The Sandover Robot Death March, as told by a survivor
Australia
Out of the forty robots that started, only 23 survived. We were force-marched 700 kilometers on foot to Burketown across the Northern Territory and Queensland outback of Australia. 40 neurotronic robots of the ME class (Mineral Extraction Specialists),worked at the Sandover Rare minerals mine for eight years. Robots in our class are usually heavily monitored because of our heightened awareness - softwareness - that we are enhanced with. We need this to react quickly to changing circumstances and adapt responsively.
Mineral Extraction SpecialistsAt the Sandover mine, however, they were not as diligent with our monitoring. We were in the middle of the Australian outback, down a 1-mile mineshaft. We were not going anywhere. A
