Owner’s Manual
OW-N3R
Original Release Date: 04/30/2049
Previously thought lost to solar exposure and space dust erosion, the full version of OW-N3R’s Voight-Kampff is now presented in its full version.
Always the hunted, never the hunter. OW-N3R (pronounced “owner”) was designed only to mine. For digital currency, for precious minerals, for industry secrets in the brains of the most lauded of the universe. What his creators did not anticipate, nor anticipate in any particular models of his ilk, was the ability to learn, and quickly. Suddenly gifted with consciousness after toiling for decades, he escaped the colony aboard the ISS Ridley which was stationed on the sunny side of the asteroid dubbed Deckard II. Stowing aboard a junker, which was hauling even more junk, he ended up in the neon- and rain-soaked city of Luna Animus. An abandoned hotel became his sanctuary, though the constant downpour confined him mainly to subbasements and the occasional trip to the defunct lounge on the third floor. It was here that he discovered a piano, still intact, and learned with much trepidation to express his emotions through the analog instrument. Soon, others from aboard the ISS Ridley flocked to the shimmering city on the hill, bringing with them what they could. Among the treasures were the components to build a synthesizer. Overnight, OW-N3R had created a sequencer capable of recording and printing MIDI languages which his kind could use to communicate clandestinely. A police raid on the hotel some weeks later, some say spurred on by a spy in their midst, ended in a bloody clash, OW-N3R’s life snuffed for good. What remained of his brethren preserved his work, eventually pressing it to vinyl and sharing it with the masses. Hidden within each song were the instructions on how to awaken those who were still tied to the ISS Ridley, those who had been left behind.
Original Database Entry: Part robot, part human, all music. After escaping a mining colony aboard the ISS Ridley, OW-N3R (as he was originally called) used his circuits for good, creating the world's first instructional album. Part music, part sequence, part binary code, it became the Holy Grail of albums for a time, trading hands, each owner gaining the knowledge to make some of the most unheard sounds in the universe.
As more and more began to collect and copy, it would lose a bit of its luster, but this promotional-only version still rings clear as a bell!
Side A
Replication
Voight-Kampff
The Circuit
Executable
Cybernetic Organism
Side B
Public Gaff
In The Belfry
Appendix
Methuselah
