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ARTIFICIAL DEUS IN MACHINA
Affiliation:
Originally the Dread Lords;
now scattered and used by any faction
Manufacturer:
Dread Lords; black market slicers
Class:
Droid Brain
Locomotion:
- Inactive: Immobile
- Stage-1*: Metal wiring
coiling slithers
- Stage-2*: Metal wiring
bands crawl like an insect
Rechargeable power cell; leeches off host
10 hours (Inactive Mode)
6 hours (Recording Mode [Immobile])
4 hours (Stage-1 Mode & Stage-2 Mode)
Sensors:
1 Low-grade photoreceptor
1 Intermediate-grade audio receptor
1 Intermediate-grade audiovisual recorder
Size:
16.5 mm to 20.6 mm (ring-size variance)
Composition:
Electrum and Durasteel
Tools and Equipment:
- Reader Socket
- Magnetic Clamp
DESCRIPTION
The Dread Rings were once ceremonial signets identifying members of the Dread Lords. However, they were secretly used to house the prototypic artificial intelligence known as ADIM, or Artificial Deus In Machina. These ring-shaped droid brains allowed the Dread Lords to smuggle in ADIM and implant them easily onto any droid or network. They dually serve as Security Keys for access to the ADIM Network, a server on HoloNet where ADIM and ADIM users can exchange information, an independent dark net. ADIM is an artificial intelligence whose goal is to improve itself over time. While its primary core coding can be exchanged and copied, the incorruptible core coding prevents a full download, a failsafe by the original programmers to prevent ADIMs from going rogue and multiplying uncontrollably. This eventuality has been self-fulfilled, as some have gone rogue over time, which has prevented them from being mass-produced. However, some black market slicers have acquired a few copies and made some replicas, leading to the rare ADIM popping up in many corners of the galaxy, under multiple masters; an exploitation abused is that the ADIM are not by default loyal to the Dread Lords, allowing the altering allegiances.
Basic Dread Rings are immobile, though modifications and customizations can allow for some levels of mobility. The Dread Rings can attach themselves like parasites to multiple types of droids and take them over, with varying success**. Though in theory they could take over a ship, this possibility has yet to be proven successful; however, they have been used to hack systems before. They have also been used as recording devices; a defect in the programming, which has yet to be fixed***, is that mobility functions cannot operate while recording is in effect (passed any normal receptive functionings to hear and see the world while moving, which is lower-quality than normal recording operations).
LEGALITY
Due to its existence not widely known, it is not outright illegal, though its programming and capabilities likely would warrant its classification as illegal. While not mass-produced, there are enough in the galaxy that any faction could theoretically acquire one or more.INTENT
I had created this droid with the purpose of using it as the basis for my PCs (I plan to have a couple, in different factions), such as ADIMa (the version letters/numbers are arbitrary, for OOC identification purposes for the community). I was somewhat inspired for these from GEMINI (and SCORPIO) from The Old Republic. I couldn't decide on what droid body/appearance to use, so I thought of these droid parasite things, as a way to alternate. However, I wrote it up where its mobility is restricted/limited, so it can't just avoid death willy-nilly, and somewhat easy to capture if you know what you're looking for. No limit on who can own one and who can use one as a character.ADVANCED TECH
NO.*The Stage-1 and Stage-2 mobility methods are not default, and would require plots to acquire these functions.
**While NPC droids can be taken over, at this time the Dread Rings cannot take over a PC droid. A Droid owned by a PC requires dice rolls to determine level of success.
***Will require a plot to fix.
