Questionable ethics - Living Memory

[Papayatar]

Don’t forget they already had a machine form prototype in the form of robo otis but they did consider a version that has all the memories and can live with minimal help for over 200 years and could be upgraded a bad prototype version. Plus the inconsistency of needing to kill robo Otis off so there wouldn’t be a problem when facing endless Otis (also he dies while saving not even the queen but a drone, so completely pointless death)

I’m going to guess the reason for rejecting the robo bodies has to do specifically with giving Sphene a physical form, since robo-Otis is a pro type made after the real Sphene a dead. And also rejecting robo bodies because something to do with her crown since the crown was hinted at being something special.

So the story not extrapolating on it, instead gives us a “wait for the sequel” post credits hint and then the flip flop nature of the story saying we should and shouldn’t care about the Endless makes things awkward because we don’t know enough other than they’re fueled by souls so gotta shutdown the PC despide and moral dilemas being ignored.

So my half-thought of theory is the robo bodies weren’t viable due to memories 100% being retained. Even though LM Otis had his PTSD moment he was still an early version of an Endless so he probably didn’t get the full memory wipe treatment. Sure his moment was directly related to Sphene but I think that was probably also a flaw they worked out with future Endless.

It’s possible that whatever they needed a Sphene copy and her special crown required some level of memory manipulation even if they were just making super advanced AI vers of their dead queen. And for whatever reason making the Endless the way they are and tying her directives to the might be related. But I could be giving the writing too much credit through speculation.