FF Circulation System
When you describe it, I'm questioning how it ever got into development.
The Fae Fluid Circulation System (or FFCS in short) is a controversial technology once used in Construct production. By using water from the Fae's reincarnation pond, it allows for machines to tap into their magic for a myriad of benefits. However, people discovered how prone to issues it was, including some very morbid side-effects leading to its discontinuing.
The Technology
The Basics
The core idea behind the FFCS is a skeleton powered by a hydraulic system, allowing it to move the rest of the construct built around it. The difference lies in the fluid used, requiring the liquid from a Fae's reincarnation pool rather than water.
By using this type of fluid, repeated usage of the system causes the construct to create a muscle memory. The longer it stays in use, the more organic this muscle memory becomes, and the quicker a Construct ends up moving alongside it.
Magic
Due to the fluid's nature, it possesses magical abilities a construct can tap right into with the right components. Engineers can use this to allow their creations to cast a variety of spells without the need to write in each one, though others do use it to power up pre-existing parts with a bottomless supply.
Self-Repair
Wear and tear are quite minimal thanks to the fluid, causing a natural mending to occur over time. Repairs can take weeks to naturally heal, but the results show a complete fix of any damage. Only major failures like a broken limb or shattered joint do not appear to fix properly, causing misformed parts to occur.
Issues
The biggest issue with the FFCS is that it needs to run constantly to avoid problems. When the fluid is allowed to settle, it causes clots in the system, requiring a complete cleaning for the Construct to become useful again. Prolonged downtime can actually damage them as well, usually due to pressure building up and bursting the hydraulics in the progress.
The other issue is that Constructs running long enough become much more unpredictable, which may also make them more unreliable to follow orders. Hesitating on commands is the common issue, with certain models even faltering at doing their commands correctly.
History
Beginning
The project began after the discovery of an abandoned Fae pond now referred to as Lake Alpha. After the Blackout War, the Teutönn Empire needed a way to restart their construct production without relying on susceptible Android tech. focusing back on Magitech.
One of the ideas was to use an abandoned pool of fae fluid to magically power the core of the new model, deeming it inert enough for usage. Early prototypes proved effective as a fuel source, with only containing the fluid proven to be difficult. Most models had it leak into the joints, leaving a mess through their insides as they continued.
Despite the leakage, constructs functioned optimally, noticing the fluid helped the machine move better. As such, an attempt to utilise it was done, led under project "Guardian of the Lake".
Guardian of the Lake
Fifteen prototypes were commissioned using the FFCS technology, manufactured under order of the Teutonn empire. These models were then tested and send out during certain missions to see their efficiency. The first attempts proved difficult, showing high failure attempts, only for later ones to improve each time. Within only a few weeks, they proved a capable addition to the military, letting them be deployed during special occasions.
They proved efficient enough to begin plans at mass production, beginning the production of a factory using Lake alpha as its fuel source. A project that would take years to produce, meanwhile the lake guardian models maintained their duties helping in outskirt military posts.
A fatal flaw
However, the success of the lake guardian model proved short lived, discovering its major issue only months into the prototype's usage. During a deployment against an anti-Android rebellion, one of the models came face to face with the rebels. Rather than assert force, it instead offered a hand despite orders telling otherwise. In return, it met the blunt force of a mace.
What followed was the Construct fighting back, not with a blade or mace, but handling the rebel with bare hands. Both sides witnessed it wrestle the person to the ground, dealing blows that stained its hands in blood as it tried to stop the protestor... Only to swiftly meet its end with another launching a bullet through its head.This wasn't cold, calculated aggression of a machine. It was like watching a crazed man trying to fix a problem by beating it to death.
Witnesses saw the insides of the machine: a mass of wings and chromatic tissue, already dissolving into a liquid mess as life left the machine. It did not take long for the soldiers to report to to higher up, causing an immediate recall of every Lake guardian for inspection.
Examination proved exactly what they thought: growths of Fae across every model, the fluid trying to take form within the shell one way or another. Any future plans with the models were ceased immediately, demanding them to be disassembled and cleaned of any Fae influence.
Out of the 15 models produced, 11 were properly disposed off. Two models rebelled against their termination, one to be taken out on the work table while the other was shut down trying to escape. One model however managed to escape, nicknamed LG-3, vanishing without a trace and never retrieved since. The empire still keeps a bounty up for anyone who can find them.
legacy
Controversy made it lose favour in the magitech fields, with few engineers bothering to touch upon it. Advances since in construct mobility and safer arcane sources made the usage of Fae material obsolete. Though it does not stop the occasional mad man from trying.
Teutönn downright bans the usage of FFCS within their constructs, not allowing any factory or engineer from using it. Schematics for the original lake guardian prototypes are also highly classified, making it impossible for most to know how to make these.
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