I just figured it out.

[The Nameless]

Robobrains always reminded me of something and I just figured out what that is:

Daleks.

Coincidence...?

[Anvos]

Eh, the concept of a robot that is piloted by a brain in a jar is a fairly staple scifi idea.

Daleks as well I believe have an actual full organism in them, but its just wretchedly feeble without it mech/robo and depending on the variant mightn't be able to survive at all outside the frame.

[The Nameless]

Originally posted by Anvos:

Eh, the concept of a robot that is piloted by a brain in a jar is a fairly staple scifi idea.

Daleks as well I believe have an actual full organism in them, but its just wretchedly feeble without it mech/robo and depending on the variant mightn't be able to survive at all outside the frame.

Yeah, I've read a bit of the lore on Daleks, I dunno about the full organism, but they're an ancient race that decided to go full-on mechanical like Necrons, but they tried to eliminate their emotions like Vulcans. Except that somehow instead of making them all "logical" and stuff it turned them into wacky villains of crazy maniacal death, not really sure how that was supposed to work but whatever.

The point, though, was the similarities: dome head, one big eye-contraption, powerful built-in weapons, freaky mechanical voice. Well, at least Jezebel had a freaky mechanical voice. Biggest differences are the humanoid-analogue arms and treads... well, the treads are less of a difference if you put them on a Mr. Handy thruster.

I'm going to look for a Robobrain -> Dalek mod now.

[Zekiran]

The Far Harbor robobrains are way more like Daleks in that regard.

being that they voluntarily put themselves into those robotic bodies - to the absolute horror of the vault's overseers and staff. and 200 years later, who's still going strong and flirting with the flesh bags? yup. bunch of crazy folks not quite as immortal as they want to believe they are...

[The Nameless]

Originally posted by Zekiran:

The Far Harbor robobrains are way more like Daleks in that regard.

being that they voluntarily put themselves into those robotic bodies - to the absolute horror of the vault's overseers and staff. and 200 years later, who's still going strong and flirting with the flesh bags? yup. bunch of crazy folks not quite as immortal as they want to believe they are...

They're not immortal. Immortal means they can't die no matter what. They're just ageless. If you're ageless, things other than age can still kill you.

I guess you kind of have a point in one sense, but given that they have their original personalities intact including emotions, that kind of balances it out.

[Fendelphi]

Originally posted by The Nameless:

Originally posted by Zekiran:

The Far Harbor robobrains are way more like Daleks in that regard.

being that they voluntarily put themselves into those robotic bodies - to the absolute horror of the vault's overseers and staff. and 200 years later, who's still going strong and flirting with the flesh bags? yup. bunch of crazy folks not quite as immortal as they want to believe they are...

They're not immortal. Immortal means they can't die no matter what. They're just ageless. If you're ageless, things other than age can still kill you.

I guess you kind of have a point in one sense, but given that they have their original personalities intact including emotions, that kind of balances it out.

You are thinking of invincible(cant be hurt or injured, or at least will recover instantly).

Immortal usually means that something cant die from old age. Most gods are considered Immortal(they dont age), but they can still get killed.

[Zekiran]

^^ That. Given the plot of that specific group of characters, I definitely meant what I said. Their personalities are all very much "we will be here for ever! whee!" but.

I wonder if it's just because they're either very shallow or very absorbed in things other than reality, that they just don't wind up all completely insane. (I mean, comparatively given that they're already in an incredibly insane universe.)