Thanks Ragnar
so a Bit of a round up
Mother was, before the event, the controlling intelligence at one of the major robotics assembly plants. After the event Mother took to the wastes sensing that AI or even semi AI would be deeply unpopular, she gathered around her robots and proxies, thralls and synths, Warriors, workers and thinkers of all kinds. When Mother finds a new synth out in the wastes, she will talk to them, persuade them to join and if they dont want to join, then well, as she had a hand in building them, she has the keys to their mind.....
"Jack" was a children's entertainer before the event, although after the incident when his spring snapped he could have been repaired but his joyous yells "Boing! Boing! F*&Ģing BOING!" and the extensive casualty list ensured he was scheduled for decommissioning. Only the event saved him. Now he travels the zones with "Mother" no one is sure if he's searching for artefacts or victims, crews tend to stay silent or run the other way when they hear a sudden and eerie Boiiiiiing!
"Jeff" before the event overtook everything was an overseer in a wildlife preserve, aiding the humans with capture and containment for treatment/ husbandry or even culling purposes. Mother found him sitting watching over the remains of his herd. A brief mental override ensured she was able to erase the programmed protocols and insert her own. Now Jeff serves in much the same capacity as before only the herd are bipedal now!
"Mike" likes to sing, no one knows why its not even programmed in. Mother has tried a couple of times to silence him but this usually results in the crews heavy lifter "Horse" going catatonic for long periods.
"Horse" A freight hauler by trade, inveterate gambler in his spare cycles, bet heavily on the wrong fighter now Mike owns his cycles.
"Mr Tickle" A tunnel inspection bot so called Mr Tickle by Jack was running with a rival faction before Mother co-opted him. now he serves as a warning to other bots, join willingly or join mindlessly.
"H4nn4h" was a pleasure bot who got damaged by an overly excited customer, instead of repairing the damaged body her owner transferred her consciousness to a new body and dumped the damaged one. When Mother found the abandoned body she reactivated the basic motor function systems. Now H4nn4h wanders the wastes and asks of anyone she meets "Are you my daddy?" but no matter what you answer, because the follow up is always an almighty bitch slap.
"Wheeler" was a courier, but his issue was he liked speed, parcels were abandoned or ejected at high speed as he roarded past on his way to the racing track, some say he'd still be racing to this day, all we know is that he runs with Mother...
The fun park avatar of cartoon character "Jeremy" was never endowed with an abundance of RAM so when found walking in circles calling greetings to the same stunted lamppost, Mother didn't bother seeing if his mind was salvageable, she just overwrote it and installed a basic friend/ foe threat matrix and pointed him in the general direction of the enemy. He does have a tendency to go around in circles still though!
Still looking for inspiration for a last bot, something to use as another cyber thrall (like Mr Tickle, H4nn4h and Jeremy)