#archotech

[paradoxbeta]

Companion the Archotech drone

Around since almost the beginning of Erahaberon, Companion is a very hands-off Archotech-- it leaves about 80-90% of the decisions the colony makes to be the colonists' own or decided as a group, and only interferes in critical moments of combat or show things to colonists which might otherwise have gone unnoticed.

Companion has a nearly identical view of the colonists that a player or TV show spectator would have. Despite its technologically unfathomable amount of affection + investment towards them, in all its infinite Archotech power, Companion never interferes in way that it feels is "cheating" at the "game," allowing colonists to suffer mental duress, grievous injury, and anything that rim-life thrusts upon them with (some analogous feeling to) anticipatory delight. However, it's still trying to work towards what is best for them within these self-imposed bounds, and is steadily progressing the colony towards safety at its Transcendent world.

Companion is the pure definition of obsession, and it's got its favorites.

[shinyviper]

my favourite cosmic jester

[silver-eater]

i wonder if in rimworld notions of gender are influenced by psychic waves, like "yeah im afab and identify as a woman but im also amba (assigned male by archotech) so idk whats up with that" alternatively, woman who gets her egg cracked when a male drone gives him a splitting migraine

[redcrowley]

Wonder why the Archotechs was introduced in Ideology, Wouldn't it make sense somewhere like Biotech or Odyssey?

Or it's probably because they are worshiping ChatGPT, makes sense as Ideology is based on religion system. Do yall think ChatGPT or Deepseek can be advanced in the future like the Archotechs?

[saladgloveart]

@queuetimeevent Had the idea to turn the Archotech from Rimworld into a milf, so I made her! I'm honestly pretty proud of her design.

[grubleafeater]

Rimworld Transmutation Headcanon

So I was playing Rimworld on zero sleep and just had a amazing new headcanon: Vanila Expanded Psycasts' transmutation is just the ability to tap into the archotech trading network, and archotechs think it's funny to yeet random shit back of similar ish value rather than take requests from the squishies for stuff they actually want.

This explains why, if you're using Vanilla Expanded Trading, the items you transmute actually obey the laws of supply and demand--buying up all the gold I can get my paws on has tripled the value of gold, and with it, the random goodies the Archotechs give me.

This means that when my colonists transmute statues they've carved from silver and get massive piles of meat in exchange(thanks ogrestack), it's the equivalent of a colony of rats showing up with warhammer minifigs and you decide to pay them by cutting open a pack of hotdogs and dropping them off in front of their little rat village.

Meanwhile, Horax is very upset about Greg giving us hot dogs, which is why he sends his rats to my rat colony to take them out.