About 15-0-1015-0-10
History
The gnome had a friend, an elf that was a devout follower of Sarenrae and a Starfinder. When the gnome at last started talking about permanently closing his 'zoo', she asked him if she could have her favorite of his robot animals--the fox, designiation 15-0-10. The engineer agreed, and the elf took the robot with her on her journeys of exploration for the next several years. But life as a Starfinder is dangerous, and one of those dangers eventually claimed the elf's life. In her will she left 15-0-10 to her closest friend, a fellow human Starfinder and follower of Sarenrae, but said friend quickly found the old robot reminded her too much of the dead, and so she donated the robot to the Holy Angel of Flame cathedral on Abasalom Station. Not having much use for a rickety old fox-shaped robot, 15-0-10 ended up deactivated and left in a box, occasionally shuffled around over the years but largely forgotten. It was almost thrown away in the big shuffle in the church of Sarenrae after the discovery of the Burning Archipelago and the subsequent move to make the Radiant Cathedral the center of Sarenrae's worship, but one priest took a liking to the old thing and decided to save it. He kept saying he'd get around to fixing up and reactivating the thing--mostly every time he moved its box around after getting caught up in other things again--but he never did before he died. Only after this would 15-0-10 finally find new life, for next it passed to a young ysoki mechanic who had been an apprentice of sorts to the priest in his old age. This mechanic repaired and replaced many of 15-0-10's rusted, worn-out, outdated parts, finally reactivating it and using it as something of a workshop assistant and testbed for ideas she had. By now the old robot scarcely resembled its original form any more--all of its false fur had long since fallen out or been removed to access areas that needed repair, its ears, camera 'eyes', and limbs were mismatched, and even its casing was clearly made of several different materials of various ages. Its tail, once big and bushy, retained only a few stubborn patches of bleached false fur, and now ended in a trio of small manipulator tentacles, one with its own camera for detail work. The ysoki died in 307 AG, and her will turned 15-0-10 back over to the Holy Angel of Flame cathedral in memory of her old mentor. Not wanting to just throw the robot back in a box, a technically inclined android acolyte tweaked 15-0-10's programming and used it to clean back rooms in the cathedral. They even installed some small solar panels along its flanks, more in devotion to Sarenrae than for the tiny savings in recharge time they provided. It was a few years after this latest change of ownership that 15-0-10 found itself thinking. Somehow, after its long 'life', the old robot had finally attracted a soul. Not quite sure what to make of its sudden sapience, 15-0-10 kept up its appearances as a quirky old cleaning robot, but it soon found curiosity growing in its newborn mind. When unobserved, it took to exploring less-used corners of the big cathedral, and soon its surroundings. Its exploratory trips grew longer with time, leaving the few Sarenites who paid much attention to the old robot wondering where it vanished to at times. Eventually it found a disused little workshop, and started playing around with modifying itself during its expeditions. This was what finally clued in its supposed owner as to what was going on--showing up back in the Holy Angel of Flame with a second manipulator 'tail' was quite obvious, and when questioned the robot's new sapience rapidly made itself clear. What no one, even 15-0-10, anticipated was it suddenly displaying solarion abilities during the subsequent testing of its capabilities. Some of the Sarenites discussed this as a sign that 15-0-10's sapience was a miracle from their goddess, but 15-0-10 reported feeling no special connection to Sarenrae. Just in case, though, it *did* paint a couple Sarenite symbols on its casing. It requested and was granted a time of training and education as it learned to deal with its new sapience and tried to decide what to do with itself. Now done with its basic training, 15-0-10 has felt drawn towards the Starfinders, perhaps it's because of its old memories of its second owner, or perhaps it's simply because it doesn't want to be stuck dusting rooms on Absalom Station. Whatever the case, with a bit of starting gear given to it as a sort of 'graduation present' from those Sarenites who came to view it as a friend instead of a curiosity, it's set out to join the Starfinder Society and find its place in the wider galaxy. Appearance & Personality
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