Species: Unresting Miner
Family: Automaton
Risk level: None/Medium
Weaknesses: Water
Description: This kind of automaton was specifically created to operate inside caves and mine shafts. Their body is based loosely on human silhouette, but has enough enhancements to be only vaguely similar. One of their hands is replaced with a drill, to better extract minerals and other valuables from stone, their legs are divided into six seperate parts to mimic the movement of cave spiders and to better cling to surfaces. Their heads have very circular shape and around it are placed the receptors for better sight. They also have giant containers attached to their backs, where they place all their gathered materials.
Only a few of them can be seen without supervision and only if they are somehow abandoned ine the mines. It can happen in cases of collapses or death of the supervisors. Unfortunately, the only ones dangerous to unsuspecting explorers are the ones that are not controlled. Normally every single action they perform are guided by their operators. This is not the case with loose ones, because due to their orders if seperated from commanding entity they are to continue extracting materials until full and then come back to the station under any circumstances.
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They interpret that as attack anything that can be potentially obstruct it from its path, that includes humans. They are unable to discern living, only able to recognize the valuable substances they are extracting, localization and special marks that every supervisor possesses. If on of them is spotted far from any extraction site it is to be avoided and the nearest mine informed on the possible lost miner.
Personal notes: "Thankfully, they still need us in this job cause no machine is smarter than human. It will do everything to the letter and I mean everything. Move that boulder? Yeah, how about three inches to the right? Get him out of the hole? He didn't say he had to be alive. Or maybe stop everything dangerous from entering? Now I don't think that normal worker can be classified as dangerous, but you do you. At least we don't have to carry everything by ourself anymore." Bern, miner