It was a logical decision. There were just over a thousand Teknosians at the time of Wang's visit. Joining brought them benefit. Not joining meant the continued lack of progress. A war would have further reduced their numbers and brought about no real benefit. So they joined the system of moons orbitting Mongo and built things for the Empire.
There were now 995 Teknosians, due to scientific curiosity and accidents.
Teknos had been introduced to a number of strange concepts since their joining. One, Yan had taught them about warfare. Defense, offense, and strategy. All odd concepts for a species that had never known conflict, but learned nonetheless.
Ted had been befriended by some of the odd Generals in his post as the Speaker For Teknos. The data he'd gathered had been disseminated and studied.
THX-1137 was one of Ted's "brothers" - which is to say that 1137 was created about the same time, and had been a Humaniform capable of transforming. His Core Unit couldn't be changed, but the outer housing could easily be so. THX-1137 had gone to the automated factories to discover why the robots being produced seemed to be of significantly different technological standards than was expected.
The answers were sent out via relay to all of Teknos, who stopped what they were doing to gawk at the data.
The clunky steam-driven factories had been replaced by quietly humming, gleaming chrome, automated factories that purred away where they had clanked before. 1137 requested logs from the main processors to discover that the Emperor had somehow done this. Mechanism unknown but it had occurred during a slideshow presentation of the Teknosian factories and the Emperor's stated designs for new robots and vehicles.
The exploration of the factories had produced many anomalous results, and after over a week, 1137 was prepared to make his final report on the matter.
He still had no idea how this had happened or why, but 1137 did have a handle on the 'what' end of things.
The new factories could still not produce a Teknosian. None of the machines were self-aware or independent when they left. They were considerably more advanced than Teknosian science could have previously produced but no immediate solution to the Teknosian problem seemed available.
New body stylings, on the other hand, were possible. Their Core Units could be fit into something that worked more like the bodies they'd had several downgrades ago - when they hadn't been able to replace their old bodies due to a lack of resources on their homeworld and key processes seemingly vanished.
1137 requested a trial run. He could extract the Core Unit from another Teknosian, then reinstall it into the new shape. Queries on potential shapes were requested.
847, a particularly old unit, provided data. They had accessed and recorded many of the Emperor's concepts about robots and researched them through the media of his former homeworld. A wealth of designs had been unearthed at that time. There was also this 'seraglio' thing to consider. Was this not a further opportunity to fulfill their duties to the Empire and gather more data besides?
Finally, 1241 began transit to the factory via Mongoian transport. 1241 was in need of major system overhaul anyway and was the logical choice for such a thing.
1137 extracted the softball-sized Core Unit without difficulty, and watched emotionlessly as the factory broke up the stained chrome of the previous housing. At the end of the factory, a new unit - shaped quite differently - was decanted a mere 35 minutes 14.0371 seconds after the initial design was chosen.
Everything checked out. 1241 was now a fully functional android patterned after:
(Posted Wed, 30 Apr 2003 13:36)
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