthic nanites

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## wip notes

Luminary drones: Proxy, Emissary, vicarial

Samsarans: Semblants, Echos, Cognitions, Spectrals, Alloy, Voltaic, Emergents, apparitions, hollow

Servonics: Admin/adminsters, controllers, Proxy, Server, Processors, Cognitions, Aspects, manifestations, avatars, benefactors, interfaces, axons, Emergences, Caretakers

Chilliad enforcers: Enactors, Orderlies, votive

(Surrogates): droner, avatar, controller, proxy, Dreamer

Omniscial Soldiers: Preceptor, Exactor, exhorter, compeller, inexorable, compulsitor

autos that look just like human? - Semblants?

AI: Virtual, apparition, specter, interface, axon, intel/intelligence/intellect, artifice, wight, eidolon, volition

"Axon"? cog (if servonics are volitions)? entity, virtual, engram, psyche, Simulacrum, V-psyche, V-entity, V-soul,

MFG: Galvanics, Ingot, Chisel, Oro, Bulol

Seelenlos /Soulless german / **Zelenlos**

Hueca / hollow / **Ueka**

VK PQ GD

### Asimov

RB, Robbie

Spd 13 - Sunlight, runner

Qt1 - station, religious, master

DV5 - miner,

NS2, Nestor 10 - Lost, Hyperatomic drive, Etheric physicist, altered first law

Susan Calvin, Alfred Lanning, Gregory Powell, Michael Donovan, Gerald Black, Bogart