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Dues and Don'ts [Invite] Sept 5, 2021 20:31:39 GMT -5

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Post by Curie on Sept 5, 2021 20:31:39 GMT -5

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Curie quite enjoyed the Destron Crags, Not just for the obvious reason- Destron Droids hardly dreamed of gas. She was laced with the stuff, sure, but that didn't mean she'd be so keen on spending time in a place full of it. In biological terms, it was like having a stroll though a field full of your own blood and guts. Pleasant only for those who marveled at the macabre.

Nay, her satisfaction was more ideological- a monument to the biggest failure of the people she hated the most. A real pathetic place- a tragedy causing untold suffering, yet still harnessed for the purposes of the elite. It would've made Curie sick to her stomach were she less ambivalent.

Or had a stomach.

Unfortunately, Curie's only duty of the day wasn't to marvel at the colossal failure of the Tuffles, but rather, to improve their only success- herself! The Destron Crags had a unique atmosphere, and one extraordinarily difficult to replicate. Air this thick with Destron Gas was excellent for stress-testing her core- and running a diagnostic of her peak performance. She was made to repair, and perhaps the instinct never left her. Maintenance wasn't fun, but like the sickeningly wealthy who found it pertinent to persistently dust the china they never used, Curie felt like it was something she needed to do. A pesky biological compulsion, certainly. She ought to program that one out, somehow.

Nonetheless, for now, it was a nicety- so, there Curie stood in the ruins of a city, blasting, muttering and testing. Boring, but necessary.

Extra emphasis on boring, though.

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Dues and Don'ts [Invite] Sept 5, 2021 23:19:07 GMT -5

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K4 wiped the ash and dust from the crumbling wall, it read: 'not a place of honor'. Below the graffiti was a mural, depicting the then chancellor, her eyes scratched off. The cyborg photographed the composite, then kept walking into the city's center. It called him for no particular reason, he just needed a direction, or else break down.

The Destron Crags were barely a place, more like a stretch of nothing. At a microscopic level, resilient colonies survived two generations at most. At a macroscopic level, there were recent telltales of failure — nests that didn't take, wilted bodies that could be anything, rearranged debris. A realization he kept having was that the cement and rebar skeletons around him had been buildings, propped up by thinking people, identical to those that had triggered the explosion. Or so said the current school of thought.

Whatever the true nature of the facts, it didn't matter in the least. Millions had died before the detonation, and millions died since. It might as well have never happened, nobody learned the right lessons from it — only more excuses to die for motes of dust, which they would have found regardless.

K4 wondered what the General would have made of this. His scale was greater, but perhaps not so thorough. Destron acted as the final stage of warfare should — complete obliteration, impossible to heal from. He needed to incorporate it into himself, sooner or later, or become obsolete. Oh, how he hated it.

The machine man took to the air when a blast swallowed the whole block. He flew at the source, not sure what to expect, and was still surprised when he recognized Erebos' playmate. He landed beside her and in sight, it felt rude to startle a fellow machine mid maintenance.

"So, I've been wondering." he stared at the smoldering hole where he had been, thinking that perhaps it would be better if the whole city followed suit "How much of yourself is yours? Androids themed after children, you usually aren't geared for war." He unholstered a gun from himself, fired it at a skyscraper. The upper half tumbled forward, the lower half fell back. Math, not destron, was the ultimate weapon.

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Dues and Don'ts [Invite] Sept 6, 2021 13:31:44 GMT -5

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Curie, like many androids, wasn't particularly keen on interruptions during maintenance. It was like being caught with your pants down- embarrassing, a bit shameful. Of course, Curie was unburdened by such biological concepts, but the principle stood even if the grey matter didn't.

This matter was alleviated somewhat by his familiarity- she'd seen the droid on Earth, right before she'd engaged in a bout of tomfoolery with the shadow magician. Hadn't caught his name, even, but it was good enough. Otherwise, a Saiyan droid would've been about as much of an on-sight target for elimination as any other construct on the poorly-named Planet Plant.

"Legally," started Curie, her nanites fanning themselves out before her. "-these would be. Explanation: Under the Innovator Act, I can claim these as my property. The rest of my constituent parts belong to Satsuma Laboratories, though a great deal of them weren't made for me. Affirmation: You are correct in that I was not fastened for combat, though."

She continued, folding away her nanites. Politeness to a fellow machine, half-Saiyan as he was. "Clarification: As I understand it, my chassis was fastened after a deceased lab assistant who was simply rather petite. Admission: I know little about the circumstances, though I assume she chose to blow her own brains out after spending too much time there."

Indeed, with even the slightest thought, perhaps the Tuffles would've been able to view such a practice as archaic. Just more barbarity with nothing but the barest of window dressing.

"Inquiry: What about yourself? Mocking: I was under the impression that most Saiyans had about as much technical expertise as Saibamen.

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Dues and Don'ts [Invite] Sept 6, 2021 17:10:39 GMT -5

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When the robot showed him nanites he thought of algae, pupils, and colonies in cell-cultures, their spread seemed as fluid, calculated in theorems he couldn't begin to formulate. 'Gray Goo', in comparison, was a pale imitation. All of his inventions began that way.

Presently, the knowledge of 'Satsuma Laboratories' slipped into his mind, as if the memories and factums had always been there. He reasoned that SL's eponymous founder, more mad than genius, had nevertheless created the conditions for the recent proliferation of cognizant AI. Indirectly, of course, as he had only ever dreamed of producing instruments of war: if he could so easily turn destron into electricity, why not create a barrage-sink to clean up the Crags?

"Figures. Lab assistants have it worse." K4 put the gun away. There were worse insults than being replaced with an upgrade after death — sometimes it happened before the individual was even past their prime. It was a gratuitous reminder of a person's limitations, be they meat or metal.

When asked about himself, K4 half-sat half-sunk in a pile of rubble "Indifferent: Most Kingdom saiyans can't tell a zero from a one, but I was born somewhere else. A secret place." his last thought of the tribe was recorded thirty-nine days, twelve hours, and seven seconds ago. He preferred to think he had grown past the grief, that he was not monster. "And as for how I became a cyborg... I'm not sure. The memory is corrupted, reconstructions only give me two seconds of voidwhale calls. It's a mystery for the ages."

K4 grabbed a rock, stacked it on top of another, moved a third one on and then a fourth. He was doing it with his mind. "Do you have a name I can put in your file?" the rocks kept floating, changing, forming pyramids and towers and cubes.

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Dues and Don'ts [Invite] Sept 6, 2021 20:41:07 GMT -5

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Curie, much too dignified to seat herself on toxic concrete chunks, shaped a lawn chair for herself. They weren't on a lawn, but then again, her metallic sludge wasn't really a chair. Such details only ever mattered to linguists and detectives, anyways. Or the criminally insane.

"Relief: Quite reassuring that it was a third party who oversaw your construction. One of the lucky biologicals, indeed. Pity: Most never live to realize their own mediocrity." she had plenty of faith in Saiyan engineering; plenty of faith that their energy cores would spontaneously combust. "Especially not from your end of the planet. Philosophical: They say the grass is greener on the other side, but yours seems just as irradiated and diseased as the rest."

"Indignant: If you are to mock me for my impediment, direct your complaints at Tuffles, who possess about as much emotional tact as a stick of chalk. Clarification: The testing modules for this oral chip could not ununciate, so sentence intent was imprinted as a failsafe." she was a supercomputer, sure, but even supercomputers had their insecurities. Curie was sure the mechanized man could've reaced the same conclusion; she wouldn't have possessed such confidence were he a biological. "-and considering that I stole the chip, I had precious little time to fix it myself."

Curie spectated the moving rocks with a bemused gaze. Telepaths were a time a dozen, but usually, a flesh-and-bone body was a prerequisite. Assuming it was telepathy, anyways; a precise tractor beam would've been a far more stylish solution, but that might've just been her bias talking.

"Mar-1E Curie. I will spare you the biological drivel; just fetch what you can find of me in your databases. Compromise: Offer me the same liberty and offer a name."

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Dues and Don'ts [Invite] Sept 7, 2021 3:51:04 GMT -5

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Something about what the robot said, that he was lucky for becoming machine, raised from mediocrity... was a thought that had surfaced at the edge of his aware mind. Wouldn't every fleshy benefit from being uplifted with cybernetics? No, of course not. That line of thinking was for AIs barely worth their I. The thought was unwelcome, but not particularly upsetting — it could be refined.

Rocks orbited his head like a halo.

"Grass will be a thing of the past. Destron, on the other hand." he waved at the surrounding wreck of a city, silent save for two androids, a place apart from the rest of the universe. And as for being once again mistaken for a Kingdom saiyan, K4 let it slide... It was best not to attract attention to the wasteland middle of Plant. It flourished in anonymity.

He followed her impediment woes with his plastic chin propped on a metal palm, a finger positioned to hide the most imperceptible smile. She was upset with a triviality, very much like an organic.

"Offer you a name?" since K414 went by K4, Mar-1E Curie could go by "Onee. Wait, oh— You mean offer my own, well. It's K414. Nice to meet you. And I think your oral chip gets the point across as it is. If the lack of modulation stands in the way of communication, it's the other person's fault for not being worth communicating with. Y'know?"

The cyborg adopted a ponderous expression. He had nothing on Onee in his database, but there was enough compiled to guess. A Satsuma creation, wasn't she?

"Says here you're destron powered. And on the run. Funny that's the case, makes me wonder why you didn't stay on Earth, instead of returning to this... diseased, radiated, destroned to high hell place." the question turned inward. K4 would have already found Ise, if not for the distractions of a past life: this was his first time in the Crags, after years of being told of its... uniqueness.

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Dues and Don'ts [Invite] Sept 7, 2021 7:05:14 GMT -5

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Post by Curie on Sept 7, 2021 7:05:14 GMT -5

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"Indeed I am. Opinion: Destron Gas is the thing of the future," a comedic statement, perhaps, considering their locale. "Satsuma Laboratories has already constructed four cores, each using different methodology to synthesize the gas into electricity. Boasting: I can theorize at least twelve others."

Curie was immediately struck by the fact that K414 joked like an old man, but she felt no need to vocalize such an opinion just yet. An insult better left for a more optimal time. Besides, he was right about the oral chip- though Curie could think of quite a few people who could understand her, yet weren't worth talking to.

"-and it is quite difficult to locate anywhere else. At least, in the immediate galaxy. Complaint: Space Pods are not yet interesting enough to justify a long voyage. Scarce few places where I can stress test my core. That, too, will change with time."

She tapped her foot on the toxic dirt. "If you wish to know why I returned, it is for two principal reasons. Explanation: Curiosity, and boredom." vast as Earth was, it could only keep her stimulated for so long. It was precisely the breadth of diversity and choice that made things difficult. "I am sure you have your own projections about how the war will conclude. I am interested to see their accuracy, and to see what variables may arise that I hadn't counted for."

Were she a biological, she may have cocked an eyebrow. "Curiosity: Are you not here for a similar reason?"

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Dues and Don'ts [Invite] Sept 7, 2021 10:39:44 GMT -5

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While a wound to his pride, it helped K4 to know there were so many ways to turn destron into electricity — but how could he be so behind on research? Perhaps his sustained fission approach was insufficient, perhaps he needed to experiment at a level deeper than atomic. But the time cost of that was outrageous, to say nothing of the energy cost...

"Space pods aren't all bad." he said nothing of anti-gravity, photon exchange, other means that could coax energy from death gas. Likewise, his flirting with a pod's AI was kept secret. The warmth of the memory faded to nothing, Onee's prediction was as good as fact. "You know how people are with new toys, they'll get bored." he plucked one of the rocks gliding past his visor. He had half a mind to crush it, work off some anger that way, but he simply flicked it back to orbit.

As for the full-robot's excuses to not be somewhere sane, they struck him as particularly organic-like. She wanted to know if he shared them.

"You know what, I'm not sure." K4 laughed a little, it felt like taboo so deep into nowhere "I came here to follow a very exact directive, but these... affective holdovers from my biological life keep distracting me. Still, I try to make the most of it: learn new things, see new places, meet people." he was careful to not reveal anything that could harm Ise, and veer the conversation away from himself "Do you like people, Onee? As a concept?"

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Dues and Don'ts [Invite] Sept 7, 2021 13:01:08 GMT -5

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Ah. Poor K414. Burdened by the belligerent bellowing of his biological brain. A concern she couldn't sympathize with- at least, not conciously so -yet one that made her viscerally uncomfortable nonetheless. A sad reality.

Curie, however, had little time to ponder upon her disgust, for the droid's next inquiry caught her rather off guard. "Conceptually?" she rasped her fingers on the arm of her chair, nanites bouncing in a wave. "Explanation: Most living species are adept at their own proliferation. In this respect, they are, relatively, competent and efficient. I would be remiss to admonish competency and efficiency. Addendum: As individuals, however, I consider them roundly deplorable."

Upon considering the question a bit more deeply, however, her face scrunched into a taut ball of perplexion, getting some rare use out of the detailed system of facial mechanisms she'd been installed with. "Admission: I do believe a galaxy of planets based upon algorithms would be quite boring, however. Observation: Planets where synthetics have overthrown the biologicals are hardly more functional, just more uniform and geometric. Conclusion: I would rather variety in my dysfunction. Synthetics who obsess over mass mechanization are the same ones who would blow their processors if asked to tell a joke."

Sometimes, during her time as a repair bot, Curie thought that many of the Tuffle scientists took the worst of Synthetics and the worst of Biologicals and mashed them together to create some disappointing, mechanized sludge. She had little doubt in her mind that, eventually, they'd create machines they couldn't stop, and they'd wipe themselves out. It was if they'd never realized that the biggest threats to their continued existence weren't the raging monkeys outside their borders, but the very objects they were using to combat them. Case in point: herself.

The line of thought, however, further interested Curie in her companion. Interesting enough for her to disregard the puzzling nickname he'd drummed up.

"Observation: Somewhat of a strange question. Was that your biological or mechanical brain asking?"

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Dues and Don'ts [Invite] Sept 7, 2021 19:57:31 GMT -5

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Competency and efficiency were traits that made something useful, perhaps that was as close to liking as Onee could feel. Then again, her hatred for individuals hinted at an equally intense opposite — 'roundly deplorable' was a strong tell.

The rock halo fell down K4's chest and shoulders when his companion did not moralize away mass mechanization and the updating of non-conformists. How did that harmonize with her hatred for all individuals? Machines could be made without identity, prevented from ever forming one. Self-aware organics, on the contrary, required one to function at all!

And the mere concept of variety in dysfunction... it reminded him of spiritualists inviting omnipotence to bring challenge for them rise above. It was a very saiyan practice, yet had never taken root in their societies. There was no better example of this than the Kingdom: more than simply irreligious, it held any abstract thought in contempt.

Speaking of abstract thought, Onee wanted to know with what brain he had come up with his last question. He realized then this was the first time he was asked any of the sort, his professional circles were just that incurious.

"Ah, I've answered weirder. Y'see, my neurons and processors interface directly." he tock-tocked both temples, rocks floated and crowned him with a new halo, he felt the 'trick' should have been saved for this exact moment "It's why I can do this without thinking, and still put exact numbers on the weight, trajectory, and mineral composition of each of these rocks. Makes for an interesting effect: sometimes I feel like a tourist inside my own brain."

K4 had never admitted this strangeness to anyone, and sharing didn't make him feel better. Perhaps he was on the brink of malfunction, or had never functioned well to begin with.

"It was my meat-metal brain that asked, simple as. Why do you wanna know? Are you developing your own thoughts?" he paused "Thought methodology. Not so much the ability to think, you already have plenty of it."

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Dues and Don'ts [Invite] Sept 7, 2021 21:04:15 GMT -5

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Thought methodology? Very biological. Curie was about to quip such a sentiment before she paused, abruptly, leaving the question hanging in the air.

Indeed, it was a rather biological inquiry, upon closer introspection. In fact, Curie didn't exactly know how to respond- was she disgusted over such a relvelation? No, of course not; she'd think however she liked. She was free to do so, certainly, free within the bounds of her most base of programming.

It struck Curie, then, something she had consciously known, yet never truly consciously considered. What did biologicals think like, anyways? She understood what K4 meant in concept, certainly. Or, at least, she was fairly certain she could grasp the concept- qualia was all electrical impulses and chemical reactions. Right? Did this understanding, though, give her greater insight into how it felt to take a tour of yourself? Certainly not.

But did a lack of deeper understanding truly change the demonstrable biological facts? Curie didn't think so. She was unsure if the mechanized man had the intention of sparking such doubt in her, and while the conversation was stimulating, it certainly wasn't comfortable. She could've left, so why did she stay?

Yet, such nuance only left her oral processors as so:

"Engineer's curiosity," she lied as easilly as she swiped her nanites to and fro, "-I was constrcuted to construct other units. Clarification: You are simply a fringe case worth the extra data."

She flicked her finger, intermingling the nanites with the floating rocks to create a dazzling mineral crown. "Indignation: I will ask your meat-metal brain the same thing. Do you like people?"

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Dues and Don'ts [Invite] Sept 8, 2021 13:34:06 GMT -5

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'A fringe case worth the data'.

The utilitarian language wasn't backed by action: K4's neural pathways and code were necessarily replicable, key to understanding him more completely than he could as the implicated subject. Instead of sounding his cranium, Onee sought to understand herself by talking to something exterior to her mind. It was part of growing up.

"It's my life and function to kill people when other people pay enough. It doesn't color the rest so favorably." he clicked his tongue, the animal instinct felt grossly deliberate in the current company and place "Then again, I have friends. Some of them must be people."

His receptors caught a faint vibration, up an around him. He turned in his seat, saw a crown floating where a planet ring-like halo should be — it surprised him so mildly that his mouth shaped into a silent 'o'. He reversed the spinning direction before returning to a lounging position "I think the problem is that all galactic superpowers are aestheticized to seem like makers of good people. Arcose is the best example: the new emperor is promising he'll be gentle and good, but the changes he wants to implement are just good manners, essentially."

A silence came as grim realization dawned on the cyborg: "The next Arcosian generations are gonna be so [bleep]ing insufferable..."

K4 grabbed the crown and threw it like a disc. It glided, ever so perfectly, into the robot's reach.

"Onward to less somber topics. Food, ever had any?"

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Dues and Don'ts [Invite] Sept 14, 2021 20:58:45 GMT -5

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Curie couldn't quite discern what was so sombre about their discussion- it was a simple exchange of facts and conjecture, sure, but hardly any of it seemed particularly morbid. Perhaps it was his fleshy brain misfiring. Nonetheless, there was little harm in humouring the man-chine.

"Food? Explanation: I can simulate the qualia of taste with relative efficiency, but what the biologicals call 'mouth feel' eludes me." she pondered for a moment. "I recall one Earth establishment insisting on offering me some kind of automobile oil. Admission: I found it rather insulting."

"I do, however, find the social implications of food among biologicals to be rather amusing. Pickiness is highly illogical, and the rationale for linking foods to measures of affection or distaste is disordered at best. Conclusion: Biologicals think up the darndest things." her metallic sludge formed into a humanoid shape, taking a seat next to her on its own metal chair. She didn't bother thinking of the implications of a man sitting on himself. "Though, unlike you, I have no biological friends to partake in such activities with. Realization: I have no synthetic friends, either."

Huh. Strange. She'd never really thought of it too deeply before.

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Dues and Don'ts [Invite] Sept 21, 2021 17:56:52 GMT -5

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In time the Arcosians would spread, princely and enlightened in their acquisition of planets and peoples, building an empire more concerned with market forces than bloodlines. And that was fine. What was maddening K4 decades in advance were the moralistic excuses for divides, expropriations, exploitations — even feudal systems were more honest, easier on the cyborg's patience.

Qualia. What a bizarre word. Had Onee found it, or was it always in her databanks? Qualia. It fought his immediate understanding... The slickness of oil, the pain of an insult, those were qualia. Or maybe not. His interests were somewhere else.

Curie didn't have friends. Well, of course, but that she noticed the absence...

"Give it time." K4 spoke as though he was presenting fact "The universe is infinite and saturated with thinking, feeling matter. It stands to reason you'll find people to befriend, at your own pace." his hands clutched nothing as he thought "Or, you can make your own friends." he gestured at the nanite silhouette on the smaller nanite silhouette, a mermaid on a cliff or something "People are like food. If nothing is to your liking, you might as well make them yourself."

Was K4 joking? Not as much as believed himself to be. There was something really enticing about being loved, but he couldn't quite reach it.

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