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Scrap-bot Source Starfinder #20: The Last Refuge pg. 58 Scrap-bot CR 1/2 XP 200 CN Medium construct (technological) Init +3; Senses darkvision 60 ft., low-light vision; Perception +4 Defense HP 13 EAC 10; KAC 12 Fort +0; Ref +0; Will -2 Immunities construct immunities Weaknesses vulnerable to critical hits, vulnerable to electricity Offense Speed 20 ft. Melee slam +6 (1d6+2 B) Ranged tactical semi-auto pistol +6 (1d6 P) Statistics STR +2; DEX +3; CON —; INT +1; WIS +0; CHA +0 Skills Acrobatics +4, Computers +4 Languages Common Other Abilities base frame, unliving Gear tactical semi-auto pistol with 18 small arm rounds Ecology Environment any urban Organization solitary, pair, or gang (3–12) Special Abilities Base Frame (Ex) Each scrap-bot has a base frame determined by its original function, as follows. Assembly: An assembly scrap-bot has an integrated engineering tool kit. It also has Engineering +9. Companion: A companion scrapbot has Diplomacy +4 and Sense Motive +9. Delivery: A delivery scrap-bot is Small and has an extraordinary fly speed of 30 feet with average maneuverability. It also has a storage area that can hold up to 3 bulk. Domestic: A domestic scrap-bot has integrated cleaning systems that allow it to clean items in a 1-foot cube each round. It can reverse cleaning functions to soil a similar area in the same time. Security: A security scrap-bot has a pulsecaster pistol and the integrated weapons universal creature rule. It can make ranged attacks with a +7 attack bonus. The security scrap-bot also has Intimidate +4. Description When a consumer-grade robot breaks down, malfunctions, or becomes obsolete, it might be sent to the nearest recycling center or trash heap. If the owner fails to use proper shutdown procedures prior to disposal, automated self-preservation subroutines sometimes kick in before the machine’s destruction, prompting it to escape its fate. With no home to return to, these cast-off robots subsist in the dark corners of cities, space stations, and massive starships across the galaxy. Collectively known as scrap-bots, they come in endless shapes and styles, but they share a drive to continue existing and mistrust of the civilization that discarded them. Scrap-bots that find one another band together for security, living in packs that search for useful tech to replace their malfunctioning components. Dirty, rusting, and cobbled together from mismatched parts, most scrap-bots are seen as little more than pests that other members of society ignore. This social condition makes scrap-bots ideal informants and lookouts for criminals, who buy their loyalty with parts and fresh batteries. Willing to perform almost any task for such pay, scrap-bots have an uncanny devotion to each other. In their optical sensors, the galaxy has two kinds of beings. That divide is between scrap-bots and “users”—those who make, use, and dispose of technology without care. Scrapbots are prone to distrust all users, although other outcasts have an easier time earning scrap-bot trust and respect. In combat, individual scrap-bots pose little threat and prefer to flee or acquiesce to an aggressor rather than face destruction. However, as their numbers grow, so does their boldness. Presented with an opportunity posing minimal risk, a scrap-bot gang might resort to assault, burglary, and robbery to acquire what the group needs. The scrap-bots presented here are only an array of several possibilities. Different configurations and combinations of those designs exist. Mightier scrap-bots might also be found in industrial areas in decline, such as the abandoned refineries of Akiton.

Scrap-bot

Source Starfinder #20: The Last Refuge pg. 58

Scrap-bot CR 1/2

XP 200
CN Medium construct (technological)
Init +3; Senses darkvision 60 ft., low-light vision; Perception +4

Defense

HP 13
EAC 10; KAC 12
Fort +0; Ref +0; Will -2
Immunities construct immunities
Weaknesses vulnerable to critical hits, vulnerable to electricity

Offense

Speed 20 ft.
Melee slam +6 (1d6+2 B)
Ranged tactical semi-auto pistol +6 (1d6 P)

Statistics

STR +2; DEX +3; CON —; INT +1; WIS +0; CHA +0
Skills Acrobatics +4, Computers +4
Languages Common
Other Abilities base frame, unliving
Gear tactical semi-auto pistol with 18 small arm rounds

Ecology

Environment any urban
Organization solitary, pair, or gang (3–12)

Special Abilities

Base Frame (Ex) Each scrap-bot has a base frame determined by its original function, as follows.
Assembly: An assembly scrap-bot has an integrated engineering tool kit. It also has Engineering +9.
Companion: A companion scrapbot has Diplomacy +4 and Sense Motive +9.
Delivery: A delivery scrap-bot is Small and has an extraordinary fly speed of 30 feet with average maneuverability. It also has a storage area that can hold up to 3 bulk.
Domestic: A domestic scrap-bot has integrated cleaning systems that allow it to clean items in a 1-foot cube each round. It can reverse cleaning functions to soil a similar area in the same time.
Security: A security scrap-bot has a pulsecaster pistol and the integrated weapons universal creature rule. It can make ranged attacks with a +7 attack bonus. The security scrap-bot also has Intimidate +4.

Description

When a consumer-grade robot breaks down, malfunctions, or becomes obsolete, it might be sent to the nearest recycling center or trash heap. If the owner fails to use proper shutdown procedures prior to disposal, automated self-preservation subroutines sometimes kick in before the machine’s destruction, prompting it to escape its fate. With no home to return to, these cast-off robots subsist in the dark corners of cities, space stations, and massive starships across the galaxy. Collectively known as scrap-bots, they come in endless shapes and styles, but they share a drive to continue existing and mistrust of the civilization that discarded them.

Scrap-bots that find one another band together for security, living in packs that search for useful tech to replace their malfunctioning components. Dirty, rusting, and cobbled together from mismatched parts, most scrap-bots are seen as little more than pests that other members of society ignore. This social condition makes scrap-bots ideal informants and lookouts for criminals, who buy their loyalty with parts and fresh batteries. Willing to perform almost any task for such pay, scrap-bots have an uncanny devotion to each other. In their optical sensors, the galaxy has two kinds of beings. That divide is between scrap-bots and “users”—those who make, use, and dispose of technology without care. Scrapbots are prone to distrust all users, although other outcasts have an easier time earning scrap-bot trust and respect.

In combat, individual scrap-bots pose little threat and prefer to flee or acquiesce to an aggressor rather than face destruction. However, as their numbers grow, so does their boldness. Presented with an opportunity posing minimal risk, a scrap-bot gang might resort to assault, burglary, and robbery to acquire what the group needs.

The scrap-bots presented here are only an array of several possibilities. Different configurations and combinations of those designs exist. Mightier scrap-bots might also be found in industrial areas in decline, such as the abandoned refineries of Akiton.

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