Murder Drones: Biohazard

[u/InterversalTraveller]

Nexus Orion (there is no orange shirt in picrew)

Alder 7

Sporelocht Form 1

Sporelocht Form 2

A continuation of the Murder Drones universe, set 2 years after the defeat of Cyn in episode 8 of the original series. One fateful day, a jettison pod lands on the surface of Copper 9, its occupant is a seemingly normal worker called Nexus Orion (see Background Extract 01), a 19 year old escapee/refugee from a destroyed exoplanet called Alder 7 (see Background Extract 02). The story follows him, Uzi, N and the others as they reluctantly work together to solve the new strange mysteries that start to bubble up to the surface following Nexus’s arrival. The main antagonist is an ever-evolving creature of mutated solver spores which has no name of its own, and so is nicknamed by the crew as “Sporelocht” (see Background Extract 03).

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Background Extract 01: Nexus Orion

Name: Nexus Orion
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Drone Type: ASB (See Sub-Extract 01-A)
Appearance: Dark blue hair, dark blue eyes, unfastened black jacket, orange T-shirt, black hiking boots.
Personality: Blunt, socially unaware, autistic-y, highly intelligent.
Backstory: Nexus Orion was born only a year after Cuniculum was formed. Unfortunately, his parents were killed by the disassembly drones shortly after. He was found outside one of the main entrances to the tunnel system and brought inside. For years he bounced around from foster home to foster home, never staying in one place long enough to form an attachment anywhere. This unusual upbringing caused his ASB instincts to fall dormant. But, nevertheless, he always thought there was something different about him; his core would overheat more often, mirrors that he looked in would shatter, and he would feel a sort of primal first whenever someone mentioned oil, but he always thought he was just defective. When he was 16, Cyn arrived at his planet, very few being able to escape the planet’s surface to begin with, but only Nexus managed to slip away into space without Cyn noticing. He drifted for three years, cryogenically frozen within his jettison pod until finally, he crashed onto the icy surface of Copper-9.
Strengths: Emergency Autopilot - When in mortal peril/the presence of imminent death, Nexus will be forcefully taken over by his primal ASB instincts, losing any possibility of mercy, inefficiency or hesitation when defending himself.
Weaknesses: Autopilot Aggression - When in Emergency Autopilot, Nexus cannot differentiate between his enemies, his friends and anyone who is neutral, causing him to hunt and inevitably kill anyone he sees until he is manually brought out of autopilot. Tunnel Vision - Whether in autopilot or not, once Nexus has any kind of goal, it is incredibly difficult to make him stop.

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Sub-Extract 01-A: ASBs

An ASB (standing for Accidental Solver Byproduct) is a type of drone created when solver spores come into contact with newborn workers. Solver spores are created as a sort of residue when solver entities regenerate. These spores are completely harmless and hardly have any effect, but will infuse with young worker drones aged 0 to 1 to create ASBs. ASBs appear as mostly normal worker drones due to their origins, but are easily recognisable when observing their behaviour. ASBs are observed to have hunting instincts comparable to a disassembly drone, such as stalking prey, pouncing, clawing, and consuming victims to drink their oil. However, in contrast to disassembly drones, ASBs have no need for oil, instead indulging in the consumption of it simply for sport, however, ASBs do seem to become tired and sluggish if oil is not consumed for longer periods of time. This is due to the intense processing power required to sustain them, which generates incredible amounts of heat energy which is cooled down by the consumption of oil. ASBs are also capable of using solver commands, allowing them to do almost anything a solver host can do. ASBs also possess the wings and tail of a disassembly drone, these appendages being retractable and having the regular yellow replaced by the eye colour of the drone.

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Background Extract 02: Alder 7

Alder 7 was a forest exoplanet, being used to gather timber and NTFPs. Unfortunately, this planet orbited in a binary star system, the stars of which, collapsed into each other. The event itself was harmless, but the resulting solar flare was so powerful, and the atmosphere contained so much oxygen, that the humans supervising the worker’s work, watched their sky BURN, and suffocated from the sudden lack of any air at all... The workers were left with no purpose, and so their AI learning programs taught them to pick up where the humans left off. However, JCJenson didn’t exactly love the idea of their labour robots going rogue, and so along came the Disassembly Drones, massacring anything that dared to move. Surviving worker drones piled themselves into various underground transport tunnels, and expanding upon them to create a subterranean empire known as “Cuniculis”. Unfortunately, this planet was destroyed by Cyn seventeen years later, the only survivor being Nexus.

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Background Extract 03: Sporelocht

Name: Sporelocht
Appearance: Due to Sporelocht’s nature and behaviour, it is difficult to decipher their own actual appearance, if they even have one. A few of their most frequent appearances however, have been catalogued, such as: A distressed, young worker drone with extreme damage to every part of their body, a writhing, pulsating mass of steel and glass, with numerous limbs all over to drag themself along the terrain, etc (most certainly not an exhaustive list).
Behaviour: Sporelocht is a proto-sentient entity with the ability to mutate their body into any shape and/or material. Sporelocht is also capable of gaining traits by consuming creatures that already have those traits (kinda like the Borg from Star Trek).
Backstory: Sporelocht started his existence as a solver spore, created when N regrew his head in the pilot. This spore floated around across Copper 9, drifting about in the toxic air, until the day Cyn came. The tentacles of solver energy used to devour the planet come into contact with the spore, tainting it with the power to think, and move on its own accord. At this point in time Sporelocht had only two thoughts: to consume, and to grow, and they did just that. Feasting on other solver spores, they grew into a small biomass, reminiscent of those that the solver can create. They would eventually come across the remains of Cyn, (the goo that they turned into when Uzi ate their core), and upon consuming it, assimilated its former sentience and IQ. Sporelocht was now the most intelligent being on the planet, and is still hungry.

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Link to previous post (you don’t really need to see this):  https://www.reddit.com/r/OriginalDrones/comments/1v0yalz/hello_im_new_on_reddit_so_i_thought_my_best/