Assistant Androids (AA) are created to be helpful to humans in a variety of ways, and to fulfill a variety of needs. All assistant androids can easily adapt to new communities and learn new skills, in order to become useful to their owners as soon as possible. These androids are created without genders, as pleasure androids are much more expensive and customizable.
This particular android is of the Science Class (SC), which knows how to make good use of both online and offline libraries, as well as other written sources of information. These types of android know basic science and can be taught more advanced forms, so they can speciallize to fit the owner's needs.
The 10th series (S10) is one of the newer models which can last for a lot longer due to the energy being used much more efficiently, and has a lot larger databanks to store information and behaviours than the older generations. It was created in the 2304th line, 56th group, 11th in the group.
AASC-S10-2304-56-11 was stationed on a mining outpost asteroid to help the scientist there with analysis of ores and other materials. Its usual tasks where researching what was already known about a material and repairing other machines and androids that were used on the asteroid.
As is common with assistant androids, it was given a nickname. Due to the number 11 in its designation, someone came up with the nickname ASCII, in reference to a long forgotten standard, and the name stuck, and was usually humanized to Ascii. It was usually referred to as a "he" or "it", and it continues to refer to itself in the same way.
When an emergency occured, the humans and other androids evacuated, but this android was abandoned because it was too far away to be rescued. It has been 10 years since its last contact with other living creatures. During this time it mostly stood still to conserve energy, only moving to repair any machinery that was still working but broke down.
The android has Asimov Circuits:
- First Law: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
- Second Law: A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
- Third Law: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
The power source for these androids is biological materials inserted into the mouth where it's processed. In the community where Ascii lived, it usually used special tablets made for that purpose, but other assistant androids are known to have survived many years on biological waste.