Black Moth Super-Worker: Science Fiction

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The black moth super-worker was born on a dark day in the gene labs. They'd been trying for a super-soldier, because that was where the money was at, but what they wound up with instead was a creature that had an unerring instinct for paperwork, a satisfaction in a job well done, low sleep requirements, an adequate but not-troublemaking imagination, and a homing instinct fulfilled by routine and office nesting. They had the batch, it seemed to be useful, and so they sold them or manumitted them after a certain work contract, and they sent them out into the world. It didn't matter much to the black moths where they lived, so long as they could maintain their jobs. You would find them congregating in foreclosed homes, with four suits hanging in the closet, a hotwired toaster that they could steal electricity from the streetlamps for toasting hot dogs, a bed of old newspapers or phone books, and a bucket of water for washing and brushing teeth.

Inspiration: rainbow -> Black Moth Superrainbow -> the beginning of their video for "Born on a Day" (http://www.blackmothsuperrainbow.com/news.htm)
Story Potential: Low
Notes: A bit of setting/character, not interesting enough to me to be a story on its own.