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 Verviedi wrote:
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The new Kastelan robot fluff has them as ancient machines that occasionally “show up” and “allow” the tech-priests to direct them. Ignoring the “quality” of this fluff, does this mean that Kastelans are actually autonomous, or that something weirder is going on?

So, the fluff is indeed bad but the intent is clear: allow people to take a random "hero" Kastelan with whatever colour scheme they want.

What would be a better way of doing that? I'll admit I'm drawing a bit of a blank on how to justify a freeblade Kastelan!

Buddingsquaw seems to be most of the way there, the free robots just need a reason to fight alongside their old masters (and not get scooped up and reprogrammed).