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Moravec

N/PC Race

“Moravec” is the term generally used among the Strange Stars to refer to self-replicating robot sophonts. 

They are differentiated from “bots” (manufactured robots, typically low or nonsapient) and von Neumanns (self-replicating robots, low or nonsapient).

The appellation comes from the surname of a historical Old Earth scientist-prophet. It apparently came into use through the more flowery “Children of Moravec”--a line from a protest song sang during smartmob events by moravec revolutionaries who regarded the extant term “robot” as a slur. At least, that’s the history as remembered by some moravecs; it all occurred millennia ago, and more than one dark age (major and minor) lies between then and now.

Today, moravecs are as varied as humanity’s biologic descendants. Many are humanoid in form (or android or gynoid) and inhabit worlds less tolerant of biological life. Others have forms reminiscent of arthopods and crawl over asteroids or comets, sometimes with their intelligences distributed over an entire swarm. Still others have spaceship-sized bodies: The warrior-poets of Eridanus are one militant order in this last group.


Many moravec types will just be mechanical “species” and are designed like any other character with a few minor traits due to their non-biological nature (immunity to some psionics, no need to eat or sleep, etc.). Others will be easier to build via the AI Armature Rules 

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A warrior-poet prepares for combat--and composition


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