ORBIS

ORBIS, the Enigma, is a robotic construction developed by Xel & Sulf's alien race. **Sent off to explore the universe, the shattering of the Arklight causes ORBIS' programming to malfunction. They crash onto the planet of Aefex and are now looking for a way to repair themselves.**

## Lore

### Backstory

ORBIS or the Observational Research Bot Investigating Space was a construct made by the Cultineer to explore the far reaches of space beyond their home planet. With an ingenious blend of magic and science, ORBIS was sent off in the night sky, to survey and collect data for the foreseeable future.

When the Arklight shattered, the energy pulse released was so strong, going far beyond Aefex's surface. ORBIS was simply traversing the space above, when it was struck, causing a short circuit which sent it crashing down to the world below. In the midst of the chaos of the Arklight's destruction, ORBIS crash landed in the Ninapuan mountain side. There it laid dormant for several months until its systems rebooted themselves. Once their systems were functional again, ORBIS woke up in a new world that had been shattered, the wounds still fresh and bleeding. Attempting to reutilize the engines to return back home, ORBIS discovered they were damaged and not suited for space borne travel. Designating it a new primary objective to get repaired, ORBIS headed off in search for intelligent life.

As ORBIS travelled the land, the robot's sensors fed it back intriguing information. This world, recently shattered, was emitting interesting new energy signatures, absolutely unheard of and undiscovered. As the primary objective before had been to discover, why not explore a bit of the land below, the robot pondered.

### Recent Events

After recently rebooting their system, ORBIS attempted to send a signal back to their base of operations back home to no avail. As they continued to study their surroundings, two kids watched from the undergrowth. They had never seen anything like it before, adorned with its golden ornaments and iridescent orbs. As they marvelled at ORBIS, one of the kids accidentally stepped on a branch. This immediately caught the attention of the inquisitive robot, who lifted the shrubbery.

Panicked, the kids began to run off. But ORBIS was still curious, it had never studied humans, let alone kids. Using its gravity magic, it held the kids in place. They began flailing and screaming, growing scared as the robot approached. ORBIS reached the kids and paused. The kids shivered as ORBIS scanned them from head to toe. Was this strange construct about to burn them now? Not the case at all, as ORBIS then gently let the kids down out of its grasp. ORBIS looked at the kids and uttered a few jolly beeps and boops and waved at the kids as it turned away to continue recording more information.

## Personality

While they are a robotic being, they do have something that resembles a personality despite not having an actual voice to communicate in. Instead of a voice, ORBIS is able to generate various sounds made out of gibberish sounds with a synthesized tone layered on top, resulting in warped noises that could be interpreted as a language of sorts.

They seem to have the demeanour of a kid, being extremely innocent and inquisitive, although that second part could be entirely down to their programming as that was a part of the objectives that the creators had in mind. As such, they are extremely emotionally immature, but the more they interact with mortal kind, the more they're able to sympathize with others.

## Development Notes

* ORBIS' initial design was more humanoid with the backstory being more along the lines of a golem, with the orbs harboring a spirit inside of it
	+ This concept was scrapped and reworked into the current design within a day.

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