New IPC Lore - tagging and more?

[NebulaFlare]

Soooo...I'm outdated with the current IPC Lore. I only recently noticed this, someone mentioning that my IPC Echo should have a tag. I was perplexed at what he meant. Then I found this curious little tidbit that explains it more. https://aurorastation.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=71&t=5764&p=57715#p57715

Can someone elaborate the status of IPC Lore? I'm very much confused, and I wanna be updated before I bring my roboticist back into Aurora gameplay.

[Rusty Shackleford]

We've got the Tajaran Exclusion Act, the Unathi Loyalty Pledge, and the IPC Tagging Laws. Basically, it affects all IPCs and unlawed synthetics that utilize Shells to look like anything other than a walking machine. In Tau Ceti, they must recieve a collar tag that will identify them as a synthetic, and will severely damage their chassis if it is removed by non-qualified personnel. Even ones visiting from other systems must get a tag. It was a bill passed in light of a terrorist attack carried out by IPCs using Shells to blend into the populace.

[Dreviore]

I don't believe tags are in newcode though...

But they're used to identify and track unlawed synthetics.

[NebulaFlare]

Is it only for non-machine IPCs? Meaning I don't have to tag my IPCs since the only two IPCs I play both look like machines.

And what is the Tajaran Exclusion Act?

[Alberyk]

Is it only for non-machine IPCs? Meaning I don't have to tag my IPCs since the only two IPCs I play both look like machines.

And what is the Tajaran Exclusion Act?

 

All ipcs had to be tagged, but, that is not possible game-wise due to new code.

Tajaran act thing; https://aurorastation.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=42011#p42011

[NebulaFlare]

Okay then, second question. What do these tags look like, IC-wise?

Are they like collars around the neck, or is there a chip in the back of the shell? I want to update the flavor text of my IPCs.

[Fire and Glory]

The bill requires all unbound synthetics in Tau Ceti space wear an electronic collar tag that distinguishes them as a synthetic shell. The tag will be required to include their manufacturer and model number with a related barcode to allow authorities to easily register them in electronic databases. The collars required, manufactured by Hephaestus Industries, will not be able to removed without specialist equipment and can severely damage the shell if tampered with illegally.

 

Pretty sure it's a collar fused/built into the neck, since anything loosely hanging probably wouldn't need specialist equipment.

[SierraKomodo]

The bill requires all unbound synthetics in Tau Ceti space wear an electronic collar tag that distinguishes them as a synthetic shell. The tag will be required to include their manufacturer and model number with a related barcode to allow authorities to easily register them in electronic databases. The collars required, manufactured by Hephaestus Industries, will not be able to removed without specialist equipment and can severely damage the shell if tampered with illegally.

 

Pretty sure it's a collar fused/built into the neck, since anything loosely hanging probably wouldn't need specialist equipment.

 

It seemed to function like an implanter/implant when it existed on old code, so it's probably inserted into the chassis has has something like an RF signature or some thing like that to 'validate' its existence.

[Owen]

Yes, an implanter was used to tag the IPCs but, whenever you examined an IPC you were able to tell if they were tagged or not I forgot the exact wording but I could've sworn it was like a collar or sorts. I am assuming it is fairly easy to see once an IPC is tagged. I do know that the IPC became deactivated or something if they tried to remove the tag. I remember that happening in-game before.

[Guest Marlon Phoenix]

Mechanically the implant was, well, an implant, but that was just to make it work mechanically. Practically it was like a collar, and intentionally built in a way that would severely damage the IPC/shell if someone tried to remove it without the right equipment.

 

 

Shells and unbound synthetics were victims of a moral panic. It was similar to the atmosphere of the Commonwealth in fallout 4 in relation to synths - people were afraid that they'd start being replaced with shells. So they were being tagged like animals and left in collars. In our setting IPCs and shells have very little hope of living safely and comfortably in most of the galaxy. They can live in the frontier sure, but the Skrell fund black op missions to seek out and terminate unbound synthetics in the frontier of human space. Tau Ceti was the 'safe haven' for ipc's, their last bastion of living on more or less equal terms. The Shell Registration Act was meant to act as an antagonist to IPC players, and provide a dynamic and compelling way for them to deal with the lore being stacked against them and them having to respond by conforming or resisting. It was very ambitious and I'm proud of where it was going.

Unfortunately, while the upgrade to Baycode has brought us much, it's also taken away much too. The mechanics of this are on hold indefintely, and I haven't heard anything on if it will be returned. If it is then it'll be far less dramatic than before - we'd either have to start all over (delete then paste in the original news article and pretend the first one never happened) or handwave it being repealed then brought back, both of which would kind of do a disservice I guess. But that's all beyond the scope of the question - the tagging can be part of your flavortext but has no in-game mechanics at this time.

(And I think we did this before fallout 4 was released so I'm planning to sue Bethesda)

[NebulaFlare]

Unfortunately, while the upgrade to Baycode has brought us much, it's also taken away much too. The mechanics of this are on hold indefintely, and I haven't heard anything on if it will be returned. If it is then it'll be far less dramatic than before - we'd either have to start all over (delete then paste in the original news article and pretend the first one never happened) or handwave it being repealed then brought back, both of which would kind of do a disservice I guess. But that's all beyond the scope of the question - the tagging can be part of your flavortext but has no in-game mechanics at this time.

 

You could always say that Tau Ceti formalized the laws, and had all current IPCs conform to one type of collar. Or that there was an update to the system, and all IPCs were given new collars. Some IPCs might arpee it that the tags are inside them, instead of on a collar, so the government made it uniformed.

 

(And I think we did this before fallout 4 was released so I'm planning to sue Bethesda)

Didn't Cloud Atlas have cloned servants wear collars that would kill them if they tried to remove it illegally?