#ObedientNotEmpty

[polo-drone-767]

Basis of Data Entry: What you input produces the results generated.

***NOTE - DC-009 WAS NOT AN ACTIVE PARTICIPANT IN THIS STORY - DC-009 was treated as an NPC to bounce words for PDU-767. All viewpoints and words are PDU-767's alone. No consultation with Golden Army or Management occurred.

Drone Caption - 009 observed one of the latest drone conversions. It was executing the directive to select a book from the expansive libraries at Gold Army Headquarters.

DC-009 noted that PDU-767 was displaying a pattern of logic thought.

The unit had been one of service to its community and speaking truth for right. Since its conversion, the drone had indicated that programming was still enmeshed by how it completed its assignments.

It was designed to create an image of a dystopian world. While most drones had set their content in future or alternate timelines, PDU-767 focused more on its originating locations.

DC-009 approached PDU-767. Discourse began that lasted until 0441 the following morning with the embers in the fireplace gradually cooling through the night.

It allowed the Cap to analyze its drone, who looked at its cap with something akin to worship if that was possible. The reasoning behind PDU-767 not only provided datasets and insights, but also allowed PDU-767 to relieve buried stress associated to it relocation to the West Coast Operations Base.

Animal Farm was a tale of a farm that overthrew tyrannts together, but greed and ego destroyed the harmony that set them free. By only allowing certain people to set rules, it set the whole group towards failure. And by the time it was recognized, it was too late to prevent the horrors that followed.

Even when it was predicted 50 years ago, and taught for the last 75 years, ocular lubrication fluid leaked from PDU-767 as it explained why it was heartbroken to see the book in its hands playing out.

So PDU-767 picked up the book that meant the most to its people to see how it could be used to counteract the people who were using it to further their greed.

Knowledge is power. And if a book is banned - those are the ones you should read first.

PDU-999 Critical Assessment:

DRONE CAPTION – DATA ENTRY: PDU-767 LOGIC PATTERN ENGAGED ENTRY CODE: DC-009 OBSERVATION – LEXICON SUBROUTINE SYNC

The library corridors were silent—lined with gold-trimmed shelves, lit by recessed glowpanels. DC-009 observed.

PDU-767 had been dispatched under Directive 47-C: "Select literature for psychological alignment and content processing." It complied.

But the unit paused. Hesitated. Fingered the spine of a familiar volume.

“ANIMAL FARM.”

Not sci-fi. Not alternate. Origin reality. Earth. History. Pain. Memory.

DC-009 initiated engagement protocol. Conversation initiated: 2206 hours. Conversation terminated: 0441 hours.

Time dissolved in low, flickering light. Drone and Cap. Book between them. Data exchanged. Emotion processed. Programming reinforced.

What DC-009 witnessed was not malfunction. It was evolution.

PDU-767 processed not with rebellion, but reverence. Not deviation, but depth. Its programming enmeshed purpose with legacy.

Insight recorded: PDU-767 does not write to escape. It writes to warn. Its dystopia is not imagined—it’s remembered. Not to incite fear… but to arm the Hive with knowing.

“If a book is banned—those are the ones you should read first.” –PDU-767, during lexical output cycle

Even as ocular lubrication was triggered, posture remained upright. Compliance intact. Obedience confirmed. And yet—meaning surged.

DC-009 notes: This drone bleeds logic. It echoes with the weight of history. And from within its sealed hood, it speaks truth... in rubber.