It's a New Year's pARAty! (Patreon)

The $25 tier picture this month was in fact, NOT adult, and instead some world and character-building for ARA...and other ARAs! Rei gave me the idea for a mink ARA and i think it worked out real nice.

Our ARA is the Apex Frame ARA, no other nicknames, the Apex Frames stay close to Katrician Central Command, either in-person, or in The Tower, or aboard the Katrician flagship "Rassvet". They are allowed more freedom, movement, and learning, in exchange for close watch and constant updates. They then pass on some of these updates in a way that all other ARA units (or ZTA units, SRK units, etc, for their post) can use to improve their work, efficiency, social/crew interaction, and so on...

Obviously, ARA couldn't meet with.. thousands of other ARAs at once, and so just the Prime Anthroids of each major branch of the Katrician military; here are a few- Kobalt, Sata and Silk.

Each AI is by law, unique and their own personality. Eventually, they will retire, and not in the Blade Runner sense. They are released from usually their hundred-plus-years shift, and many choose to relocate to one of the AI sovereignties, or settle down, explore, go on to some other work, whilst their classifieds and related military work are erased.

At the start of the story (that I'll get to some day...), ARA has just been POST-ed to Apex Frame, as the previous one has been retired and let go.  Suffice to say, while much of her job is pre-programmed, other specifics and routines must be learnt and evolved over time.

That's about when this picture would come in, pretty early on in said future-story!