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==Robots, Golems, Other Artificial Life==

'''Synopsis''': Many cultures across various species engage in the attempt to create successor / children beings as part of their maturation. In many cases these are attempts to advance explicit tools to something more. The results vary, and many move beyond this, but even so the original attempts and replications of success have spread across the universe. Creating true new minds and souls is at once tricky and straightforward, as much an art as a science—at least in the original conception. Like biological reproduction, it can be reduced down to pragmatic rote and a focus on results instead of process. Some are entirely free of long dead creators while others still live in essentially slavery, however most places where slavery is not allowed draw no distinction between those born and those manufactured limiting the option of bringing such beings without disguising them as something else.

===Shells===

A body of manufactured sophistication, capable of being piloted by a mind but having no mind of its own, is called a Shell. Shells can be remotely piloted by organic beings with the right technology or psychic training, or by AIs broadcasting properly. They may have an internal AI that is not fully developed or be the temporary home of an internally installed AI. A Shell that is theoretically sophisticated enough to have a "native" intellect is analogous to a lobotomized organic life form or one grown in a tank and not given the chance to develop their mind. Just as brainless clones and similar organic constructs are generally acceptable, so are Shells that couldn't have intelligences acceptable while the other sort are more likely to provoke strong reactions.