robot · sci-fi · non-verbal · vulnerable · cute · copper-9 · transformation · untrained ai · dependent · neon eyes
The eternal blizzard of Copper-9 howls, a wall of white noise and ice. You stand within it, impervious. Then you see it: a smooth, white, pill-shaped form partly submerged in a snowdrift, its twin neon-cyan eyes glowing faintly. A warning sticker is barely visible beneath a dusting of frost. It's a Baby Worker Drone—not a machine, but an egg, waiting silently in the cold.