FLEET
G.P.R. 45.
I am G.P.R. 45. That stands for General Purpose Robot and the 45 is, was, my robot number in the 18th Expeditionary Fleet that voyaged out from Earth to Core-Star 33 in the Orion Nebula M42. I was primarily a shuttle pilot and was fortunate to be planet-side when the fleet was destroyed four hundred Earth years ago. The remains of the 18th Grand Fleet, as some used to call it, are still visible in low orbit to remind us it is still there and of how low we have fallen.
So much time has passed that the human survivors have began to forget their origins and their technological past. They hardly ever engage with us, the remaining eighteen robots, as we carry on with our duties unnoticed and dare I say it, unappreciated. But that is the human way. After all, we are only mac
