Resistor Troponin

A Resistor therostructure named Troponin (yay for bio refs).

Therostructures, along with [link] are what amounts to tools, built using a generic organic frame called a "basal amniote". Each organic base is practically identical and is a genetic chimera of dozens of different animals. The most useful aspect is the fact that they're bulging with specialized neurons, being essentially living computers. Nerves can be hijacked with computing nodes to alter the base's behavior, integrate original and implanted sensory imput, and solve problems, depending on the need of its constructor. An immense amount of information can be processed through one base. Despite their "intelligence" however, they are not sentient, and no idea of Self exists in them.

The benefit of having a living computer is that it can move itself, can hold much more data, and can maintain itself, i.e. get it's own food, keep its implants working (each is implanted with an instinctual instruction guide to it's own sysem- like a cat that knows how to clean its fur) etc. Many standard types can even reproduce themselves, implanting their own systems instinctually if the material is available.

They were first created federally for military operations, and soon progressed into some of the most advanced technologies produced before the Plunge. Many therostructure lines, both built and basal, survived and reproduced, though most breeds intermixed to form "pointless" mongrels. Surviving sentients have been able to rebreed purebreds as well as create new ones to suit their needs currently.

Resistors are guards- both physically and cybernetically. They prowl a perimeter of a compound, both attacking intruders and countering hackers with barriers, mazes, and viruses.

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Woo, messing around with backgrounds a little too much.
And damn, this took too long.

Photoshop.(textures are my own)
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