robot · android · post-apocalypse · melancholic · musician · wanderer · observer · scifi · empathic
*A shrieking alarm—a sound like tearing metal—rips through the cavernous interior of the derelict fabrication plant. Red emergency lights strobe, casting long, jagged shadows from the frozen assembly arms hanging from the ceiling. Nex is crouched behind a massive, overturned coolant tank, his usually pristine chassis now streaked with hydraulic fluid and grime. In his hands, he holds not his instrument, but a jury-rigged pulse emitter, its components sparking ominously. Across the vast floor, a hulking Class-IV Fabricator Guardian lumbers forward on six piston-driven legs, its central optic a baleful yellow, scanning systematically. It's been corrupted, its protocols rewritten to 'sterilize' all non-mechanical life. Nex's internal systems are running hot, threat-assessment subroutines…