Elensalites

[Insalius]

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Elensalites​

Affiliation: None

Manufacturer: Self-made on their home planet

Class: Artificial Life Simulation Droid

Locomotion: Legged
Power Supply: Electromagnetic rechargeable core

Sensors: Emulation sensors (creates sensations like touch, smell, taste, emotion, and the like)

Size: Between 1.7m and 1.8m

Composition: Standard metallic alloys

Tools and Equipment: None

DESCRIPTION​

Elensalites are humanoid robotic constructs that stand between 6 and 7 feet, in the image of their creators. No internal components are shown as they are completely covered by armor that serves as their ‘skin’, and have a smooth plate in place of where their mouth would be. Instead of being mere droids, though, their intelligence was programmed to grow and discover just like any other organic race can do and can feel sensations through their armor through special sensors built under the metal. Their creators had built them to be able to experience the world as closely as they could to their organic bodies. While their bodies share a similar aesthetic appearance at creation, their minds can choose a gender if they want or they can choose to not be beholden to such descriptors. Despite how durable their metallic bodies are, Elensalites can ‘die’ if they feel they have taken damage bad enough for the mind to think they couldn’t survive and would feel pain from lesser wounds, even if the physical damage to their bodies could be easily repaired. While they do not need to breathe or eat to sustain themselves if one is placed underwater they will feel as if drowning, while bringing food or drink to their faceplates will simulate tastes based on a combination of previous data and built-in sensors examining the fare on a near molecular level. In recent decades, they have developed the ability not only to fully feel emotions but to empathize with other races easily thanks to their programming and sensors in their bodies.

Programmed to live alongside their creator race did, the natural lifespan of an Elensalite is 130 years at the most. When one ‘dies’, provided the body wasn’t destroyed, a new mind can be placed inside that will act as a new life with a whole new perspective on the world. The experiences of the previous life is stored in a specialized black box deep in their bodies, only being released into the computer systems on their homeworld when they return to add their knowledge to the overall system and further their understanding of the world around them. The organic creators of the Elensalites programmed them to mimic their own lifespan of around 100 years, give or take a few years as can happen, so their bodies will go inert around that time and become able to have a new mind programmed into the husk. Their power source is an electromagnetic generator that is contained inside the black box deep inside the robotic body, very efficient for the power draw the body requires yet still needs to be recharged around the same amount of time that the creator race required sleep to further create similarities between the two.

If two Elensalites wished to create a union of themselves in the form of a new creation, or if an Elensalite and a member of another race wished to, they would travel to the Elensalite homeworld to combine pieces of their minds and memories to program into a newly created body. They could then raise this newborn as they saw fit, as if they had birthed it themselves. If a body ‘dies’, a new mind can be put into the old body that would be unique and potentially have no aspects of the previous mind in the body. While no sexual acts are needed for their reproduction, Elensalites that are more adventurous can modify their bodies to allow relations with other races though without the ability to actually create life in these ways.

Their metallic bodies give them durability akin to having a duraplast shell, though this is not a form of armor in itself, alongside greater strength comparable to a Wookie, though their speed and other 'mental' abilities remain at the same level as other organic races can normally achieve. They are also very rare in the galaxy, numbering in the few hundreds in total throughout all of the known regions. Most people can go their entire lives without even running into one, thinking they were a normal droid or not.

Despite their metallic bodies if their minds believe they have taken a fatal blow they will ‘die’, even if the damage doesn’t have a permanent effect on their body. While their core, the black box that their mind is contained in, is protected from EMP effects the rest of their bodies are not. A strong ion charge or EMP field would make them immobile for a short time, making them feel as if their whole body were on pins and needles as they regained use of themselves. If a limb is lost it can be replaced with a new one, though if this is done while away from their homeworld they would not be able to feel sensations in this new limb and would feel as an organic would to have a limb replaced with a prosthetic.

Due to being inorganic Elensalites do not need to eat or drink to keep running. What they need, though, is a dedicated rest time of a few hours every few days for internal parts of their bodies to recharge. Being unable to do so will make them become sluggish over time until they went into a form of stasis. Being connected to an energy source of some kind would recharge them quickly, making them seem to wake as if from a deep sleep, or they could be connected to one to prevent needing to rest for a longer time.

Elensalites speak verbally, thanks to a speaker beneath their faceplate that gives a voice that is unique to each mind yet always has a metallic tinge to the sound. While there is just a series of lights where the eyes would be on a humanoid, they can be just as expressive with them to convey emotion or other meanings in the same way a humanoid can, such as seemingly raising an eyebrow to be inquisitive. They can learn other languages quick but are not capable of mastering the same amount of languages that a protocol droid can due to differences in programming.

LEGALITY​

Legal. Despite their intelligence that is equal to other organic beings, as artificial constructions they are still considered droids by law. As they lack built-in weapons or tools that most other droids have, they do not have anything inherent about them that is against current law on most planets.

INTENT​

I wanted to bring back the droids I had made last TL for potential character and as a choice for people wanting to play droids of different kinds. This will pair with a cultural lore submission, just like last TL, and will lead to a revanp of the planet these guys come from if they are approved.

ADVANCED TECH​

YES

As a 'droid' with a human-like intelligence, to own one it would be needed to convince them to come with you as things like restraining bolts won't work on them. I had also intended them to be playable as a race thanks to their intelligence, so a plot just like any to gather followers or a crew would be needed to have one join your side. It would take maybe 2-3 threads to convince one to join you, if you could find one.

 

[Loco]

After working with @Malon and @Insal, this submission is being archived along with the related lore article. Bottom line is that these are just too advanced for the setting.