So.. I wanted to give an example of what androids look like before I draw the Baron himself so I can explain stuff.
Androids are commonly a cognitive transfer from a human to a robot with a similar likeness to the human. In this case, Waveform (the android depicted above) went through this cognitive transfer, and her android self is almost a direct copy of her human body. Androids commonly have LED screens covering the place where the eyes would be at, but if the human has more money they can get artificial eyes and remove the LED screen. Cognitive transfer is often suggested to dying patients who express their want to keep living. Androids are required to have some parts of their body reflect their internal status, with green being neutral or healthy and red being damaged. To remove this feature (which Vanda chose to do) is a crime, and an android who removes the feature and is caught could be fined and the feature re-added.
In the case that the android was an AI prior, most androids still hold most of the form that the AI chose to manifest as, but with small tweaks in either outfit or hairstyles.
Both android types have to follow the same rules in place by the government and Nexus Robotics.
Cognitive Transfer Androids have quite a large controversy surrounding them, including how they do the transfer a person’s mind (and, by extension, all of the person’s memories) into an android. AI Transfer Androids lack any large controversy, aside from ‘Is it okay for an AI to become an Android?’
AI Transfer Androids are much more susceptible to the ML.STRM virus as the original AI was mostly a program with codes that the AI itself could change to determine personality and traits. Cognitive Transfer Androids are less commonly infected with the ML.STRM virus and few of the infected Cognitive Transfer Androids are asymptomatic.
