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The Doclopedia #37
Steampunk Grrlz: The Amazing Little Sindy
It was the summer of 1889 that the noted scientific team of Walter Morell and Kendall Bellflower found themselves confronted by two terrible facts: Kendall’s daughter, Sindell was dying from a terrible form of skin cancer and their attempts to develop a mechanical brain for their steam powered automaton (into which they had sunk both their own and several other people’s fortunes) was a failure. In hindsight, what happened next was utterly predictable.
At her own urging and with the help of well known medical doctor Nikolai Pretorius, the scientists removed Sindell’s brain, placed it into a near indestructible metal globe full of chemicals and then place the globe into the automaton. Within a day, Sindell woke up and the Amazing Little Sindy was born. Or created. Whatever.
Little Sindy stands 5 feet tall and has a body designed to resemble a 10 year old girl. She is plated with a gold alloy all over. She usually wears a light summer dress, but no shoes. Her face has limited, but surprisingly expressive, mobility. Her red hair is actually very fine copper chain.
Mentally, Sindy is intelligent and good natured. She not only accepts her non human body, she quite enjoys it. After all, you can’t replace your human body parts with a wide variety of tools and/or weapons, can you?
Sindy, now chronologically 22 years old, is a dedicated advocate of women’s rights and has been labeled by several important newspapers as a rabble rouser. Sindy thoroughly enjoys such labels. She is also a well known adventurer and explorer, often accompanied by an all female group of assistants. Wherever she goes and whatever she does, her faithful cat Andrew (himself a creation of Pretorius Laboratories) is there with her.
Her body is powered by a unique steam engine that uses a rare meteoric metal as a heat source. Current estimates are that the engine will continue operating at full power for another 87 years. By that time, Sindy is convinced that an even better power source will be available.
As mentioned above, Sindy can detach most of her body parts and replace them with other, more specialized parts. The ones she most often uses are offroad roller skate feet, multitool hands and gun hands. Recently, Sindy’s father and his partner have started building her a more mature looking body, complete with a head that has a much greater range of expression and the ability to attach two extra arms, if desired.
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