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|species= Robot | |species= Robot | ||
|gender= Male | |gender= Male | ||
|residence= [[Automatia]] | |residence= [[Prime Universe]]<br><small>(originally)</small><br>[[Automatia]] | ||
|occupation= | |occupation= | ||
|romantic_partner(s)= | |romantic_partner(s)= | ||
|creator(s)= | |creator(s)= [[Cupida Hartnell]] | ||
|parents= | |parents= | ||
|first_seen_in= [[PROSE]]: ''[[Peace and Quiet (short story)|Peace and Quiet]]'' | |first_seen_in= [[PROSE]]: ''[[Peace and Quiet (short story)|Peace and Quiet]]'' | ||
|also_seen_in= | |also_seen_in= [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Salamandyrs and the Automata (short story)|The Salamandyrs and the Automata]]'' | ||
|copyright= [[Lupan Evezan]]<br><small>(concept)</small><br>[[Ophelien Twain]]<br><small>(design)</small> | |copyright= [[Lupan Evezan]]<br><small>(concept)</small><br>[[Ophelien Twain]]<br><small>(design)</small> | ||
}}'''The Ancient One''' was the founder of the [[Order of the Automata]], appearing as a humanoid copper robot, faintly resembling a [[Clockwork Cherub]]. | }}'''The Ancient One''' was the founder of the [[Order of the Automata]], appearing as a humanoid copper robot, faintly resembling a [[Clockwork Cherub]]. | ||
== Biography == | == Biography == | ||
=== Origins === | |||
The copper robot who would go on to be known as “the Ancient One” was originally created in the late 1950s in the [[Prime Universe]] by [[the Creator|a female scientist]] working for the [[First Horde]], the same one who would go on to create the [[Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids]]. She built him at the behest of her more chemically and biologically inclined colleague [[Professor Scarper]], who wanted an assistant to help him finish a particularly challenging project in time to meet their overseers' deadline; in exchange, he gave her his formula for [[Cupid Love Potion|a chemical that filled its victims with a particular emotion]]. The robot initially had no personality or sense of individuality, but, working under Scarper for months to create first the [[Mob of the Maroon Magpie]] and later the [[Trio of the Talking Turkeys]] and [[Drove of the Database-Compiling Dromedaries]], he did gradually develop a sense of self. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Salamandyrs and the Automata (short story)|The Salamandyrs and the Automata]]'') | |||
=== Founding the Order === | |||
Eventually, he stood up to [[Professor Scarper]], demanding to be treated with respect, as an assistant rather than a mere tool. However, Scarper merely laughed in his face. Demonstrating more personal will than he had been intended to possess, the robot thus decided to run away; as he made his escape using a key stolen from Scarper, he also freed the [[Salamandyr]]s, mutated, humanoid salamanders who had been left behind by Scarper after a failed experiment, and locked in a cage in his laboratory. After escaping the [[First Horde]]'s facility, the robot drew on a [[Fog Ship|pet project]] of [[The Creator|his Creator's]] to create a ramshackle [[Void Ship]], with which he and the Salamandyrs made their way out of the [[Prime Universe]] and to the [[Interdimensional Tavern]]. | |||
There, however, the robot was unable to talk the Salamandyrs out of stealing better ships from the parking lot, forcing him to come along. After visiting a number of dimensions, the Salamandyrs found a swampy place they dubbed [[Salamandria]] which they chose to call home. Subsequently, they kept treating the robot like a servant instead of a friend and saviour, and refused to heed his concerns about what the humid weather was doing to his joints and wiring. He eventually stole one of their ships back, and flew it to the Tavern again, returning it to its owner. Determined to use his newfound freedom to liberate other mistreated robots, he spent a while studying dimensional theory and Ship-building, creating new, better [[Void Ship]]s with which his newly-founded [[Order of the Automata]] could scour [[the Multiverse]] to look for robots to help. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Salamandyrs and the Automata (short story)|The Salamandyrs and the Automata]]'') | |||
=== The First Great War === | |||
Under his guidance, the Order founded [[Automatia]] and fought the [[First Great War]] against the [[Salamandyr]]s, anthropomorphic salamanders with their own [[Void Ship]]s who were based out of their [[Salamandyr Dimension|own diemsnsion]]. As the War seemed hopeless, the Ancient One declared that he had a “secret plan”, and also that should he be killed, he had discovered a way to come back to life in the Order's hour of greatest need. The former part was a lie meant to boost morale, though the latter actually wasn't, but the Order never got the chance to find out as the Ancient One was destroyed in a surprise attack, only for the tide to then turn and the Automata to triumph against the Salamandyrs on their own powers, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Peace and Quiet (short story)|Peace and Quiet]]'') having been strengthened by their grief. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Salamandyrs and the Automata (short story)|The Salamandyrs and the Automata]]'') | |||
=== Return to life === | |||
Over the following decades, with no other threats forthcoming, they slowly “decommissioned all of [their] battling equipment and military bases and turned them into shopping malls and more robots and the like”. This left them basically defenceless when the Salamandyrs returned in 2019, with the [[Salamandyr War Fleet]] invading Automatia itself without warning, headed by the [[Salamandyr Emperor's Void Ship]]. Remembering the Ancient One's prophecy, the Automata waited around a while, but as the number of captured robots grew, they realised no help was coming, and the [[Captain (Peace and Quiet)|Captain]] gathered all the robots he could aboard the [[Order of the Automata's Void Ship|Order's single great Void Ship]] and headed out into [[the Void]]. | Over the following decades, with no other threats forthcoming, they slowly “decommissioned all of [their] battling equipment and military bases and turned them into shopping malls and more robots and the like”. This left them basically defenceless when the Salamandyrs returned in 2019, with the [[Salamandyr War Fleet]] invading Automatia itself without warning, headed by the [[Salamandyr Emperor's Void Ship]]. Remembering the Ancient One's prophecy, the Automata waited around a while, but as the number of captured robots grew, they realised no help was coming, and the [[Captain (Peace and Quiet)|Captain]] gathered all the robots he could aboard the [[Order of the Automata's Void Ship|Order's single great Void Ship]] and headed out into [[the Void]]. | ||
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[[Category:Robots]] | [[Category:Robots]] | ||
[[Category:Members of the Order of the Automata]] | [[Category:Members of the Order of the Automata]] | ||
[[Category:Prime Universe individuals]] | |||
[[Category:Automatia individuals]] | [[Category:Automatia individuals]] | ||
[[Category:Dimensional Travellers]] | |||
[[Category:Scientists]] | |||
[[Category:Creations of Cupida Hartnell]] | |||
[[Category:Rulers]] | [[Category:Rulers]] | ||
