[quote=@Dead Cruiser]
[@FrozenEcstasy] So looking over the revisions thus far, I feel like you've done a good job at focusing Omega, but now that he's just a "researcher," he's left in a nebulous sort of position where he doesn't quite have a viable role on Nova Dawn. If he's simply a biologist with some light combat and magic abilities, I can't quite justify Sulk taking him onboard. This isn't the HMS Beagle after all. Regarding his status as an android, I stand by my earlier suggestion that making him a fully robotic lifeform from a robot world would be the best and most interesting solution.

So here's what I'm suggesting: fully embrace the researcher role. The idea of him being adapted into a war robot just detracts from the strength of his theme as a character. Making him a navigator again would work very will with him being a researcher, as he would be committed to researching and deciphering the Aetheric Lexicon, giving him a solid role on the ship. If you wanted to keep him as a biologist, sure, but if you were going with the robot world idea and/or this suggestion, perhaps an astronomer or cartographer would be more appropriate.
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We're in a setting where our characters will find themselves on strange worlds, some of which that aren't developed, with strange creatures that could be extremely lethal. A research robot with the ability to assimilate into the world's ecosystem, scout for threats, and develop bio weaponry... Isn't helpful? Not to mention they're pirate's, who's to say they're never going to smuggle some alien creature offworld to sell it or something? Like there's always that thing were the crew lands on a jungle planet and someone is almost eaten alive by a carnivorous plant... 

Like I understand... Somewhat... But if I try and make the character any more singular in theme its going to be very forced writing and far too typical for me. I'd have to bow out cause this wouldn't be a fun experience.

I mean I even went as far as to follow a common trope in sci fi settings and he's STILL not consist? Even the whole "scientist weaponizing their research" thing is EXTREMELY common and well accepted idea. Setting wise his story is believable as well.

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Also he's a pirate, I want him to have minor combatant functions [i]because he's a pirate.[/i] His theme isn't more farfetched than asking a [i]parasite ridden insect[/i] to be a [i]cook.[/i]