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Phantomlink959 wrote: Question: how would the brass demons react to, say, a technopath? what mechanism, if any, prevents them from being tampered with? Huh... good question. If the person were to try to "hack" their way in, it might have some type of firewall to defend themselves. Then again, it's pretty much a steampunk robot, so there might not really be anything to hack into. If someone could manipulate the mechanical bits and not the technological/digital bits, though... It'd probably succumb to the effects, and might try to fight the influence. Might not be able to make it do things it wouldn't exactly do (like blasting its head or main processor apart), but one could have some control over it. Whatever the case, however, it's likely to have some type of defense mechanism. Just that it won't be fully resistant to anything, that it'd have to put up a fight to retain control of itself.

It won't have to worry about that during City of Rust (which takes place during The War), but the present (as in Volume 1 & 2)... it'll likely run into some problems.