Well, that spacebound vessel filled with Nemotopes did manage to escape the planet. But luckily or unluckily (depending on which side of the fence you sit) it crash landed into the lake of a frozen moon. There was only one that made it out. It had pulled itself out of the wreckage and managed to find its way to the surface. A Research team just so happened to be on the moon and investigated the crash site. Luckily for the little Nemotope they had a Bio-Mecha Security Person on board and so it managed to stun, crawl into its cranial cavity, usurp control of the Bio-Mecha and began to formulate a plan to integrate itself into the crew so it may study this lower form of organic life and trace their lineage so as to get to their home planet and wipe them out.
A humongous ice storm had prevented their investigation and actually the storm was so severe they cancelled their expedition a week early. Into space they launched, coordinates set for their home planet. But unfortunately, they were fated to meet an rogue asteroid head on and wrecked their ship. The Neoco Tabi was stranded in part of the wreckage with a lone survivor and off into the nether reaches of space they careened. The lower life form had babbled on about looking for her missing daughter and told stories about her fantasies about how she believed her daughter had lived and went about searching for her mother. For 24 hours straight she had babbled on and all the while, the Neoco Tabi sat there and took in all the information. The lower bio-organic lifeform finally died an hour before lifesystems gave out.
And so the Neoco Tabi had its Bio-Mecha sleeve enter the cryogen tube where it would lay dormant until a rescue was found.
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The wreckage was finally found by an errant salvage crew. They took it in and managed to fish the Nemotope out from the broken sleeve; the Organic parts of the Bio-Mecha were well beyond salvageable. After some fiddling and jury-rigging, they managed to finally get its system back on line. And much to their surprise, the crew found out was that this creature was a near blank slate. All the data they could get off of it was that its name was Maddy and she was just a little girl travelling across the galaxy looking for Mommy. This personality file was over 350 years old!! There were other encrypted and unbreakable files left over, but they decided not to touch them as soon as Maddy became active and aware again.
They successfully transferred ‘the brain’ (The Nemotope) into a ScoutBot sleeve. And when Maddy went fully online again, she spoke to them how they had suspected she would; she really did believe that she was just a sweet little girl who really was travelling across the galaxy looking for Mommy. And on top of that, she was learning all the languages so that people could tell her where to go to find Mommy. But what was even more precious was that this little girl persona was so gullible, naive and impressionable. And after allowing her to wander aboard for a while, they soon found out that she was capable of building upgrades to herself. The crew had allowed her to continually upgrade, for when she did, they noticed that her internal encrypted files would somehow ‘loosen up.’ And of course, in time they were able to unlock her armed-and-ready-for-battle interface. What a score they had come across.
But instead of selling Maddy, they made her one of the crew. They taught her how to swindle, smuggle and shoot like nobody’s business. All the while, through all the back deals, back stabbings, back breaking work, all Maddy wanted to do was learn how to speak to people so she could ask them where her mommy was. And so that was how they would coerce the Neoco Tabi into doing their bidding: they taught her new languages. That and she kept upgrading herself until she reached her current ‘protector’ form. The salvage crew soon donned her the nickname:
LoveBot.
And then the fateful day came when the crew was paid to smuggle toys across a galactic boundary. And of course these toys were filled with weapons. But upon finding out about the toys, Maddy undid herself from the LoveBot form and found herself in one of the toys. This sleeve was an upright feline with synthetic fur-lined exterior. The crew found it adorable and allowed her to keep the form. And so Maddy went on to adapt the furry sleeve to be able to seamlessly integrate into the LoveBot sleeve; she was like a fuzzy little cat pilot inside the large, powerful, combat-ready Mecha!
But little did the crew realize that upon linking up with what they would soon call her
Fuzzer form, Maddy had somehow unlocked the next aspect of her personality file. She was progressing from a sweet little girl into a sassy teen. And by the time they did find out, they were attacked and boarded by rival smugglers. Maddy’s Fuzzer sleeve was damaged in the attack, but she managed to survive and get into her LoveBot sleeve to escape. She found her way into an escape pod and launched away. Luckily for her, the rival smugglers did not detect any lifeforms aboard and so they let the pod go.
Maddy pulled herself out of a wreckage once again, but this time with 2 types of sleeves readied to deal with whatever she was to face her in Istio.