Android

An Android is an artificially created organic being. Technically "a synthetic man, created from biological materials." Androids can take any form. However, most androids are built with a humanoid body plan to please the vast consumer markets of Humaniti.

This page is about "synths" and lab-born sophonts. For mechanical creatures, see Robot

Description (Specifications)

Artificially created organic being. Technically "a synthetic man, created from biological materials." They exhibit life, in that they are biologically living; their distinction is that they were created, rather than having evolved.

History & Background (Dossier)

Androids are created from a combination of cloning and genetic engineering. At tech level 14, DNA chains can be synthetically tailored to create desired characteristics, which means androids can take any form. Their general inability to reproduce results from the laws of most high-tech worlds rather than from technology.

Susceptibility to premature aging and sickness at TL–14 limits their lifespan to 10-15 years.

See also

Biotechnology

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• B: Biology
  • Biochemistry
  • Conventional Biology
  • Sophontology
  • Xenobiology

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• B: Biotechnology
  • Artificial Womb
  • Biochip
  • Bio-Identenoid
  • Biotechnology
  • Cybertechnology
  • Metabolic Chamber
  • Personality Recording
  • Relict Regeneration
  • Replacement Body Part

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• G: Genetic Engineering
  • Chimera Species
  • Clone
  • Human Chimera
  • Relict
  • Supra-Species
  • Synthetic
  • Terragen
  • Uplift
  • Variant Race
  • Variant Human Race
  • Variant Non-Human Race

Cybertechnology

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• C: Cybertechnology (Cyber-)
  • Android
  • Biochip
  • Cyborg
  • Neurotechnology
  • Pseudobiological Robot
  • Robots & Robotics
  • Total-Integration Process
  • Wafer Technology

Cultural Mores

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• Cultural Mores
  • Aeonic Stability
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Big Nine
  • Chimera Species
  • Cloning
  • Computer
  • Cultural Affinity
  • Eugenics
  • First Contact
  • Gentlesophonce
  • Martial Arts
  • Megastructure
  • Metempsychosis
  • Panet Relationship
  • Relict Regeneration
  • Robotics
  • Six Races
  • Slavery
  • Synthetics
  • Traveller Gene
  • Uplift
  • Winkle

Lifeform Sciences

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• L: Lifeform Sciences
  • Biotechnology
  • Cybertechnology
  • Genetic Engineering
  • Nanotechnology
  • Neurotechnology
  • Robotics
  • Sophontology

Life Origins

• Abiogenesis
• Biogenesis
• Panspermia

Lifeform Summaries

• Android
• Artificial Intelligence
• Beast
• Brain
• Cyborg
• Chimera Species
• Clone
• Infomorph
• Personality Recording
• Pseudobiological Robot
• Machine Life
• Robot
• Sophont
• Synthetic

Robots

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• Robots
  • Android
  • Automated Interdiction Satellite
  • Carer Droid
  • Cyborg
  • Infomorph
  • Personal droid
  • Pseudo Robot
  • Pseudobiological Robot
  • Warbot

Robotic Autonomy

• Automata
• Low Autonomous Robots
• Mesoautonomous Robots
• High Autonomous Robots
• Self-Aware Robots
• Machine Life

Robotics

• Artificial Intelligence
• Awakened
• Infomorph
• Meta Identity
• Point Identity
• Universal Robot Profile
• Virus

References

This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Mongoose Publishing or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Loren Wiseman. "Robots." Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society 02 (1979): 10-11.
• Roger E. Moore, White Dwarf 30, A Bio-engineered Career for Traveller: 10-11
• Jae Campbell. "Androids - The reality & the myth." Signal-GK 10 (1995): 10.
• Colin Dunn. Library Data (Mongoose Publishing, 2011), 4.
• Marc Miller, Robert Eaglestone, Don McKinney. Characters and Combat (Far Future Enterprises, 2019), 112-115.