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Cybernetics (by Neonpossum) by tapewolf

Cybernetics (by Neonpossum)

tapewolf

Reposted from FA with permission.
This is a piece commissioned from neonpossum - when it's uploaded to their weasyl account I'll add a link to the official version.
The original FA posting was here: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/23324862/
EDIT: And on Weasy here: https://www.weasyl.com/~neonpossum/submissions/1495911/commission-cybernetics

It depicts R-ALF and R-MAC from my Project Future comic. The wolf is a more recent creation and doesn't show up much. The jaguars show up fairly regularly in the main story as background characters.

In-universe, the jaguars were originally designed as guard robots for military bases, but were taken to the world of Furrae by a third party. Since then they have been reverse-engineered by Jayhawk Cybernetics and copies have been produced in that world too, with the AI system being taken and adapted for other purposes, e.g. android bodies to house the souls of the dying or recently-deceased.
By default the jaguars are fairly dim but acts of heroism or similar in the line of duty can be rewarded with intelligence upgrades. R-MAC has been fully upgraded by Jayhawk as a test to make sure they understood their stolen technology, and is now human-smart.

The wolf is purely designed by Jayhawk, though again using the same basic technology. Unlike the jaguars which are mostly about brute force, the wolves are more stealth-oriented. R-ALF has a cloaking system that can render him largely invisible through photon tunnelling (if he was completely invisible, he couldn't see). The fusion plant can't power both the cloak and his locomotion systems at once, so jumping or running when cloaked may cause brown-outs resulting in him stumbling or becoming visible, depending on how the system is configured.
Owing to legal hurdles regarding the creation of new life, Jayhawk Cybernetics have not been able to get the wolf series approved for production yet and they are still undergoing evaluation. The wolves are all human-smart. The jaguars have been given limited approval and are supplied to third parties.

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