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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RealAlHazred" data-source="post: 8809065" data-attributes="member: 25818">I played it straight. The Vilani are consistently portrayed as extremely phobic about change, preferring to stagnate rather than advance. Even after being conquered by the Solomani, their culture didn't change. And they are extremely averse to automating anything.So IMTU, there is a constant struggle between the workforce attempting to automate processes and management resisting any and all changes. Since management oversees budgeting, there is not as much money for AI/automation/robotics R&D as we would otherwise assume. If my players ever made it to Solomani space, they'd have seen something different. They saw something different in Zhodani space, but there there was the emphasis on not obsoleting jobs until the workforce was ready to move on; it's easier to avoid cultural shake-ups if you can just read everybody's mind like a newspaper. Zhodani made much, much more use of robots in warfare, since they wanted to avoid human casualties if at all possible.</blockquote>