HALF BREED
Such as the need to associate itself with a biological entity.
There had been two pairings so far, one with a quadrupled that starved to death, and a second with an amoeba-like thermovore that refused to leave the comfort of the ship's heat stacks. There was a new prospect, however, a rather promising specimen that the robot planned to find.
Though relatively small when folded into a featureless two-foot cube, the Thraki machine could assume any of 109 mostly useless configurations, and perform a variety of tasks.
That being the case, the robot transformed itself into acrobat mode, swung out of the cross-ship cable run, changed to magnetic wall walking mode, and lowered itself to the deck.
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