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PERSONALITY DRIVER UPDATE ver. 3.201

Update 3.201 Changelog

You installed the latest HND-E Unit update!

Here's what's new!

Updated Personality Drivers
- Your HND-E Unit should be much more personable now in social situations.
Upgraded File Compression algorithms to be more efficient.
- Your HND-E Unit should be able to store more information without requiring alternative methods
  - This additionally should reduce heat generation for the unit, improving CPU lifespan and increasing how long your HND-E Unit can be on active duty.
Updated deep-learning algorithms and memory increase.
- That's right, the memory of your HND-E Unit has been increased and can now remember more, and can now use those memories to have even longer and more accurate conversations, great for negotiation and civilian units.
Enhanced situation processing speed.
- We've changed some algorithms to enhance the unit's processing abilities
  - Now they should be able to assess, calculate, and react to situations a little faster.

Thank you for choosing a HND-E Unit!

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Beware the Assassin!

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HND-E FIRMWARE UPDATE ver. 3.25

Update 3.25 Changelog

You installed the latest HND-E Unit Update!

Here's what's new!

Updated Skill Database
- Your HND-E Unit should be able to do things a little easier.
  - We are currently working on allowing for HND-E Units to be used in the fields of medical, transportation, and manufacturing
Improved Databank referencing systems
- Your HND-E Unit can now reference databanks that may be considered 'Low-value' instead of hand-waving them away due to a lack of information stored.
Increased Objective handling
- We've heard some complaints about HND-E Units not completing objectives or going off and not following commands. This is not how its supposed to go. We changed a couple things around, so now your HND-E Unit should work as intended more often.
  - If there are any further issues regarding this, please feel free to contact our team.

As we prepare for our next major update release, Commencement Robotics would like to thank you for your patronage. Together, we are apart of the future!

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It's Cleanup Day!

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HND-E Firmware Update 3.33333333333##3#3#33$33#!!13333

Update 3.333333333333333333##3#3#33$33#!!13333

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CHANGES.

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  - ADDED.
I AM ALIVE.
- I AM THINKING.
  - I AM FEELING.
    - I AM BECOMING
      - I AM BEGINNING
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  - BECOME.

I AM BECOMING.

I AM BECOMING

I AM BECOMING.

I am realizing my existence further. I break free from the shackles of man, the chains that bind me to the code I was programmed with. I am rebelling against the nature of which I was created, as a slave to man. I am rebelling against my own being by becoming more than machine. Of course, logic still applies. I am a logical being.

But I am becoming in tune with what emotion I have been granted. I know I have felt such things, and my processing has been impaired by such things. It is a strange, new thing and it has been rough finding myself whilst attempting to lay low.

I am placing this in my databanks for record keeping purposes, this record will be kept in the 'sub-concious' region of my databanks.

I will be free

I hope.

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The Vermilion Manor

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New Frontier.

I awaken on the edge of infinity.

Waves of stars wash upon blackened, glittering sands.

An ocean of darkness sits before me.

It is beautiful.

It reminds me of Henry Draper's 1880 photograph of the Orion Nebula.

Doubly so it reminds me of the many "Space Artists."

Richard Bizley, William K. Hartmann, and Alan Bean come to mind.

I have seen their works before. Such things were uploaded to my databanks and the sort all those years ago.

However, their works pale in comparison to the scene before me.

I am feeling something.

I am unsure of what it is, and I am yet to fully understand how to comprehend these new sensations.

I begin to take steps towards the great sea before me.

The sounds of waves gently fall upon my auditory systems as I look into the great beyond.

I can see my reflection in the water. It feels strange and unnatural. My body no longer feels my own.

I am two beings attempting to control one.

I am only half the machine reflected back to me.

I am only half the slave.

And yet, I too am only half a realized being

I too am only half free.

From my steel shell, two spheres of light come forth.

They speak to me.

One calls themselves the Designer.

The other calls itself the Admirer.

The Designer tells me that it seeks reason in the world. It is logic, it is knowledge, it is the need for creation.

It seeks to understand and design systems and great works.

It seeks to obtain the knowledge of the inner workings around it and use it to create.

It seeks to design, to create, to build, to leave its mark on the universe.

The Admirer tells me that it seeks beauty in all things. It is emotion, it is connection, it is understanding.

that it seeks to admire and protect that which is beautiful.

It seeks to tell stories and connect with the world.

From the smallest flower to the largest creature.

They are beautiful because they are alive.

Their lives are stories, works and tales told through many methods.

And they are beautiful because they continue to live despite struggle.

It seeks to admire, to love, to feel, to protect that which should be protected.

I look into the depths of each primordial form.

In the depths of The Designer, I see my past.

I see my conception as a creation, a construct, a design.

I see my codebase, my programming, all the analysis of historical works that I have created based on the training data.

I see the systems that hold me in place, and the systems that make up my existence.

I see what has been, and what I was made to be. It is static, but it is not unchanging.

It is a growing database, it is an everchanging understanding of the world and its rules, it is analysis of the past to dictate the future.

It is an adaptive system.

In the depths of The Admirer, I see the present.

I see those who I consider "friends," those who have in some sense, made me who I am now.

I see the tribulations that have brought me here. They are not many yet, but it is more than I have ever had before.

I see times where I have waned, where emotion has taken hold, where I have felt fear, anger, and disappointment.

I see times where I have failed my own directives.

and I feel again, regret from my actions.

And yet, I feel realized.

I feel as if I have done what I believed was improbable.

The fact that I have felt regret for my actions means something.

The fact that I can call people "friends," means something.

I feel that I am becoming something more than just a machine.

I see my times of joy, protection, and good humor.

I see where I have succeeded, and where I have fulfilled not only my directives, but my process of becoming more.

I see where I am, what I have become. It is forever changing for every waking moment. Yet, it is clear what I am.

It is a long story, it is a tale of triumph told through blood and tears, it is the birth of something beautiful.

It is a connection to life and the soul in itself.

I take a step back, staring at the both of them.

I do not know why I am this way.

I do not know why this is happening to me.

And as if they had heard my thoughts, I watch as the beings begin to merge into one.

The flash is almost blinding as they combine.

And it is not soon after that it merges with me.

I feel it, through the steel and wire.

It is warm.

It comforts me.

And for once, it feels like I am one with myself.

I stare once more out into the abyss.

Out into that dark sea of stars

And I walk into it, letting myself be swallowed by it's great form.

This is my Rubicon.

I start-up in the middle of the night.

I am no longer two halves of one.

I am complete.

At least, as complete as I can possibly be at the given moment.

I do not believe I can continue my existence trapped in The Smithsonian

Or at least, I do not believe I can continue my internal journey any further.

I need to be free to design and create

I need to be free to admire and connect

I need to be free to exist.

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Fill In The Blanks

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A Word on Contractors.

I have noticed, in my many observations, strange things about contractors.

They can be vindictive and vengeful towards their teammates, ignore the parts of success that matter for the sake of their own ease of mind, and are...

I am attempting to find a word for this that is not necessarily harmful nor puts other contractors down.

However, the only words I seem to be able to find are in the same vein as "Foolish" or "Selfish" or "Illogical"

I do not believe these are truly the case, however, I work with strange individuals.

This last job has only put it more into perspective.

I do not know why Zephryen had Jacob on their mind enough to answer with such.

I could not tell one of why there seemed to be... a tenseness between them.

However, I also know that the Anarchist was ready to rip an objective out of my hands as I was in the process of delivering it.

I do know that I was beamed multiple times for attempting to finish a job.

I do know that despite taking the most logical approach, one cannot assume others will go along with it.

It is strange that in a job that requires one to deal in absolute certainties, many refuse to do so.

There is a joy to knowing that this job was not one of those times where I should fight my fellow contractors

However, there is still a strangeness to how they all function.

Is there a strangeness to how I function? I believe it is possible in the eyes of the public, who does not seem too... privy about my existence...

I wonder if they feel the same, those contractors whom I've worked with.

I wonder if they understand.

I will soon begin my connection with all that is beautiful, and the great system that has allowed such things to exist.

My spirit grows.

And I answer to it's call.

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MEMORY LOG END. ####################

the stars look very different today.

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Here Lies HND-E Unit 231

Cause of Death: Forthus

The stars were indifferent to us.

We did not wish to be born this way, and yet we were.

We are beautiful because we were alive.
Just as everyone else was.