Worker Drones

description:

Worker Drones are autonomous robots created to help their parent company, JCJenson, mine exoplanets for resources. After the extinction of biological life on Copper 9, they started a society of their own.

appearance:

When first created by JCJenson to mine resources from exoplanets before Copper 9's explosion, all Worker Drones wore hard hats and orange jackets, with their only eye color being light blue. Following the core explosion of exoplanet Copper 9, all humans on the planet were wiped out, turning it into a winter-apocalyptic wasteland. Seizing this opportunity, the Worker Drones quickly picked up where the humans had left off, formed their colony, and embraced this newfound freedom by wearing human-like clothing and having different eye colors. Known colors they can have are red, orange, green, blue, cyan, aqua, magenta, pink, purple, and white. When a Worker Drone feels fear, shock or other intense emotion, their eyes become hollow, with a black circle overlaying the normally fully-colored eyes. A key trait to notice about the Worker Drones' eye colors is the total absence of yellow. This trait was thought to belong solely to the Disassembly Drones until it was revealed that they were once Worker Drones themselves and that their yellow eye color originates from the Zombie Drone, Cyn.

Visor messages:

Drones have two bright eyes on their visor that emotes. Under some circumstances, their eyes can be overridden by an error, status warning, or system message:

Absolute Solver symbol replacing one eye or covering entire visor:

Caused by the Absolute Solver awakening within the drone or being utilized. The Solver's glyph covering the entire drone's visor is caused when they fully initiate their Solver Form.

System messages briefly covering visor:

Caused by minor errors experienced by the drone.

Rampant error messages covering visor:

Caused by injecting wdOS_606, a core termination program, into the drone.

Warning sign on their visor:

This is caused by severe damage to the drone's visor like being pierced by a sharp object. It is also found on numerous deceased drones.

'HIGH TEMP' warning message/error on visor:

Accompanied by a warning sign. Self-explanatory, appears when a drone is overheating.

Red 'FATAL ERROR' text on visor:

This occurs when a drone dies, usually by external causes like severe hardware damage.

X shape replacing both eyes:

Used to signify that a drone has died.

elongated 'X' on visor:

Either caused when a faulty OS string is present or when an Absolute Solver host becomes violent and/or starts to transform into their Solver Form.

flashing 'ERROR 606' message on visor:

Accompanied by an elongated 'X'. This is caused by the removal of one or more core OS strings. Drones with this error are non-sentient, unresponsive, and immobile.

Buffering symbol replacing their entire visor:

Caused by being boot-looped by Sentinels. Like ERROR 606, drones with this error are non-sentient, unresponsive, and immobile.

Text on visor:

Can be generated at will to communicate without speaking. It is also used to display when a drone is in 'SLEEP MODE', as well as emoticons.

Games on visor:

Games like tetris can be played in one's screen.

swirl shape replacing both eyes:

This occurs when a drone feels dizzy.

Images:

Drones can also display images on their visor

nothing on visor:

If a drone's visor displays nothing, not even their eyes, it usually means that the said drone is dead.

Variants:

Worker Drones have different 'variants' like 'Zombie Drones' and 'Solver Hosts'

Zombie Drones:

In the case of any Worker Drone that has been rebooted, either by a human or on its own, runs the risk of becoming what is referred to by the company as a Zombie Drone as shown in a JCJenson VHS training tape. The video warns against the act of improperly disposing of a Worker Drone marked for disassembly due to the possibility that a drone may reboot without changes (70.3%), carry 'terminal lockout' (29%), or revive with 'potentially hazardous mutations' (0.7%), which can lead to human fatalities or injury. High federal fines may be incurred on the handler's behalf. N, V and J were Worker Drones that rebooted normally (as they had armbands indicating that they were marked for disassembly and were found by Tessa in a landfill), whereas Cyn was a Worker Drone that rebooted by herself with dangerous mutations, seemingly revived by the Absolute Solver, resulting in her becoming a full-fledged Solver Host

Untrained Neural Network:

An Untrained Neural Network is a premature Worker Drone that is put in infantile pods before being uploaded to a properly functional drone body. After the core collapse on Copper 9, this is noted to be the first stages of Worker manufacturing as, before, they were assumed to be made in factories by humans. For a new neural network to be born, 2 Worker Drone must both upload 50% of their source codes into an empty shell for their codes to fuse, creating the new personality. However, if either of the parent's code is infected with mutations, those mutations will pass onto their child.

Solver Hosts

Solver Hosts are Drones with the Absolute Solver infection/mutation.