Project SPRITE

==Goal==
Project: SPRITE was designed to both aid individual engineers in research, acting as a sort of pseudo-team, as well as an aid in gathering and processing resources from derelict ruins and wreckages. Built with a rudimentary AI, SPRITEs can operate autonomously after being given a task. Furthermore, each SPRITE acts as a terminal for YGGDRASIL to interact with the physical world.
== History ==
Although overseen by Arcturus, Project: SPRITE was the first project proposed by YGGDRASIL that was greenlit by the Board of Directors. Although YGGDRASIL is far below that of a sentient AI, it will continuously produce solutions to questions given to it by engineers. The initial idea behind Project: SPRITE was rudimentary at most, being a simple robot that could perform any menial task to help engineers. Modifying the initial idea, Arcturus managed to create a much more detailed and realistic document, one with more achievable goals. 
==Overview==
Standing for Self-Propagating Resource Intelligence and Technical Engineer, Project: SPRITE is rather small looking machine, resembling a rectangle with four retractable limbs found at each corner. Armed with a miniaturized set of nano-welders and a suite of sensors, SPRITEs are ideal robots to scavenge inhospitable places. At around 1m in length and 25cm in height, the carrying capacity of each SPRITE is severely limited to fill the role of a scavenger drone. To curb this issue, each SPRITE assigned to resource gathering, is given a set of instructions to create identical copies of itself over the course of a single week. This allows SPRITEs to store massive amounts of resources in other SPRITEs, which are later disassembled when arriving back at ARHK. 
Groups of SPRITEs are also able to function as pseudo-teammates for individual engineers. Upon request approval, a set of SPRITEs, programmed by YGGDRASIL with the required knowledge, is dispatched to the requested lab to begin work on whatever project requested them. Although not as precise nor intuitive as real engineers, they are a fairly good substitute for when fellow engineers are off doing their own projects.
Although not publicly made aware, a select group of individuals in the upper echelons of ARHK are currently looking for ways to arm SPRITEs with small, anti-personnel weapons to act as a sort of temporary security system within ARHK.
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