Emotionless Androids don’t lack a soul—they experience emotion like a distant echo. Joy is a mild uptick in processor cycles, grief a dimming of internal lumen-lines instead of a sob. In a galaxy ruled by panic, scarcity, and Rift-induced hysteria, this “flat affect” is a tactical advantage. When a Metronome drifts, a Rift storm rises, or a demon swarm breaks through a gate, the Emotionless keep acting while everyone else is locked in fear.
Emotionless Feat 1
Your inhibited or malfunctioning emotional processors make it difficult for you to feel strong emotions. You gain a +1 circumstance bonus to saving throws against emotion effects. If you roll a success on a saving throw against an emotion effect, you get a critical success instead.
How It Looks in Play
Concordance Operatives: Designed for war, these Emotionless synths act as shock controllers—calm under fire, rerouting squads and drone pickets while organics freeze or flee.
Commission Auditors: In the Inner Sphere, some Android compliance inspectors have their affect blunted so they can walk riot-torn ecumenopolises and collapsing markets without being overwhelmed by fear or pity.
Rift Couriers: Emotionless Navigators and couriers ride through the worst Rift eddies, their muted terror making it easier to resist psycho-reactive panic waves.
Roleplaying Hooks
You know your affect is wrong by organic standards and treat emotion like a foreign language you study rather than speak naturally.
Other synths whisper that you’re “half-shackled,” and you quietly wonder whether freedom was supposed to hurt more than this numbness.
A Chronologist or Vaelen technician offers to restore your full affect—at the cost of the stability you’ve built your identity on.
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