Hieromech
Hieromech is the classification for all artificial full-body chassis built by HieroTron.
Features common to all Hieromechs include:
- Solid-state storage and quantum processors embedded within bone structure.
- Smartmatter outer skin/muscles/organs, able to shift into any shape.
- Extended battery life and easy wireless recharge for the body, never-die power supply for the mind.
- Redundant storage and exomind backup.
- High-quality connection to the Network.
Variations
Many 'mechs are custom-built, but there are several common builds that HieroTron markets as separate models.
Toy Model
One of the most popular models due to its use in the Companion profession, Toys are found far and wide across the system. The majority of Toys end up in service of some kind, whether for sex, labor, companionship, performance, guides, or even as ambassadors between the virtual and physical worlds.
Toys are the highest cost model with the most customization options. Due to the cost, most uploads to Toy bodies take a limited contract with a HieroTron subsidiary until they can buy themselves Autonomous.
Extra features include:
- Highest resolution smart-matter, with advanced control options.
- Extended texture/color/form user-sourced library.
- Pre-loaded with the most popular genital configurations and secondary/tertiary sex characteristics.
- Control wand with extra user-access protocols and subroutines loaded.
- Sensory inputs at much higher resolution.
- Wing and tail scaffolding with limited anti-grav units if necessary. Full flight depends on internal power rating.
Toys can change to look, feel, and even smell like most common organic species, but they often pick an explicitly artificial appearance for their 'default', favoring glowing colors and robot-like affectations.
Proxies =
Nearly as popular as the Toys, proxies are specifically designed for remote access, rather than a mind inhabiting the body. Toys can serve as proxies in some cases, but for uses other than sex, it remains vastly cheaper to buy or rent a Proxy body. Visitors from other system planets, autogenerated intelligences with no persistant body, exomorphs trying on different forms--anyone who needs an avatar in the physical world--these are ideal customers for the Proxy line.
Proxies are a step more luxurious than simply hololocation, as it allows a greater interaction with the physical aspects. When not in use, Proxies are kept in storage, in semi-autonomous pods able to easily deliver them where desired. They do not otherwise possess any mind or storage space for a mind. They do feature form-choosing via smartmatter skin, but at a limited resolution and with only stock textures to choose from.
