Artificial Lifeforms: The Next Generation

[mactavish]

The other thread was extremely unwieldy. I thought it best to start fresh.

For those interested in this file, the lastest update is now available. Just click on the following link to retrieve the file in PDF format:

Artificial Intelligence

This will get you the latest version of the Acrobat file. There are only a few tweaks, a new Disadvantage, repaginations, and a couple of corrected typos.

P.S. If any of you artists out there have some homemade artwork that I could use in this netbook, I am certain that it would make it look better. Please emal them to me at brenton@online.emich.edu.

P.P.S. Please send me some more stuff that you'd like to see. This document is getting old and needs some new "blood," as it were. New Templates and Packages are of particular interest to me. Anything you've got, email my way and, if it's decent, I'll try to put it in for v.2.0.

Mactavish out.

[Paul]

You know me...always happy to help out with this topic...

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Voom!? This parrot wouldn't go VOOM if you put 4 million volts through it! It's bleedin' demised!

[spyone]

Reviving the thread, since people are talking about it elsewhere. Let's get some feedback here people.

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You're a Starfleet Officer. "Weird" is part of the job.

[Tzeentch]

Just a note: Spacedock gives a different template for Emergency Medical Hologram. In addition, has the author discussed working with the Borg author? Perhaps moving the Cyborg rules completely to the Borg book and expanding on the Androids and other robots.

Once I get situated with the system I'll work on a simple drone construction system similar to Spacedock in format.

[SIR SIG]

Nice, noticed a few tweaks!
Perhaps some more elaborate <sp> rules on constructing androids
ie. what PCs will need to build something like Data/Lal/Lore

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SIR SIG a Aussie TREK Narrator

[Doug Burke]

Originally posted by Tzeentch:
In addition, has the author discussed working with the Borg author?

Um... The author of the Artificial Lifeforms doc is the author of the bork book from the boards here, Tzeentch...




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Doug Burke

McCoy: "You're taking me to the promised land?"
Kirk: "That's what you get for missing staff meetings, Doctor."

[mactavish]

Yep, I'm the "prolific" author of which you are speaking.

The Borg book, however, is now on hold indefinitely.

The reasons behind this decision are wholly my own and are in no way related to anything that anyone here might try to link it to (i.e. talk of legal action, death threats, etc.).

It's just not coming any time soon.

The AI book, on the other hand, will be laid out differently with some new material added and some older stuff removed. Version 3.0 will be coming down the pipe sometime after Boxing Day (ask the Canadians if you don't know what holiday that is).

Sorry for the [big] let down regarding the Borg stuff, but remember that "patience is a virtue."

mactavish out.

[CoNfUsEd]

arg i get an error opening file message when i try to dl it. i have acrobat 4 reader and it tells me the file does not begin with %pdf.whats that about?

[KethVetra]

Hi, would love to read this file also, but the link keeps coming up as broken. Thanks for any help!

[qerlin]

Yeah, I can't get the page to open either.

[Publius]

I have also been unable to access this page, which I would really love to do because somehow my original copy of these rules were corrupted. I thought that the original Artificial Lifeforms rules were excellent, and while I *thankfully* do have a hardcopy, I would very much like to get the updated version.

Help?

[Paul]

Any one wanting a copy of the file linked to at the start of this thread, email me and tell me where to send a copy of the file to.
I think that what I've got is the most recent copy (even if it is a few monts old)...I don't recall anything later being posted.

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Diagonally parked in a Parallel Dimension...

[AslanC]

Okay I am not sure of the thread all told, but I have a question...

I was curious to have Starfleet decide to put an artifical officer (ala Data) on major ships. The reason being that Data has proven so very helpful in crisis situations. Since Data's schematics are available, could they reproduce him, or would they go another way?

[Arithon]

Originally posted by AslanC:
Okay I am not sure of the thread all told, but I have a question...

I was curious to have Starfleet decide to put an artifical officer (ala Data) on major ships. The reason being that Data has proven so very helpful in crisis situations. Since Data's schematics are available, could they reproduce him, or would they go another way?

That's been done in one epiosode (Lal) being Data's daughter. Even with Data's knowing his own body he was not able to keep Lal up and running for long.. However there are other places for Androids.. One coming to mind is Mudd's Planet, the other from the TOS Episode 'What are little girls made of?'

[qerlin]

In our campaign, Data was working with the twit from Daystrom Institutes that tried to scrap him for reverse engineering. They finally built a new android (actually a gynoid) but using medical cybernetics, so she is very life-like. She also utilized some of the new computer/robotics improvements so she is actually in some ways more stable, human, and intellectually powerful than Data.

BTW, we also have Data finally commanding a ship (USS James Kirk, New Orleans class)