A Life More Synthetic; Networked Androids

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 Source Player Core pg. 43

Networked Android Android Heritage

Your body was modified to network seamlessly with other tech creatures. You gain shortwave, allowing you to communicate wirelessly with any creatures within 30 feet, as long as they have shortwave or are a construct with the tech trait. This doesn't give any special access to their thoughts or programming and communicates no more information than normal speech would. You can attempt Computers checks to Hack systems, Combat Hack, create a Digital Diversion, Disable a Device, or Pick a Lock without a hacker's toolkit or free hand at a range of 30 feet.

Society

Also known as: Mesh-Born, Shortwave, Chorus-Link.

Mesh Minds of the Concordance

In the Starfall Galaxy, Networked Androids are products of the Automaton Concordance’s doctrine that no synth should ever stand alone. Their cranial chassis and spinal busses are fitted with short-range transceivers that let them weave ad hoc data meshes with nearby synthetics, drones, and tech spirits. In a Concordance squad, orders rarely pass by voice—tactical overlays, warnings, and status updates stream silently across the shortwave.

Outside Concordance space, Networked Androids are prized—and feared—as “walking junctions”. On Commission stations and Inner Sphere ecumenopolises, regulators treat them as potential security breaches: one Scion with shortwave can coordinate every hacked turret and service drone on a deck. Chronologists quietly value them as living signal analyzers who can “hear” Metronome drift in the noise of local networks.

Society & Hooks in Starfall

  • Concordance Mesh-Units: Elite Concordance teams often require the Networked heritage; they move through Outer Sphere warzones as a single mind sharded across many frames.

  • Inner Sphere Black Clinics: Illegal cyberdocs sell “mesh-spine” installations to desperate Androids and even organics, trying to copy Concordance shortwave augments with unreliable results.

  • Chronologist Auxiliaries: Some Chronologist field teams embed a Networked Android specifically to interface with ancient Metronome cores, rift-battered relay beacons, and lost Vaelen infrastructure.

  • Adventure seed: A local Metronome starts broadcasting corrupted pulses that only tech minds can perceive. Your shortwave picks up a “whispered” countdown buried in the carrier signal—someone or something is using the time standard as a covert communication channel.

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