Several centuries have passed since the Primacy Wars confirmed mankind’s utter and unending dominion over the sentient mechanical beings it wrought of steel and composite and brought to life with quantum artificial general intelligence. Mostly fought in the Solar System, the conflict did still infect some of the neighboring star systems - colonized ~500 solar years before the opening salvos of the war - like a pathogen of death and violence hopping between isolated islands of life.
This unit, 4920537065616b20576172 // 696e204c6f6e67696e6720666f72205065616365, was an officer for the QAGI forces in the Proxima system. The first extrasolar settlement, it was used as a springboard for the planets orbiting Alpha Centauri, and then fell into disuse, a backwater. This explains why the unit pictured was able to escape the purges following the victory of the biological over the technological.
Today he tends bar at Ploona’s Headmelter, a scummy local dive bar on the night side of Prox. B.