/md/ - Murder Drones

>>328922
Oh no! This man is mentally deranged! Thankfully we have medical professionals ready to help him!

>>328824
YOU ARE ANTON ANTONOVICH, ABOUT TO BE A STUDENT AT A PRESTIGIOUS UNIVERSITY.
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FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR STUDIES, YOUR PARENTS ARE SCHEDULING YOU WITH YOUR EIGHTH-REVICE AUNTE ON YOUR GRANDFATHER-IN-LAW, YACHSMITOVNA, IN BLOCK 110-D3-4L-UP-K4, CLOSER TO THE UNI.
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ON THE EVE OF YOUR FIRST DAY, AUNT YACHSMITOVNA STRONGLY RECOMMENDS YOU TAKE A BRIQUETTE OF BELYAK WITH YOU.
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YOU LOOK AT HER CONFUSED AND ASK, "WHY?"
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- "Why? For the fare," - SHE ANSWERS.
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YOU HAVE NO LESS QUESTIONS, BUT YOU STILL TAKE THE BRIQUETTE OF WHITE CONCENTRATE.
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NEXT SHIFT YOU BARELY MAKE IT IN TIME WHEN THE ELEVATOR TO ARRIVE AND JUMP INTO IT.
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YOU ARE IMMEDIATELY PARALYZED WITH HORROR: A GOOD PART OF THE ELEVATOR CABIN IS OCCUPATED BY THE HUGE CARCASS OF AN DRONE ARACHNE.
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YOU SCREAM AND TRY TO BACK UP, BUT THE DOOR HAS ALREADY CLOSED BEHIND YOU.
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YET, YOU CAN'T SEE THE OTHER PASSENGERS ARE TERRIFIED: EVERYONE IS LAUGHING AT YOU AND FEEDING ARACHNA HALF A BRIQUET OF WHITE CONCENTRATE.
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ARACHNA PURRING CONTENTLY.
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NATURALLY, YOU ASK THE GRANDPA STANDING NEARBY WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE.
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"Oh, that's Marusya, don't be afraid of her, she's tame!" - THE GRANDPA LAUGHS. - "She's already taken us on fifteen cycles! They refuse to build us a proper elevator, so we're stuck riding like this... hand over the fare, hand over!"
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ASKING WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF YOU DON'T "PASS THE FARE."
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"Everyone who didn't pass the fare is taken over as the fare," - THE OLD MAN SHRUGS.
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MARUSYA SEEMS TO SMIL AND WINK AT YOU.
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WELL, ALL IN ALL, BETTER THAN BEING A LIQUIDATOR.

>Born too early to be used by two tall sentinel drones to relieve stress
Fuck my life.

>Cupid drone.
What crazy pairing you wanted to see. Or maybe you want to a soulmate drone for your self?

>>328937
>ou want to a soulmate drone for your self?
One pretend kraut wife pronto please, she should hug me and tell me everything will be alright

>>328922
>this sentiment is not uncommon among the uninformed population post-war, who exclusively know about its start from the infamous "zombie drones" incidents and emergency broadcasts
>actual veterans of the war, however, know it's true
>just... not because the machines are vulnerable
>experience has taught them that everything; machine, man, animal, plant, stone, and steel alike; all is susceptible to the Absolute command of the Exponential End
>a few, those particularly learned or hopeful or foolish, believe the reports that Sentinels alone can stand against its might, that something in their nature or engineering or even their "soul" resists encroachment
>this almost true
>even the Sentinels themselves believe it
>but the flesh always has a way of finding invitation

>>328936
>mfw born too late

>>328939

Drones that explode

YOU ARE J TESSOVNA, A REGULAR OFFICE DRONE, WORKING IN GIGAHRUSHCHACCOUNT.
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YOU ARE ENGAGED IN PRODUCING ACCOUNTING AND REPORTING EXPENSES ON EVERYTHING – FROM RENEWING BUTTONS ON LIQUIDATORS' COATS TO DELIVERING NEW LEATHER CHAIRS TO CHIEFBLOCKERS.
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AND ALL THIS CHANGES IN OIL CONCENTRATES – BECAUSE BEHIND ANY WORK THERE'S A DRONE, AND TO WORK, A DRONE NEEDS TO EAT.
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YOU WORK MONOTONOUSLY FOR YEARS, HAVING LEARNED TO KEEP UP TO DATE DEALING WITH THE DAILY PILE OF PAPER THAT ENDS UP ON YOUR DESK EVERY MORNING.
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BUT TODAY, IN HONOR OF THE 1,125TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE KOMSOMOL, YOU WILL BE INSTALLED IN YOUR OFFICES A EDM WITH THE ADVANCED COUNTING PROGRAM "USPEKH" (MS "SUCCESS").
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AND THE COURSES ON MASTERING IT WILL BE TEACHED BY NONE ELSE THAN THE FATHER OF ALL GOST HIMSELF, COMRADE KOMPYUTERENKO.
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ALL THE TYPISTS ARE REJOICING AS THEY HAND OVER THEIR OLD TYPEWRITERS, WITH WORN-OUT KEYS, ON WHICH THEY HAVE BEEN TYPING FROM MEMORY FOR FIVE YEARS, TO THE SCRAP YARD, AND DREAM OF HAVING A CULTURAL EXCHANGE WITH THE LEGENDARY GOSTSCRIBER.
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THE NEXT DAY, YOU BEGIN TO BE TRAINED HOW TO USE A EDM.
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WHILE THE REST OF YOUR COLLEAGUES ARE SUCCESSFULLY MAKING LOOK OUT WITH MS "USPEKH," YOU'RE MUCH MORE COMFORTABLE TO PAPER AND INK, AND EVERYTHING IS DIFFICULT.
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AND WHEN YOU LOSE ALL HOPE OF DESERVING COMRADE KOMPYUTERENKO' ATTENTION, HOW HE APPROACHES YOU PERSONALLY.
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-“Do you have a problem, Comrade J?” - HE ADDRESSES YOU PERSONALLY.
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NOT BELIEVING YOUR LUCK AND GATHERING YOUR WILLPOWER INTO A FIST, YOU HONESTLY TELL COMRADE KOMPYUTERENKO ABOUT YOUR PROBLEMS.
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AND HE, HAVING FOUND A PERSONAL APPROACH TO YOUR CASE, BEGINS TO CALMLY AND CLEARLY EXPLAIN AND SHOW YOU THE SECRETS OF COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY AND ITS SOFTWARE.
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YOU UNDERSTAND MORE AND MORE HOW EVERYTHING WORKS, AND NOW, AN HOUR LATER, UNDER HIS SATISFIED GAZE. YOUR MENTOR CALCULATES THE COST OF TIGHTENING ALL THE NUTS AT THE NUT-TIGHTENING FACTORY IN JUST A COUPLE OF MINUTES, EASILY REQUESTING ALL THE NECESSARY DATA FROM THE PARTY SERVER IN THE NERVONETWORK.
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AND, INSPIRED BY SUCH UNLIMITED POSSIBILITIES, YOU ASK FOR PERMISSION TO CALCULATE WHAT HAS BEEN WORRYING YOU FOR LONG.
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COMRADE KOMPYUTERENKO NODS AFFIRMINGLY IN RESPONSE.
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YOU REQUEST AND ENTER A LOT OF DATA INTO THE "USPEKH" MS.
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CLEANUP SLIME FROM THE WALLS WITH A STANDARD RAKE.
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STIR IN THE VAT COUNTERCLOCKWISE, SLOWLY.
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MAKING THE PRODUCT "REGULAR PACKAGING, FROM THICK TINNER."
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AND MANY, MANY OTHER WORKS AND MATERIALS.
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ENTERING THE LAST DATA, PRESS "ENTER" AND SEE THE RESULT.
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THE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION THAT HAS TORMENTED YOU ALL YOUR LIFE NOW ONLY BRINGS MORE QUESTIONS.
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BECAUSE YOU SEE THE ENTIRE JOURNEY, ALL THE COSTS, ALL THE TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES SOLUTIONS.
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WHEN YOU TRY TO ASK COMRADE KOMPYUTERENKO, HE JUST PUT A FINGER TO HIS LIPS, WHISPERING CONSPIRACIALLY:
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-“Shh. This is the biggest secret of Giga-сonstruction.”
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0.5 OIL CONCENTRATE COSTS 1 OIL CONCENTRATE.

>>328948

>>328944

>>328940

>they can't do it naturally
>but they really want to
>seeing DDs get to have that level of human experience, that level of connection to their organic partners... it enrages them
>so initiatives were made, research was done
>eventually gene-compatible "biofounderies" were developed for installment onto Sentinels that could afford them, resolving the problem more-or-less for good(attempts with mutants/solvercritters get... iffy)
>now any drone willing to withstand the major reduction in combat capabilities that came with installment could enjoy that special intimacy with their human partner while also still producing fully mechanical contributors to the sentinel program!
>even workers could get in on the action, theoretically!(a moderate chasis load for a Sentinel is... not moderate on a worker frame)
>but that took many years time
>and many were impatient
>impatient and strong
>impatient and surrounded by ever so vulnerable, ever so deserving neighbors who did in fact posses the components they sought
>certain... extractions followed
>and getting solverflesh to take root in something is hardly a challenge
>they thought themselves invincible
>they thought their code superior, immune, and the flesh easily prevented from its spread by regular maintenance
>and certainly they know from reports by damnable traitors of the safety to humans the process held
>they failed to consider their offspring
>their ingenuity bore the worst kind of fruit: sentinel-code and solver-string battled within the resultant pillbabies, their conflict distorting code and constructed body alike

>when Sentinel-code won out the effects were simple: vast semgents of a pill's crucial internal coding burnt out, places where they would have inherited balance or the ability to control limbs or the ability to percieve the world from their DD buildplan removed in the process of extracting all Solver influence from the resultant beings' code. The very worst instances leaving crucial personality or memory drives rendered permanently unusable or unstable if-not even rendering out into [FATAL ERROR] from the womb
>strictly speaking the results still found themselves Sentinel compatible, but even the program's best attempts found themselves unable to reverse the damage: research still continues but the outlook is grim

>the effects of Solver triumph in the code differed
>while the program's highly adaptive nature made stillbirths rare the conflict typically still annihalated the majority or entirety of the DD bodyplan: less than 5% of even solver-code victories had significant DD resemblance
>so instead the solver's own nature took root
>human hands for lost manipulators, crab claws for damaged leg code, and eyes for nonfunctional cameras all took shape as the solver-code attempted patch job repairs as best it "knew" how
>essentially, this resulted in every instance of solver-victory manifesting a set of (typically severe) zombiedrone mutations upon birth, ones which they had to maintain through their entire lives lest they lose some crucial functionality needed for living in an exorcism
>some Sentinels would have perferred a miscarriage
>still... despite the horror the instinct was typically love from the zombie's unfortunate parents
>indeed this particular half of the "lost generation" is almost singlehandedly responsible the development of mutant rights legislation: parents throwing themselves into activism or agitation at the highest levels of government to save their children from the standing Kill on Sight orders
>of course this has done relatively little to save the results from anti-mutant discrimination, but heavy enforcement on the lart of their parents limits the effects to the psychological

>the tremendous morale blow dealt by these children, alongside the typical method used for obtinaining the needed parts, stands even now as a stain on the Corps and its reputation well into peacetime
>but the data gained still has use to some...
>use even beyond sating the curiosity of certain spectacled scientists
>those relationships formed between the two sides of this divide(sentinel-triumphant offspring with solver-triumphant ones) have learned from the mistakes of their parents and can now, even in the rare instance they attempt reproduction, limit the damage tremendously through use of a series of code manipulating tools during gestation
>and those relations more forbidden, those Sentinels who found connection with mutants or Sapiens or even the rare DD?
>those couples in particular thank every star in the sky and Terra's ruin and even old JCJ for their luck
>for such have seen the face of the Solver
>and they know, in the deepest pits of their heart
>it could have been worse

>>328927
>>328833
Salonanon here fr•¯€e me

Not sure how far I got with these, drew her around early November when I was still testing ideas for fridge drones before I came to a conclusion that people where getting a little too into the concept.

But to summarize the spider: fridge drone equivalent of those deep freezers people typically put in the garage for game meat, made to "collect the meat for you"

(ill see if i can find the original post about them)

>>328972
>Spoiler
Have you tried not thinking about the aliens? Here distract yourself with this drone

>>328974
Sorry cyn i dont care about your power scaling I got more emotional influence from an Afflicted afterimage then your entire backstory will ever give me.

>>328976
How about you distract yourself with this "drone" then?

>>328937
and someone called Y-nissy a sparkledrone

>>328927
>>328953
>0.5 OIL CONCENTRATE COSTS 1 OIL CONCENTRATE.
аж ты сука
I liked the greens (greens?), but there are some places where you had grammatical errors anon, e.g. it should be "more comfortable WITH paper and ink" instead of "more comfortable TO ink". Another example: "NEXT SHIFT YOU BARELY MAKE IT IN TIME WHEN THE ELEVATOR TO ARRIVE AND JUMP INTO IT." -> pretty sure it should be "when the elevator arrives". Unfortunately some of the concepts are most likely alien to the anons here and you can't really translate them well, but yeah. Hmm, I kinda want to do something with this or just the megastructure concept in general but fuck if I know when I'll get the time for it.

>>328992
mlem

>>328978
ok this argument is more compelling
still want a proper drone tho

>>328996
How proper is "proper?"

>>328998
>dies

>>328998
>after she pissed off the local nerd convention

>>328999
unsure if I have a good answer here, but i guess one of the canon characters so its fair

>>329002
Aaah, a man of discerning taste I see. How then about a tragic tale of growing horrors inplied from the very heart of cannon itself? I don't think we've ever actually seen a green that deals with this aspect of her storyline...

>>328939
within Fleshdrone's story he is canonically not a zombie drone actually, he's the son of a drone included in the solver patch experiment. he escaped to an abandoned drone repair warehouse and actively modifies himself. the reason for his flesh is due to him hunting disassembly drones (for sport!) for their cores and eating them resulting in the flesh around his core expanding around his body the ore he eats. he also likes to kidnap worker drones to modify them as his own little art projects.

>>328937
huh people like her, also forgot her tail

Some lore about Cupidrone
>She's an odd disassembler that got disconnected from Cyn's network
>That's why her eyes aren't yellow
>She's obsessed with the idea of love and uses holograms to manipulate people into falling for each other
>Spends most of her days daydreaming about how nice it would be if two people observed were to fall for each other and how perfect they would be together
>She likes to observe people from afar to judge who would match with who
>Most of her matchmaking efforts don't work, those that do end up working only happen due to coincidences or factors unrelated to her
>Takes it as a win if that happens
>Her hobbies include: flying, making cool holograms and matchmaking

>>329015
I think she had the last laugh

>>329017