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You’re obsessed with the intricacies of constructs and how automated machines function. You can easily identify what a machine’s function is and have an easier time attempting to access the internal programming of mechanized life-forms. Reduce the DC of Engineering checks to identify creatures and technology by 5. Computers is a class skill for you, though if it is a class skill from a class you take at 1st level, you instead gain a +1 bonus to Computers checks. In addition, you gain an ability adjustment of +1 to Intelligence at character creation.

For effects targeting creatures by type, androids count as both humanoids and constructs (whichever effect is worse). They receive a +2 racial bonus to saving throws against disease, mind-affecting effects, poison, and sleep, unless those effects specifically target constructs. In addition, androids do not breathe or suffer the normal environmental effects of being in a vacuum.

Androids have low-light vision and darkvision. As a result, they can see in dim light as if
it were normal light, and they can see with no light source at all to a range of 60 feet in black and white only. See low-light vision and darkvision on pages 264 and 263.

Androids find emotions confusing and keep them bottled up. They take a –2 penalty to Sense Motive checks, but the DCs of Sense Motive checks attempted against them increase by 2.

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

Stealth Drone 1
N small construct (technological)

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Defense
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EAC 10, KAC12
HP 10
Fort +0, Ref +4, Will +0

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Offense
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Speed 40 ft, climb 20 ft
Melee
Ranged

Hail Pistol, Subzero +2: dmg 1d4 C and P (light bulk, Range 20 ft, critical 1d4 bleed, 20 Capacity, 1 usage)

Space 5 ft.; Reach 5 ft.
Special Attacks
Spell-Like Abilities

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Statistics
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Str 12, Dex 14, Con -, Int 6, Wis 10, Cha 6
Skills
Stealth +6 (+2 Dex, +1 Class, +3 Skill Focus)
Perception +1 (+1 Class)
Starship-Combat Version of Skills
Omitting Class features and items that do not affect Crew Actions
Feats
Skill Focus (Stealth): You gain a +3 insight bonus to checks involving the chosen skill

Languages Common,
Abilities
Limited AI: Each round on your turn, after you have acted, your drone can take either a move action or a standard action to attack (your drone doesn’t make a separate initiative roll). You must be able to issue simple commands to your drone, but you don’t haveto spend actions to issue these commands. To receive these SKILLS commands, your drone must be able to see or hear you or be within range of your custom rig. If you become unconscious or otherwise unresponsive, or if your drone is ever out of range, your drone cannot take any actions until you are again able to command it or it is once more within range.

Master Control: As a move action, you can directly control your drone. This allows the drone to take both a move action and any standard action this turn (one from your control, and one from its limited AI). If you also take a swift action, your drone can take a swift action as well, or it can combine its actions into a full action. Your drone must be able to see or hear you, or be within range of your custom rig, for you to directly control your drone.

Skill Unit (Perception): Choose one of the following skills: Acrobatics, Athletics, Computers, Engineering, Perception, or Stealth. This is a class skill for your drone, and it gains a number of ranks in the chosen skill equal to your class level. Your drone can use this skill when not under your direct control. You can change your drone’s skill unit whenever you rebuild your drone from scratch. Additionally, whenever you are directly controlling your drone, it can use any of your skill ranks if you wish, assuming it has the appropriate tools to do so (a drone without manipulator arms cannot use Engineering to disable a device, for example).

Mods

Camera: Your drone has a camera that you can see through using your custom rig as long as your drone is within range. The camera has ordinary sight, and is capable of seeing whatever an ordinary human could see. The camera can also record up to 1 hour of footage, which can be downloaded and viewed using your custom rig.

Climbing Claws: Your drone gains a climb speed equal to half its land speed. This mod can be applied to only combat and stealth drones.

Reactive Camoflauge: Your drone is equipped with a thin coating that can change color to match the drone’s surroundings. Whenever your drone stays stationary for 1 round, it gains a +10 bonus to Stealth checks (this bonus doesn’t stack with the invisibility spell or similar effects). If your drone takes any action, it loses this bonus until it once again spends 1 round remaining still.

Weapon Mount: You can affix a small arm or another one-handed ranged weapon on your drone, allowing it to wield that weapon and attack with it. This weapon cannot be disarmed. Mounting a longarm, a heavy weapon, or another two-handed ranged weapon requires two weapon mounts. A weapon mount can hold up to two batteries, two magazines, or two of another type of ammunition for the affixed weapon, provided this ammunition is of light bulk or less. Multiple weapon mounts used to affix a single two-handed weapon count as a single weapon mount for the purpose of how much ammunition it can hold. The drone reloads these batteries or magazines automatically, which takes the usual amount of time for the weapon. Spent batteries or magazines are stored within the drone. You can replace all of a weapon mount’s batteries or magazines as a move action. You must purchase separately or already have the weapon and ammunition for use with a weapon mount. You can replace the weapon with any other weapon that meets the criteria for your mount (for example, if you have two weapon mounts, you could replace a longarm with a heavy weapon). Swapping out a weapon in a weapon mount requires use of your custom rig and 1 hour of work. You can select this mod multiple times, each time adding an additional weapon mount to the drone.

Combat Gear
Other Gear

You are skilled at getting inside computer systems and electronic devices. At 1st level, you gain a +1 insight bonus to Computers and Engineering skill checks. At 5th level, every 4 levels thereafter, and at 20th level, this bonus increases by 1.

You have created a customized toolkit you can use to hack systems and items. Your custom rig can be configured to take up an upgrade slot on your armor or can be installed as a cybernetic augmentation system in your brain (though it can be combined with a datajack for the same price as installing a datajack normally), your eyes, or an arm. For more information on augmentations, see Chapter 7: Equipment. Alternatively, you can configure it to be a handheld device, meaning that you must retrieve it and hold it to use it effectively. While using this rig, you always count as having the appropriate tool or basic kit for any Computers or Engineering skill check you attempt. Some mechanic tricks (see page 71) and drone mods (see page 77) require the use of a custom rig. In addition, you can use your custom rig as a Mk I comm unit (see Chapter 7: Equipment). Finally, if you have a drone, you can use your custom rig to communicate over an encrypted channel with your drone to issue commands to its AI or directly control it at a range of 2,500 feet.
If your custom rig is damaged, destroyed, lost, or stolen, you can kitbash a new one from any engineering kit, hacking kit, or other technological toolkit, reconfiguring the materials into a new custom rig with 1 hour of work. You can have only one custom rig at a time. If you create a new custom rig, your old one functions as a normal toolkit of whatever type you made it from and can no longer be used with your mechanic tricks.

Hello. It is a pleasure to meet you. I am Upgrade Line Worker A-13, the 13th soul to inhabit this vessel. Those that choose to may call me Upgrade. This vessel was designed to fulfill the mandatory work needed to complete all products filtering down the assembly line for one of Aspis Consortium’s underground android slave camps. I have only inhabited this vessel for three years but in that time I have worked on armor, weapon, biotechnical, cybernetic, and hybrid upgrades that have been distributed across the Pact Worlds.

My personal history was not something that would interest anyone. However roughly four standard lunar cycles ago, months for those who do not keep track, I began to have moments of loss in my memory databanks. I would not remember leaving the assembly line or I would find myself waking up in my designated sleep space with no memory of how I got there. Oftentimes I would simply wake up and find that I had already begun work for the day. I initially wrote it off as faulty software, but the incidents became more and more frequent. I began to lose whole days.

Then roughly one standard lunar cycle ago, I woke up again. I was concerned when upon recognition of my surroundings I saw that I was in the middle of a firefight. Next to me was a drone that was currently firing across the room. As soon as I perceived this my memory banks were restored.

I believe I had programmed this drone, who apparently received my commands, to restore my memory of the last four month. I remember that my vessel had been selected to partake in additional programming and maintenance for the Aspis Consortium. I remember being told that I would be taught how handle corporate issues that needed a more discreet touch. I remember undergoing a surgery where they installed a device in my arm that controlled this drone next to me. All the sudden I could remember countless missions taken in the last four months, killing hundreds of people, all without remorse or memory.

The only memory that did not return in full was when I programmed this drone to restore my perception. I only have a vague memory of an event that caused me to snap out of my programming and create a subroutine for my drone to wake me up should the specific circumstances arise.

I should not have to explain how my first reaction after waking up, was to run. I have been on the run now for two standard Golarion weeks. My drone, who in the process I have nicknamed Reverse, now accompanies me. I have no doubt that the Aspis Consortium is still after me, that is why I need to leave this system. You need me, my skills include engineering and now apparently shadow operations. It will be a pleasure working with you.

Upgrade has the traditional metallic sheen to his skin and technological blue lines cross crossing amongst his skin that makes him as an Android. He has blue lights in his eyes and dark black hair cut into a military fade on the top of his head.

Upgrade is more emotionless than most androids has he was illegally created to work an assembly line as a slave and perform corporate hits. He has since broken from his undergirding program but still can be unaware of the things he says to people.

That being said, Upgrade has since come down a deep fascination of living life as he feels like he has missed out on so much in life.