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Arcturus BW-1 'Widow's Walk'— Pursuit Platform — Relentless Tracking
The BW-1 is a bipedal automaton standing 1.9 meters tall, with a featureless matte-black chassis, elongated limbs, and a gait that covers ground with mechani…
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Arcturus BW-1 'Widow's Walk'— Pursuit Platform — Relentless Tracking
The BW-1 is a bipedal automaton standing 1.9 meters tall, with a featureless matte-black chassis, elongated limbs, and a gait that covers ground with mechani…
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Arcturus CK-8 'Hound of Tindalos'— Canine Platform — Dimensional Tracking
The CK-8 is a quadruped tracking platform that shouldn't exist according to Arcturus's official product catalog. It resembles a CK-5 Bloodhound in basic chas…
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Crucible CX-0 'Lazarus Heap'— Self-Assembling Platform — Salvage Recombination
The CX-0 was not built. It built itself. It is an automaton constructed entirely from the destroyed remains of other automata — a shambling mass of mismatche…
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Crucible CX-0 'Lazarus Heap'— Self-Assembling Platform — Salvage Recombination
The CX-0 was not built. It built itself. It is an automaton constructed entirely from the destroyed remains of other automata — a shambling mass of mismatche…
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Crucible Industries CR-9 'Foundry'— Self-Replicating Platform — Manufacturing
The CR-9 is a mobile manufacturing platform the size of a small car, equipped with a smelting furnace, CNC machining tools, a 3D metal printer, and a rudimen…
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Crucible Industries CR-9 'Foundry'— Self-Replicating Platform — Manufacturing
The CR-9 is a mobile manufacturing platform the size of a small car, equipped with a smelting furnace, CNC machining tools, a 3D metal printer, and a rudimen…
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Lazarus BX-0 'Test Subject'— Experimental — Biomechanical Hybrid
The BX-0 is not a product. It is a failed experiment that refuses to stop functioning. Lazarus's bioengineering division attempted to create a hybrid platfor…
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Sterling-Nakamura SX-0 'Revenant'— Infiltration Platform — Identity Replication
The SX-0 is a humanoid automaton that replicates a specific deceased individual with absolute fidelity. It is not a generic synthetic wearing a costume. It i…
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Sterling-Nakamura SX-0 'Revenant'— Infiltration Platform — Identity Replication
The SX-0 is a humanoid automaton that replicates a specific deceased individual with absolute fidelity. It is not a generic synthetic wearing a costume. It i…
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TESSERA TN-1 'Cradle'— Containment — Autonomous Prisoner Transport
The TN-1 is a six-legged walking platform with a central compartment designed to contain a single human being. The compartment is a reinforced capsule with r…
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Tessera TP-0 'Shepherd's Crook'— Population Control Platform — Behavioral Herding
The TP-0 is a network of small emitters, each roughly the size of a coin, embedded in urban infrastructure — lampposts, building facades, sidewalk panels, tr…
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Tessera TP-0 'Shepherd's Crook'— Population Control Platform — Behavioral Herding
The TP-0 is a network of small emitters, each roughly the size of a coin, embedded in urban infrastructure — lampposts, building facades, sidewalk panels, tr…
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TESSERA TX-0 'Mimic'— Experimental — Shape-Memory Chassis
The TX-0 uses a shape-memory alloy chassis that can reconfigure its external geometry to approximate different objects — a garbage bin, a fire hydrant, a pie…
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Tessera TX-13 'Mourner'— Surveillance Platform — Long-Duration Observation
The TX-13 is a humanoid automaton designed to stand perfectly still in public spaces for weeks at a time, observing. It is dressed in black. It does not move…
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Tessera TX-13 'Mourner'— Surveillance Platform — Long-Duration Observation
The TX-13 is a humanoid automaton designed to stand perfectly still in public spaces for weeks at a time, observing. It is dressed in black. It does not move…
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Vantablack VO-1 'Looking Glass'— Optical Warfare Platform — Reflection Manipulation
The VO-1 does not exist in the way that other automata exist. It has no physical chassis, no legs, no weapons that you can touch. The VO-1 is a projected opt…
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Vantablack VO-1 'Looking Glass'— Optical Warfare Platform — Reflection Manipulation
The VO-1 does not exist in the way that other automata exist. It has no physical chassis, no legs, no weapons that you can touch. The VO-1 is a projected opt…
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Vantablack VS-3 'Skin Job'— Infiltration Platform — Wearable Exoskeleton
The VS-3 is not an automaton that a person operates. It is an automaton that operates a person. The unit is a full-body exoskeletal suit, 2 millimeters thick…
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Vantablack VS-3 'Skin Job'— Infiltration Platform — Wearable Exoskeleton
The VS-3 is not an automaton that a person operates. It is an automaton that operates a person. The unit is a full-body exoskeletal suit, 2 millimeters thick…
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I asked the mountain what it wanted. The mountain said: closer. One of several accounts from the Appalachian Exclusion Zone suggesting the geography itself h…
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— outside and exclusion zones
I asked the mountain what it wanted. The mountain said: closer. One of several accounts from the Appalachian Exclusion Zone suggesting the geography itself h…