: Also I'm pretty sure I've said this before somewhere, but I think it should
: also be considered that if indeed Hunters are machines, they are
: completely unlike any other machines produced by the Pfhor. The claim
: seems to be that Hunters are androids (Robots made to look like a man…er,
: or a Pfhor). With the possible exception of Simulacrums there are no other
: Pfhor build machines that utilize Bipedal movement. Drones and Juggies
: hover, while Cyborgs use a tank tread pretty primative modes of conveiance
: compaired to considerably more complex coordination and balance necessary
: for controlling two legs effectively. We already know the Pfhor where not
: at the top of their game as far as AI is concerned, but even if they were
: able to create an AI for a robot Hunter what would be the point when they
: can just strap a living, breathing, and most importantly thinking, Pfhor
: into some high tech armor.
: Also taking asthetics into account The hunter is a sleek, shiny well tailored
: killing "machine", while the Cyborg tank, which should be the
: technological peer of an eleged robot hunter, is a crude, unstable,
: malfunctioning abomination. How could the same army with the same
: technology create such fundementally different machines? Why make cyborgs
: at all when you could just outfit Hunterbots with the same weapons. It
: seems clear to me that the hunters are not machines, just heavily armored
: Pfhor.
I hope nobodys already pointed this out, because that would make me look bad :)
From "Where Everywhere" terminal text:
Do you remember the Pfhor-built human
simulacrums during the Tau Ceti invasion?
The elaborate Pfhor bureaucracy has a
Ministry for the Eradication Through
Imitation of Hostile Species Unsuitable for
Enslavement, Phan Pfhar Sfaern-Wsawn Tshah,
which is responsible for the design and
construction of such machines.
They meticulously constructed seventeen
different human body types and mixed them
with sixty-one unique facial models. The
resulting walking bombs were in every way
indistinguishable from real humans.
Their one mistake, dressing every last one
of the six thousand simulacrums in the
plain green overalls of a Marathon airlock
technician, had the amusing side-effect of
making all the real airlock technicians
wander the ship naked during the invasion.
The Pfhor have WERY ADVANCED android technology, and could easily have made simulacrums of themselves if they need more fighters. Battleroids is (will be:) be the human way of creating more soldiers, in this case from former armys, the pfhor jsut makes their extra troops from live matter.
