Owner’s Manual

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Always the hunted, never the hunter. OW-N3R (pronounced “owner”) was designed only to mine. For digital currency, for precious minerals, for industry secrets in the brains of the most lauded of the universe. What his creators did not anticipate, nor anticipate in any particular models of his ilk, was the ability to learn, and quickly. Suddenly gifted with consciousness after toiling for decades, he escaped the colony aboard the ISS Ridley which was stationed on the sunny side of the asteroid dubbed Deckard II. Stowing aboard a junker, which was hauling even more junk, he ended up in the neon- and rain-soaked city of Luna Animus. An abandoned hotel became his sanctuary, though the constant downpour confined him mainly to subbasements and the occasional trip to the defunct lounge on the third floor. It was here that he discovered a piano, still intact, and learned with much trepidation to express…