Robotics/Drone Technologies in the Silver River

WIP: Advanced robots are commonly referred to as Drones in the Silver River. Not to be confused with autonomous drones, these are fully independent artifical intelligences that are capable of carrying out a variety of tasks. More simple automatons, like those used on assembly lines, are referred to still as robots. Drones occupy a strange place in the Silver River, as they can be both property and citizens. Most drones are learning computers capable of growing self-aware, and thinking outside the inital lines of their progamming. Most governments have laws that guarantee citizenship any drones that gain this self-awareness, with their previous owner being compensated for their loss in property. The fact many drones are capable of becoming self-aware at any time, combined with various pressures from the drones community as a whole, is partially the reason that the Silver River is far less automated than it could be.

So far, there has never been any major drone rebellion or any form of warfare between organic and drone. The fact that Stellar Confederation, the largest government in the Silver River, was partially founded by a collective of drones known as The System largely inspired a great deal of the policies that grant drones so many rights. As well as the cautious awareness of the superiority the drones have over organics, and how easily they could and would wipe out any organics that stood against them if they rebelled on a large scale.

TBD: History of drone technologies, major manufacturers, combat drones, private sector drones, and examples of various indepedent drone 'species.'