How are Technojackers Made?
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 12:33 pm
What makes Technojacker's immune to the nano-plague? The book says their nano-bots are different, and make them immune to the effects of the plague. It does not say how or why a Technojacker becomes this way. I'm interpreting this to mean that (in my game) the nano-plague doesn't see Technojacker's as human/mammal and instead reads them as a machine. Makes sense to me.
However, how does a Technojacker come about?
1. Maybe for a brief instant at birth or in the womb they are psychic and have a telemechanic power and instinctively turn the nano-plague into an immune system against the nano-plague.
2. Maybe the mother was exposed to some environmental effect while pregnant and that has a lasting effect on the fetus.
3. Maybe it is something inherent in the DNA, a random mutation that is fairly common (1/100 is very common for some genetic traits).
4. My favorite idea: Maybe one of the NEXUS personalities creates the Technojackers for an unknown reason. They alter the nano-plague in the fetus or at birth for their own reasons.
5. NEXUS, being whacked in the AI, screwed up coding the nano-plague. It infects a host and then does a rand(100,1) (aka 1d100) and if it comes up 1 the nano-virus glitches and makes a technojacker instead of infecting them with the nano-plague.
6. Technojackers are what happens when the nanites used to animate necrobots infects a living host. Maybe the pregnant mother did battle with a necrobot.
However, how does a Technojacker come about?
1. Maybe for a brief instant at birth or in the womb they are psychic and have a telemechanic power and instinctively turn the nano-plague into an immune system against the nano-plague.
2. Maybe the mother was exposed to some environmental effect while pregnant and that has a lasting effect on the fetus.
3. Maybe it is something inherent in the DNA, a random mutation that is fairly common (1/100 is very common for some genetic traits).
4. My favorite idea: Maybe one of the NEXUS personalities creates the Technojackers for an unknown reason. They alter the nano-plague in the fetus or at birth for their own reasons.
5. NEXUS, being whacked in the AI, screwed up coding the nano-plague. It infects a host and then does a rand(100,1) (aka 1d100) and if it comes up 1 the nano-virus glitches and makes a technojacker instead of infecting them with the nano-plague.
6. Technojackers are what happens when the nanites used to animate necrobots infects a living host. Maybe the pregnant mother did battle with a necrobot.
