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More portraits of characters I seem to have forgotten about, this time featuring Sable, the Automech Antelope.
A prototype combat unit built by ShadowHyena Tactical Enterprises, Sable is surprisingly cute and cheery for a battle droid, but this is by design--gifted with an advanced learning AI, Sable was visually designed and given a personality that would hopefully make her more inviting for organics of any species to interact with, so she could learn from them. While this had the unanticipated side effect of making her seem somewhat immature and ditzy at times, it does hide her true nature as a war machine, a useful attribute for infiltration and assassination missions, as even if her mechanical nature is found out, she's typically seen as more of a curiosity than a threat.
The "one exposed machine eye" is more of a visual choice I make to show that a character is a cyborg or fully machine than anything truly "canon"--despite her limbs typically being left uncovered by artificial fur (leaving her mechanical arms and legs fully visible unless she covers them with clothing), she usually has both replica eyes in place at all times.
I also tend to struggle with just what to call a creature like this--"android" and "cyborg" seem to upset the more pedantic as she's neither humanoid nor a hybrid of organic and machine (although she does seem to fit the "cybernetic organism" definition), "droid" is a trademarked word, I came up with the alternative "automech" ("autonomous machine") but I find that term seems to better suit drones and more obviously "robotic" units, the classic terms like "robot" and "automaton" have their own connotations, things like "synth" or "replicant" may work although I find those make me think of clones and genetically-engineered artificial (but organic/biological) life-forms, "animatronics" implies a mechanical puppet more than an independently-operating robot...
I'll find something that fits eventually, and stick to using more readily-understood and commonplace (though perhaps not 100% correctly applied in Sable's situation) terms for now, I suppose.
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A prototype combat unit built by ShadowHyena Tactical Enterprises, Sable is surprisingly cute and cheery for a battle droid, but this is by design--gifted with an advanced learning AI, Sable was visually designed and given a personality that would hopefully make her more inviting for organics of any species to interact with, so she could learn from them. While this had the unanticipated side effect of making her seem somewhat immature and ditzy at times, it does hide her true nature as a war machine, a useful attribute for infiltration and assassination missions, as even if her mechanical nature is found out, she's typically seen as more of a curiosity than a threat.
The "one exposed machine eye" is more of a visual choice I make to show that a character is a cyborg or fully machine than anything truly "canon"--despite her limbs typically being left uncovered by artificial fur (leaving her mechanical arms and legs fully visible unless she covers them with clothing), she usually has both replica eyes in place at all times.
I also tend to struggle with just what to call a creature like this--"android" and "cyborg" seem to upset the more pedantic as she's neither humanoid nor a hybrid of organic and machine (although she does seem to fit the "cybernetic organism" definition), "droid" is a trademarked word, I came up with the alternative "automech" ("autonomous machine") but I find that term seems to better suit drones and more obviously "robotic" units, the classic terms like "robot" and "automaton" have their own connotations, things like "synth" or "replicant" may work although I find those make me think of clones and genetically-engineered artificial (but organic/biological) life-forms, "animatronics" implies a mechanical puppet more than an independently-operating robot...
I'll find something that fits eventually, and stick to using more readily-understood and commonplace (though perhaps not 100% correctly applied in Sable's situation) terms for now, I suppose.
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I suppose the struggles with terminology have more to do with her physical form, than anything. While "artificial intelligence" applies here as well as that's what her intelligence is, whenever I hear that term I think of an AI residing in some sort of computer system, something like Siri or Cortana or Skynet, rather than something with an independently mobile and functional body. I am still open to suggestions regardless--and in the meantime I'll just use whatever terminology feels right at the time until I come up with something I like.
Someone proposed "anthroid" once but something about that didn't really appeal to me at the time, although it has grown on me a bit. I suppose something like "mechanoid" could work, although that would imply something that's machine-like, and not a machine that's like something else. Hmm...
I suppose the struggles with terminology have more to do with her physical form, than anything. While "artificial intelligence" applies here as well as that's what her intelligence is, whenever I hear that term I think of an AI residing in some sort of computer system, something like Siri or Cortana or Skynet, rather than something with an independently mobile and functional body. I am still open to suggestions regardless--and in the meantime I'll just use whatever terminology feels right at the time until I come up with something I like.
Someone proposed "anthroid" once but something about that didn't really appeal to me at the time, although it has grown on me a bit. I suppose something like "mechanoid" could work, although that would imply something that's machine-like, and not a machine that's like something else. Hmm...
AI is technically accurate, though any type of sentient AI may prefer an upgrade in title. I typically classify my AIs as something that can be programmed, reprogrammed. Whereas my RIs, while still technically AIs, are sentient and self-programming. Most of my "Synths" are more akin to the level of robotics from the Alien franchise, though the combat-capable bodies are more like a Bishop/Terminator hybrid. They're a sort of pseudo-RI state. Unless something really messes up one's mind (which can and does happen on occasion), they are left alone to self-program. One of various backup files can be used to restore "corrupted" Synths back to proper personality, which they typically don't like being corrupted in the first place. I call them "Synths" for short because "Synthetics" and "Synthetic People" are more of a mouthful. But they very much fill a similar roll, in being intended to be interacted with as if they weren't machines.
I'm not fond of Teminator's use of "cybernetic organism". It's a meat puppet with a robot inside. I prefer to keep cybernetics to actually organic beings with grafted cybernetic implants. Properly, a cyborg minus biological tissue would die. And a cyborg minus mechanical parts would be maimed or dying. So, yeah. I agree that that may not be the best term.
"anthroid" is indeed an interesting term. One could mix that with "mechanoid" and create a term like "mechanthroid", perhaps...
I'm not fond of Teminator's use of "cybernetic organism". It's a meat puppet with a robot inside. I prefer to keep cybernetics to actually organic beings with grafted cybernetic implants. Properly, a cyborg minus biological tissue would die. And a cyborg minus mechanical parts would be maimed or dying. So, yeah. I agree that that may not be the best term.
"anthroid" is indeed an interesting term. One could mix that with "mechanoid" and create a term like "mechanthroid", perhaps...
Wouldn't taking an advanced prototype combat drone with advanced targeting optics and tactical programming out for a game of paintball be cheating?
Especially if those she might be playing against might assume she's just a ditzy antelope girl, and not the bovine equivalent of a Terminator?
Especially if those she might be playing against might assume she's just a ditzy antelope girl, and not the bovine equivalent of a Terminator?
She's outfitted with advanced targeting optics--ideal for any situation where calculating the trajectory of a projectile and/or target could come into play. Hopefully she's able to apply her calculations properly when it comes to limiting the force she exerts while throwing the dart, though...
He does very well with military themes and weapons. I remember he said he doesn't do very well with machines at the time, but he was still better at it then than I am now.
FA has been going fairly well. I have less issues with spam and trolls than I did over on DA, and get pretty much the same amount of views, faves and comments here as I did there.
FA has been going fairly well. I have less issues with spam and trolls than I did over on DA, and get pretty much the same amount of views, faves and comments here as I did there.
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