Mind Control

[Matrix Cypher]

Or perhaps at one time they carried the robotics thing to the extreme and it almost got out of hand. They learned their lesson and now as common sense they keep the man in the loop. Or it could be just that tradition had become so ingrained that they military taken over by the old time hardliners has said it will be so.

Or perhaps at one point society somewhere in history had been so robotized that all the squishies did not have any thing to do and when they got bored they started causing allot of problems. The leaders, and or the visionaries decided to tone it down a bit, and went back to some of the old ways to keep the masses busy.

Since the Imperium is so diverse perhaps some totally non-robot planets exist, some partially ones, and some that are so robotic that only a handful of people run the whole planet including a fully functional class A startport. :wink: (that might explain some of the upp's)

 

[Klaus Kipling]

I still believe we as a human race are a long, long, long way from implanting electronics into our brains.

Which is the point of my first post - we do not need to stick dangerous implants in our heads to have a modicum of thought control over our gizmos. This isn't the man-machine interface - it's just like a hand's free keyboard.

And as said previously the game effect it negligible. Perhaps certain tasks may take less time, perhaps certain actions become minor or free.

And even in the mainstream OTU, there's probably a lot of robots in use - just doing the boring things, like hoovering the floor or lifting crates at the docking port. Most inventions do have boring (in gmae terms) applications.

The 'robots' we have nowadays in combat are nothing of the sort - they are remote control gun emplacements, and that's it. A robot requires some kind of autonomy or program running without the routine intervention of a person.

In fact there's a massive amount of scope for robots inthe OTU, on worlds with the right tech levels (say 9 or 10 +).

And I don't think a dramatic/traumatic event is required for folk to not use robots. Philosophy and religion can do that for starters, and there may be good economic or technological reasons why they are not used insome places. It may even be political - that truly if all the jobs were done by robots then the population has nothing to do apart from get drunk and riot. And we're also forgetting the stationary robots - the ones in factories that make stuff - are we really saying they do not use robots to make ATVs and air/rafts in most of the OTU?

 

[Twi'lekk_Den-keeper]

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far, away...
*shiver* *Pupils dilate* :shock:
STAR WARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Who says the imperiums discovered technology the same way we did/ didn't loose it on the way? Think about it. Solves all your problems.