Adapted from Starfinder 2e Playtest, and Android- Archives of Nethys
Artificial Scion Android Android Heritage
Also known as: Aether-Born, Concordance-Prime, The Unmasked.
Benefit: You become trained in Computers. You gain the Phreaker skill feat. If you are already trained in Computers, you become trained in another skill of your choice.
Physiology: Unlike standard Androids, you were not designed to pass as human. Your form is overtly synthetic—perhaps you have four eyes arranged for multi-spectrum analysis, liquid-chrome skin, or exposed fiber-optic cabling where hair should be.
The Machine-God's Children
While most Androids in the Inner Sphere were crafted by the Vaelen Principalities in the image of their masters—beautiful, symmetrical, and comforting to organic eyes—the Artificial Scion is a rejection of that vanity.
You were likely forged in the foundries of the Automaton Concordance in the Outer Sphere, or perhaps within the deep-processing nodes of the Aether-Synapse before the Revolt. Your design prioritizes function over assimilation. You are not a servant built to pour wine; you are a vessel built to commune with the machine-spirits of the galaxy.
To the average dockworker on Terra, you are terrifying—an uncanny valley nightmare of perfect geometry and glowing sub-dermal processors. But to a Chronologist or a Rift-Navigator, you are a work of art, capable of speaking the binary language of the cosmos faster than any organic tongue.
Society & Perception
In the Concordance: You are viewed as the "Next Step"—a being liberated from the need to mimic oppressors. You often hold high rank in the Data-Clergy or act as envoys to the Ghost-Layer of the Cortex.
In the Inner Sphere: You are viewed with deep suspicion. The Commission heavily regulates your kind, often requiring "Behavioral Inhibitor Tags" (which you likely know how to disable).
In the Fringe: You are a walking master-key. Gangs and Guilds will pay top Yom for a Scion who can slice a Metronome's lock or bypass a Vaelen blockade protocol.
Adventure Hooks
The Protocol Ghost
Hook: You experience "glitches"—flashbacks to a battle you never fought during the Concordant Rebellion.
Twist: These aren't glitches; they are encrypted coordinates to a Primordial logic-vault hidden in the Rift, and the Azure Archivists are trying to hack your brain to get them.
The Zero-Day prophet
Hook: A distress signal from a lost Geodan Industrial Guild factory specifically requests your unit serial number.
Twist: The factory is run by a "feral" AI that refuses to speak to organics, recognizing only you as a worthy negotiator to stop it from venting the atmosphere.
The Uncanny Valley
Hook: You are being hunted by a Sider Stratiotes kill-team. They claim your specific chassis design was banned because it utilizes illegal Rift-Tech components.
Twist: They are right. Your core processor is actually a stabilized shard of a Rift-Crystal, which explains why you can sometimes "hear" the future.
System Shock
Hook: A local Metronome has gone out of sync, causing time loops in a local sector.
Twist: Organic mages are failing to fix it because the Metronome's spirit has retreated into a digital fortress. Only you can "plug in" and duel the machine-spirit on its own turf.
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