TGMC:Combat robots

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Combat Robots
Combat Robot	Access: Job Dependent Difficulty: Moderate Rank: Job Dependent Class: Silicon Supervisors: CIC, composed of Captain and Field Commander, Human Crewmembers Duties: Assist and fill in for the crew to your best ability. Guides: Job Dependent Quote:The age of Men is over. The time of the Machine has come!

Overview

Combat robots are an additional species option for player characters, in a similar vein to the Vatborn species. These aren't to be confused with combat droids, which are a separate entity. In comparison with humans, combat robots have a number of unique benefits and drawbacks, allowing for unique gameplay over their meatbag counterparts.

Advantages

• Due to their metallic coating, Combat Robots cannot be set on fire. They still, however, take damage from being in fire, so don't take this as an immunity to fire damage. Think of it like the Surt Jaeger module.
• Their silicon nature means that combat robots don't feature a circulatory system or other organ systems, meaning they experience no harmful blood-related effects, including no effects from harmful chemical interactions, suffer no effects from organ damage and do not take Stamina, Toxin or Oxygen damage. Rare cases have been noted where the primary computational cortex of a combat robot has been damaged; refer to the autodoc to repair this unintended issue. Additionally, this lack of biological components means that xenomorph facehuggers will not be able to successfully latch on to a combat robot. Caution is still advised for non-larval variants.
• After extensive complaints from these units, researchers ensure that all Combat Robots are insulated, meaning that they cannot get shock by e-razors or funny wire in airlocks.
• Similarly to the onboard Synthetic, combat robots can be revived from decapitation with a head replacement surgery. Due to the volatility of their power system, however, they still experience a permanent death timer.
• Thanks to the combat robots enhanced servomotors, their punches deal 10 damage, greater than that of the average man.
• Damage can be quickly repaired through the use of welding for brute damage, and cable coils for burn damage. If there are no cables or filled welding tools nearby, they can initiate autorepair which disables movement, sight and hearing while repairing, and heals 4 brute/burn damage a second for 10 seconds, for 40 total damage.
• Due to reactor overclocking, Combat Robots do not experience critical health, instead remaining operational until death without risk of loss of consciousness.
• The surge of electricity from a Defibrillator will always revive a disabled(dead) robot, allowing them to barely function again.

Disadvantages

• Due to their lack of organ system, combat robots cannot benefit from enhancement chemicals, such as synaptizine or oxycodone.
• The combat robot leg servomotors have a difficult time conveying their user past optimal speeds, meaning that sprinting speeds are inaccessible.
• Since the combat robots feature a customized chassis, they are unable to wear any marine armors. To alleviate this issue, combat robots are provided with their own 3 armor sets.

Repairing Yourself

Read the guide on repairing robots for info on fixing your low integrity.

Armor

Armor:	Description:
XR-1-L armor plating	Light armor plating designed for self mounting on TerraGov combat robotics. It has self-sealing bolts for mounting on robotic owners inside. Melee Bullet Laser Energy Bomb Bio Rad Fire Acid Slowdown 35 55 50 45 45 45 45 45 45 0.3
XR-1 armor plating	Medium armor plating designed for self mounting on TerraGov combat robotics. It has self-sealing bolts for mounting on robotic owners inside. Melee Bullet Laser Energy Bomb Bio Rad Fire Acid Slowdown 40 60 60 45 45 45 45 45 50 0.5
XR-1-H armor plating	Heavy armor plating designed for self mounting on TerraGov combat robotics. It has self-sealing bolts for mounting on robotic owners inside. Melee Bullet Laser Energy Bomb Bio Rad Fire Acid Slowdown 45 65 60 45 45 45 45 45 55 0.7

Notes

• The standard marine vendor will have a combat robot kit, which has a cable coil and welding tool for repairs.
• Wearing various styles of HUDs, such as Medical and Optical, will change your eye color accordingly.
• The combat robot naming convention is "verb+er-number", such as Runner-223, or Keeper-715.

TGMC Roles
	TerraGov Marines Ranks	Command	Captain, Field Commander, Staff Officer, Pilot Officer, Transport Officer, Mech Pilot
		Vehicle Crew	Assault Crewman, Transport Crewman
		Engineering and Supply	Chief Ship Engineer, Requisitions Officer, Ship Technician
		Medical	Chief Medical Officer, Medical Doctor, Researcher
		Marines	Squad Leader, Squad Smartgunner, Squad Engineer, Squad Corpsman, Squad Marine
		Civilians	Corporate Liaison
		Silicon	Combat robots, Synthetic, AI
	Xenomorphs Playtime	Tier 0	Larva, Minions
		Tier 1	Drone, Runner, Defender, Sentinel
		Tier 2	Hivelord, Carrier, Hunter, Wraith, Bull, Warrior, Puppeteer, Spitter
		Tier 3	Gorger, Defiler, Widow, Ravager, Warlock, Behemoth, Crusher, Praetorian, Boiler
		Tier 4	Shrike, Queen, King, Hivemind
	Others		Zombie, Emergency Response Teams, Sons of Mars, Survivor