Identification: robots not in disguise
Variants: technical cyborgs – they look the same, but have a yummy protein‐rich centre
Also Known As: Technobots, Electro‐Folk, or Mektoks
Origin: Universally Unique Planet ID
9W3A85‒u4_sb34En
| LOOKS: | have no aesthetic sense but do at least polish occasionally | C++ |
|---|---|---|
| BRAINS: | hugely logical, though with poor exception handling | 150 |
| LETHALITY: | being robotic makes it harder for them to produce idiomatic English sentences but easier for them to kill people | 0.75 |
| CULTURE: | perfectly organised to be efficient at doing nothing terribly constructive | 16 |
| HARDNESS: | much less interested in compiler optimisations than you'd expect | 4½ |
| TOKENISM: | machine tokenism | 62 |
Religion: soulless atheists, and often fanatical about converting others (at least for the soullessness part)
Lucky Number: two
Motto: DOES-NOT-COMPUTE
Weakness: even if they can manage stairs I'm sure they'd be stymied by a rope‐ladder
Affiliated With: the Union of Field Observers; also the most publicly active members of the Silicon Federation
Not To Be Confused With: the Mechanautoids (in disguise as robots)