Zan replied to the last vehicle: > Is it just for the "coolness factor" of the setting that the ship AI is > housed in a robot instead of being a part of the ship itself? > > I know it was cool in TV shows like Andromeda (seasons 1 and 2 only > please) to have the ship personified. So it is neat in games too. > > But, absent that is there a real-world-ish reason to do it?
Hello Zan, a command robot based on the larger chassis from this week (#847) could have mounted a C13 genius mainframe instead of the microframe, for IQ 18. Now, is it a question of limited special effects budgets that tough, command-level robots look like Lexa Doig, Brent Spiner, Lance Hendriksen, or Arnie, while robots like R2-D2 and C-3PO provide comic relief? Or would audiences have problems to take a midget trashcan seriously as a senior officer? And how about characters? Regards, Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
