On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 6:52 PM, C. Berry <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
And keeping humans involved despite it being the 57th century is what makes it Traveller; otherwise, you're playing in some cyberpunk/transhuman setting. Having human pilots and gunners (and so forth) is a classic application of the Rule of Cool.


And sometimes this can be applied after the fact. Such as in the new season of Dark Matter.

In case someone here is watching this hasn't caught up with all the first couple of episodes just yet . . .

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At the close of the latest episode, the crew members [less one casualty but plus a new member] has reassembled on their ship [Raza]. But upon boarding her, Android discovered that what was *partially* done to her computer brain in the prison's tech lab appears to have shorted out her ability to interface directly with the ship. So essentially, Android has now become a human pilot/gunner.

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Richard Aiken

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"It has been my experience that a gun doesn't care who pulls its trigger." Newton Knight (as portrayed by Matthew McConaughey), to a scoffing Confederate tax collector facing the weapons held by Knight's young children and wife.