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As the title says, I was considering adding a miniaturized tier 2 computer to my combat drone (or any drone as a mechanic). Would this be possible? If so, how would an artificial personality work with it, can I flavor it to have it be my drone's personality when using its skill checks? Also, when adding the complex control module, how would I figure out the price?
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Your drone speaks all of the languages that you do.The drone already comes with an AI and can have a personality for free.
I meant more for the purpose of social skill checks that a computer's artificial personality gets since there aren't really any options for drones to do anything social. I was hoping to offset my mechanic himself being geared towards engineering and computers with no social skills to speak of.
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Yes, you can buy a computer, attach it to the drone, and have the drone access it. This is what you need to do.
1. You need to set your drone's skill unit to Computers. Without this, the drone cannot use the secondary computer without you directly controlling it (which would make the computer significantly less useful).
2. Buy a computer with a simple control module and interface allowing the drone to control the computer. This is free, but worth making a note in case the GM has questions. With this, the drone can access the computer at-will.
The most useful modules (aside from miniaturization) are Range II or Range III and Complex Control. Complex Control will allow your drone's computer to control complex devices autonomously while the drone does other things. For example, you can buy a Complex Control module for piloting a ship, have the drone's computer pilot the ship, and have the drone itself act as the science officer (assuming it has a Computers skill unit). The only issue with this example is that the rulebook doesn't say how much it costs to have a starship control module; the price is based on the device being controlled but starships don't have a listed price.
Unfortunately, secure data modules are worthless to the drone since the drone can never make Knowledge checks.