Machine Tree By Imperator-Zor Watch

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This artifact is a Machine Tree. A Machine Lifeform and the foundation of a mechanical ecosystem. It is not a particularly impressive specimen and is fairly young, but it will serve the purpose of example.



Now you may be asking yourself "How exactly is this machine count as a lifeform?" The answer is simple. It grows, it feeds and it reproduces itself. In more detail, this machine is based around a system of nano robots. These microscopic machines need power to survive. To power itself, it relies on solar and wind power. Wind drives the rotors built into its trunk. Solar energy is collected using an array on top which can be adjusted to catch as much as possible, and on additional solar panels along its body. Electric energy is collected in power cells in the base and is used to gradually build and expand this form.



The machine is composed of metals and ceramics. These are designed to gradually expand, opening up to let new material grow in the gaps. Material is largely collected via the machine's roots, which shift through the soil in search of what is needed. Material is processed into a usable form in the base bulb and then sent where needed. Since generations of machine lifeforms have come before this one and died, their is often plenty of material on hand. In addition, it interacts with addition machine life-forms. Its roots link up with other Machine Trees, which exchange material for energy and vice versa. On the same note, there are drop off chutes. Small tubes in which other mobile machine life forms can drop off useful material in exchange for power. Often the remains of other machine life-forms, either scavenged or killed. It is more receptive when given the remains especially of nearby rmachine plants of rival species. On the same note, it has to contend with predators, machines that take power from other machines by force.



When it comes time to reproduce, it does so in a manner comprable to sexual reproduction. It splices its master blueprints with those of other machine trees of the same species. Thus creating slight variations which are given to small seed units. In the case of this one, they are small helicopter machines that fly a short distance and land on a prime spot, gradually growing into a new machine tree. Vast forests of Machine trees dominate the planet that this thing comes from.

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