Robots (book)

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Robots
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Classic Traveller Book 8
Author Joe Fugate
Publisher Game Designers Workshop
Version Classic Traveller
Edition 1st
Format Book (Digest)
Language English
Pages 56
Year Published 1986
Canonical Yes
Available from RPGNow
Also See Robot
Product no. 344

Robots (book) is a Game Designers Workshop product.

Description (Specifications)

Rules, essays and data included in Robots are:

  • A history of robots in the Imperium
  • A look at the robots of other races
  • Rules for robot construction
  • Encounter and Generation tables which will integrate robots right into your campaign.

Table of Contents

Robots (book)
Section Page/s
Introduction 4
Robots in Future Society 5
Types of Robot and Their Uses 9
Robots Outside the Imperium 11
Robot Builders 16
The Robot Brain 18
Robot Construction 22
The Universal Robot Profile 38
Robot Encounters 41
Robots in a Traveller Game 44
Robot as Characters 49
Robot Generation 51
Robots Design Checklist 53
Robot Design Forms 54

Library Data Entries (Public)

  1. Ahetaowa
  2. Alsan Border Wars
  3. Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  4. Battery
  5. Brain
  6. Computer
  7. Corporation
  8. First Imperium
  9. First Interstellar War
  10. Fuel-cell
  11. Fusion Reactor
  12. Gvegh
  13. Imperial Navy Research Lab
  14. Linear Processor
  15. Long Night
  16. Museum of Sylean History
  17. Parallel Processor
  18. Robot
  19. Roboticist
  20. Rule of Man
  21. Sabmiqys
  22. Scout Service
  23. Sensory Device
  24. Shudusham Concords
  25. Society for the Sovereignty of Man Over Machine (SSMM)
  26. Solomani Confederation
  27. Sylean Federation
  28. Synaptic Processor
  29. Terran Confederation Navy
  30. Third Imperium
  31. Universal Robot Profile (URP)
  32. Vargr
  33. Vargr Space
  34. Vilani
  35. Vilani Empire
  36. Zhodani Core Expedition

Library Data Entries (Automated)

Library data entries


Selected Astrography

  1. Ahetaowa (world)
  2. Capital (world)
  3. Core Sector
  4. Deneb Sector
  5. Fornol (world)
  6. Juess (world)
  7. Kusyu (world)
  8. Raakaan Subsector
  9. Sabmiqys (world)
  10. Solomani Rim Sector
  11. Spinward Marches Sector
  12. Terra
  13. Thetis (SR 2538) (world)

Selected Corporations

  1. Chiadle
  2. Dover-Gabe
  3. Eksaekfoer
  4. IAD
  5. K!lkoog'x
  6. LSP
  7. Makhidkarun
  8. Naasirka
  9. Panstellar
  10. Six Eyes Nest
  11. Spinward Specialties
  12. Star Patterns Trading
  13. SURD
  14. Tlektaowa
  15. Tliazhashal
  16. Ungzoenogzkha

Selected Form/s & Terms

Forms:

  1. TBD

Terms:

  1. TBD

Selected Robots

Robot Classes:

  1. AB-101 class Pseudobiological Robot
  2. Barbie class Cargo Robot
  3. Rashush-1 class Servant Robot
  4. Telku class Pseudobiological Robot
  5. Zhodani Warbot

Robot Types:

  1. Administration Robot
  2. Courier Robot
    1. Courier-Pilot Robot
  3. Dumbot
  4. Expert Robot
  5. Master-Slave Worker Robot System
    1. Heavy Construction Robot
    2. Master Worker Robot
    3. Slave Worker Robot
  6. Non-mobile Robot (Brain)
    1. Hospital Bot
  7. Pseudo-biological Robot
    1. AB-101 class Pseudobiological Robot
    2. Telku class Pseudobiological Robot
  8. Research & Development Robot
    1. AB-101 class Pseudobiological Robot
    2. Telku class Pseudobiological Robot
  9. Servant Robot
    1. Barbie class Cargo Robot
    2. Housekeeping Robot
    3. Rashush-1 class Servant Robot
    4. Valet Robot
  10. Warbot
    1. Local Protection Warbot
    2. Tactical Warbot
    3. Drone Warbot

Meta-history & Background (Dossier)

Robots or Book 8 is an early Classic Traveller publication.

  • At last, the complete guide to the construction and use of robots in Traveller.
  • Add a completely new dimension to science fiction adventure with Robots.
  • Some of the material in this book originally appeared (in a more abbreviated form) in the Travellers' Digest, issue numbers 1 through 3.
  • In 2012 CE, MegaTraveller Robots was published which expands upon this material.

Credits (Primary Sources)

Credits (Primary Sources)
Credit Authors & Contributors
Design Joe D. Fugate, Sr. and Gary Thomas
Development Timothy B. Brown
Art Barbie Pratt and Steve Venters

External Link/s

Commentary & Data articles:

  1. EXTERNAL LINK: TBD

Reviews:

  1. EXTERNAL LINK: TBD

Other Articles:

  1. EXTERNAL LINK: TBD

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