SPOILER ALERT: Question - Robots can't survive Jump?

[BRover]

From a footnote on page 134:

"The robot plot was bound to fail; its conspirators did not know that their robot brains cannot survive jump, even protected by a ship’s jump field." (emphasis added)

As I parse it, that "their" points to these specific robots. I'm thinking that any culture with jump drive and robots would figure out some way to engineer robots to function in and after jump. It's only those without jump drive who might get a nasty surprise . . .

 

[vegascat]

I did not see the footnote in my paperback version of Agent of the Imperium.
I do remember the Zhodani use warbots on their ships, using them whenever they have a conflict.

 

[ShawnDriscoll]

From a footnote on page 134:

"The robot plot was bound to fail; its conspirators did not know that their robot brains cannot survive jump, even protected by a ship’s jump field."

Uh, what now? I've never read anything in Traveller that suggests robots cannot survive jump. Anyone know anything more about this? It is just these particular robots or any robot?

"Their" robot brains.

I did not see the footnote in my paperback version of Agent of the Imperium.

The annotated edition of the ebook.

 

[casquilho]

Just curious, did anyone ever get a clarification beyond our guess based on the word 'their'?

 

[whartung]

its conspirators did not know that their robot brains cannot survive jump

I don't know the passage, but it seems like the conspirators have some robots, and "their" (the conspirators) robots brains have failed.

I'm assuming that the conspirators do not have robot brains in their heads. But it's AoI, so who knows.

 

[casquilho]

I don't know the passage, but it seems like the conspirators have some robots, and "their" (the conspirators) robots brains have failed.

I'm assuming that the conspirators do not have robot brains in their heads. But it's AoI, so who knows.

I understood that argument. But in the thread some folks indicated they were going to ask Marc for clarity. But I do not see where anyone came back and shared the answer they received. I was asking if they received an answer to confirm the guess or to share what the thought was.

 

[Spinward Flow]

I do not see where anyone came back and shared the answer they received.

Guess their brains didn't survive the jump ...

 

[casquilho]

Guess their brains didn't survive the jump ...

Well played Sir, well played.

 

[whulorigan]

Well, my simple observation would be that I do not think Marc would have gone to the bother of including an entire section on "brains" of various types (including electronic/positronic/organic. etc.) as add-ons to computers and consoles for starships in the section on starship computers immediately preceding the section on robots in T5.10 Book 2, p.249-273 if he intended them to be non-functional after a single jump.

He must be talking specifically about the Essaray Androids/Robots encountered on Dathsuts/Vland, however they are specifically constructed.