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eGlyde
@eGlyde asked:

So in Standard Candles people's bodies are made, how do they grow up if they're robots? Do they get new bodies or is it functioning on different rules than our reality?

physically speaking they're not robots in the conventional modern sense of "made of steel and circuits in a factory", but are made of materials that can grow and reshape themselves using nanotech. they're not biomimetic, per se, but they're capable of replicating the functions of biology, and much of robotics and nanotech was originally based on biology or evolved from biotech. in SC there's never been a hard boundary between biotech and robotics, or "hylotech" as Orion's Arm likes to distinguish it. this is also what's up with the cybernetic ecosystems - there was a gradual intermixing of ecological management, biotech, nanotech, classical robotics and industrial infrastructure which developed into these robotic ecosystems, with plants and fauna that are also infrastructure.

however humans in SC also don't really need to "grow up" in the conventional sense either. when a new person is born, their body is usually incubated from an embryonic form to an "adult" form before an arbitrary consciousness is loaded in, the body usually being based in part on the parent(s), and already comes with adult skills and emotional stability, so it's sort of like typical scifi robots but not quite. a lot of people are also "clones" called Forks, where a copy of a mind is instantiated into a new body as a new person. Okan is a fork of another girl for instance, which is something i haven't elaborated much on, but it's part of her lore. there's other ways it can work too but i'll leave it at that to avoid too much confusion.


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