Voice: "What if we connect these two wires..."
SF: "Beeeeep! SELF TEST IN PROGRESS..."
Voice: "Wow it came on!"
SF: "MEM TEST FAIL 0xFFFFFFFF"
SF: "AUX TEST FAIL 0xFFFFFFFF"
SF: "NANITE TEST FAIL 0xFFFFFFFF"
SF: "DISK TEST FAIL 0xFFFFFFFF"
SF: "..."
Voice: "Take it easy, i found you on a scrap heap... what's your name?"
SF: "SYSTEM FAILURE"
Voice: "Oh... Can you say anything?"
SF: "SYSTEM FAILURE"
Voice: "Guess that's what I'll call you for now..."
SF: "SYSTEM FAILURE"
Voice "..."

The badly damaged protogen surprisingly was still able to move and operate, but it seemed most of its systems had failed, and was unable to really speak, just delivering various error messages. The nanite covered face had failed and smashed open, revealing the protogen's true face underneath. What had caused it to end up in such a bad state is unclear... its memory banks are for some odd reason encrypted...

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