#boneyard

Boneyard : they/them - bat and tiger fuzior

Packrat : she/her - rat with acid spit

mimi-cry : she/her - spider and wasp fuzior

Video: Aerial view of the "Boneyard" (officially the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group) at Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson, Arizona

👑Warrior & Ruler

Day 41 - Bloodfang Watcher

Day 41- Bloodfang Watcher

Y'see, mechs get retired the same as pilots. There's only so much stress you can pump through a synethic core bundle before it fails to integrate combat systems properly and starts to lag. By that point, there's usually a new model anyway - a faster nerve track, better pylon designs, a new armour compound - something that leaves the defective platform outmoded.

So they ship the mech off the line and demob it. It's stripped of useful parts, materials, even most of the armatures and actuators. They break it down to the absolute basics, and then they put it in an arid storage facility to sit until one horrible day when the reserve might need activating.

They can't kill the mech, though. Even a synthetic intelligence has recognition as a person. But the mech doesn't own its own body or any of its constituent parts. So they have all these cores lined up in rows, out in a desert, unable to move or speak or find each other.