Fire Fighting bot and more

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jedion357
August 19, 2019 - 1:49pm
Just created a fire fighing bot for home brew game but it was actually a combat robot disquised as a fire fighting bot and further modified to have a suicide charage of 100 kg of TD 19 in its chest plus a search and destroy program to seek a specific corpse in the morgue/crime lab and "rescue" it from the fire- if able to make off with the corpse the corpse will disappear as a measure to destroy evidence but if the bot runs into resistance then it will self destruct clutching the corpse to its chest.

Any special rules for disguising a robot as another type? Idea.

I provided for a chance for the player to discover that something was wrong when the fire alarm goes off and evac alarm orders everyone out of the building but the smoke pouring out of the air vents doesn't smell like burning material but rather very obviously smells like smoke grenade smoke used in the PC's training. LOG check +20. Also it should take about 1-2 minutes for the fire fighting bots to arrive but one does so within seconds of the fire alarm.

I know that if a player with robotics skill does an identify subskill check it will reveal things like robot level and if that is a discrepency then that could alert players. However, a fire fighting bot is likely a lvl 3 service bot and I figured a level 3 combat robot was enough for this mission.

To the player's benefit the combat robot will not have any weapons but will engage in combat with its hands for the 2d10 standard robot attack.

Edit minimum level for a robot to use a search and destroy program is level 4 so my disguised fire bot will be level 4
I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers!
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jedion357
August 19, 2019 - 1:53pm
Fire fighting bots will have a search and rescue program (3)  costing 3,000 Cr.

and perhaps a Fire fighting measures program (2) costing 500 Cr


I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers!

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KRingway
August 20, 2019 - 3:23am
Does it fly, or have legs/wheels/tracks? How big is it? Can it actually rescue people (i.e. does it have an airtight passenger compartment)? Can it perform basic medical tasks?

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jedion357
August 20, 2019 - 4:34am
good question, working from the AD equipment list I was going with std robot body such that a combat robot could be disguised as a fire fighter bot. straight up replacement of the living fire fighter with a mechanical man.

was also thinking of version built on the heavy duty robot body which would actually be the size of a fire truck. This one would transport 4-6 of the standard body bots and there could be a living being giving direction through a robot management program either remotely or on location as the "fire captain/director"
I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers!

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KRingway
August 20, 2019 - 11:29pm
If both versions could fly, that might make them more practical - i.e. they can avoid stairs, elevators, etc and could access a building etc from outside at any given level.