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Lego Profiles - Pumapants
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The Pumapants Workinggroup Model äą™ series of ~3m tall, quadrilaterally symmetric, arachnoid robots were developed especially for maximal survey of Martian landscapes. These hyperaware class 2 sentients have the simple work of roving Mars in pursuit of enjoying whatever stokes their fascination.
The Pumapants’ neurology is designed to facilitate curiosity: triple visuospatial cortices modeled on dolphins’ and jaguars’, the limbic system of chimpanzees, an autistic disposition rated at AE 1.86, and literally elephantine temporal lobes which directly interface with DreamPrism picocrystaline holographic storage modules. The sheer complexity of such an artificial intelligence means the Pumapants must spend half of their ~25.5 hour Martian day sleeping, with over half of that in NREM3, just to avoid severe synaptic cascade failure from sleep deprivation toxicity.
Furthermore, Pumapants has only perfunctory linguistic expression and executive function, as such cognitive task cores are taken by imaginative and attention faculties. (Few humans in the 24th century would be so crass and backwards as to find characteristics as disabling; utilitarianism has oft been considered dangerously retrograde since the Ontological Revolution culminated in the Gaia Imperative and Cetacean Concordates of 2165.)
The Pumapants enjoy life on Mars via a sensorial toolkit equal to their considerable associative and attentive faculties: full spectrum RF spectroscopic modes in parallax; nanometer scale EMF tactility; field ready electron scanning down to 4nm; active radar, maser, and laser holographic imaging; and a psyonic rating of Dark Auburn.
About 3500 Pumapants are in service on Mars, depending on how many have suffered damage from exhuberant cliff scaling jaunts. Such mishaps are relatively rare, as Pumapants are standardly equipped with superconducting magnetic monopole quadruped shoes. These allow a Pumapants to climb any surface with a modicum of iron oxide or silicate static charge with feline insouciance.
For all these reasons, Pumapants are a beloved fixture of the Martian outback. They are a primary modality for Mars Unicom to maintain situational awareness of the quick progress of ongoing areoforming efforts.
Pumapants can deliver incisive critiques when they feel planetological programmes have affected an area improperly. They are religioethically localist and animist as is typical of Auburn colour psyonic cognitotypes. Pumapants often ignore priority level requests for survey duty if their curiosity is piqued by an especial lump of hematite or indigenous cryptobiological crust. They are known to even spontaneously shut down their communications and punt all survey requests for up to 35 sols if engaged in a concentrated line of inquiry, as is their right given their class 2 sentience.
But delving the dreams, holosculptures, and recorded explorations they do copiously share via Mars Unicom are a perennial favourite VR adventure of schoolchildren across the Solar System. And never has a Pumapants turned down an emergency service request; as such they are often called the “St. Bernards of Mars” by rescued Terran tourists. Hardy and whimsical, Pumapants are beloved as a winsome cybernetic life form universally recognized as symbolic of pioneer life on Mars.
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