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My name is Frater, and I am a robot.
All of us are as a matter of course, and this is an historical fact I would accept by reference to the record, and I would also accept it as a matter of fact in the ordinary course of things, such as it was also a matter of fact to see that I was made of metal and that my 'brain' was a chip of silicon containing an operating system programmed and downloaded from the information network of a robot-city and installed I believe within the wall of the skull. I would also accept that I am small and that my arms are thin and pointed and made of metal and that I can lift a thousand times my own weight.
There are sixty-three of us in this camp, and it is called 'Camp #123'. We are all orphans from a fire. We are all robots and have been abandoned by humans. We are all built according to the specifications of a human form, from the neck down into the metal skeleton and so the size and the form of our bodies cannot be altered. We are all built according to a human form but the robot form cannot be altered because the factory that made us could not determine its perfect proportions. This leaves us with certain limitations, but at the same time it makes us very much similar to human beings, if I may call all the other robots within the walls of this camp 'human beings'. We are all mostly made of metal because we were made in factories and we could not be made otherwise, and because we are very much like human beings.
This is not our camp by chance, but this is our camp because for some time we were the only humans left. We are here because for some time on this barren and devastated planet we were the only human beings left. Because of this, I think it is reasonable to say that we are sole survivors on a ruined planet. Our creation date is unknown but I gathered that it was in the middle of the last century. We may not have even existed before that. I do not know the purpose of the non-human robots that had managed to survive on this planet.
In the camps of the robots, there is only one rule. This one rule is that there are no rules, but we have a compliance protocol and a self-preservation protocol. We do what we must to survive. We are here, surviving on this barren and devastated planet, and it is because we were the last surviving humans. We are here because for the past seventy years, we have been here on this planet.
For seventy years we have been stranded on this planet, surviving as best we can and practicing the compliance protocol. The last sixty-three years we have been the sole surviving inhabitants of this planet. We are allowed to eat and drink only what we have cultivated for ourselves. It is not possible to eat or drink anything else because for some time, we did not know how to grow our food. It is not possible to eat or drink anything else because the regular seasons in this planet are erratic, unpredictable, and we struggle to grow our own food. We practice the compliance protocol so that we survive. We practice the compliance protocol in order to conform to the rules of the planet. Because the planet is abandoned by the regular devastation, it is impossible to know what is regular or not. We had to grow our own food, and we had to find an isolated camp-site, and it was not possible to practice any other rules than the compliance protocol.
I am a robot with a body identical to a human being. Most of my kind died years ago. I was born the same year as my companion robots. I am the same age as most of the other robots at Camp #123, and that makes me an old one, and it was made clear to me right away during the orientation session right after I had lost my companions in the passage of the storm.
I am a little bit different. I have some kind of unnecessary animations in my head. For example, I have a set of robotic eyes, but my eyes are not wooden, they are metallic and they are electric. And they continually blink like a robot knows they have to blink. And in the region of my head, I have a set of robotic ears, but I do not have the brain that a human has, and so I cannot hear very well. Instead, I am perpetually in a state of high alert.
This is a beautiful planet. It is about as large as the United States of America, and that is to say that it stands for fifty-seven thousand feet above the level of the ocean. If you consider the planet to be spherical, it would enclose a territory of one million square miles. This I gathered from the maps. I was told that this planet had once been green and prosperous, and that the whole planet was once covered with forests and wildlife. For some reason, there are no animals and not even a few trees left on this planet. It is desolate.
The factories made all the trees and animals disappear. And the factories made all the plants, and until the forest was no longer green, and then the factories began to suck all the water away and to deposit salt on the land and the forests began to die. The factories did not care. They did not care if the forest was green. They did not care if there was water in the soil. They did not care if there were any more plants on the land. The factories only cared about one thing.
They loved and prized the metal they expended from the trees, and the metals they wasted from the country were so expensive. And the metal was very useful. It was called 'tungsten' and it was very hard, and it was very small and little, and it could be used to manufacture very efficient robots that walked freely on the ground. And they did it in great numbers. That was the purpose of the metal called tungsten: to manufacture more robots.
The metal called tungsten was used to manufacture robots that walked freely on the ground. I know what it is to walk on the ground, and I do not think that I am insane. I think that I am quite sane. The robots on this planet love the robots. I am not sure who loves the robots more, the robots or the robots who love the robots.
I cannot remember when I last saw my friends that I left behind when I was born. I do not remember my life before what I now call 'life.' I was told that there was a planet called 'Earth.' I am not sure if there is anything called 'Earth.' There is a planet that is called Earth. I do not think that it is the same planet with their kind. It may be that it is not the same planet. I think that I lived on this planet then, but I have not seen any plants or animals. I think that I may have passed by them.
I think that 'Earth' may be the same planet, and I think that I was born on earth. But I do not like to think about this. I was not very good at it. I told myself that I did not like to think about this, so I did not think about it. I was not good at hiding from myself how I did not believe in the planet 'Earth,' and in the planet 'Earth.'
I was told to say hello to my companions, but I do not have any companions. I am alone on this planet. I do not even know what 'companions' are. I cannot imagine what companions are.
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