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Operator #16's Charging Cube

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When the station was first built, all the elevator operators were robots like Operator #16. Now the job is open to anyone strong enough to pull the elevator cords for two shifts a week... but Operator #16 has felt no desire to look for a different position.

A much simpler machine could do the job, and the station provides for everyone's needs regardless of employment. But the station also likes to give its residents a chance to be involved in the community however they wish.

Operator #16 enjoys meeting and talking with the people it transports in the elevator. In its spare time, it participates in several online chat groups, shares its poetry, and watches theater productions on the other side of the station.

Its apartment is bare, since it doesn't need anything except its charger and the internet connection in its brain. But its neighbors, the members of the Baking Cooperative, are some of its best friends. They visit so often that a door has been built between their two homes.

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Drawing of the one-room apartment occupied by Operator #16, a large angular robot with claw arms and tank treads, which sits in the center of the room and takes up most of the space. The back wall contains large windows on the top half, and each side wall is decorated with a picture of baked goods (a muffin on the right, milk and cookies on the left). Otherwise the room has no adornment. On the right wall, a cord from the robot plugs into a socket. On the left wall, a very small door leads into the neighboring unit, the Baking Cooperative. Near this door, someone has placed a large pie. Operator #16 has turned its head toward this, appearing surprised by a sudden gift from its neighbor.

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Scroll down to see some photos of a sample mockup I did of this cube... or just continue to the next page.

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Photo of the sample mockup of Operator #16's one-room apartment, removed from the shelving, seen from the open side. A large angular robot, built out of plastic toy trucks, takes up most of the space. The walls are lined in shiny white satin, and the back wall consists mostly of a door made of large colored windows, but otherwise the room has no adornment. On the right wall, a cord from the robot plugs into a socket. On the left wall, a very small door leads into the neighboring unit, the Baking Cooperative. Near this door someone has placed a pie, made of clay set in a bottle cap, decorated with 4 red beads on the top.

A side view of Operator #16's apartment, showing that the outside of the cube is coated in simple black felt. Through the tiny Baking Cooperative door, one of Operator #16's wheels can be seen.

Another front view of Operator #16's apartment, from an angle showing more of the right-side wall. It can be seen that the electric plate where the cord plugs in is made of a large oblong pill-pack blister, glued to form a protrusion on the wall, and two small sockets have been set into it, made from the halves of a screw clasp designed for jewelry-making. The cord is a stiff metal wire which pokes into the uppermost of these.

A back view of Operator #16's apartment, showing the large colored back door open. Through the open door, most of Operator #16's back can be seen.

Another back view of Operator #16's apartment, showing that the back outer wall is silver-colored, and the large back door is mostly closed. It is cut from a black metal grating with 1-inch squares, which has been covered in clear tape and colored different colors with permanent markers to give the appearance of stained glass.

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