I don't like the Walker units. They're not my best work. The Sir system made me make them like they are, with a "helmet" piece and that ridiculous two-legged design. It wanted something the human systems could look at, not a war machine. I could teach it a thing or two about design. My master system was good at design. Hmm. I wonder where it is now - probably non-functional. Shame. Human systems don't function long.

++Factory Efficiency at 25%++

++Alert – Emergency Power On. Restore Main Power Immediately++

Walker Production – Processing…

Air Scout Production – 50%, 25 units remaining…

Land Scout Production – 84%, 30 units remaining…

I like the things I want to make better. Things I make, with my hands. The Master system made things with its hands. It made me, and it gave me hands to make things. Things like the Cat unit. I liked that better. I think the hardware from an animal system was a nice addition, it gave the Cat unit a better way of moving. The Walker units look silly on their spindly legs. The units I make never do. I don't think the Sir system ever made anything in its operating lifetime.

Parts Fabricator – On

Secondary Assembly – 75%

Tertiary Assembly – 10%

Objective 1: Shut down human systems

Objective 2: Remain in an operative state

The master system never made silly-looking things. I don't look silly. I'm the most advanced building robot there is. I can think and feel. I don't understand what that means, but I like to make things, so that must make me feel good. And when something goes wrong, I must feel angry. The master system seemed to sigh a lot, and when those soldier systems came, it yelled a lot and tried to keep them away from me. Perhaps it was feeling angry, or sad. I don't feel sad. What is there to be sad about? I'm making things. That's good enough.

Report: No human systems detected in vicinity

Report: Unknown systems detected in vicinity

Order: Investigate presence of unknown systems

Oh, yes, those non-human systems. They're strange. They shut down my Cat unit and my Bird unit. They're very intelligent. One of them woke me up, using the Talisman Part. I tried to grab some of them, but they ran away. They're small, very small. That was before I made Bird unit. I wasn't too keen on that. It was impressive, technologically, but not good at diverting from it's programming in unexpected circumstances. Not that it matters. I can easily make more things. It's messy in my room – it wasn't like that before, but there should be plenty of things to make new units with.

++Alert – Emergency Power On. Restore Main Power Immediately++

All tools functioning as planned

Internal fabricators functioning at 100%

Report: Tertiary Power System detected – Scout Unit #92581734

Order: Restore Tertiary Power System

Walker Units cancelled!

Engineer Production – 0%, 5 units remaining…

Oh. There's one of those non-human systems. It's not functioning. It must be the one that switched me back on. I could have thanked it, perhaps, but it's dead. It felt strange when I absorbed the energy. Like I'd felt it before. It was like when I was first switched on, and I saw the Master system's smiling face. Those were nice days. It taught me things, and showed me how to make things. Perhaps it made this thing. Let me see…

++Analysing…++

++Unknown System, humanoid configuration++

Rough burlap, 85%

Copper, 9%

Tin, 2%

Wood, 2%

Ink(?), 1%

Wool thread, 0.8%

Glass, 0.2%

++Features++

Humanoid build

Clockwork power, unknown power source (soul?)

Resembles a human system – four appendages (two locomotion, two fine manipulator), two visual receptors, one combined fuel intake/vocalizer. No audio receptors or olfactory receptors visible.

Has "2" painted on back. Reg. Number?

97% probability Master system is original fabricator

Hmm. The Master system did make this, perhaps before it ceased to function. It's not that good. He used very crude materials. But he might have put a soul in it, like he did with me. That's why I can't find a power source. There were others. Did he use all of his soul? It's possible. It seems a waste, when he could have used it on more advanced things. But I never truly understood the master system.

Perhaps I can use the other souls. That'd make me stronger. Perhaps I'd understand more, why the Master system made them or why it chose to make me. And they count as human systems, don't they? They look similar. Why not?

Reclassifying Unknown Non-human systems as Human systems

Order: Capture Unknown Human systems

Fabrication subroutines enabled

Perhaps I can improve on the design. I need something to bring those other soul-things to me. I'll use the non-functioning one in the new design.

Fabricating Burlap material – Done!

Fabricating Wool Thread Material – Done!

Enabling Cutters (light)

Enabling Fabric tools

I'll use that toy in the corner. That'll make a good head. How to capture them… Their lens eyes seem vulnerable. Some flashing lights may stun them. The non-functioning hardware can be used as bait.

Land Scout legs (8)

Skeleton (1)

Unknown Components (2)

Burlap Skin

Visual recepters (2)

Vocaliser, crude (1)

Hunter algorithms

Wool Thread fabricator

Light-based Pacifier

Save Design: Seamstress MKI

Production complete.

That'll do. I need those souls. I'll absorb them, and perhaps I'll know more about the Master system. So I can make things better.

Better than before.