AFTER LOOKING INTO IT, I FOUND OUT THIS BODY COMES WITH AN OLDER MODEL OF SELF-REPLICATION CAPABILITY.

FROM WHAT I CAN TELL, THE THREE SISTERS WE ENCOUNTERED IN THE STEEL CONTINENT POSSESS A MORE ADVANCED MECHANISM THAT ALLOWS THEM TO EFFICIENTLY REPLICATE THEMSELVES WHILE PRESERVING GENETIC DIVERSITY BY INTRODUCING RANDOM MUTATIONS INTO EACH COPY. MINE, ON THE OTHER HAND, IS FROM THE GENERATION BEFORE THAT, WHICH REQUIRES MATING WITH ANOTHER INDIVIDUAL IN ORDER TO PRESERVE DIVERSITY IN OFFSPRING, MUCH LIKE BIOLOGICAL ANIMALS DO. I'VE ALSO VERIFIED THAT THE NECESSARY ORGANS FOR IT ARE PRESENT.

I CAN MAKE BABIES THE NORMAL WAY…

Inter- est- ing...

I NOTICED THAT YOUR BODY HAD "DEFECTIVE PRODUCT" WRITTEN ON IT SOMEWHERE. SO WHAT KIND OF DEFECT IS IT, AND WHERE?

OH YEAH, KEI- CHAN.

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WELL... BASIC- ALLY...

UM...

OH ABOUT THAT.

AN OLDER MODEL OF SELF- REPLICA- TION CAPABI- LITY?

SO... TO PUT IT SIMPLY?

YES.

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