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need help constructing a hydroelectric power station.

anyone with engineering experience is helpful but not necessary - already have an idea on how to assemble a home brewed setup. mostly just need assistance with supplies and manpower.

the less we have to rely on hope to keep this place running the better.

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[...Oh.]

apologies. didn't know.

is that why your skin is all messed up?

[From sympathetic back to rude. Das Rey.]

[The queen of tact.]

That's one reason. Living in a radioactive wasteland would be another. The Commonwealth isn't a kind place to anyone, let alone synths.

that would make sense. suppose radiation would affect synthetic skin the same way as it would with anything else that's organic.

what were you discarded for?

[So many questions.]

[He's usually the one asking them, so it's nice to be on the other side every now and then.]

Can't say I know that, either. The place that built me wiped most of the memories I had before tossing me in the dumpster. I can't even tell you where the place is. It's a bit of a mystery back home.

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[Well shiiiet.]

know a little bit about what that's like.
sorry. [About being a bitch, mostly. Even if Nick doesn't know how she's been feeling about the whole synth thing.]

It's been a long time, and I've come to terms with it. Not much I can do otherwise.

So, which part is it you've experienced yourself? Losing some memories, or being tossed in the garbage like yesterday's news?

can understand that.

[...]

a bit of both.
wasn't scrapped, but was supposed to be terminated a long time ago. been repurposed by someone else instead.

Guess we're both well past our warranty dates.

You're some kind of a synth, then. Could've fooled me.

only by about 9 decades or so.

more of a combination of synthetic and organic materials, but close enough. however there are a lot of synthetics that can mimic human appearance and behavior that cause a lot of problems.

And here I was hoping the Commonwealth was the only place with that kind of problem. The newer models back home are good enough to pass for human, often in the most unfortunate of ways. Some folks just wake up one day and find out a loved one has been replaced by a machine, and they never even knew when it happened.

hardly the only place, it would seem.
do these machines usually have the memories of their human counterparts? sounds like they would. never really thought if they did that sort of thing back home.
just know that they're the reason the old government fell.

[It's a bit before he responds. That last reply must have got him thinking.]

I assume they've got enough to pass for the person they're supposed to be. Whatever they've got, they're just one of many reasons people don't trust one another where I come from.

a fair assumption to make.
trust is a little hard to come by these days.

[Hence her initial lack of it upon first encountering Nick.]

It's true, but still a shame.

[He's used to it. No one trust a guy who looks like he does at first glance.]

[Oops. Rey herself is embarrassingly guilty of making that sort of judgment.]

to be fair, it was an issue even before synths came into the picture.
apples don't fall too far from the tree and all that.

Don't I know it. The Commonwealth had enough problems even before the bombs dropped. Maybe if synths as we know them had been around then, things would be different.

suppose our worlds are a little different. the synths were the reason the bombs were dropped.

They the bad guys where you come from, then?

saying that there are "good guys" and "bad guys" is too narrow minded when it comes to war.

they're the enemy, even if they don't see themselves that way.

There's always bound to be someone who think they're doing the right thing, no matter how wrong it is.

believe it or not, the synths actually believe that they're doing humanity a favor by blowing up cities and destroying governments.

I don't pretend to know what the synths, or the Institute, want with the Commonwealth, but it's clear they're up to no good. Makes me wish they hadn't wiped my memory when they dumped me. Maybe I'd have more answers for people when they accuse me of being a spy.

that happen to you often?

Too often.

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