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-Automata //(singular, Automaton)// are the machines designed by the [[faction:freespacers:freespacers]], which allows them to operate entire fleets of ships with little or no organic crew. This is something quite important to a race with such a relatively tiny organic population (just over 1 million, as compared to the billions most other races have). Furthermore, 'living' crews incur a much higher maintenance cost (water, oxygen, food, recreation, productivity lost sleeping, etc) than machines, which further adds to the desirability of predominantly automaton crews aboard Freespacer vessels.+Automata //(singular, Automaton)// are the machines designed by the [[species:freespacers]], which allows them to operate entire fleets of ships with little or no organic crew. This is something quite important to a race with such a relatively tiny organic population (just over 1 million, as compared to the billions most other races have). Furthermore, 'living' crews incur a much higher maintenance cost (water, oxygen, food, recreation, productivity lost sleeping, etc) than machines, which further adds to the desirability of predominantly automaton crews aboard Freespacer vessels.
  
 Simple-minded drones slaved to a larger computer network were common in the past, but as their reliance on motherships decreases, Automata are increasingly being constructed as fully independent and self-aware beings. Bodies made of purely metallic materials or salvaged composite forms continue to be the norm, yet organic (and even humanoid organic) components are also sometimes used, creating beings easily confused with human cyborgs. Simple-minded drones slaved to a larger computer network were common in the past, but as their reliance on motherships decreases, Automata are increasingly being constructed as fully independent and self-aware beings. Bodies made of purely metallic materials or salvaged composite forms continue to be the norm, yet organic (and even humanoid organic) components are also sometimes used, creating beings easily confused with human cyborgs.
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 ====Organic Components==== ====Organic Components====
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 It's not the norm, but using cloned humanoid genetic material is sometimes helpful in making a creature which has both the positive qualities of a machine and a organic being. For instance, they can be grown relatively quickly and self heal after production, they can just eat food and don't require as many specialist replacement parts, e.t.c... These 'organic Automata' are somewhat of an unintentional Freespacer secret, mostly mistaken by foreigners as simple humanoid cyborgs. For the Freespacers themselves, through, there is no difference or moral question over using what looks like bits of human beings as spare parts. If machines can be considered fully valid sentient beings, after all, then meat can be considered just another recycled component!  It's not the norm, but using cloned humanoid genetic material is sometimes helpful in making a creature which has both the positive qualities of a machine and a organic being. For instance, they can be grown relatively quickly and self heal after production, they can just eat food and don't require as many specialist replacement parts, e.t.c... These 'organic Automata' are somewhat of an unintentional Freespacer secret, mostly mistaken by foreigners as simple humanoid cyborgs. For the Freespacers themselves, through, there is no difference or moral question over using what looks like bits of human beings as spare parts. If machines can be considered fully valid sentient beings, after all, then meat can be considered just another recycled component! 
  
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 ====Mass Production Models==== ====Mass Production Models====
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 ====Somewhere Inbetween==== ====Somewhere Inbetween====
  
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 Inevitably, there are also organics with so many cyborg parts, or automata with so many synthetic organic parts, that what they started as is purely a trivial fact. The former tends to be individuals who have lost their original bodies in combat, accidents, or intentionally transcending into an electronic brain. Inevitably, there are also organics with so many cyborg parts, or automata with so many synthetic organic parts, that what they started as is purely a trivial fact. The former tends to be individuals who have lost their original bodies in combat, accidents, or intentionally transcending into an electronic brain.
  
 The later consists of mostly sensory-obsessed neurotic androids, but the odd non-sentient humanoid worker prototype is also an increasingly common sight, given the [[faction:freespacers:wire_guided|Wire Guided's]] obsession with self-sufficient pseudo-organic systems... The later consists of mostly sensory-obsessed neurotic androids, but the odd non-sentient humanoid worker prototype is also an increasingly common sight, given the [[faction:freespacers:wire_guided|Wire Guided's]] obsession with self-sufficient pseudo-organic systems...

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