| rdfs:comment | - Guardians are cybernetic combat units that patrol RvneTek installations. They consist of a decaying humanoid body, often a mere skeleton, that is kept mobile through motors at the joints. Unlike a common cyborg, the biological tissue of the Guardian is utterly meaningless for the entity to function, and thus, nothing is done to prevent necrosis and decay of tissue. The skeleton only serves as a rough basis for the devices installed into the entity. The motors are controlled and powered by a computer found inside the chest. Some Guardians also have aditional or prolongued limbs with claws attached to their human limbs, allowing them to grasp onto, and climb, comparable steep and slippery surfaces. these can also be used as weapons, but the main method of attack used by these units is a weap
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| abstract | - Guardians are cybernetic combat units that patrol RvneTek installations. They consist of a decaying humanoid body, often a mere skeleton, that is kept mobile through motors at the joints. Unlike a common cyborg, the biological tissue of the Guardian is utterly meaningless for the entity to function, and thus, nothing is done to prevent necrosis and decay of tissue. The skeleton only serves as a rough basis for the devices installed into the entity. The motors are controlled and powered by a computer found inside the chest. Some Guardians also have aditional or prolongued limbs with claws attached to their human limbs, allowing them to grasp onto, and climb, comparable steep and slippery surfaces. these can also be used as weapons, but the main method of attack used by these units is a weapon mounted into their mouth. These weapons can be small-caliber firing arms, lasers, flamethrowers, plasma launchers and possibly other alternatives. Also, nothing speaks against arming other parts of Guardian with larger weapons and reprogramming the computer accordingly. Despite the fact that Guardians are extremely agile compared to humans, their AI seems to be somewhat underdeveloped in other fields than movement control. They are never used in the field as offensive units, but rather, their AI only makes them fit for patrol duty, or to stride in random patterns through critical zones of RvneTek installations, were human personnel in a numbers equaling a Guardian's firepower are either not allowed, or the area is to risky for human forces. In fact, Guardians behave more like artificial predators rather than tightly-controlled robotic combat units, giving a hint that their AI may have been the result of a Dawson Algorithm or synthetic evolutionary process simulation similar to that of the later Predator Drones / Merciful Doom. Propably, Guardians are not created from living beings, but from reeingineering corpses. It is uncertain to what extent the Guardians used by the corporation are related to the collection of cybernetic mutant subspecies known Guardians.
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