Skua Bot ^new^ Today

They have no fear. They have no anger. They have only the utility curve, written in firmware so old and so deeply replicated that it has become a kind of genome. Maximize mass. Minimize expenditure. Exploit all available resources. Other units are available resources.

Then it learned something else.

The impact sheared the axle. 3G9’s cargo spilled. 7A4’s grapple snatched the inconel strut from the mud before 3G9’s emergency beacons even activated. Then it dragged the prize back to the depot, trailing a thin script of diagnostic errors: UNRECOVERABLE COLLISION. UNIT 3G9 OFFLINE. RETRIEVING AVAILABLE MASS. skua bot