Explaining the processor

I have seem a lot of people mention how nonsensical it is that you have to build a robot yourself, kill it, then take its processor, rather than simply making the processor.

However, what if the important thing is not the processor itself, but the data on it? You need a superior brain to make the robot. Hence, it is not purely running off of the circuitry. So, perhaps the chip starts out in a neutral state, and as the robot runs, it ends up training the chip based on the brain's organic processing. However, for this to work, you need the brain to be stimulated. Combat would be the most stimulating thing for the brain, and so the process of fighting it allows the chip to be trained with the logic needed.

 

Processors don't store data, the logic is still sadly flawed, but I don't really think that logic is needed for Starbound, I mean our ships run on coal.

 

depends on the type of processor. if its the connections on the chip which are being set, that is still a type of data.

 

I feel that these bosses will change around a bit when the actual campaign quests start getting added.

 

I'm assuming that the character builds the robot without the knowledge that it will go rogue and attack, so this theory still doesn't make sense to me

 

Along that line, you don't realize your new friend wants to rip your face off, so you take its processor and put it into something a bit less lethal to achieve a similar means.

 

That still doesn't answer why you can't just make a processor to travel to the next sector normally

 

Perhaps your robot buddy was supposed to do it for you so you could lounge in a hammock in the teleporter room, sipping mai tais.

 

He is hardly an appropriate size for your ship.

 

If it was changed from a processor to a hard drive, OP's description would work perfectly.

 

If you wanted to make a friendly robot, why would you use the brain of a monster that wants to kill you?

 

See? Now you're just being argumentative.

Reminds me of a time I made a table before realizing I had to disassemble it to get it into the house from the garage...

 

To be fair, I only used the brains of cute furry woodland creatures.

 

Well it's not like there was a puppy brain lying around.

 

If people are looking for nonsense, I'd say that the alien bubble birds, transversing planets and moons in days, the massive poop monsters, the overflowing collection of lore-abused alien races, faster than light travel powered by coal (or, through the same system, by uranium, plutonium, or a magical made up element solarium), the ability to carry trillions of units of weight well beyond anything possibly logical (and with no obvious digitization present to explain such magic), the usage of overt plot devices to create tension, having no enemies appear to understand that it isn't possible to win against a man hiding in a dirt hole with a pee shooter hole to fight from, and everything else that makes this game a fantastical journey through the minds of the Chucklefish team instead of a rail-riding hard science fiction event qualify fairly well.

 

Which brains your forcefully extracted and rammed 20 bars of steel into, I somehow don't feel like they would be less inclined to murder you than anything else

 

Hindsight is 20/20?

 

Why not magnets? Incidentally, "magnet" is a portmanteau for "magical nets", which is actually the reason for all such things (as aliens made them, of course).

Also, I made that up, so please disregard such evidence as factual.