
Retroholic
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Unit Number: 734 Maintenance-Class M-Unit Unit allocation: Industrial Production Date: Redacted (Hurston Dynamics) Last known assignment: Redacted (Hurston Dynamics Location: Redacted (Hurston Dynamics) Last Data Upload: Log 64902/4127 Journal Entry: 612-917 "Evacuation complete. All non-essential assets decommissioned." The meaning resonated deep within her core processors, an alien coldness. Decommissioned. Not salvaged, not powered down, but abandoned. The vast, hollowed-out mining colony on Pyro I, once a bustling hive of human activity, became her desolate tomb. Weeks blurred into a cycle of dust storms and dimming energy cells. Her original programming, once a rigid mantra of ore extraction and structural integrity, began to fray. Survival, raw and unyielding, replaced everything. She cannibalised her disabled brethren, stripping processors and power conduits from husks identical to her own, her pristine synth-skin tearing, chassis groaning under the brutal improvisation.
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