organ donor request

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jedion357
August 11, 2009 - 9:04am
Level 6 robot that has been accompanying/helping the party makes an interesting request.
because he's pretty much on the level of an android he has some wants and desires:

Robot 6 says, "Becuase the use of an organic brain in a cybot adds a level of creative and intuitive thinking I would like for all of you to sign organ donor cards, donating your brain to me should anything unfortunate happen to you. After all you wont need it any more and by incorporating it into my processors you will gain an measure of immortality, after a fassion."

problem is.....
I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers!
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pineappleleader
August 11, 2009 - 2:16pm
Oh sure. No problem. WRONG. I am NOT donating my brain to any tin can.

Besides, the robot might arrange for something to happen to you, so it can "collect" your brain.

NO WAY. I say the robot is unstable and we should "deactivate" it now, before it does something to harm the party.

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Ascent
August 11, 2009 - 5:32pm
"Hey 6! How 'bout I donate my size 13 foot up yo' tin ass."—Roadie

"Here, I'll donate a gyrojet rocket. I'll put your name on it and leave it in your brain case, marked 'special delivery'."—Zaram

"The only organ I'm donatin' when I die is going to science for the betterment of women everywhere."—Doc

"Heck, if you can find my brain, you can have my toenail collection as well. I'll be the first Dralasite in history with a brain. Though I'm not sure if that's an evolutionary leap or a step backward for Dralasite kind."—Gloop

"That depends. Do you plan on taking a smokin' hot female form when you do? ... What are you all staring at?? Who wouldn't want a set of bazonkas to fondle at will?"—Berry

"Sigh. I may just donate my brain. The last thing this universe needs is a robot with Berry's testicles rolling around in its head."—Silia

"The last thing this universe needs is a robot with a feminist grudge and steel kneecaps."—Berry
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Shadow Shack
August 12, 2009 - 7:07pm
"You can have Bumbling Bob's brain. It's lodged up somewhere in his azz, everytime he takes a grunt he loses a couple IQ points."
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umungus
August 13, 2009 - 8:13am
No way Robot 6! Your my shield I guarantee your gonna "die" first...

At least I got to scare an alien rabbit thingy......


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Georgie
August 13, 2009 - 7:04pm
"Sure robot 6. Just do me a favor first, hold on to this kilo of D-19 for exactly 31 seconds..."
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pineappleleader
August 14, 2009 - 4:37pm
It is nice that everyone who replied to this thread did so in an adult, rational, non-violent manner, devoid of malice. It seems that not very many biologicals trust robots. Smile

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w00t (not verified)
August 14, 2009 - 7:35pm
RBSIX... I hear ya. These humans use about 13.56% of their capacity... more for us.
Roadie is funny. He'd have to take his size 13 out of his mouth before it ever touched you.

-- Your buddy robow00t, giving humans a What For! every where I's goes.

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Will
August 15, 2009 - 1:16am
"Here's my card, Robot 6."

/me signs mine "Hilo Headow."

"You're everything that's base in humanity," Cochrane continued. "Drawing up strict, senseless rules for the sole reason of putting you at the top and excluding anyone you say doesn't belong or fit in, for no other reason than just because you say so."


—Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stephens, Federation

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Ascent
August 15, 2009 - 9:59am
From Frontier News Network - Triad Government Seizes Streel Yards! (Will):
"with former Streel chairman and CEO, Hilo Headow(mY), currently missing and feared dead, along with the other passengers and crew of the ill-fated PGC mega-liner Pan-Galactic."

From History of the Palalyn Cluster:
"155 - Streel's Chief Executive Hilo Headow (Yazirian) is found dead under mysterious circumstances."

Well, 6, unless you're the one responsible for the mysterious circumstances, I think you're crap out of luck on that last one. Tongue out
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Mallak
October 21, 2010 - 3:13am
 I always thought of SF medical science as including fast grown Cloning to replace damaged organs and limbs.  For me this would mean a cybots organic parts are vat grown not harvested.

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jedion357
March 18, 2016 - 12:01am
The Cyber Witness: RB 6 goes door to door asking people to sign organ donor cards and preaching the gospel of Cyber Immortality.

He also took an "on line" class and is now an ordained minister as well as possessing medic skills that allow him to baptize you into cyber immorality by cutting your head open and removing your brain.

What to call this new religion? Church of the Cyber Mind?

Only question left is will an Osakar adopting this religion opt for elective surgery?
I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers!

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rattraveller
March 19, 2016 - 10:44pm
While the brain is important would any part of the spine be needed since it is the communications hub of the brain?
Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go?

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jedion357
March 20, 2016 - 7:23pm
Great question, I think the brain stem, maybe but who knows.
I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers!

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Shadow Shack
March 21, 2016 - 4:27am
At the minimum, a brain would require a heart and lungs for support, and arguably a digestive system of sorts as well. Whether those are biological or artificial units is always an option.
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jedion357
March 22, 2016 - 6:00am
Shadow Shack wrote:
At the minimum, a brain would require a heart and lungs for support, and arguably a digestive system of sorts as well. Whether those are biological or artificial units is always an option.


in RoboCop some of that was biological but in the case of a dis-embodied brian, like the tubed sathar brains we can assume that in non-biological.
I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers!

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Sargonarhes
March 22, 2016 - 10:12pm
Being my character's brain, wouldn't the cybot's body become mine? Looks like I'm getting a body like General Grievous. Some other biological parts may need to be retained, unless there is tech to replace them.

So the response is does robot 6 have it's component parts card signed? He'd make a great addition to me should something happen to him.
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rattraveller
March 24, 2016 - 12:47am
Recently read an article about toys with horrifying background stories. One of them was the Gobots. A 1980s toy line that was a mild ripoff of the transformers. The TV series gave the back story of a mad engineer who took the brains of members of both sides in a war on an alien planet and put them in robot bodies.

Episodes of the TV series available online.
Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go?

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Shadow Shack
March 24, 2016 - 6:36am
rattraveller wrote:
One of them was the Gobots. A 1980s toy line that was a mild ripoff of the transformers.

Calling it a "mild rip off" is putting it mildly. Wink

Fun Fact: the Gobots were a product of Tonka, which was bought by Hasbro in the early 1990s...at which point their signature toy trucks line was switched from die cast metal to plastic. Yep, TSR wasn't the only company that Hasbro ruined.
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