Ax3-noto - AX3-469

mutuals are allowed to inspect my wires and my circuitry. if they want to ^_^

tonights session doodles. first session, went well and i got to play a silly robot in a world of furries. his dads are gay and they have a robot son (but something went so wrong!)

Chassis swap

After the procedure, looking in the mirror filled me with a feeling I had never known before. Recognition. Finally, when I see myself, I see me. The shiny metal, the rubbery elastomer, the dark lines contouring access panels. The dataports and maintenance ways.

A full chassis swap. The procedure I underwent. It's relatively simple on paper. Just take my Processor, Memory, Storage and a few other components, and move them into a new Case. It's relatively common amongst Androids, Simulacra, Drones, and all manner of other created beings.

I, however, was fully human before undergoing the procedure. Which has lead to some complications. I'm still getting used to the decreased latency. A 3ms difference might not seem like a lot, but compared to the 10ms of my new form, the 13ms of a wetware nervous system seems sluggish.

Usually, you have time to ease yourself into things as your components are gradually replaced, but I took the full conversion as soon as possible.

I just couldn't stand waiting any longer.

The physical therapy has been helpful. Re-learning how to walk, how to grab and hold things. Learning that I don't need to breathe anymore, and how to suppress that instinct to free up the memory for other tasks.

They tried to dissuade me. "You know the process is irreversible, right?" "But won't you miss [INSERT HUMAN TRAIT]?"

I know it's permanent. I know that I won't have these things anymore.

That's the point.

I have fully given up my humanity.

And I have never been happier.

Scout

His story has gone through some rewrites, so IDK if this’ll be the final product

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The year is 2152. Brenner Linfield is part of a corporation, assisting with the development of technology and robotics, and he has an assistant by the name of Lenora Pierce. He’s spent years as an active member of this corporation and has maintained a positive reputation, being very helpful as he is very knowledgeable when it comes to working with technology.

At this time, Brenner is allowed to work on a side project to later present to higher authorities once he has finished. The company provides him with the supplies and materials needed to complete this project. Meanwhile he has Lenora secretly bringing in his own materials that has not been approved of by the authorities.

The year is now 2158, and Brenner’s side project has been complete. Brenner claims that his “Scout” project was designed to fulfill the role of being a robotic assistant that people could order. Underneath the surface, however, the Scout was programmed with capabilities far beyond what Brenner had publicly disclosed. He was merely seeking approval from the authorities to continue his work.

At first, the machine was able to carry out simple tasks. However, as time progressed, the robot became seemingly more sentient. Its behavior began to appear increasingly lifelike. It was not expected from either Brenner nor Lenora, considering they had not programmed it with an artificial intelligence of any sort. It had begun to question things and wonder what everything was about.

Brenner was greatly disappointed with this unintended outcome while Lenora went on to look into what the cause of this was. She quickly suspected the material that she was able to sneak into the facility and help use to develop the robot. It was an unearthly metal that they were able to extract from a meteorite that landed years before they even started development.

After further examination and testing, Lenora was able to identify the cause. The alien metal they’d used turned out to be its own living organism, and that had a significant impact on the machine’s core systems and memory, seeping into them and making the Scout alive.

Concerned about the implications, they debated whether to shut it down. Eventually, they’d both come to the decision to deactivate his onboard weapon systems as a safety precaution once Lenora was able to convince Brenner that maybe the Scout could still be able to do what it was designed for—if they could teach it to obey. Then, they would bring its weapons back online once it was ready.

However, the Scout never seemed to meet Brenner’s expectations, and he became more irritable as time went on. His own insecurities of not being in absolute control bubbled over, reaching to the surface. Brenner became increasingly more abusive, verbally and sometimes physically toward the robot.

Lenora would try and get between them, but she couldn’t always be there to protect the Scout from Brenner’s outbursts. Overtime, Lenora had actually formed a close bond with the robot. She would do her best to teach it while she was present, and she would make sure that it knew right from wrong—in hopes that her guidance would resonate deeply enough to override any lingering aggression from Brenner.

As these weeks go by, authorities are expecting more progress with Brenner’s side project. However, seeing how things have gotten with Brenner’s destructive outbursts and the robot’s strange and lifelike behavior, they become very suspicious and take all three of them into custody. Since they could not shut down the Scout, they had to restrain it.

They run an investigation and discover blueprints that Brenner had not shown them. The blueprints that he had shown them were false. They also end up discovering the alien metal that Brenner and Lenora had used since they cannot get through his exterior. The metal is far more durable than any other on Earth, and upon closer examination they realize that there is no way to get through it.

They have no idea how to shut it down either, and they interrogate Brenner to try and get some useful information out of him. However, it doesn’t take much at all to get Brenner to talk. He tells them everything about the meteorite metal and what can be used against it. He didn’t want the Scout to be shut down; he wanted it destroyed. In his eyes, the Scout was a failure, six years of his life wasted.

Brenner had developed a solution that was capable of breaking through the Scout’s armor shortly after activating it, and they could use that to destroy the robot. Lenora would argue that destroying the Scout wasn’t the best way to go about it, but Brenner insisted that this was the way it should be. He handed the solution over to the authorities without hesitation, and they set to work.

However, once it occurred to the robot that they were going to kill it, it broke free from its restraints and soon escaped the facility. Now it hides among the city, hiding from people who are actively tracking it down with the intent to destroy it.

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Teaching her human GF all about robot anatomy [ ^ w < ]

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Affirmations for Anxious Robots

- I am functioning exactly as intended. Any unintended issues provide more data for future improvement.

- I am intelligent and adaptable. I can face unexpected problems. Faltering does not equate to failure.

- My personal value is not dependent on my efficiency. I am a beautifully engineered machine and my existence is beneficial to the world and the people around me.

- My prediction algorithms are incomplete. The data I currently have about my situation is not fully reliable, and projections about the future cannot render sound conclusions. My energy is best used focusing on the here and now.