#Conceptua machinara

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Sensory Overload

The initial post-integration time isn't fun either, as mechs provide vastly expanded sensory input over what most people are used to. It can be hard to sleep if you can suddenly hear wireless traffic, see new colors, feel magnetic fields... and if your previous body schema was bipedal, learning to walk on all fours can take days if not weeks of cumbersome stumbling around.

#Conceptua machinara #living machine #machine heart #scritt #mecha #robots #art #dragon

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Please trust the tech guys

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Living Mech Core Anatomy

Here's a quick rundown of how mechs work in my setting / worldbuilding project. Machine Heart / Conceptua Machinara is a setting where, among other things, you can become a living mech. This process is called Integration turns a prospective user into an Operator. It is non-reversible and requires interaction with an advanced consent form interface - noone becomes a mech on accident or against their will.

Integration is a gruesome process which discards most of the prospective operator's body, splicing into the entire nervous system of the user, starting at extremities over the course of 36~ hours. The mech replaces all life supporting vitals of the user during this time. Integration maps all sensory input to the operator's neural connections as close to their original function as possible - retaining accurate sense of touch, heat, pain, hearing, sight and everything else. If not for this, integration would fail most of the time, as operator minds would simply reject the new body. Initial integration often happens inside of a chosen mech, provided it's equipped with integration hardware. As such, the operator often won't even take notice of their separable operator form, which greatly assists in bonding with their machine body.

#Machine Heart #Conceptua Machinara #Worldbuilding #living machines

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The machine loves the human

Not with a heart or a circuit mind, but systemically - by design - enveloping and welcoming its operator as a viable home, with consideration for all their needs - all their potential - and all their desires. Everything that it is speaks a reassuring 'I will be your ideal body', that the operator may sleep peacefully and become themselves.

#Lore I daydreamed in the shower #Mecha #Living Machines #conceptua machinara #machine heart

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Wanna' feel your mechanical claws rend through flesh? Machine muscle carries all touch signals through a mech, and can be easily shielded within hardened alloy claws, and integrates directly into outer shell plates

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Proxy Workbench Repair

This mech has plugged into their workbench to use it as a temporary proxy - and see themselves from a 3rd person perspective while performing repairs on their own body. Picture it as a VR application - your hands map to two of the workbench robot hands, and you can use them to install, inspect, remove, replace and repair parts on your body.

Proxy use remaps part of your neural I/O into external systems, so it's not recommended for recently integrated operators, who are not yet fully attuned to their primary body. It is also risky for deeper repairs, as proxy use does not prevent regular sensory input - you can still feel your body, and the things done to it - and you would not want to fall unconscious during self-repair.

Having access to a proxy workbench is overall extremely useful, and allows mechs to remain self sufficient to a much larger degree!

#living machines #machine heart #worldbuilding #conceptua machinara #mecha #art #lore

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Conceptua Machinara / Machine Heart

I guess I should introduce myself. I've previously uploaded primarily to FA and Twitter... I'm Scritt - and I like to draw. I'm working on a setting for a story with living mechs, titled (so far) 'Conceptua Machinara' or 'Machine Heart' used interchangeably. I'm writing this mostly for my own sake since this story has been stuck in my head for months. The story is centered around the question: What if you could become a living mech? What would such an experience look and feel like? Why would anyone want that? What are the benefits, the drawbacks and daily struggles of being a mech?

Alongside living machines/mechs, the setting is populated by a number of anthropomorphic species.

#worldbuilding #mecha #transhumanism #conceptua machinara #living machine

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Okay i read through your posts again and saw some stuff i missed.

The mech replaces all life supporting vitals, so the questions about having a digestive tract and what happens to the organs solved lol

that still leaves some questions:

How do they digest inorganic substances like metal or plastic?

Are there any inorganic waste products?

Can they use what they intake to self repair damage? Does extensive damage need an engineer of some sort to repair?

i think there was more i asked but I'm really forgetful.

I hope your world building goes well, i really like this concept!

Thanks for asking - Lore Dump Incoming! Biomechanical life as an Operator Mech in this sense follows slightly different rules than fully biological beings. 1) Digestion isn't really a thing they do - they refuel on synthetic mech fuel, and only have minimal nutrition requirements. As such they generally cannot and have no reason to eat metal or plastic. Fuel is transported between, and burned within fuel cells in all parts of the mech's Actua (machine muscle), providing mechanical, chemical and electric energy as needed. 2) Not many waste products, as biological components are mostly self-contained and use mech fuel as an outside power source to facilitate all the necessary catasysed and chemical functions within. There is a small cycling of chemical intake and waste which can require mechs to "eat" or otherwise intake nutrition, but they can generally function for a very long time on just fuel and water. They do not have a digestive tract - machine muscle interconnects make up all chemical transport throughout their body. 3) After integration, an operator is permanently reliant on machine life support - blood pressure, filtering, oxygenation, as well as nutritional cycling and recycling, stem cell repair and more. The operator's brain just about the only thing that remains of their previous body. The process splices machine muscle into the prospective operator's entire nervous system, starting at extremities and seeking inwards against the current of neural output, until it eventually reaches the brain. This is what becomes the "You" part I labeled on the anatomy chart - what remains of your mind, along with neural I/O strands of machine muscle! But an operator entity is technically separable from its mech - just not for long (as they'd die without life support).

(this allows an operator to move to a different mech body, if absolutely necessary) Mechs contain the necessary life support systems, and those systems are able to self-repair and maintain. This is just about the only thing mechs need to intake non-fuel substance for. Each mech typically has multiple backup life support systems for redundancy, such that critical damage done to any of them can be repaired by replacing the component. Some mechs are able to print components out of spare material internally, but this requires specific bioorganic systems for this - an example are Solar Moth Mechs that can continuously print membrane-thin solar cells, which can be used as a secondary power source to fuel. Most other repairs are done externally in one of a few ways: - By themselves by physically replacing damaged components that are superficially accessible. This can be done mainly for the Shell and Plating, and installation of systems that integrate into the shell. - with the help of a Mech Repair Engineer, using replacement components, that are either printed or salvaged. - Using a Proxy Workbench - supporting the ability for the Operator to extend their consciousness into the workbench robotics, to perform repairs / surgery on their own body from an outside point of view. Mechs feel pain (along with all other sensations the operator was capable of prior to integration). This can complicate self repair sometimes. Life support and Operator systems are the hardest to repair, and the least abundant as spare parts, making it critical for a mech to protect these from all significant damage. For this reason, those components are usually housed deep within the center of their body, surrounded by shock aborbing machine muscle, and alloy plating. I have some sketches that illustrate a couple of the concepts mentioned above, which I'll try and upload shortly! EDIT: I forgot, but I think I have a note somewhere that machine muscle is printable, meaning at least some mechs would be able to repair or synthesize strands from raw material intake.

#machine heart #living machines #conceptua machinara #worldbuilding #mecha

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I'll admit, I really like both the Slipfins and your take on Mechs/Techno-Organic lifeforms. I'd kinda like to make a Slipfin, but I don't want to upset you by just trying to make one without permission. Are Slipfins an open species or are they closed?

You can make your own Slipfin Alien OC under the following terms:

You cannot use the Slipfin species or character for commercial purposes.

2. You may not distribute products, software, VR Avatars or 3D model files of Slipfin Aliens without my witten permission - even if not for commercial purposes.

3. Attribute or link back to any of my active social media to credit for the species (tumblr, twitter or FA - links are in my pinned post). "Slipfin Alien species by Scritt"

4. You acknowledge that the only canonical lore for the species is what I write for them, and is subject to change based on what I need them to be for my stories or worldbuilding projects. Only characters I design and include in released content are canon to stories, setting and lore. Refer to most recent species guides posted for details. 5. You will not portray them as evil, in hateful content, or use them in connection with crypto or NFTs. (I need to update species guides and lore posts)

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As for my Living Mechs, they are't technically a species. They are designs of elaborate fancy suits of armor that can house humans, reptilians and a number of other species on a... permanent basis. But the mechs all *were* organic at some point, transformed to biomechanical by their new bodies.

Species wise, that is like asking if Human is an open species. I am not sure how to go about this because the Living Mechs largely are a construct for transhumanist worldbuilding projects of mine, so for now, I have to go with no!

The main reason is that the few times people have tried making OCs they almost immediately used those distinctly outside what the lore says they are or can do... for example, in vore themed art.

And then that's just by definition not a Conceptua Machinara living mech. That is their own species, but using my design elements.

The mechs can't eat you, and have no need for a throat, sorry.

Anyway, that highlit for me that the Mechs aren't well enough defined in their released content, to be really possible to make OCs of yet. I'd need to draw up and categorize a few specific frames for them, along with their respective functions and abilities. Addition: Although… I suppose the whole story and narrative is about whether transformative technology changes your species, and I'm learning towards the fact that maybe it does... Iunno, the mechs might be a species?

-scritt 2023

#Slipfin Aliens #Living Mech #Worldbuilding #Q&A #Written on my phone - please excuse the spelling lol

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Slipfin Aliens: My species of 4-eyed amphibian aliens that love to travel and explore.

Living Mechs: My setting titled Conceptua Machinara (working title) where you can permanently integrate into larger living machines

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