Post by Morse on Sept 5, 2012 1:38:19 GMT -5
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Robots
• Agricultivator: c2240
A brilliant design, the AgriCultivator has all the necessary tools to till, plant, tend, and harvest a field. It runs off rails suspended above the field on which it is working. This robot has become colloquially known by the shortened name, AgriVator, because of its propensity for breaking down.
• Automated Secretary: c1600
To all appearances a pleasant-looking young person (man or woman, at the buyer’s option) sits behind a desk, answering the Telofonix calls and greeting visitors. If you were to steal a peep around the desk, though, you would find the person has no legs—just the wheeled chair it’s built in to. The unit can answer simple questions related to its function, such as giving directions, typing memos, and filing documents. When faced with something it doesn’t understand, it will ask politely if it can refer the person to a more capable party, usually a help-desk or other human in the area. To operate, the automated secretary must be plugged into the local power grid.
• Camera Bot: 720c
Cam ‘bots are basketball-sized drones used by the majority of the media broadcasting on the Cortex. They can also form a discrete method of Alliance surveillance. In the Core worlds, they’re omnipresent, drifting overhead on a suspensor field searching for breaking news or monitoring a particular beat. Most news stations have hundreds of cam ‘bots deployed at any given time. Technicians monitor their feed and take control in case of a breaking story. Alliance police forces also maintain their own fleet of officially identifiable cam ‘bots. It’s against the law to tamper with an Alliance cam ‘bot, but that don’t much stay the hands of malicious youth gangs and hackers.
• Excavator: c2350
One of the few robots manufactured and operated almost solely on the outer worlds, Excavators are used in most mining concerns. Capable of identifying, cutting, and loading minerals and ores into an attached cart, the unit runs on tracks that guide it and supply it with power. Humans still have to do the truly dangerous work of mining, since they still have to blast through rock, shore up tunnels, bring in and construct the tracks, and identify areas in which to concentrate operations. After that, the excavators are brought in to do the rest. The arms that fold in to the rectangular body contain laser-saws, mining-charge layers, measurement and cutting tools, sensors and claw-like manipulators.
• Household Assistant: c1344
Not much bigger than a trash can, this angular little robot has a vacuum, a static dust-cleaner, bays for polishes and waxes, and so on. It can clean a room fairly well in a matter of minutes, assuming it doesn’t bungle its sensors and start running into things. Popular as a show of wealth in the Core, the Assistants are owned by many of the wealthiest families (even though they still employ housekeepers). Consequently, the wealthy Core-wanna-be’s living on the Rim consider them status symbols and will pay well for them.
• LoveBot: c1960
No self-respecting robotics manufacturer makes such a self-indulgent toy, but there’s enough demand to keep a small but steady underground market supplied with these extremely expensive ‘bots. Usually built to custom specs (desired sex, build, skin tone, hair color, etc.), the LoveBots are designed for companionship. They are capable of a slow walk, simple conversation, and the physical acts for which they are primarily designed. They generally lounge quietly on sofas or beds, and remain plugged into the power grid by a cord (which can be detached; a LoveBot can run on battery power for 12 hours). As a concession to practicality, LoveBots have an internal emergency signal beacon, and are capable of summoning the police or an ambulance if they detect the need. They can also be used to record and play back simple messages. Anyone known to own such a device automatically earns a black mark in the Companion
• Scout Drone: c640
A newly modified expansion on the Seeker missile, the scout drone is slightly larger than its explosive predecessor. Capable of both automated seeking and manual guidance, the drone can travel up to two miles from its launch-point and return safely on a full battery charge. It carries several cameras, an infrared sensor, and a variety of other sensory instruments, all of which constantly transmit data back to base. These drones have yet to undergo a real field test, since they went into mass production after the war ended.
Cybernetics
All of the costs listed in this section include the surgery, post-surgery recovery, and adjustment expenses
• Aural Implant: 8,000c
These are eardrum replacements (or augments) nested deep within your ear canals. They’re plumb invisible to anyone other than your personal doctor, and he’d have to be looking in your ear to find ‘em.
• Chronometer: 2,400c
A tiny chronometer nested near your brain, displaying the date and time in an unobtrusive corner of your field of vision. It’s also got a countdown timer you can set through a synaptic command you’ve been taught, and can be enlarged to fill the center of your vision. You can also use it as an alarm clock, where it’ll flash and fill your full field of vision with a bright light, enough to wake you from even the deepest sleep.
• Cortical Processor: 6,000c
Like the chronometer, this is a miniaturized calculator connected to brain, though only peripherally. It doesn’t actually link up with your logic centers or interface with your mind in any meaningful way. Instead, it’s just as if you’re holding a calculator in your hand, only faster. You can access the cortical processor’s functions by visualizing it (it appears as a ghosted image over your field of vision), and data is input by simple thoughttriggers. It can do anything a powerful hand-held calculator can do.
• Cybernetic Uplink: 8,800c
You’ve got a synaptic jack installed in your head somewhere (either at the base of your skull, or in one of your temples) that allows you to link with a network or computer system. This is cutting-edge technology, and mostly in the theoretical stage at this point. Currently, the technology only allows you to interface with a system at a still-superficial level (slightly better than one might by simply sitting down at a terminal), but it does allow information not normally available to even the most advanced users.
• Ocular Implant: 7,200c
This artificial eye (more usually a pair of ‘em) is capable of magnified
sight. Most models are built to look just like normal human eyes, making it a Hard task to identify one. Others aren’t disguised at all, appearing as a metal setting around a glowing red eye with a targeting iris.
• Prosthetic Arm: 8,000c A prosthetic arm (or the pair) usually ending in a regular hand and covered with a synthetic flesh or something equivalent. One could opt for a metal skeleton armature instead, but it’s gonna stand out in a crowd like nothing else.
• Prosthetic Leg: 6,500c
Prosthetic legs include an internal gyroscope to keep you upright on ‘em. Usually folks have two prosthetic legs, though if you’ve only lost one and had it replaced, you’re understandably reluctant to give up the other.
• Soft-Tissue Replacements: 28,000c (Illegal)
They’ve gone inside you and replaced as much of your vitals as you can stand, and wrapped up the rest in plastic sheathing to insulate it from harm. The end result is you’ve got a huge scar across your midsection and you’re unlikely to ever pass through a metal detector without calling down an Alliance strike team.
• Systemic Antidote Processor: 11,000c
This small chemical processor is able to synthesize antidotes for what ails ya. Whenever the sensors inside your arteries or stomach register a poison, it floods your system with a broad-spectrum antidote and commences to working on a moreprecise antidote.
• Toxin Filter: 7,500c
Similar to a systemic antidote processor, you’ve got a toxin filter located at the entry to your stomach. It serves as the second line of defense against any alcohol, drugs, knock-out gases, poisons, or other things that’re liable to take you down.
• Translator: 15,000c
This fairly sophisticated piece of technology is wired to your ears, processing anything you hear and translating it on the fly into English, Chinese, or whatever language you might choose. Speaking is a little slower, as it’s got a small stock library of phrases and you can assemble as you go, entering ‘em through an interface you access subvocally. The translator speaks the words into your ear like a cricket, and you spit ‘em out. If you’re good at it, no one’ll notice anything but that you’re a slow talker, perhaps simple-minded.
• Vehicle Interface: 17,500c
A simpler cybernetic link that lets you access a vehicle or ship’s steering and navigation systems and pilot directly with your mind, rather than your physical reflexes.
1 credit = $25 U.S
Robots
• Agricultivator: c2240
A brilliant design, the AgriCultivator has all the necessary tools to till, plant, tend, and harvest a field. It runs off rails suspended above the field on which it is working. This robot has become colloquially known by the shortened name, AgriVator, because of its propensity for breaking down.
• Automated Secretary: c1600
To all appearances a pleasant-looking young person (man or woman, at the buyer’s option) sits behind a desk, answering the Telofonix calls and greeting visitors. If you were to steal a peep around the desk, though, you would find the person has no legs—just the wheeled chair it’s built in to. The unit can answer simple questions related to its function, such as giving directions, typing memos, and filing documents. When faced with something it doesn’t understand, it will ask politely if it can refer the person to a more capable party, usually a help-desk or other human in the area. To operate, the automated secretary must be plugged into the local power grid.
• Camera Bot: 720c
Cam ‘bots are basketball-sized drones used by the majority of the media broadcasting on the Cortex. They can also form a discrete method of Alliance surveillance. In the Core worlds, they’re omnipresent, drifting overhead on a suspensor field searching for breaking news or monitoring a particular beat. Most news stations have hundreds of cam ‘bots deployed at any given time. Technicians monitor their feed and take control in case of a breaking story. Alliance police forces also maintain their own fleet of officially identifiable cam ‘bots. It’s against the law to tamper with an Alliance cam ‘bot, but that don’t much stay the hands of malicious youth gangs and hackers.
• Excavator: c2350
One of the few robots manufactured and operated almost solely on the outer worlds, Excavators are used in most mining concerns. Capable of identifying, cutting, and loading minerals and ores into an attached cart, the unit runs on tracks that guide it and supply it with power. Humans still have to do the truly dangerous work of mining, since they still have to blast through rock, shore up tunnels, bring in and construct the tracks, and identify areas in which to concentrate operations. After that, the excavators are brought in to do the rest. The arms that fold in to the rectangular body contain laser-saws, mining-charge layers, measurement and cutting tools, sensors and claw-like manipulators.
• Household Assistant: c1344
Not much bigger than a trash can, this angular little robot has a vacuum, a static dust-cleaner, bays for polishes and waxes, and so on. It can clean a room fairly well in a matter of minutes, assuming it doesn’t bungle its sensors and start running into things. Popular as a show of wealth in the Core, the Assistants are owned by many of the wealthiest families (even though they still employ housekeepers). Consequently, the wealthy Core-wanna-be’s living on the Rim consider them status symbols and will pay well for them.
• LoveBot: c1960
No self-respecting robotics manufacturer makes such a self-indulgent toy, but there’s enough demand to keep a small but steady underground market supplied with these extremely expensive ‘bots. Usually built to custom specs (desired sex, build, skin tone, hair color, etc.), the LoveBots are designed for companionship. They are capable of a slow walk, simple conversation, and the physical acts for which they are primarily designed. They generally lounge quietly on sofas or beds, and remain plugged into the power grid by a cord (which can be detached; a LoveBot can run on battery power for 12 hours). As a concession to practicality, LoveBots have an internal emergency signal beacon, and are capable of summoning the police or an ambulance if they detect the need. They can also be used to record and play back simple messages. Anyone known to own such a device automatically earns a black mark in the Companion
• Scout Drone: c640
A newly modified expansion on the Seeker missile, the scout drone is slightly larger than its explosive predecessor. Capable of both automated seeking and manual guidance, the drone can travel up to two miles from its launch-point and return safely on a full battery charge. It carries several cameras, an infrared sensor, and a variety of other sensory instruments, all of which constantly transmit data back to base. These drones have yet to undergo a real field test, since they went into mass production after the war ended.
Cybernetics
All of the costs listed in this section include the surgery, post-surgery recovery, and adjustment expenses
• Aural Implant: 8,000c
These are eardrum replacements (or augments) nested deep within your ear canals. They’re plumb invisible to anyone other than your personal doctor, and he’d have to be looking in your ear to find ‘em.
• Chronometer: 2,400c
A tiny chronometer nested near your brain, displaying the date and time in an unobtrusive corner of your field of vision. It’s also got a countdown timer you can set through a synaptic command you’ve been taught, and can be enlarged to fill the center of your vision. You can also use it as an alarm clock, where it’ll flash and fill your full field of vision with a bright light, enough to wake you from even the deepest sleep.
• Cortical Processor: 6,000c
Like the chronometer, this is a miniaturized calculator connected to brain, though only peripherally. It doesn’t actually link up with your logic centers or interface with your mind in any meaningful way. Instead, it’s just as if you’re holding a calculator in your hand, only faster. You can access the cortical processor’s functions by visualizing it (it appears as a ghosted image over your field of vision), and data is input by simple thoughttriggers. It can do anything a powerful hand-held calculator can do.
• Cybernetic Uplink: 8,800c
You’ve got a synaptic jack installed in your head somewhere (either at the base of your skull, or in one of your temples) that allows you to link with a network or computer system. This is cutting-edge technology, and mostly in the theoretical stage at this point. Currently, the technology only allows you to interface with a system at a still-superficial level (slightly better than one might by simply sitting down at a terminal), but it does allow information not normally available to even the most advanced users.
• Ocular Implant: 7,200c
This artificial eye (more usually a pair of ‘em) is capable of magnified
sight. Most models are built to look just like normal human eyes, making it a Hard task to identify one. Others aren’t disguised at all, appearing as a metal setting around a glowing red eye with a targeting iris.
• Prosthetic Arm: 8,000c A prosthetic arm (or the pair) usually ending in a regular hand and covered with a synthetic flesh or something equivalent. One could opt for a metal skeleton armature instead, but it’s gonna stand out in a crowd like nothing else.
• Prosthetic Leg: 6,500c
Prosthetic legs include an internal gyroscope to keep you upright on ‘em. Usually folks have two prosthetic legs, though if you’ve only lost one and had it replaced, you’re understandably reluctant to give up the other.
• Soft-Tissue Replacements: 28,000c (Illegal)
They’ve gone inside you and replaced as much of your vitals as you can stand, and wrapped up the rest in plastic sheathing to insulate it from harm. The end result is you’ve got a huge scar across your midsection and you’re unlikely to ever pass through a metal detector without calling down an Alliance strike team.
• Systemic Antidote Processor: 11,000c
This small chemical processor is able to synthesize antidotes for what ails ya. Whenever the sensors inside your arteries or stomach register a poison, it floods your system with a broad-spectrum antidote and commences to working on a moreprecise antidote.
• Toxin Filter: 7,500c
Similar to a systemic antidote processor, you’ve got a toxin filter located at the entry to your stomach. It serves as the second line of defense against any alcohol, drugs, knock-out gases, poisons, or other things that’re liable to take you down.
• Translator: 15,000c
This fairly sophisticated piece of technology is wired to your ears, processing anything you hear and translating it on the fly into English, Chinese, or whatever language you might choose. Speaking is a little slower, as it’s got a small stock library of phrases and you can assemble as you go, entering ‘em through an interface you access subvocally. The translator speaks the words into your ear like a cricket, and you spit ‘em out. If you’re good at it, no one’ll notice anything but that you’re a slow talker, perhaps simple-minded.
• Vehicle Interface: 17,500c
A simpler cybernetic link that lets you access a vehicle or ship’s steering and navigation systems and pilot directly with your mind, rather than your physical reflexes.