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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shayuri" data-source="post: 7231536" data-attributes="member: 4936">My first idea for a backstory takes some liberties with how the Android race works, but since the book doesn't give much detail, I figure it's okay. That said, if our GM decides this doesn't make sense I'll come up with something else.Since androids are 'born adult,' it makes sense to me that they would have a period of time after being initially activated where they experience very fast learning, personality formation, and so on...similar to a human's first several years of life, but perhaps even faster. They might be 'born' with programmed information, but there's a lot of missing context there that they have to be able to absorb quickly to take a place in society.So at one point, I'd say maybe four or five years back, a ship was en route to a new colony being founded by androids. The ship carried dozens, maybe hundreds of 'fresh' new androids intended to be activated on site so they could learn that world and its people and the duties needed as part of that initial 'imprinting' period. The ship was however hijacked by pirates. The androids onboard were awakened and imprinted to a life of slavery.After a few years of this, my character...fighting this indoctrination...came up with an elaborate plan for escape. She hacked her own brain, using this 'exocortex' of her own design, and performed the psychiatric equivalent of chewing her own leg off to escape from a bear trap. Portions of her mind were erased and/or modified to free her of the psychological and emotional constraints of her imprinting period. This allowed her to put her plan into action and leave that existence behind.Naturally, there were side effects.</blockquote>

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