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Innovation in systems. The hobby seems saturated with endless splatbooks, and with games which feature a mildly variant setting, but...

How many of those 70 have already appeared in earlier works? Traveller is notorious for re-issuing the same handful of deck plans. More...

Unless the inherent logic points out that interstellar travel is largely impossible. Not to mention this assumes an AI whose awareness...

The AI doesn't need to be Skynet.

True, but without active operations, the need would be much reduced. Once Humanity is defeated, the vast bulk of hardware will go into...

Genocide would ensure survival. With no threats, further expansion is not needed. Which why I like the core programming directive as...

The same as any intelligent life... meeting its needs, expanding its presence by some form of self-replication, and amusing itself...

#2 doesn't work for me. There's no biological imperative to work with. #4 doesn't play well, either, IMO: it is a creature of the...

That's it. It's on my list of interesting settings that deserve an update and another chance.

The paperclip scenario sounds suspiciously like the gray goo scenario. I've got to admit I find the OP intriguing as I've never...

GURPS Reign of Steel is the game you are describing. It is what got me thinking along the lines which led to the thread.

Nah. If a setting offends, they are free to leave.

Interesting. So, take the core mission to the logical, or illogical, extreme. The purpose from within. Survival + Core mission, as...

Future-theory geeks often speculate on what an AI takeover might actually be like and I think the two leading contenders are NOTHING...

This. It will genetically engineer humans to have six fingers so AI artwork will be accurate. :ROFLMAO: