Gun robot with a talking added-on subsystem, and they're dependent on each other for sanity.
Gun robot can also talk.
Name: TUG & SUS (Tactical Uplink Gunbot, and Supplementary Uplinked Subsystem. They're separate entities but in one physical body and each necessary for the other's sanity)
Sex: No physical sex, being robots. However, TUG identifies with male pronouns and SUS with female.
Age: TUG has been in operation for one and a half years, SUS for a half year.
Description: TUG is a fully synthetic android platform the size of a human, though not particularly human-shaped. It is a walking android- two tall, solid legs about the size of a human's but wider and far more square have end in flexing pads far more similar to squares than feet- though they do have traction pads on the bottom. There are also two manipulating arms, rather small but capable of reaching what a human could (although the robot is not remotely as flexible as a human), and with two ballistic, rapid-fire guns, one on each arm- though small sized, with large ammo capacit. There is an armored torso almost entirely devoid of outside features- chemical, sight, and sound sensors the only visible things. Below that large and somewhat boxy torso, though, are most of the systems. The ammo rolls and the loading system (with a hatch to the outside) are kept in here, as well as hydraulics and electrical systems. In the main sentience systems, there are two addons unusual for an android- one more so than the other. One is a sub-sentience system, a separate sentient being added on to enhance performance- not usual in synthetics, but not too unusual. This is SUS. The more unusual thing, found on both, is Echelon System's proprietary system, a tactical uplink- though it doesn't mean much here- a device that allows two synthetic systems to share a database and each others' system info, and to quickly upload data and provide suggestions to each other on tactics. However, the only two plugged in to the uplink in this universe are SUS and TUG. TUG is painted black, and where he isn't, his metal is a dark grey.
Origin: In the universe from which hails TUG and SUS, planetary governments are only planetary and have lost much of their power- in space, the ones with real power are the corporations. Corporations and other organizations- crime syndicates, a cult or two with mysterious powers laying under the radar, strange aliens battle it out, although often in secrecy.
But there are times when the battles are not in secrecy. Corporations and governments, or governments and other governments, even rival corporations have been known to all-out battle. And in comes TUG, a combat android developed by Echelon Systems and hooked up to the tactical uplink. Though he is a single android- the uplink lends itself to single models, he is in his one and a half years of service accomplished in land battles, one of the more bought of Echelon's models.
Echelon studied one and a half years of the functioning of their tactical uplink models, starting with their first and most successful model, the Logistics Operations and Tactical Uplink System personal AI, whose portability combined with a tactical uplink made it useful, but who notably suffered severe issues when out of range of the uplink, only sustained by the master carrying it- mirrored by almost all of its other Tactical Uplink systems, which are designed to feel intense loyalty to their masters, and to the uplink. Echelon decided to kill two birds with one stone, creating a subsystem that could be added to synthetics to give them the tactical uplink advantage that LOTUS gave to people carrying it, or to provide a second uplink sentient inside of another uplink model for long range missions, in order to prevent loss of functionality. And so SUS was created.
SUS had been attached to TUG for the purposes of rooting up a bitter rival of the corporation they had been hired to, on a stable asteroid in an asteroid belt- the rival had also been suspected of hiring crime groups to sabotage the hiring corporation, thus making the long-distance mission important enough to send a combat android.
Traits: They both have programming that makes them dependent upon their masters- but since there are none, that's each other, making TUG and SUS reliant upon each other. (both) SUS, as her design is to prevent insanity in tactical uplink models, is quite soothing. (SUS) TUG needs to use his tactical uplink system for actual combat, and as such is very well coordinated (TUG) As dynamic personality coding is used, though the personality is very functional in each, it's TOO functional- and ends up with a flaw in each. TUG ended up with a capability for attraction (TUG), to whoever he is dependent on. SUS, being a subsystem ended up unwilling to challenge the thoughts of whoever she was implanted in, making her somewhat submissive (SUS)- but currently only to TUG.
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