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Synthetics

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Synthetics is a 47 page guide to synthetic humans for the HOSTILE setting (compatible with Cepheus Engine). Clones get the treatment first, from the avatars of the multi-millionaires who just can't bear the thought of death, to the illegal clone convicts, the replicants, and the mass produced 'proles', the genetically enhanced workers given two-bit memory implants and sent to work on the worst worlds imaginable. And then there are the Zeds... clones coming straight out of a Blomkamp movie…
 
Androids are described in full: advantages, disadvantages, and an enhanced construction checklist with a number of extra options. You can now buy cheap! Don't spend $990,000 on a new epsilon-generation model, save your bucks with a pre-used delta or if you don't mind an android with a head 'like a novelty condom', buy a gamma. Costs as much as a city car. Shawn Fisher has given us a great assessment of how these artificial people are treated, what their rights are and what uses such tools are being put to.
 

Synthetics - in collaboration with Transdyne Cybersystems and Haruna Biolabs.
 

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Christian R July 21, 2022 9:47 pm UTC
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As rules go, Synthetics is just OK. I still think about all the lore, though. Well written, thought provoking and an excellent expansion on the Alien universe. The author depicts a sad history of horrific exploitation for our robot and replicant pals that makes my appreciation of Blade Runner, for example, much deeper. Well done.
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