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Voted.
Max. of course.
Max. of course.
[[ really, most of the content is in the narrative i'm writing so enjoy dweeb sci fi ]]
R&D 112,56 was established during the events of Seventh Population, when the Southeast Sector of Manufact Industries came to use.
Initially maintained by primitive automatons, the area was low-tech and could be comparable to Industrial Revolution conditions until the reformation. However, the living populace were still being hired for work, so the Overseer of Southeast Sector began an experiment in automaton evolution.
Third Model (three-M) was established as the most worthless. When turned on, it ran sixteen NOP instructions, then the evolution algorithm that produced the next model, and then short-circuited.
Ninety-Second Model (nine-two-M) was the first self-sustaining bipedal - it could obtain its fuel without human intervention, although its service time came to an abrupt end when it accidentally identified its own fuel reserve as a source and ripped it out.
Two-Hundred-and-Seventy-Sixth Model (two-hundred-M, for brevity) was the final optimal product (bipedal/quadrapedal, decent agility, rudimentary AI), emerging a mere fifteen minutes before the chief residents of R&D 112,56 were to arrive. Upon being told this, 200-M reacted by performing an interpretive dance first evolved 130 generations ago.
The Overseer shut it off, satisfied that he was soon going to cash in on a £75 bet with the East Overseer.
200-M's automatic evolution was interrupted by the residents when they noticed "a robot about to fucking give birth. That's fucking hilarious but probably we should shut it off? Yeah? Alright", and they then repurposed the entire unfortunate posse of 276 automatons for playing practical jokes.