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Character Sheet

August Vydoc
Male android Operative 3
LN Medium humanoid (human, construct)
Init +5; Senses Perception +9, low-light vision, darkvision (60 ft)
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Defense
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EAC 14, KAC 15, AC vs. Combat Maneuvers 23
hp 22 (6+4)
sp 21
rp 4
Fort +2, Ref +6, Will +4;

Defensive Abilities ; Resist +2 to saving throws against disease, mind-affecting effects, poison and sleep unless those effects specifically target constructs
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Offense
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Speed 40 ft.
Melee
. . Disruptive tactical baton +5 (1d4 + 1 B) or
. . Survival knife +5 (1d4 + 1 S)
Ranged
. . Tactical semi-auto pistol +6 (1d6 + 1 P) w/ 81 rounds
. . Azimuth Laser Pistol +6 (1d4 + 1 F) w/ extra battery (40-60 rounds)
. . Static Arc Pistol +6 (1d6 + 1 E) w/ extra battery (40-60 rounds)
. . Tactical shirren-eye Rifle + 5 (1d10 + 3 P) w/ 13 rounds
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Statistics
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Str 10, Dex 16, Con 12, Int 14, Wis 12, Cha 9
Base Atk +2;
Feats Weapon Focus (Small Arms)
Skills Acrobatics: +11, Bluff +6, Computers +10, Culture +11, Diplomacy +2, Disguise +7, Engineering +9, Intimidate +6, Medicine +8, Perception +9, Piloting +11, Sense Motive +9, Sleight of Hand +10, Stealth +11, Survival +8
Languages Common, Elven, Kasathan, Lashuntan, Shirren, Ysoki, Vesk
SQ Immune to environmental effects of vacuum; does not need to breath; Evasion; does not need food or drink
Combat Gear Azimuth Laser Pistol, Tactical semi-auto pistol, Static Arc Pistol, 20 charge battery (3), 81 Small-Arms Rounds, tactical baton, survival knife, second skin, quick-release sheath, Toolkit: Engineering, Toolkit: Trapsmith, Toolkit: Navigator's Tools, personal comm unit (3), binders (3), medpatch (2), backpack (consumer), travel clothing, hygiene kit, clear spindle aeon stone
Augmentations Vocal modulator
Grenades Incendiary Grenade, Frag Grenade
Funds 424.6 Credits, 100 UPB
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Special Abilities
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Constructed Androids do not breathe or suffer environmental effects from being in vacuum; androids receive a +2 racial bonus to saving throws against disease, mind-affecting effects, poison and sleep unless those effects specifically target constructs.
Evasion If you succeed at a Reflex save against an effect that normally has a partial effect on a successful save, you instead suffer no effect. You gain this benefit only when unencumbered and wearing light armor or no armor, and you lose the benefit when you are helpless or otherwise unable to move.
Exception Vision Androids have low-light vision and darkvision.
Flat Affect Androids take a -2 penalty to Sense Motive against others and others have a +2 DC when using Sense Motive against the android.
Holographic Clone (Ex) You can create holographic duplicates or psychic projections of yourself that conceal your true location. Once per day as a standard action, you can create 1d4 images of yourself that last for 1 minute per operative level. This ability otherwise functions as mirror image. You can use this exploit an additional time per day at 6th level, and again at 10th level.
Operative's Edge Operatives gain a +1 insight bonus to initiative checks and skill checks. This bonus increase by 1 at 3rd level and every 4 levels thereafter.
Specialization (Detective) 1 Your ability to read people and make deductions helps you ferret out the truth in any situation. You gain Skill Focus with Culture and Sense Motive. You can attempt a Sense Motive check with a +4 bonus to make a trick attack by reading your foe.
Theme Knowledge (Bounty Hunter) Select a single sentient creature that you can identify by name, alias or specific identity. Reduce the DC of Culture or Profession (bounty hunter) checks to recall knowledge about your mark, as well as to recall knowledge about law-enforcement individuals and practices, by 5. Once you defeat your mark you can select a new mark after 1 minute spent with dossiers and databases. If you abandon your mark for a new one without defeating it you take a -2 penalty to all skill checks for 1 week.
Trick Attack You can trick or startle a foe and then attack when she drops her guard. As a full action, you can move up to your speed. Whether or not you moved you can then make an attack with a melee weapon with the operative special property or with any small arm. Make a Bluff, Intimidate, Sense Motive or Stealth check (DC 20 + target CR). If you succeed you deal 1d8 additional damage and your target against the flat-footed condition.
Upgrade Slot Androids have a single armor upgrade slot in their bodies. Regardless of whether androids are wearing physical armor, they can use this slot to install any one armor upgrade that could be installed into light armor.
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Description
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August is an android designed to be visually nondescript and capable of disguise. His hair is naturally white, his eyes colorless and his skin a light flesh tone to aid in dyeing via cosmetics or contacts. This does nothing to stop the underlying circuitry to visibly appear as a deep sky blue during periods of stress like for any other android although supposedly Paragon was going to correct the problem in the C model android.

August keeps to what he sees clearly defined moral code that has little respect for morality and borders on utilitarianism although he has a deep loathing for slavers and violent criminals. He avoids harming innocents but expects people to take care of themselves.

As a survivor of a neurotically despotic regime August displays black humor at what he has been told are inappropriate moments (under fire and when running across corpses among them) as well as a dim view of overbearing chaos or tyranny. He still favors well-ordered behavior and clear command chains as part of his original operational imperatives and enjoys pretending to be a soulless killing machine to scare people he doesn't like.
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Background
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Inhabitant Number 34 of Android Model B Issue 728

Primary Imperative at Activation: Monitor Biological Components of Colony XI-41193 Theta for Compliance with Imperative Documents
Secondary Imperative at Activation: Ensure Compliance Using All Necessary Means

Before the Gap a number of systems outside of what became known as the Pact Worlds were colonized by groups for many reasons. The jungle moon XI-41193 Theta orbiting a gas giant was perfect for a small group of radicals from the Golarian nation of Galt who believed that sapients were inherently incapable of self-governance.

The colonists installed a master AI called "Paragon," filled with directives to control and prevent biological sapient misbehavior. Unfortunately the directives were self-contradictory and eventually caused the AI to go insane. The AI determined that biological enforcers of its edicts were unable to appropriately respond to the basis of the decisions and it deployed robots to maintain and keep order - the mechanical enforcers were deployed on every street, in every home and business, in hydroponic gardens and even in the sewers.

After decades Paragon determined that these robots were insufficient to control the populace and began creating androids to monitor its citizens.

Inhabitant 34 of Model B Issue 728, given the name August Vydoc to blend into the populace, was activated after the premature renewal of a previous monitor - the seventh in 12 years for his particular body. August was active for the final 13 years of Paragon's rule.

The imperatives from Paragon were causing the social, economic and environmental breakdown of the colony when a Starfinder explorer ship arrived in orbit. Paragon accessed the ship's database remotely when the Starfinders made contact and saw a solution to its increasing instability in this new external source - the Pact Worlds were successful despite internal problems where the colony was not. Paragon shut itself and its remote workforce down.

The Starfinders, confused, watched from orbit as hundreds of thousands of people who'd spent generations not thinking for themselves seemed to go mad from the lack of supervision. The androids installed as secret watchers became a de facto ruling class as they struggled to maintain their charges.

August himself, well-known both for his own as well as his predecessors' efficiency, was selected as part of a delegation that returned with the Starfinders to ask for help from the Pact Worlds. On the trip out he was bombarded with thoughts and a world unimagined on Paragon's colony - the idea that he was more than a mechanical device but had a soul; that souls themselves existed, that he could be free to determine his own path through the universe.

The pull of the unknown, a concept that opened to him in a single yawning instant of expanded horizons, led to him joining the Starfinder Society and his previous expertise in investigation and dealing with anomalous events led to assignment with a Starfinder team researching deserted colonies, ghost ships and disturbances on populated outposts that could be caused by outside forces.

After his first "tour" with the Society on the deep space explorer ship he's returned to Absalom Station for reassignment.