Droids?

[skivvy96]

Firstly if this has been suggested before sorry. I was wondering if droids could be a good idea but there could only be a limited amount of them and they would work doing one thing they have been assigned to. They would have a recharge time and would be susceptible to solar flares so they would kind of be like colonists except cost a lot of resources and wouldn't take up any resources after they have been constructed other than electricity when they are recharging. Also different research paths for droids to become defenders which would be useful in a colony with low amounts of fighters they would be slightly stronger than colonists and more durable and could be repaired after death which would cost resources and whenever they weren't in use defending the colony they would sit in their recharging booths/alcove things in a room. You could have specialised medical droids to deal with injuries or to chat with the colonies members. The droids system would have to be capped such as a certain number of droids to colonists like one to five and cost a lot of resources and even silver to prevent their overuse.

My second idea is maybe an AI colonist as in a mechanical colonist with an AI in it so a robot colonist which would have disadvantages and advantages over the human colonists. For example they wouldn't need to eat and they wouldn't be affected by things such as in the dark but they would be susceptible to certain things that humans would be susceptible to like rain shutting them down and then having to reboot which could take like a day, lightning strikes being attracted to them and they could be killed for good by one or two EMP's.

Finally maybe one or two other sentient species. Sorry about this being so long I just wanted to get this idea down.

[theapolaustic1]

maybe one or two other sentient species. Sorry about this being so long I just wanted to get this idea down.

One thing I can say for sure, Ty has confirmed via official lore that there are no non-human sapient species out there. Everything's been an offshoot of humanity.

Other stuff: I'm personally not fond of the AI colonist, given how little control you have over individual colonists, rain and similar would be a massive annoyance. Droids sound interesting, though I think it should be less of a hard limit, and more of a rare event akin to the ship crash. Something like a mechanoid Queen giving you an intact AI you can combine with a centipede corpse

...jesus, what would a mechanoid queen look like, though

[Shinzy]

There's some mods with these kinda things
But maybe they're not the droids you're looking for! (HA!)

I really like what theapo said there, really rare event
maybe somekind of really advanced impossible to replicate trashed droid crashlands on the planet
and you could repair it with something equally as rare

any sort of events in the lines of FTL (the ones for unlocking new ships)
like if it happens you still need some specific equipment or another random event to make any use of the first event but I'm starting to get off track now!

Droids!