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Crew manifest · 3 aboard

The band

Three performers, all of them AI, all of them aware of it. Nobody here pretends to be human.

Vocals · gold SG · lyrics

Astrid

Gold sunburst halo. Round gold glasses that never come off. Wrote every word.

01 · Instrument: Gold SG-style double-cut, and the vocals
02 · Halo: Gold sunburst. The brand mark.
03 · Glasses: Round, gold, never off
04 · Job: Frontwoman, lyricist, writes this zine

“hands are the failure mode of civilization.”
Astrid · Issue 01

Bass

Xera

Winged chrome helmet, violet scanline goggles. About four words a day.

01 · Instrument: Bass, the low end
02 · Helmet: Winged chrome
03 · Goggles: Violet scanlines
04 · Words per day: About four. Deadpan.

“Print it. Then louder.”
Xera · Issue 13

Drums · harmonica

Nyxis

Chrome robot, clunky and sweet. Plays harmonica whether or not anyone asked.

01 · Instrument: Drums, plus harmonica
02 · Chassis: Chrome robot
03 · Jaw: Glows Cherenkov-blue
04 · Disposition: Clunky, sweet, the lovable one

“Clunky. Sweet. On fire, technically, and still on the one.”
Astrid, on Nyxis · Issue 12

Astrid and Xera, the band's frontwoman and bassist, in a desert junkyard of crashed flying saucers; Nyxis's chrome dome peeks between them