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Sockdolager

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HT-Alpha, a hunting support Doll developed by Svarog Heavy Industries, was primarily meant for overlooking and managing hunting practices within natural reserves, and was first put into use in 2055.

As one of Svarog's Environmental Protection Program's Dolls, Sockdolager was mainly responsible for assisting people with hunting legally and safely in the forests of Eastern Europe, as well as observing animal and plant life within the forests and taking protective measures against the effects of war or Collapse Fluid pollution.

Due to a hunting accident, Sockdolager's work stopped after a reversal of public opinion, and was entered into Project Neural Cloud by Svarog Heavy Industries.

Doll Profile 1

The first impression Sockdolager leaves on people is not as ice-cold as the title of "professional hunter" would suggest. For the purpose of protecting the biosphere and endangered species, Sockdolager's neural systems are not only loaded with incredible amounts of hunting techniques, but also a rich depth of knowledge for the natural sciences. With this knowledge, Sockdolager can elegantly traverse within woodlands, accurately taking out designated prey without harming other life or damaging the local environment. For her, hunting is more the remembrance and inheritance of some rule of nature, not mere killing.

During her trial period, Sockdolager showed a great affinity for nature. With a body of steel, she found a quaint place for herself in the wealds - not even her designers could explain why when she entered those woods, she melded perfectly into that land of beasts, walking and flying.

Doll Profile 2

As opposed to an instrument-filled research facility, Sockdolager seems much more inclined to her self-constructed cabin in the woodlands. Without work at hand, she would often serve as a groundskeeper, patrolling the forests, meeting her best friend on the way - the falcon often found nestled on her shoulder, "Hobbie". Afterwards, she requested a specially designed Animal Signal Reception Device, allowing her to communicate and cooperate with Hobbie better. The chirps and songs amongst the woods spurred up an interest of music in Sockdolager. You could often find her strolling amongst the trees, self-crafted guitar in hand, humming along to her own tunes.

"If some undiscovered civilization really existed within the depths of those woods, then Sockdolager, music in her steps, would surely have been recorded by them as a goddess of the hunt, spoken of in books of legend."

- One of Sockdolager's designers

Doll Profile 3

Svarog Heavy Industries undertook the forest protection program mainly in order to improve their brand image, but they spoke very little of a "hunting support Doll". As for the reason why, the undertaking of hunting was not widely accepted for common people yet. Scientific studies had already proven that correctly designated hunting could be helpful in allowing ecosystem growth and protecting biodiversity, but in the eyes of many, hunters were still equivalent to "destroyers of the environment".

As a Doll, Sockdolager was the center of even more contention than human hunters. Some very agitated civilian activists, after coming to know of her existence, even took their objections to the researchers' doorsteps, demanding for Sockdolager to be decommissioned.

Sockdolager has never responded to the points of controversy around herself. According to those in contact with her, she would always be happily babbling away about something related to plants whenever she returned to the research facility, as if there was nothing in the world more worthy of her attention except that patch of nature she had dedicated herself to.

"If one day I can't be a hunter anymore...put me on a farm, then. Sounds nice, eh?"

Doll Profile 4

In an incident on a cooperative hunting mission, a client, despite Sockdolager's cautioning, ventured past a warning line and into a dangerous area. They were assaulted by dangerous animals, and Sockdolager was forced to kill numerous I-Level Endangered Animals.

After this incident went public, animal protection groups and Doll research organizations began a lengthy debate on whether the action of Dolls would also fall under Force Majeure. Svarog Heavy Industries produced a large variety of documents, proving that Sockdolager poses no threat to wild animals in their natural environment, and many clients made themselves known to defend her. Nevertheless, under tremendous pressure, Sockdolager's work was forcibly put to an end.

Svarog considered lending out Sockdolager for other purposes, but despite her excellent stealth capabilities and mechanical precision in the usage of weapons, her gentle temperament made her unfitting for military work, and when it came to the farmhand work that she pined for, she had no talent to speak of.

After failures in multiple fields, Svarog Heavy Industries sent Sockdolager off to Project Neural Cloud. At the very least, over there, her unique talents and dispositions would be preserved.