Meme Thing

[minibot_love]

For those of you who get this twice, I'm sorry, my hands were being stupid - instead of the left reaching for the tab key, the right reached for the enter button. 9_9 Anyway.

Stolen from Swindleslog and Antepathy

Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how
non-descriptive or ridiculous.

Pick out the title that most intrigues

Comments

[minibot_love]

Well the sparkling will eventually have to separate from the parent's spark to connect to its own spark chamber which by that point in gestation should have been complete in the manufacturing process. Once the sparkling is settled into what will eventually be its own body, it can draw energy from its carrier through the proto-matter where it's drawing its new individual coding and compiling it together into the schematics for its new body. Full detachment is still a good bit away at this point, since simple sparking from chest to frame only takes a matter of weeks to feed enough energy into the newspark to stabilize it, and remaining attached to its parent's spark would cause too many complications, as well as potentially make it too big for its sparkling frame when it finally does separate. To make a bigger frame would tack on months at a time to the exhausted carrier's gestation period and probably begin eating into the mineral makeup of the adult's frame, stripping it of nutrients for the newspark's protoform. Eventually the bud will be ready for separation and the parent will spend time gathering a massive backlog of energy to surge through the shapeless bud, making it sort of 'jump start' the process of forming its own unique frame design.

http://tfwiki.net/w2/images2/a/a1/G2issue5-PowerandtheGlory-BuddingSteps.jpg Like this but... less hideous.

[playswithworms]

I'd seen those pictures before and yipey cripey! D: I like your concept very much - all makes sense, plenty of parental investment in the process and logical reasons for producing itty baby robots instead of full grown mechs. Which can be fun, too, but durnit, sometimes I just want itty baby robots :P

[minibot_love]

Who doesn't love itty baby robots? X3 *wiggles* Especially as itty bitty as Aid's little Roller~~~~ too cute~!

Adult-scale sparklings can be fun though - you've proven that time and again with the Pbots. There's something really fascinating about seeing the world being discovered for the first time by someone who actually has the vocabulary to express their wonder and awe over it.