[quote=@Izurich]
Ooooh nice, I'm pinning my interest here.

Thinking of making a scavenger synth, but with lots of bad sector in their memory core, so I'll not play a starting PC with centuries/millennia/eons of knowledge in them, that'd be kinda OP.
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Alternatively, they do have access to it but their manufacturer instilled a fluctuating quantum lock within them so that every file requires a specific input. For example, their encyclopediac knowledge on Golaang the Bronze King of Calcul could only be unlocked by performing a specific sacrificial ritual involving performance of an ancient Titan play, open surgery of a mycomorph and with all partcipants performing a one-armed handstand. 

Or you could just have parts of their memory lost. Either way works fine.