Review For Androids of the Frontiers of Space By Joseph Mohr ( A pay what you want Cepheus Engine Supplement) & Outlaw Attack Clement Sector One Shot Session Report

 "With the influx of alien technology humankind has made massive advancements in the field of robotics in recent years. In the last few hundred years humans have settled most of the available systems in the Sonora sector. During this advancement many strides have been made in development of advanced robotic systems known as Androids. These androids, themselves, prefer to be referred to as “artificial humans” or “artificials.”"

"These “artificials” are more human than robot in both appearance and temperament. They feel insulted by terms such as robot or android as these suggest that there are “mere machines” rather than something more."

Androids by Joseph Mohr is a new supplement for the Cepheus Engine and it came out the other day. Just in time for our Clement Sector campaign! We found ourselves face to face with a band of brutal combat android outlaws. 
And what Androids is essentially is a collection of androids of different manufacture that can be used for random encounters or as background stats for randomly encountered NPC's. 
During last night's game the combat androids had gone rogue after the closure of the gate to Earth. And these creeps have been terrorizing colonists ever since using hit and run tactics. During DM Steve's run he employed the 20 pages of androids supplement to really bring home the weirdness of the encounter. 
The colony looked abandoned and utterly alone with no answer to hails, and full on communications down. We landed only to be greeted by a tied up teaching unit and several other care giver androids shackled in the local school room. This was a trap and we almost got ambushed by these artificial persons who were infected with a rather nasty virus called Centurion. 
Turns out the outlaws were long gone after resupplying themselves but left behind a number trapped artificial persons for us. Our posse has faced this type of crap before. And we had our cybersneak ready for it. 

We had our cybersneak break into the local neural net A.I. which the colony was hooked into a feed in the 'cure' and then waited twenty four hours on board ship. We were using a  RAX Type Protected Merchant. And we didn't think that the outlaws would be stupid enough to attack us. But we were wrong as they left a nice present for us in the form of a fighter that was waiting for us at the edge of the system we were in. & this line of thought picks right up from 

this  blog entry.

We did manage to beat the fighter but it cost us time and such because we had to recover the remains of the android. On the upside though we did manage to get a payday out of it. This was a corporate job on a company store world. The outlaws did manage to get away however. 
What about Androids for The Frontiers of Space by Joseph Mohr?! The book in my estimation is well worth the download because it presents pages of possible Cepheus Engine NPC's and stats that are incredibly useful!