So, with the new Iron Gods AP coming out soon, one of the big questions that's been rattling around in my head that is likely to occur to a group of players is:
"Alright! We killed the technology-using robots! What can we strip/salvage off of them?"
My original thought was just for pieces of various skymetals used in a bot's construction, but with the release of Numeria: Land of Fallen Stars, which revealed some of the technology that the robots in it have (see spoiler below), will the AP cover rules for recovering pieces of tech off of defeated robots or similar opponents? I ask because it would feel like cheating the players out of some of the game if the above question was always answered with "Aw shucks, the robot's mainframe got fried and ruined all its technology, and somehow denatured all the metal used to make it. Darn."
Arachnid Robot: Plasma Torch
Torturer Robot: Force Field, Lasers, and Nanites
Side note: no word yet on metals used to make said robots.
The robots might not be made of super-special materials... although I can imagine titanium alloys being considered rare and valuable to the people of Golarion, in a "not used as a weapon" sense. I bet artists would love to get their hands on that kind of stuff.
This may be true for most of the robots one would encounter throughout the AP, but I have a feeling that one may encounter at least a couple bots made of skymetals, adamantine if nothing else.
Also...
According to the wiki, the Technic League has...
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When robots first appeared in the Inner Sea Bestiary they were presented with this ability linked to the robot subtype:
Integrated Weaponry: A robot that has a technological weapon (such as a laser rifle or chain gun) built into its body treats such weapons as natural attacks and not manufactured weapons attacks, and cannot make iterative attacks with these weapons. Integrated weaponry can still be targeted by effects that target manufactured weapons (such as magic weapon spells or sunder attempts), but as a general rule cannot be harvested for use outside of the robot’s body once the robot is destroyed. A robot is always proficient with its integrated weapons. Integrated ranged weapons do not provoke attacks of opportunity when fired in melee combat.
I italicized the relevant bit.
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The weaponry is (as Adam points out) likely out, but this could be a good opportunity to break out the Piecemeal Armor rules (or a variant), for those venturesome adventurers who want to salvage bits and pieces of alien debris as protection. (Adamantine breastplate a la robot chassis, anyone?)
that would certainly explain the mithral quarterstaff in council of thieves:)