Artificially intelligent androids known as Bots have been working for organic beings for centuries. Nearly all interstellar species employ bots for labor, security, and as servants. They are especially common on the battlefield and in the workforces of large corporations such as Protostar.
Any machine or mechanical device that operates automatically.
Bot [BOT], Noun. Any machine that resembles a humanoid and performs tasks on command.
Freebot [FREE-bot], Noun.
- Any robot or bot that attains sentience and "breaks" its programming, resulting in a sapient individual. Only known to happen on planet Nexus.
- (Protostar only) The scourge of profits and a blight on mechanical entities everywhere that must be utterly annihilated and/or reprogrammed to retain maximum resale value.