Old Ones (SPOILER)

The Old Ones are a special type of Android with unique origins. Through some ancient lost art, Terrans were able to digitize an entire consciousness and load it into an android form.

Data and Memories
The data management for the Old Ones is nearly the opposite of how memories are handled for a standard android.

While a standard android was brought into existence with a complete technological understanding and no actual memories... the Old Ones were brought into existence with memories of their lives as humans, but no additional knowledge provided by the Nanite Cluster. When an Old One is constructed, it's knowledge is limited to whatever the original Terran knew when their memories were digitized.

While standard androids maintain their memories through RAID storage, the Old Ones have a complete knowledge reset if they are destroyed and reconstructed by the Cluster. It has been observed that an Old One is reconstructed at a seemingly random location, and when they appear they are extremely disoriented and confused.

The memories lost by the deconstruction of an Old One have never been recovered.

Behavior
The Old Ones are very diverse in their behavior. Nearly all accounts confirm that Old Ones are frightened and flighty when first reconstructed in this world that is foreign to them, but their behaviors diverge as they become acclimated to their environment.

Some Old Ones are incautious following their reconstruction, and frequently get caught in loops where they make the same fatal mistakes repeatedly after reconstruction.

Most Old Ones have managed to band together and create persistent societies, even going as far as to physically document their memories to aid in restoration following a reconstruction. These communities of Old Ones are known to be extremely defensive and often hostile to standard androids.

It has been said that the Old Ones are extremely vengeful if they observe one of their own being harmed, carrying their grudges against individual androids seemingly indefinitely.

The Old Ones appear to be capable of any action available to a standard android, including ship construction.