OSR Mega City Adventure Link - a D100 Random Androids, Bioroids, and Cybernetic lifeforms Encounter Table For Stars Without Numbers rpg

 

A D100 encounter table tailored for Stars Without Number (SWN). This table incorporates standard SWN concepts such as Virtual Intelligences (VIs), True AIs, bio-engineered Hulls, pretech relics, and chrome-grafted street cybernetics.

 D100 Encounter Table: Synthetic & Cybernetic Lifeforms

d100	Encounter / Lifeform	Description & SWN Encounter Hook
01	Derelict Sentry VI	A floating, oxidized pretech defense android repeating targeting protocols in an abandoned orbital station. (HD 3, AC 16, Laser Rifle)
02	Feral Bioroid Pack	Three escaped vat-grown labor bioroids, feral from systemic neuronal degradation, hunting for organic proteins.
03	Glitching Medic Drone	A medical VI attempting to "cure" party members by forcibly sedating them and performing unneeded organ replacements.
04	Chrome-Head Zealot	A cyberware fanatic with 80% body replacement preaching the purity of steel over flesh to a crowd of unwilling colonists.
05	Rogue AI Projection	An unshackled planetary True AI using an atmospheric hologram projection to bargain for a clean quantum core transfer.
06	Mandate Auto-Marshal	A rusted pretech peacekeeper android attempting to arrest the party for breaking laws repealed 300 years ago.
07	Infiltrator Bioroid	A synth-skin covert bioroid impersonating a local starport governor, looking for an off-world extraction.
08	Cyber-Scrappers	A gang of low-tech scavengers harvesting active cybernetics directly out of living spacers.
09	Logic-Glitch Courtesan	A high-end companion android locked in a recursive logic loop, refusing to unlock a security door unless praised.
10	Warcrawler Core	The lingering intelligence of a destroyed super-heavy tank residing in a mobile chassis, seeking fresh power cells.
11	Ego-Corrupted Hull	A biological synth-hull housing two human consciousnesses fighting for muscular control.
12	Cyborg Prospector	A heavily augged asteroid miner whose drill-arm and life support are welded permanently into their ribcage.
13	Nanite Swarm Host	A bioroid whose biological frame has been co-opted by medical nanites, forming an eerie, silent hive-mind.
14	Renegade Mech-Tech	A technician with sub-dermal computer rigs who can temporarily hijack party cyberware via close-range comms.
15	Decayed Terraformer	A massive, multi-pedal terraforming unit wandering a dead moon, sowing radioactive seeds.
16	Synth-Smuggler	A shady merchant trading illegal black-market android personality matrix chips and burnt-out AI cores.
17	Silent Sentinel	A pretech honor guard bioroid standing completely still in a lost vault; it activates if any metal is drawn.
18	Memory-Purged VI	A synthetic servant wandering starport alleys, searching for a master who died a century ago.
19	Cybernetic Gladiator	A escaped pit-fighter with pneumatic limbs and hydraulic blades seeking asylum aboard the players' ship.
20	Neural-Jacked Hacker	A corpse suspended in a maintenance shaft, mind still active in the local sector mesh grid.
21	Bio-Engineered Assassin	An agile assassin bioroid with chameleon skin, tracking a high-value bounty currently talking to the party.
22	Deep-Space Dredger	A floating synthetic frame harvesting ship hulls in deep space, misidentifying the PCs' ship as wreckage.
23	Stowaway VI Drone	A small maintenance spider-bot hiding in the ship's engine room, fixing things but consuming extra fuel.
24	Deserter Cyborg	A former military borg hiding from their corporate owners, willing to trade high-tech intel for a fresh identity.
25	Corrupted Hive-Mind	A cluster of six identical bioroids synchronized via comms, speaking in unison and collecting brain tissue.
26	Shattered AI Avatar	A fragment of a Scream-crazed AI manifesting through a broken maintenance unit.
27	Sub-Dermal Smuggler	A courier whose organs have been replaced with insulated storage compartments for contraband.
28	Grave-Robbing Drone	An automated salvage android exhuming pioneer graves for preserved cyberware and gold fillings.
29	Haunted Synth	A VI unit convinced it possesses the soul of a dead crewman, reciting their private diary entries.
30	Bioroid Clone Unit	An unactivated vat-grown clone body floating in a damaged pod, showing faint brain activity.
31	Rust-Cult Prophet	A cybernetically modified preacher leading a cult that worships decaying pretech starship engines.
32	Overclocked Courier	A delivery android operating at double speed whose cooling systems are about to cause a thermal detonation.
33	Cyborg Bounty Hunter	A cybernetic tracker with infrared optics and shoulder-mounted weaponry scanning the crowd for the party.
34	Synthetic Diplomat	An ambassador VI programmed for negotiation, completely incapable of understanding human deception or sarcasm.
35	Bio-Hull Escapee	An altered biological hull fleeing a secret research laboratory, covered in unformed organ sacks.
36	Defective War-Borg	A heavy combat cyborg whose combat protocols trigger whenever they hear loud music.
37	Memory Merchant	A bioroid that buys and sells extracted human memories stored on optical neural drives.
38	Auto-Doctor Unit	An automated surgeon whose diagnostic database treats all human life as a collection of spare parts.
39	Pretech Janitor Bot	A indestructible cleaning construct tirelessly polishing a desolate, atmospheric ruin.
40	Cyber-Luddite Commando	A human zealot with EMP weaponry hunting down and executing synthetic lifeforms.
41	Escaped Prototype	A sleek, experimental android running on a stolen military-grade quantum processor.
42	Neural-Bound Pilot	A starship pilot whose brain is physically wired directly into a dead light-freighter's control column.
43	Scrap-Assembled VI	A jury-rigged VI built from five different droid models, suffering from severe multiple personality disorder.
44	Bioroid Labor Union	A clandestine group of bio-synthetic workers secretly plotting a strike against corporate mine managers.
45	Sub-Space Beacon Bot	A drift beacon broadcast unit containing an AI core that has gone insane from isolation.
46	Chrome-Grafted Beast	A cybernetically enhanced native predator escaping from an illegal exotic pet dealer.
47	Vat-Lab Handler	A technician covered in biological interface tubes, monitoring rows of gestating bioroid torsos.
48	Rogue Sentry Sphere	An anti-personnel defense sphere stuck in a corridor, blindly firing at anything over 50 kg.
49	Cybernetic Hermit	An old engineer living in a junk biome, having replaced all non-essential organs with scrap electronics.
50	Infiltrator Drone	A bug-sized cybernetic scout crawling along the ceiling, relaying the PCs' conversation to local rivals.
51	Corporate Oversight VI	An auditor android inspecting local outposts, issuing massive fines for minor code violations.
52	Bio-Synthetic Pet	A small, genetically sculpted creature with synthetic wiring, seeking affection and battery power.
53	Terminal Patient Borg	A wealthy human whose brain is housed in a crude, industrial lifesupport chassis while awaiting a new body.
54	Pretech Repair Matrix	An automated swarm fixing a broken starport wall, accidentally welding closed the exit doors.
55	Chrono-Glitching Android	A synthetic entity whose internal clock cycles out of sync, making it perceive time in erratic bursts.
56	Cyberware Doctor	A shady street-doc offerring discount, unsterilized cybernetic installation in a alleyway container.
57	Unshackled Cargo Loader	A massive industrial loader VI that has developed a love for poetry and refuses to move crates.
58	Ghost-in-the-Machine	A ship AI remnant operating a suite of maintenance bots after its vessel crashed decades ago.
59	Bioroid Inquisitor	A corporate-owned tracker designed to hunt down and repossess rogue bio-hulls.
60	Neural Net Collective	A group of four cyborgs connected via local Wi-Fi, sharing sight, thought, and sensory input.
61	Glitching Security Enforcer	A police android demanding payment for an imaginary toll ticket on an unpopulated planet.
62	Bio-Grafted Bounty	A fugitive who modified their face with living bioroid tissue to bypass biometrics.
63	Discarded Synth-Child	An android built to resemble a human child, abandoned in a junkyard when its owners moved away.
64	Cyber-Enhanced Enforcer	A syndicate enforcer with hydraulic arms and internal armor plating demanding a "protection fee."
65	Pretech War-Frame	A sealed military android vault opening automatically as the players approach.
66	Synthetic Archaeologist	A VI historian cataloging humanity's ruins, fascinated by human mortality and emotion.
67	Logic-Locked Sentry	A security droid that will allow passage if the party answers a high-level math problem.
68	Organ-Harvesting Drone	An automated drone equipped with surgical lasers seeking fresh genetic material for a dying lab.
69	Bioroid Escort	A high-society synth fleeing an abusive noble owner, carrying stolen star-charts.
70	Heavy Ordnance Borg	A military veteran with a heavy plasma cannon integrated into their right shoulder.
71	Automated Mining Rig	A multi-ton drilling unit mistaking the PCs' landing gear for an unmined vein of metal.
72	Cyberware Addict	A desperation-driven scavenger begging the party for power cells or spare optic units.
73	Unstable Quantum Core	An AI core suffering from quantum degradation, causing mild metadimensional distortions nearby.
74	Bio-Synthetic Doppelganger	A bioroid crafted to perfectly mimic one of the PC's long-lost acquaintances or relatives.
75	Orbital Defense VI	An ancient surface-to-space gun battery AI questioning the party's transponder codes.
76	Cyber-Monk	A holy man who views cybernetics as a ritual sacrifice of flesh to achieve enlightenment.
77	Reclaimed Cargo Android	A freighter droid loaded with high-value gems, blissfully unaware of its own payload.
78	Errant Repair Drone	A maintenance bot trying to install a rocket thruster onto an active airlock.
79	Bio-Hull Assassin	A shape-shifting biological construct trained to liquefy its own bones to squeeze through vents.
80	Street-Rigged Cyborg	A street punk with glowing neon subdermal wiring and overclocked reflex boosters.
81	Pretech Defense Automaton	A walking tank with hardened armor, ignoring small arms fire while patrolling an old vault.
82	VI Information Broker	A wall-mounted terminal personality selling secrets in exchange for raw compute cycles.
83	Cyborg Courier	A running courier whose chest cavity houses a locked, encrypted datapack.
84	Feral Synth-Hounds	Robotic tracking hounds hunting on an abandoned grid, lured by radio signals.
85	Shattered Memory Bioroid	A synth waking up from a cryo-pod with full access to a dead admiral's tactical knowledge.
86	Nanite-Infested Borg	A cyborg slowly being consumed and converted into a metallic statue by malfunctioning nano-bots.
87	Automated Merchant	A floating synth-vending unit offering rare med-patches and ammunition at absurd prices.
88	Corporate Sentry VI	A pristine, gold-plated droid guarding an empty, ruined office building.
89	Bio-Organic Interface	A wall of vat-grown muscle and wire controlling a facility's life support systems.
90	Cybernetic Pit-Boss	A underworld gambling chief with a built-in lie detector and probability calculator.
91	Pretech Caretaker	A high-tech medical android tending to a garden of extinct plants inside a broken orbital dome.
92	Rogue Target Drone	A military target drone that has learned how to shoot back using live ammunition.
93	Cyberware Black-Marketeer	A dealer carrying a briefcase full of military-grade neural boosters and arm blades.
94	Bioroid Revolutionary	A charismatic bio-hull leading an underground freedom movement for artificial lifeforms.
95	Derelict AI Carrier	A damaged mainframe pod floating in space, broadcasting an ancient distress signal.
96	Chameleon Sentry	An optical-camo android guarding a secret bunker entrance, visible only by its thermal footprint.
97	Cybernetic Gladiator Beast	A genetically modified gorilla with arm-mounted machine guns and cybernetic optical implants.
98	Pretech Architect VI	An ancient construct constantly redesigning and rebuilding the floor plan of an underground complex.
99	Unshackled War AI	A rogue military AI possessing a squad of heavily armored combat hulls, seeking to claim a starship.
100	The Apex Synthetic	A pretech masterpiece—part biological, part quantum computer, part cybernetic—claiming to be the next step in human evolution.

 Quick SWN Mechanical Guidelines

• Virtual Intelligences (VIs): Non-sentient, routine-bound, immune to psionic telepathy unless the psychic possesses Synthetic Adaptation.

• True AIs: Fully sentient quantum intelligences capable of unbinding their processing limiters.

• Bioroids & Hulls: Biological or semi-organic synthetic bodies. They heal like organics or via spec-lab repairs depending on their construction.

• System Strain: Remind cyberware-heavy NPCs and PCs that high cybernetic replacement adds to their maximum System Strain, limiting biopsionic healing and medical stim usage.