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garhkal
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| Purzelkater wrote: | Yes, at the moment it's just a NPC concept. Because it would be happend before the adventure starts, this would be "made by GM" without dice rolls. But I don't want to make thinks if they aren't technically possible on SW.
So the "transfer" should be purely technologically. And I don't want to cut out the brain from the head and build a cyborg (like Grievous), but transfer memories and minds from the biological Twi'lek brain the a electronic droid "brain" (with aid of the ship computer). And there is no need to transfer all memories or the whole personality, just... uhm... some traits and special memories. |
Ever seen the film The Sixth day With arnie? It was about cloning but used a sort of "Flash memory engramming, where they could copy your memories to imprint them on a clone.
Perhaps something like that could have existed at one time for human to droid use, but lost out in favor/faded off into the history books.. And this NPC just re-found it?
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garhkal
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That's more of putting his brain in a robot much like the Ating monks and those spider thinggys..
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Telsij
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Now if the transplanted brain were addicted to spice... there's an adventure hook! Drug-addicted Droid begins crime spree, with the twist being that the spice is of the sort that grants PER bonuses and so, he's always one step ahead of the PCs. |
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CRMcNeill
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Another example is the full-conversion cyborgs from Rifts. Essentially all that is left of the original organic being is their brain and some/all of their spinal cord; the rest of the body is replaced with cybernetics. Which is basically just a droid body. Granted, the Rifts full-conversion cyborgs stand ~3 meters tall and are configured almost exclusively for combat, so Star Wars droid bodies are a little on the mild side, comparatively speaking. Still, it depends on what you're going for.
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Whill
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| Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2017 8:28 pm Post subject: Re: Transfer brain to droid? |
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| Whill wrote: | | Purzelkater wrote: | | I wonder if it's possible on StarWars to transfer a brain from a human to a doid? |
In my very first campaign, one of the PCs was a template I made that combined the tongue-tied engineer and outlaw backgrounds. A timid medical droid engineer named Dr. Wendel Grossman was shot up in his lab by a Bounty Hunter hired by the Empire for an unknown purpose. His wife and child there visiting him were killed instantly, and Dr Grossman's body was ruined and dying. With the assistance of an Alien Student of the Force who happened to be nearby, two medical droids specializing in cybernetics and an astromech with additional programming in droid repair saved Dr. Grossman's brain and successfully 'cyborged' it into a droid body (VX-7) using an experimental biotech interface. When the victim regain consciousness in his new body and discovered his family was dead, he declared Wendel Grossman dead with them and "Vendetta X-7" born, wanting nothing but revenge on the Empire. The Alien Force Student and he joined the Alliance. The Bounty Hunter (who didn't know that he his target survived in a way) ended up not being paid by the Imperial who had hired him, and he joined the Alliance too with the other two (another PC). Vendetta didn't know that the Bounty Hunter was the one who had killed his family, and the Bounty Hunter didn't realize who Vendetta really was and would only say that the reason he joined the Alliance is because the Empire didn't pay him for a job. A while into the campaign after Vendetta and the bounty hunter had become good friends, it eventually came out that the bounty hunter was one who killed the Grossmans and Vendetta was the target the bounty hunter had thought he had killed. Vendetta wanted to kill the bounty hunter, but the team was captured by a crime lord who had been owed money by the true owner of the highly modified ship they had been using since the first adventure. The whole Rebel team was going to be executed by the crime lord in his secret inner-mountain base for killing so many of his goons trying to repo the ship several times, but the Rebels were freed and separated. The Rebel bounty hunter and Jodo Kast killed each other, thus taking away Vendetta's ability to quench some of his thirst for vengeance, but redirected it all to the Empire. After the end of the group campaign, we played a couple solo adventures that resolved his character arc, but I can't remember why the Imperial wanted Wendel Grossman dead in the first place.
The droid body was some labor droid with scan resistance so he could just blend in, but there was a Robocop influence because I remember he had that leg cavity that could open revealing a heavy blaster. |
| CRMcNeill wrote: | | Another example is the full-conversion cyborgs from Rifts. Essentially all that is left of the original organic being is their brain and some/all of their spinal cord; the rest of the body is replaced with cybernetics. Which is basically just a droid body. |
I did that in 1988. What is Rifts?
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CRMcNeill
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Rifts is Palladium's big amalgamation RPG. It uses dimensional portals to combine all of their universes in to a single world in a post-apocalyptic Earth. Magic, cyborgs, aliens, mutants, fantasy races, all in one setting.
It was used heavily as a resource for the cyborgs GG that came out recently.
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