 November 11, 2011 - 3:15pm | I always thought that slave bots were cheesy and too far fetched to put in my games. However, this link takes the cheese out and shows the scientific possibilities. http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~maharbiz/Cyborg.html Something like this would also allow for slave bots to be more discreet than the drooling, metal brain capped zombies depicted in original artwork. They could also be used like sathar agents. If it just takes a small chip to alter their behavior as well their motor abilities, it could be easily concealed under an article of clothing or even subcutaneously. |
 November 11, 2011 - 3:22pm | Cheese Bots! Cool Montoya. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 November 11, 2011 - 5:42pm | Holy cheese doodles InigoMan! So... insects will take my job?  |
November 11, 2011 - 8:11pm | Just think as them as "w00t 2.0" Now if I can just get those guys to give me a few chips for my wife and kids... |
November 12, 2011 - 9:40am | Heh. Sitting on couch while robots retrieve snacks. Wait till the become sapient and spike your Orange juice. |
November 13, 2011 - 6:28pm | hah! reminds me of a short story by O.S. Card about a writer who had his entire home managed by a high tech computer. It ordered food deliveries and everything. One day it decided that the human was screwing everything up so it killed him (via environmental controls or shorting out the hot tub...don't recall exactly how) and continued to write and publish his stories, maintaining the daily business of running his household so as to not raise suspicions. All very w00t-like. Sounds like the basis for a SF mystery plot. |
November 13, 2011 - 6:40pm |  I don't manage households.But I'd be willing to balance your credit-book.  |
November 13, 2011 - 7:40pm | I am trying really hard to not picture you in a french maid outfit...I was really thinking about the murder and the cover up as being something that might have been the product of your neural circuitry. |
November 13, 2011 - 7:45pm | Inigo and w00t in their new lair....  |
 November 22, 2011 - 4:10pm | Not to disparage the wonderful slave bot artwork in the original material but comparing the size of the chip to the size of the insect's brain the cap is amazingly small. You would probably need a backpack and wheeled accessory to carry the needed computer equipment. So the Sathar really are an advanced scientific species. Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go? |
