Said alien lawyer reads the reply back, smoothing his thumb along one eyebrow in consideration. Another moment is taken to hook a finger at the nearby ash tray and pull it closer, soon lighting up a cigarette before getting to his reply.

We got something like that. Protostar made a bunch of bots to be our heavy-lifters and shit, right. But something on Nexus got into one of them. A virus or something?? Made him sentient and aware. Killed the employee who made him and ran off and now he's spreading his awareness virus to any other bots he can get to.

Call themselves Free-Bots. Dumb.

Of course, your clones were flesh and blood to begin with? I assume?? At least bots started as just tech with arms.

Anywayyyy

Your friend. You wanna even find him at all now? Or just cut losses