====== ROBOTICS ======
Robotics are computer-driven machinery capable of actions and movement similar to Adventurers.

===== TECHNOLOGY LEVELS =====

^  TL ^ DESCRIPTION ^ GENRES ^
| -10 | Prefire     | |
|  -9 | Stone Age   | |
|  -8 | Bronze Age  | |
|  -7 | Iron Age    | |
|  -6 | Middle Ages ~500-1400AD | clockworks |
|  -5 | Renaissance 1400-1500 | clockwork automata |
|  -4 | Age of Sail/Exploration 1500-1760 |  |
|  -3 | Industrial/Technological Revolutions 1760-1914 | Powered automata |
|  -2 | World War I and II 1914-1945 | Torpedoes, guided bombs and missiles | 
|  -1 | Atomic/Nuclear/Space Age 1946-1970's | Industrial automation |
|   0 | Information Age 1970s-~2020 (Now) | personal consumer robotics, drones, swarms |
|  +1 | Synthetic (Biological/Intelligence) Age ~2020-2199 | fully autonomous robots, early androids |
|  +2 | Stellar Age 2100+ | Improved robots and androids |
|  +3 | STL Interstellar Age | robots, androids, synthetics fully integrated into Humanity |
|  +4 | Massless Faster Than Light (Communication) | distributed robotic intelligence |
|  +5 | Massy Faster than Light (Travel) | distributed robotics |
|  +6 | FTL Interstellar Age | ubiquitous robotics |
|  +7 | Galactic Age | |
|  +8 | Extragalactic Age | |
|  +9 | Pre-Ascendant | |
| +10 | Post-Ascendance | |

Note: From TL+2 (Stellar Age) onward, multiple technology levels become possible in a setting as different distant locations diverge in their technological capabilities and social conventions. 

===== ATTRIBUTES =====
Robots posses, or grant, bonuses or penalties to the following Attributes:
  * [[Strength]] (-10 to 0 to +10) - durability?
  * [[Endurance]] (-10 to 0 to +10) - ability to take damage?
  * [[Agility]] (-10 to 0 to +10) - penalty or bonus to wearer agility?
  * [[Dexterity]] (-10 to 0 to +10) - penalty or bonus to wearer dexterity?
  * [[Speed]] (-10 to 0 to +10) - penalty or bonus to wearer speed?
  * [[Appearance]] (-10 to 0 to +10) - attractiveness - FIXME penalty or bonus to wearer charisma?

Where [[Computers]] only have mental abilities, Robots also have physical abilities like Adventurers:
  * [[Strength]]
  * [[Endurance]]
  * [[Agility]]
  * [[Dexterity]]
  * [[Speed]]
  * [[Appearance]]

So called "smart robots"  add electronics, computers, bioengineering, and synthetics bringing mental abilities into play:
  * [[Intelligence]] (-10 to 0 to +10) - penalty or bonus to intelligence?
  * [[Will]] (-10 to 0 to +10) - penalty or bonus to willpower and will-based activity such as spellcasting, mysticism, or psionics?
  * [[Ingenuity]] (-10 to 0 to +10) - penalty or bonus to creativity - could include illicit or illegal compounds?
  * [[Awareness]] (-10 to 0 to +10) - penalty or bonus to awareness?
  * [[Reflexes]] (-10 to 0 to +10) - penalty or bonus to reflexes?
  * [[Charisma]] (-10 to 0 to +10) - penalty or bonus to others perception of you?

Robotic control computer construction abilities:
  * [[Intelligence]]
  * [[Will]]
  * [[Ingenuity]]
  * [[Awareness]]
  * [[Reflexes]]
  * [[Charisma]]

===== EXAMPLE CATEGORIES =====

===== SEE ALSO =====

▲ [[:Chronology:]]
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