088 – Bogus, the Miner

Awakening usually was a thing reserved to the more advanced robots. Not necessarily the newest nor sleek and stylish, but just advanced enough to work, often with complex half-biological wetwares, limited AI or advanced neural network. Or so everyone, including the robots, believed for a time as it held true – the Spark was hitting only the machines complex enough that the emergent intelligence wasn’t even that surprising! But then, “lesser” machines were waking up to thoughts way too complex for the primitive printed circuit boards to be able to handle. In many it caused peculiar effects – madness, to be more direct. In others, it made a bit of a mess, shutting down other systems to facilitate every iota of data for this new functionality. Some robots became mute, some even completely inert, new intelligence trapped in a body without a motive force. Others though emerged unscathed, seemingly fully functional despite some of the robotic philosophers claiming that it should not be possible. Simple worker bots. Old automata. Even ancient battle droids, which never had any functional programming to begin with, as they were merely vessels to be controlled via remote stations. Spark was evolving. Growing more potent. That became the dominant conclusion amongst the thinkers of the ruined realms. It was learning to adapt to any mechanical form, overcoming obstacles one by one. Soon, perhaps, every piece of machinery more complex than a calculator might find itself invigorated to a new world of sapience…