Damyip 14 built Occupation-Bot which were like soldiers, but different. These are humanoid Robots. They are designed to do peace keeping, law enforcement, counter insurgency work. Like that.
They started out clunky, but over time got better. They are designed to go anywhere a Lefyt can and work Lefyt machinery.
These had mixed success. The Lefyt who were into resisting fought them and Lefyt who weren't didn't.
Damyip 14 experimented with different design elements.
These are still in use in some places, where they act as force multipliers for Security and Police. In other places they've been withdrawn by Lefyt request.
On Eosever, these are seen in Large Numbers as Police-Bots. They are brightly colored and numbered in the Lefyt language. Modern ones look like a person in a space suit made of plastic panels.
They are used as SWAT teams, fire fighters, Search and rescue a well as street level law enforcement. Any given Bot will put itself between a meat friend and danger. After all, it can be updated and downloaded into a new body.
The only place these really reach their full potential is on Eosever which like the Damyip. Pytol is learning how to best use these as well.
Damyip 14 is happy to make and run oodles an oodles of these to help the Lefyt.
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Infiltrator bots.
Actually, the name is misleading. Damyip 14 designed really tiny surveillance bots and disguised bots of all kinds. But the one I mean here are bots designed to physically mimic Lefyt. Early examples were bad, but, incredibly, people on Eosever *helped* Damyip 14 perfect these. For their own reasons, the people on Eosever really crawled into the lap of the Damyip and they are the ones who insist that the Damyip stay on their world, stay in the colonies and in their culture.
In time the Lefyt drew out the time to discovery. Currently these are very good and some have lived for years among Lefyt people. Some residents on Eosever are Uxhoz people who, when the Damyip pulled out, discovered that loved ones were actually Damyip Infiltrators.
The Damyip aver that due to programming oddities that Infiltrator-bots can feel affection for Lefyt people and will act on what amounts to emotional connections to Lefyt.
The RI know that the reality is much less clear cut. Specific Damyip Infiltrators, for instance, Damyip 14-7-12-37, must make a conscious decision how to relate to any given individual. Sometimes it is appropriate for a Damyip Unit to simulate pair bonding. There after Damyip 14-7-12-37 would act as if pair bound to an example Lefyt, Bob.
If there is a crisis, and Damyip 14-7-12-37 (Call her Alice) must sacrifice her cover or suffer damage to prevent harm to Bob, she'll do it. If forced into the choice of suffering destruction to save Bob or let Bob suffer injury or death. Often Alice will sacrifice herself. After all, this is just one body.
Now Damyip 14-7-12 has a choice. Damyip 14-7-12 knows how Alice feels. Damyip 14-7-12 has experienced all these memories as well. In many ways Damyip 14-7-12 is as much Alice as Alice ever was. So is Damyip 14-7 and Damyip 14.
The Damyip problem with all this is that they have problems figuring out how to weigh, judge and process memories from Infiltrator units.
Alice's deep affection for Bob is part of the Damyip, but how much of a part is it? How much SHOULD it be? A compromise solution to make these memories weigh less. In effect not as emotionally impacting.
but the Damyip emotions absolutely do NOT work like those of the Lefyt, Humanoids or even RIs.
So Damyip 14 often struggles with feelings and trying to parse how to cope with them. it is difficult to be rational about these in a consistent manner.
A hopeful note that some RI point out is that the Damyip practice a reciprocity-based system inside their own Damyip net.
The Damyip are fully aware that the Ur-Damyip modeled this on Ur-Damyip attitudes. But it works so they keep it.
So emotional relationships are often semi-reciprocal. Someone gives to their partner, but there is not a ledger kept. One os generous to community members in the hope and believe they will be generous if needed, later.
Although the Damyip keep count reflexively and much more easily than most people, they understand that there are no hard numbers for emotional inter-relations among Lefyt. Or other humanoids.
So they mimic the fuzzy math of friendship when it suits them. And currently when it might suit them. And sometimes when the possibility of it advancing the Damyip cause is very speculative.
The Damyip do not have the biochemicals and neurotranmitters that tell them that being nice to their friends feels good. But they have arrived at fuzzy investments into friendship pay off.
Damyip infiltrator bots do mimic the effects seen by neuotransmitters and other biochemical interreactions. There are a number of Damyip 14 sub units who explore biochemistry of the Lefyt. Several Infiltratorbots were undercover as scientists in this field for a long time. on Eosever, the Lefyt-oid Damyip are out of the closet, but they still work on advancing the understanding of the Neural Chemistry of the Lefyt brain.
The Damyip actually sent multiple Infiltrator-bots to Botchok, and Orions worlds in and around the Federation. They acquired a great deal of information from these worlds, about the Galaxy at large.
Some Infiltrator bots are active still, The Damyip claim that traveling as an Orion merchant allows for learning things that traveling as a Damyip does not. The Damyip have sent openly Damyip ships and units into the Federation to ask questions as well.
The Infiltrator-bots did NOT succeed in penetrating much into Botchok business, aristocracy, pirate or criminal circles. The paranoia of these areas is too great and the Infiltrator-bots who tried were quickly identified and self destructed to prevent capture.
The Botchok Orions taught the Damyip a LOT about Cyber Security. The Ferengi even more.
In retrospect, Damyip attempts to penetrate everyone's security can be found. They started off poor and unskilled, but grew more skilled very quickly.
Meta - the Damyip sought out and hired hackers and cybercriminals to train them. Once they had the basics down for Each Culture's System, they were able to grow in effectiveness.
It was pretty clear that the Damyip thought they were going to wind up at war with everyone in Known Space and were trying to ramp up to survive that when encountered by the Federation.
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The Post war reveal of Infiltrator-bots was an ugly surprise to some Lefyt. (Except Eosever who actually helped with the project)
Some are still active undercover on Uodrust, learning about various survivor bands and trying to encourage them in positive directions.
In Federation Society, Infiltrator-bots mark themselves to be visually distinctive. They commonly adopt safety orange as a skin color in this case. (Some add jaunty saftey yellow patches or tiger and zebra stripes) Some of the older ones who are engaged in relationships with Lefyt simply color their left hand safety orange. In the field on badly ruined worlds, they don't, for survivability. A recent modification is chameleon skin to allow changes in color where appropriate.
Many come away with the confused impression that the Lefyt are orange humanoids, or that the Ur-Damyip are Orange humanoids.
The Infiltrator-bots do not correct this unless it leads to an ethical problem. They are fond of the Ane-Phrase "He didn't ask!"