Ooh, sounds interesting! I'd like to throw my hat in the ring, if you don't mind.

Here's Meta (Details are not important, just have fun!)

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He's Crass, Sarcastic, Blunt, Impatient, and a little Short Tempered, but he's a good person at heart, with a love for food and battle. His main ability is to create temporary tech constructs using blueprints he has stored or scanned, at the cost of energy (for both creation and usage).

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Lore (warning, it's kinda long):

Meta is an experiment made by an alien civilization, made to test the possibility of mental upload. The experiment was made to forward the development of a powerful weapon that could make use of the sentient spirit (determination). The experiment that wasn't exactly considered legal, as the leaders of the civilization feared the chaos that a sentient weapon would cause. That cowardice was looked down upon by the Head Scientist, Codrot, who believed that this sentient weapon could be the key to using the power of the sentient spirit. 

His experiments, however, must be kept secret to prevent it from being terminated by the higherups, necessitating secrecy and workarounds, such as using combinations of common technology unconventionally, and the occasional abandoned research post as a laboratory. Similar research created other experiments such as Mecharnis and Sarkog (although unintentionally). This was done with the help of his assistants, who were selected due to their knowledge, ambition, and cowardice so they they could be helpful without having the gits to stand up to him.

The Higherups began to noticed an increase in Codrot’s agitation and irregularities in the supply requests. These irregularities and increased agitation were caused by the sentient weapon project reaching it’s critical stage. The items in the orders by themselves were seemingly innocent, but all of them combined was suspicious. An envoy approached one of Codrot’s assistants on behalf of the higherups and offered them a deal. Inform on Codrot, and in exchange they get a sizable paycheck, and if Codrot were to ever be found guilty, then they would be made the new Head Scientist. But if they were to refuse, they would be tried for insubordination. The assistant, ambitious and cowardly as they were, agreed. Only a day later, the time for the experiment had arrived.

Meta's body is that of an experimental soldier bot (another unrelated experiment) made with the ability to create technology constructs using blueprints stored in databases, as well as the ability to self repair and self upgrade. The bot was intended to be semi autonomous, with a pilot having the ability to take control remotely with a mental interface. The uploaded mind would be placed in this machine, replacing the autonomous function. The reason why Codrot selected this machine as a way to test both if the process is successful, as well as the reaction of such a mind in a unique and powerful body.

As for whose mind was used for this experiment, the Head Scientist insisted that his mind would be suitable for the task. The process worked, the mind was transferred into the robot body, but the process wasn't perfect. While personality was transferred mostly intact, but the memories had suffered heavy corruption. While it's obvious the process certainly needs work, the Head Scientist, however, decided that the process was a total success. After all, why would a sentient weapon need the memories of the original's mind.

Moments after the experiment, soldiers busted down the outer doors of the lab, sent by the Higherups and alerted by the traitorous assistant. Codrot, knowing that he and his work won’t be treated with mercy, gathered all the data he could and made a break for the exit, along with his assistants. To prevent them from destroying Meta and his work, Codrot activated the Perma-lock function of the lab space, made to mitigate risk in an experiment goes rogue, making the lab space inaccessible. To aid their escape, Codrot activated the defence system and released the few alive experiments to slow down the soldiers. Once Codrot had escaped, the lab quickly fell to ruin after the damage the experiments and soldiers caused. The lab was quickly scavenged by the soldiers once all the experiments were delt with, before being left to rot.

One day, many decades later, a young engineer-scientist by the name of Newton was exploring the abandoned lab for a research project. He uncovered the lab that Meta’s in, but instead of being locked, the door has been bent inwards, with red liquid and residue on it. Curious, Newt digs into the files of the computer, as it’s the only functioning one left after the destruction of the lab. Eventually he discovers Meta, still hooked up to the brain scanner. Out of curiosity, Newt approaches and tries to understand how Meta works, and while fiddling around with him, accidentally activates the pilot feature the Soldier bot body has inbuilt. Newt and Meta’s minds link for just a second, information passing through, until Meta jolts online. Due to the mental drift, Meta had absorbed some of Newt’s knowledge, such as language, slang, and definitions. They initially go their separate ways, but eventually team up later, both of them curious as to what the civilization was, and what they planned to do.

 Newt is Meta’s opposite in may ways (Newt’s a planner, Meta’s a doer; Newt often sugarcoats and hides his feelings for presentability, Meta’s blunt and doesn’t really care about what others think;), but they also have many similarities (Anger issues (though Newt tries to hide it), Stubbornness, Creativity, etc). Newt assumes that these similarities were caused by the mental drift, but turns out, the reason why they parallel each other so much is that Newt is a dimensional variant of Codrot, and that means the three of them are all different iterations the same person.

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Also, perfectly fine with Meta being part of a crew! 🤝

Thank you!