Mechanoids

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The Mechanoids refers to both a product line within the Palladium Books megaverse and a species which it centers around.

The Books

The Mechanoid Invasion Trilogy was a set of 3 interlinked RPG settings released by Palladium Books between 1981 to 1982, and were the very first RPGs produced by Palladium.

The Mechanoids would later return, having been accidentally summoned to RIFTS Earth by Archie 3, in RIFTS Sourcebook Two: The Mechanoids.

The Race

At their core, mechanoids can be simply described as "Daleks, if the BBC had a better budget". They are a race of bio-engineered, genetically altered human off-shoots, reduced to little more than a giant disembodied brain, installed in highly advanced mechanical bodies. They reproduce through a combination of cloning and engineering, and have a pseudo-caste system where different mechanical bodies are paired with cloned bio-brains specificially genegineered for compatibility with that body's function.