Based on the words, I could tell that it has something to do with the PEP units. I knew from Toby that Primitive Exploration Prototype was what PEP stood for. The PEP unites were meant to be simple cyborgs to interface with a planet of humans that were way too underdeveloped. They looked like humans and had bodily flaws such as blue blood, charge ports or the salt and sugar water. Primitive Exploration Automatons, or PEAs were the offspring of the PEPs that had obtained the sexual upgrades. I thought that it made sense. Why else would they be created with the ability to get them? They were still blue blooded, but they could tolerate salt and sugar water. They also did not need to be charged via electricity. They could instead rely on solar power to keep them going. To this end, they would all have green hair and yellow eyes. It was different from the Advanced Exploration Prototypes. There was a world of separation between them. Advanced Exploration Prototypes were the offspring of PEP units piloting X-frames. They were more biomechanical. They ate food and had augments.
Calling them humanoid was barely accurate. Their skin was a leathery matte gray with a harder black biometal plating over it on the limbs and jaws. The augments that they had all were made and installable from the clan labs. I as the technician would be able to track and create them. The augments could range from blades, lazers and guns as weapons to wings and wheels for mobility. All the AEPs had pink hair and silver eyes. It was actually a pretty cool concept. They were much more machine than human, but they had biological metabolisms that severed them from the need to charge. Their flaw was that, for all their strength, they were easily hackable as they had a noticeable port on their chests and needed to connect to the internet to access the directives of the transmission hubs. That was due to them just being prototypes. It was to be expected. When they unlocked their own sexual upgrades, they would have offspring that would be the AEA. That stood for Advanced Exploration Automatons units. It was pretty much mythic because it was seriously endgame. Noone had it yet.
The final care package was in my inventory. I had money, the final blueprints for his own X-frame, and the sword and flame shield. As soon as he was able to, he would be able to go to the Foundry and create the X-frame to his preferred design. With the X-frame being male, he would also be able to experience the sensation of a true orgasm for the first time. That would be special. He had Keith's but he had no partner. "It would be a waste of genetic material to simply masturbate." he explained when I asked why Nikolas had not done any... self-exploration. There was nothing wrong with saving one's self for a special time or person. Keith had been saving himself for the one he wanted a family with. It took him a couple of months to get a semen replicator from Nikolas. He asked me for one and I gave it to him. I had thought he was giving it to one of his roommates. Apparently, Keith stuck a funnel up his ass and had her expel her semen into it. Once it got down to his x-womb, he accepted it. He had done it like he said he would, and there was nothing else that could be said about it.
I noticed him wince as he straightened up his posture on the couch. I waited for him to finish. When he did, he looked at me said "I won't be joining your clan with all the others. We will form our own clan. It's time for the offspring to be born." I offered him my hand, but he refused and stood up on his own. "I need you to drive me to the library now. My belly will draw unwanted attention from humans." he said. That made sense. Especially if Nikolas went in there pregnant and came out with a baby. We left the apartment building and I got him in the cab. Once he was secured, we drove to the back of the library. Several PEP units were waiting for us. Nikolas got out the car and I told him that I would wait for him. He did not acknowledge me, but I knew him well enough to know that he would not blow me off. He would come find me as long as I was nearby. I parked the car and went inside. I hoped that it all went well. There was something off about the missions given by the transmission hub. They all were pretty dangerous for a pregnant person. There were several gunfights we got into.
