Communications interlock

communications interlock

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$ 120.00 Commerce Value 1 lb. Weight
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Infobox data from game version 2.0.207.72

[Implant] - communications interlock

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Between the multipronged sticktool and cipherbox, one can interface with all available robotic ports.

You rebuke robots as if you were 5 levels higher.

Target body parts: Hands, Feet, Body, Back, Face, Arm, Head
License points: 2
Only compatible with True Kin genotypes
Compute power on the local lattice increases this item's effectiveness.

Perfect

Cybernetic Info

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	Hands • Feet • Body • Back • Face • Arm • Head
	No

communications interlock is a lower-cost cybernetic which augments the power of the user's Rebuke Robot skill as though their level was 5 higher. This essentially translates to a baseline +4 modifier to Rebuke strength which can be increased further with compute power and additional installed copies of the implant.

Compute Power Table

Compute Power	Level Bonus
10	5
20	6
30	6
40	7
50	7
60	8
70	8
80	9
90	9
100	10

Compute Power	Level Bonus
110	10
120	11
130	11
140	12
150	12
160	13
170	13
180	14
190	14
200	15

Advantages & Disadvantages

This section is opinion-based. Your mileage may vary.

Advantages

• Low cost and can be installed into any slot, allowing for easy temporary installation if needed.
• Can be used to more reliably make certain dangerous robots such as saw-handers non-hostile.
• Can allow access to higher-level robot followers at very early stages of the game.

Disadvantages

• Can be unreliable without compute power investment, additional implanted copies or level advantage.
• Becomes somewhat obsolete as the user advances in levels.

Notable Rebuke targets

There are various robots which provide strong utility if made a follower.

Robot	Offered Utility
Shem -1	Provides free access to their inventory of 6-8 lower tier cybernetics.
cloneling	Can be used to clone any organic creature up to 40 times per dram of cloning draught
miner Mk I	Lays an unlimited supply of mines which can be disassembled into bits, sold, or re-used at a later time.
Legendary unplanished godheds	Can be water-ritualed to gain valuable robot reputation (Due to a bug, the robot reputation is not gained if the godhed is a follower during the ritual, however, it can be dismissed after being rebuked and will remain non-hostile, allowing them to then be water-ritualed for the reputation)
chrome pyramid	Offers unparalleled albeit hazardous destructive power.
Warden 1-FF, reprogrammed conservator	Able to be recruited without paying Warden reputation.

Tips

• Rebuked robots function as followers in a similar vein to creatures recruited with Proselytize though do not count against that skill's limit, potentially allowing for two followers very early into the game if the user were also to start with proselytize.
• While only one robot can be rebuked at a time, there is no limit to making robots non-hostile.