Thank you, Fenhorn
To answer the question re the synthetic in
CotG; two posibilities:
a) If you are talking about Lucas, that's a character upgrade that turns a regular human player character into a secret synthetic. They retain the Skills, Talents, and Characteristics of the human character and adds to that the synthetics rules stuff.
b) But if, on the other hand, you're talking about Ava 6, then, for whatever reason that NPC does not have Talents. There are a couple of NPCs in the game that doesn't come with Talents, for whatever reason, and Ava 6 is one of them.