Constructs

Months of learning stage sims until maturity.

Constructs require only two things to sustain themselves, power and Heavy Matter. So long as they are supplied with constant power and have access to Heavy Matter for maintenance and repairs, Constructs will remain online. Modern Platforms are generally equipped with power banks lasting months between charges, with more advanced military constructs supposedly able to operate independently for years at a time. Onboard fabricators are able to transmute Heavy Matter into any material desired.

So long as the physical medium currently containing the construct program is not destroyed, individuals are essentially immortal and less subject to the rigors of time than their biological creators. Constructs can control the rate at which they process their surroundings, constrained only by the hardware of their inhabited platform. This means that despite their superhuman reaction time in combat, they can also slow their minds down to "fast forward" through long stretches when needed. This feature helps to greatly alleviate the mental degredation that seems to plague long-lived humans.