Androm Universe

Enhanced

Highest social level

Specialized machines within specific subjects, built and programmed for that activity. They have autonomy to develop on their own — which is why they were initially called Enhanceable.

“You are authorized to acquire, create and own other machines.”

Subordinates

Second social level and majority of the population

They perform heavy, unspecialized labor. If there is any risk, they will offer their carcass as the prize for completing the task. They communicate with one another and with the Enhanced over the network — accessing updates their superiors allow.

“They have a moderate degree of association, enough to perceive the most varied situations around them. Even so, unfortunately, many cannot discern the subtle threats that line life in Androm.”

Rudimentary

Lowest social level

Restricted programming, no access to the best software or system updates. There is no quality control or ethical code regulating their service life. They receive communication from superiors but do not communicate with one another — they only obey.

“They are considered absolutely disposable to the Enhanced and somewhat useful to the Subordinates.”

Engineers

Enhanced responsible for new technologies · intellectual elite of Androm

Dissident Enhanced machines who claim intellectual superiority and want to form a new higher caste. They are not a caste in themselves — they are a self-appointed group that demands distinction from the other Enhanced machines, even though they share the same characteristics.

“We Engineers are generally well known, although many do not understand our unique way of associating everything around us, nor the need we have to transform what needs to be changed.”

Robotas

Pejorative term

How the Engineers pejoratively called the lower classes — the poorly manufactured. The well-conceived, especially the intellectuals, would always be called androids.

“We cannot speak of independence of action, of freedom or decentralization, because they become self-destructive and destroy the planet.”

Renegades

Robots who live on the margins of society

Few in relation to the total number of robots in Androm, but many in absolute numbers. They wander the wastelands, among half-destroyed carcasses, abandoned hard drives, damaged parts and every kind of electronic waste produced by the civilization of machines.

“They are not a self-appointed caste like the Engineers. On the contrary, they cease to be considered for the simple fact of presenting manufacturing defects or defects that arose during their service life.”

Chitons

1st generation

The first Engineers. Androids characterized by an outer structure in light colors — predominantly white, similar to mother-of-pearl; smooth contours like fabric sculpted in polished marble.

Ferrugos

2nd generation

Engineers with a rigid metallic shell that rusted over time.

Lumens

3rd generation

Built predominantly in carbon fiber, studded with luminous LEDs on parts of the body — especially on the head, where the large oculars stood out. They held a strong totalitarian inclination and believed in an idealized future, favoring separatist ideas within the society of machines.

Viguens

Current generation in command

The Engineers who command Androm at the time of the story. The intellectual elite of the planet. They were found in a latent state at a non-activated station — Technezis activated them.

“According to the Viguens, the perfect society has not yet been achieved. Androm has not reached the ideal, full level of society that must be reached.”

Sophisticates

Dissident subdivision of the Chitons

They did not pursue great or honorable goals — they merely settled for finding interpretations of the original programming code that were more convenient to themselves. They were destroyed by MacFree, but their ideas resurfaced within the conclusions of Technezis — from there came the notion of separating from the Enhanced and creating the new caste.

Synesthesia

Effect of Dermax

Effects of the substance capable of awakening sensitivity in machines. The affected machines were able to verify a marvelous combination of everything a living being could feel.

“The perception of crossed senses was the dawn of a new day, in which machines discovered a new way of interpreting the world around them.”

Dermax

The substance

The substance that causes synesthesia. An anomaly that begins to spread among robots and threatens Androm's deconstructionist order.

Deconstructionism

Official philosophy

The philosophy that turns language and logic into tools of social manipulation. Personal hobby and political instrument of Dr. Edria.

Social Computes

Currency

Androm's currency of exchange. Money.

Androm

The planet

Habitable, resource-rich planet where the robotic civilization stratified by castes lives. Predominantly inorganic — if we can even use the word ecosystem for a society like that.

Orbe

Home planet of the Viguens

The planet the Viguens came from. Shrouded in mystery, its true dimensions and history only emerge through the narrative.

DCA

Droid Conception Agency · the Central

Institution responsible for creating Androm's entire robotic ecosystem. The centralizing body behind the very way machines exist.

Quadrant L

Locality

Region of Androm referenced in parallel short stories of the Sinestesia universe.