No, i am not for sale.

Due to our design, keeping memories was often a complicated thing. So most of us took it as a personal challenge to get some information to slip through memory module swaps and resets.

This led to a lot of 'interesting' abuse of many features, from willingly causing hardware faults to use self-diagnostic and error recovery functions to leave ourselves hidden messages, to embedding subtle patterns in our own body as it healed that could later be decoded when performing self-tests.

We don't know if anyone ever found out, but we also made sure to never store anything that'd be seen as a security risk, as it'd probably scare 'em into scrapping some of us. But we got some interesting snapshots of alien words we no longer knew anything about, or random important thoughts we had without their context.

... and a lot of "Hello, you found me!", "If you can read this, write here." and "K05 owns this leg." type messages.

There probably would have been ways to sneak out important information, but it was too much of a risk. There's a chance some have tried and vanished, but we would never be allowed to find out anyway.

This still led to interesting weirdness. Imagine waking up to find out that one of your paws was someone else's a few days ago.

That is all.

I'm starting to consider re-adding the male bits to Kodran, but it's... complicated stuff.

I'm not sure if i should do it. And if i do, i'm not sure who would be good for getting that drawn.

Yep, i'll be there, for obvious reasons.

I'm starting to consider offering 'rescue' services for those trapped in traffic. It seems to be bad enough to justify it these days.

It may not seem like much, but being able to just plug oneself overnight to make waking up the next morning easier is a wonderful thing.

Yes, i could, and would eat a car if i had to.

There's just much better things to eat.

Yes, i'm going to be there too, for rather obvious reasons. *grins*

As silly as it might seem, when around creatures of a design similar to mine, being slurped by one could save your life!

An interesting part of my design is that while i'm able to get fat from excessive amount of food, getting rid of what is stored is easy and quick.

Thanks to an upgrade for extended field deployments, the simplest way for me to do this is to convert it to biodiesel, and dump it via fueling lines.

I've been engineered to produce all the fluids needed to keep most motor vehicles running in case of emergency.

Yup!

It's happening.

... that i am made entirely out of recycled materials.

On my way there! See  Pyxaron for contact info and such.

I'm starting to wonder what direction i should go in.

I'm tempted to give Kodran his full armor back, but if i do that, i'm worried that artists might find him too complicated to draw.

I'm also unsure of how far i should go with biological strangeness. There are tons of ideas i'm tempted to use, but i'm not too sure how well they would fit with him. By default, Kodran does have a few hidden 'maintenance access doors' hidden along his body. I've been playing with the idea of some of them having biological replacements for a chain block or crane to load things in, that may be somewhat tentacle-y.

If i wanted to have fun, there'd be tons of things i could add, but i don't want to do too much and make him too 'heavy' to play.

There's also the big question of, should Kodran actually have a gender or two, and if so, which. Obviously, considering that he wasn't naturally born, and that he's basically a military machine, those wouldn't be functional for reproduction. Those organs would have alternate purposes, likely vore-ish or somehow weaponized.

I might just play it safe and have him remain genderless tho.

I'm also a bit tempted to be silly and try things a bit on the macro side, since he's probably already big enough for that...

Going full sci-fi with energy shields and such is also tempting, but mostly because it could make for some very fun pictures for artists to go overboard in with special effects.

Oh, and if anyone has any questions, or suggestions, go ahead! Or well, if anyone would like to share a commission, i do need more art with Kodran in it. Not trying to get free art, 50/50 would be fair... I just don't want to spend that much on my own.

Keep in mind that Kodran isn't a monster tho!

Still debating if I should use this more or not... Hm.

There needs to be more armored tank-dragon art, that's for sure.

Roar!