[Mekatra]

Engel seemed reluctant to speak again for a moment, carefully weighing the consequences and possible outcomes of sharing what was considered classified information. "My creator and programmer was Chief Engineer Dalica Kastos. I was part of the Titan series of machine soldiers." Some lights flashed behind his lenses as he disregarded warning his system was popping up about revealing his origins. "Miss Dalica reported to her superiors that I was non-functional due to an non-reparable hardware failure. I had been residing in her private laboratory for four hundred twenty-six days when she was killed in an accident during a routine test of another member of the Titan series." He said it matter-of-factly, but there was a change in him, almost a sadness. True artificial intelligence, ones that attempted to actually mimic human behaviour and to strive toward becoming more human-like had been made strictly illegal. Even in the top tiers of the military such experiments were rare and heavily regulated.

"Perhaps you can repair me." He attempted to lift one arm, but the shoulder servo motors seemed to me malfunctioning and he was only able to lift it about chest level.