[quote=@Jeddaven]
[@gorgenmast] I have a couple questions for you, my man.

1. You briefly mention androids in the OP - does this mean that robotics can be fairly advanced, and would these androids qualify as Strong AI?

2. In regards to alien like and avoiding "humans but slightly different" does this mean that we can expect to encounter some pretty weird shit?
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1. These androids would definitely be considered a strong AI in that they are of equal if not greater intelligence than a human. They should not be plentiful, however. My thought is that androids or AI in general was outlawed, perhaps due to fear of an AI singularity or Butlerian Jihad.

2. Absolutely. As a hard-ish sci-fi setting, it's hard to justify alien species that are remotely humanoid in my opinion. I'm of the opinion that life would arise under very different constraints than life on Earth did (temperature, gravity, even molecular chemistry). I'm not asking for you to describe how alien life developed without nucleic acids or anything like that, just make them sufficiently weird and cool.

[quote=@Flagg]
grim stuff. I'm in.
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An honor to have you, as always. 🖤