The only real "tech wank" crazed AbH in this whole mess is Xeloph... and I'm playing him straight as an insane lunatic absent minded professor (his mind is the thing he keeps forgetting
other than the weirdnesses of playing with some highly advanced tech and being able to copy things easily, he is a bit ponderous and tries out ALL the variations he can for solving things...
@ TheFall, Xeloph is an individual not a "the", same as my "Premier" who happens to like Xeloph like he is an older brother...
@ All...
I'm not really touching on how many AbH are around the place and deliberately starting with needing to have them "recover" individuals from escape pods across several galaxies...
I'm just dealing with what I can for right now along with the fact my own AbH are similar to UEFP in some parts, Dolmhold in others and have no qualms about using technical stuff as required.
@ Hladgos : that "squidl" ship of mine is not so worried about self defence since it is in part similar to a distributed network construct... you would need to obliterate ALL of the nanotech that comprise the ship itself to eliminate it... and the crew is entirely "virtualized"...
so yeah... I am still thinking about how to have it prepared for hosting guests let alone docking by some means other than a wet landing somewhere