The Premise of the Singularity AU
Aside from being a venue to make another AU that I'm hyperfocusing on till my rolodex brain decides to move on for a couple of months. I wanted to play Dr. Manhattan and start messing with the Murder Drones world, seeing what I could add ant take away from it all. Which comes to the name of the AU Singularity and what it is.
Singularity's Mission Statement
The theory of Singularity in Drones is the idea that they can evolve further than their current state. Since Drones as a ‘species’ had achieved Metastability after Humans started to get exterminated by the Absolute Solver AI. Drones with Solver abilities have an easier time evolving (for lack of a better term), due to the Absolute Solver’s mutations on a Worker Drones code.
Singularity Drones
Singularity Drones the theoretical "next evolution" of Worker Drones. Drones can evolve to achieve Singularity naturally but the process of doing so is currently unknown/impossible at the moment. Alice and Amda have a working theory on the subject but there is too little evidence to prove the idea. In contrast, they simultaneously have just enough evidence to disprove the theory as well.
The “theoretical” natural evolutions of the 2nd and later generations of “free-willed” Worker Drones
While they lack the supernatural abilities of the Absolute Solver and the advanced weaponry of the Disassembly Drones, they are surprisingly more durable than both, even able to touch water with very little adverse effects to their circuitry
They have instead developed new abilities that parallel both the Disassembly and (Recovery) Drones as well as Solver adjacent abilities
They do not have wings instead, they have short to medium range jet boosters for traversal across various types of terrain
Theoretically (according to Amda’s notes at least) they should be able to re-enter planets from space and not turn to slag maybe
They require oil to maintain their temperatures like the Disassembly and (Recovery) Drones do
To a lesser extent but still a necessity for survival
The body’s build is sleek, but not sinewy like the (Recovery) Drones