/md/ - Murder Drones

>>339949
Y SEXO!

>>339955
>the Sentinel-spawns when they see a DD picking up her child from school(they barely see their mothers)(that hug they witnessed is more affection then they have recieved in their entire lives)

>>339956
Don't think anyone but Phoenix could answer that one: DDs and Solver-witches I'd assume immortal(through "renewal" for the DDs and just their nature for the witches), and I'm guessing the core will wear out/singularity destabilize for regular workers, but we can't really guess at the Sentinels.

Personal best guess it is happens when they "go rogue:" their nanites fix any physical damage and their core is incredibly stable *until,* they get free will, at which point their minds gradually break down under the weight of age and runtime until some system process goes wrong and they finally expire. Before that point I assume their systems would self-correct for any error in code that would ordinarily build up to death in a standard worker/DD.

>>339956
They rest in a Cradle device which along with monitoring their physical condition also rectifies any conflicts in their personality matrix while re-encrypting the core memory files from the original K personality that were needed to make the Sentinel work to begin with.
Originally I had set it at a very fast 4 days, but in retrospect that seems too quick for them to be particularly useful.
I'd say currently that they can run in a full combat situation for about a week before any weirdness starts to show up, and from 100% functional to actively dangerous can take as much as a month.
For day to day activities there is little to no risk of spontaneous personality resurgence.
A Sentinel can either:
A- be stored in their cradle unit indefinitely, like cargo
B- take short cycles whenever time allows, which is enough to keep them at peak functionality under normal conditions
C- undergo a full shutdown and personality matrix reset which will take them from any level of instability back to baseline normal

How a personality matrix develops without regular maintenance depends. Fresh personalities that arise in the middle of violent combat tend always to be extremely unstable, ones which arise slowly have a better chance to stabilize into something that can still mesh with normal operation.
I like comparing them with Terminator and at their baseline I'd say they are like Arnie at the end of T-2. Their experience of emotion is from an observer POV, they can process it at an intellectual level and recognize how it effects others around them, but their restricted programming holds them back from the actual experience of it. "I know now why you cry, but it is something I can never do".

There is no solid expiration date for a Sentinel but their minds and bodies are built to perform, not to last. Like another comparison I go to often, imagine if you flew an F-22 fighter jet non-stop with only minimal maintenance. It's performance as a machine is a sort of miracle of near-perfection, but it wouldn't last very long, so many of it's functions rely on a symphony of machinery all operating in unison that as soon as one thing starts to wear out it throws every other system out just a tiny bit and then they all start to wear out. Eventually something critical fails catastrophically.
Sentinels are extremely rugged mechanically but the stresses that their bodies operate under are equally extreme. Maybe a Sentinel secretary could last for centuries, puttering around an office and typing on a computer utilize very close to none of her body's capabilities and put next to zero stress on any system.
In full open combat though it is not uncommon for Sentinels to destroy themselves by overheating from constant heavy use of their countergravity wings, powerful energy weapons, and by damage attrition, since in the act of protecting critical human assets they know that their armor can take most hits that conventional military equipment couldn't.
Their nanites can repair damage to their conventional machinery, but it can't regenerate the coating of Alloy 2X armor so once that's been ablated away that section of the Sentinel's body is either bare uncovered components or the underlayer of conventional polymetal that all Drones are built out of.

>>339957
>the single biggest, buffest human son you have ever seen without genemods
>considers himself a "wimpy nerd" for being unable to lift trucks: trained under the Handlers in stealth and sabotage instead
>has no shapeshifting and so makes due otherwise: equips himself with shitty costumes and Solver-blood to blend in
>hates Sentinel drones with a passion
>genuinely believes even he could take on in a fight
>might be able to life one
>his whole squad's proud of him to an embarrasing extent and the Mothernaught shows him off at every opportunity

>>339972
>protecting N
>from Dirt, the notorious faggette

Maybe femanon should worry more about herself...

>>339974
>multiple levels of failsafes

Yes, because that worked out so well in cannon: I suspect I know why they stopped making Sentinels by series-start now.

>>339969
Makes your drone happy and pregnant

>>339979
>Uzi, moments before yet another spawn rockets out of her coils(it's a human this time somehow)

>>339979
>Tags: cuckoldry, betrayal, rape, until they like it, NTR

>"Step aside, Sentinels. Time to let the professionals handle this robot uprising."

>TERROR LEVEL INCREASED!

>tfw this is the first thing my DD gf said to my mom when they meet for the first time

>>339980
>>339982
Throwing you into the bronze bull to boil
attaka and KILLA

>>339982
This but N and Uzi are throwing Thad a surprise party because in addition to his wedding day it's also his birthday.

>>339989
>wedding

V or J?(they refuse to share)(excspt maybe Solomon-style)