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Do droids dream of electric nerf herds?
What goes on in those circuits when there are no active programs running? Even when inactive, they're not truly "off". Until a droid is destroyed or its power cells entirely depleted, there's always a trickle of power running through them, maintaining vital systems and preserving memory banks until it's time to reactivate. Some droids can remain in this state for days or months at a time, sitting dormant, but still bearing a spark of "life" in their innermost processes. What do their droid brain do during this time? No known diagnostic tool can really measure this in any meaningful way. Sure, there is some electronic activity, and sure there is a supposed purpose behind it... but what else is going on in there?
Take, for example, a droid scrapped and left to rust in a pile of junk somewhere on Nal Hutta. His power cells are still intact, along with his droid brain. He may be dismembered and left for virtual dead, but it's difficult to truly kill a droid, right? Maybe he was trashed during a gladiator match, or maybe he/it was just cast aside by its owner in exchange for a new model. The specifics don't matter. So say this droid was just sitting in a scrapyard, dormant, waiting to be recycled, there's no way to know what's going on in that mass of circuitry. It could be subroutine maintenance, scheduled software updates, or...
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<GR8-H8 DID NOT SHUT DOWN PROPERLY. START GR8-H8 NORMALLY?>
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A droid could be "dreaming" of whatever random bits of electronic interferences and stray files or memory fragments are floating around in it's...
<STARTING UP>
<INSTALLING UPDATES>
...
Who knows how many little droid empires have risen and fallen in the digital recycle bins that exists between...
<LOADING PREFERENCES>
...
<WELCOME GR8-H8>
"WAKE AND BAKE! WAKE AND BAKE!" The droids vocabulator screeched in a widely variable pitch as its system rebooted. Dazed and confused as his photoreceptors refocused, H8's neck joint servo-motors spun in wild circles, rotating his head unit in repeated 360 degree arcs as his sensors processed his new surroundings. His analytical processors generated a single internal query.
"Where am I?"
@Arclight
What goes on in those circuits when there are no active programs running? Even when inactive, they're not truly "off". Until a droid is destroyed or its power cells entirely depleted, there's always a trickle of power running through them, maintaining vital systems and preserving memory banks until it's time to reactivate. Some droids can remain in this state for days or months at a time, sitting dormant, but still bearing a spark of "life" in their innermost processes. What do their droid brain do during this time? No known diagnostic tool can really measure this in any meaningful way. Sure, there is some electronic activity, and sure there is a supposed purpose behind it... but what else is going on in there?
Take, for example, a droid scrapped and left to rust in a pile of junk somewhere on Nal Hutta. His power cells are still intact, along with his droid brain. He may be dismembered and left for virtual dead, but it's difficult to truly kill a droid, right? Maybe he was trashed during a gladiator match, or maybe he/it was just cast aside by its owner in exchange for a new model. The specifics don't matter. So say this droid was just sitting in a scrapyard, dormant, waiting to be recycled, there's no way to know what's going on in that mass of circuitry. It could be subroutine maintenance, scheduled software updates, or...
...
<GR8-H8 DID NOT SHUT DOWN PROPERLY. START GR8-H8 NORMALLY?>
...
A droid could be "dreaming" of whatever random bits of electronic interferences and stray files or memory fragments are floating around in it's...
<STARTING UP>
<INSTALLING UPDATES>
...
Who knows how many little droid empires have risen and fallen in the digital recycle bins that exists between...
<LOADING PREFERENCES>
...
<WELCOME GR8-H8>
"WAKE AND BAKE! WAKE AND BAKE!" The droids vocabulator screeched in a widely variable pitch as its system rebooted. Dazed and confused as his photoreceptors refocused, H8's neck joint servo-motors spun in wild circles, rotating his head unit in repeated 360 degree arcs as his sensors processed his new surroundings. His analytical processors generated a single internal query.
"Where am I?"
@Arclight
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