Toxic atmosphere could easily be corrosive as well; radiation can interfere with electronics.

And water can be stopped with a rubber gasket

The Yor already have one of the best super abilities, one of the colonization techs, and in general are massively powerful. They don't need any more advantages.

Just assume that the upgrades you mention as solving those problems as what the extreme tech represent for the Yor. Besides, those kinds of upgrades are not nearly so simple as you seem to think. As a matter of fact, they would tend to be very costly, resource-intensive endeavors.

That's not true. Check out this Wicki article on the effect of ionizing radiation on electronics, and the extent some computers are "rad hardened" by fairly extreme methods. Some hardened systems have three computers vote against each other, to mitigate radiation damage:

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Remember there are some extremely harsh environments in space, nothing like what we have on Earth or anywhere in the Solar System. When the game talks about radiation planets, for all we know they might be referring to planets being bathed by radiation from nearby supernovas, or being swept by axial radiation beams from neutron stars or black holes. The Yor were designed by the Iconians to operate as servants in whatever environment the Iconians can tolerate. Since the Iconians need extreme colonization tech to live on high radiation worlds, it's reasonable to assume that the Yor might need it also.

On the other hand, appeals to logic don't go that far in this game. It doesn't make much sense that the Iconians built the Yor and were defeated by them, but somehow the Iconians retain a natural ability to colonize Toxic and Aquatic worlds, but the Yor never managed to steal that tech from the Iconians? Well, maybe they developed that tech after they had to flee their homeworld.

It basically comes down to game balance more than logic. Some of the races that aren't as strong in the early phases of the game, get a few more planet types they can colonize.



Well, their economy is a little shaky in the latest TA betas, and they're light on influence abilities. I don't think getting one extra planet type to colonize makes them too powerful.

Heavy Gravity could also be a problem. It is not reasonable to assume that the entire population of robots would have the strength to survive on a HG planet. They would probably have a more finite top end strength than humans.

You could make a case for the huge dragonlike Drath being okay for HG worlds

Good point, being tiny and buglike would be the more effective way, but immense strength relative to size would be helpful.

Then, I have never read that the Drath are immensely strong just dragonlike.   

also why would a robot care if a planet had plants or life on it or not.
In fact plants and life would just get in the way



of course the other problem is that robots don't reproduce like living things do. Although it might be agrued that they might reproduce like ants or bees ie have a queen.

lol @ your "sighense".

Well fluff wise at least the Yor can "eat" and draw energy from the organic matter so farming actually does have a point for them. Though I think charging stalks are supposed to represent energy distribution centers that function like farms but do not in fact produce food.

As to why yor might not like non-barren environments, perhaps it has something to do with the nature of thier "spark" ie the energy that gives them sentience. Perhaps radiation fields somehow dissapte/interfere with the spark and thus require special research to be done to create the proper adaptations. Just food for thought.

Durrrr...

(PS: Beta particles penetrate a hell of a lot further than a 'thin sheet of tin foil'.)

I suggest you also figure out why the "take a shower" is recommended, but is NOT a 'treatment'.

Call it weird, but i'd find an extra dimension of space as much involving strategy wise than even the toughest irradiated environments.
Maybe it's just my mind tilting towards X-Com/Apocalypse concept - but, nothing better than splitting the very physical nature of the 3d planes and having to cope with inter-dimensional foes.

Theory has it that strings rule the universe(s -yup, these IS a plural there), and that the further you go along almost linear gravity, the worst time bends on itself. Thus, singularities like BH & Stars (mainly superNovaes in the making for eons ahead) would supply the missing dark-anti-matter to propel an hypothetical dim-ready "ship" all the way to the past or future. Effectively breaking the **current** space continuum, as we can or will eventually understand it.
Even the Yor could use that!

- Zyxpsilon.

THe Yor are robots created by the Iconians to server them on their planets there for their bodies would have been designed with similar Radiation/Gravity/Humidity tolerances as found on the Iconian home world. However they are more tolerant of worlds without atmosphere than organics since they don't need it.

this is true but again we are talking about robots and not living flesh. see next reply