The Absolute Solver

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The Absolute Solver, otherwise known as the Solver of the Absolute Fabric, just Solver or by the name of its first host Cyn, is the main antagonist of Murder Drones.

It is an extremely advanced, hostile, eldritch intelligence of unknown origin that seeks to consume all life to satiate its "hunger" by creating singularities that destroy entire planets. It is responsible for all of the events in the series, causing Cyn to self-reboot after her termination before it possessed her and set its plans in motion by converting all of the drone servants of Elliott Manor into Disassembly Drones who were programmed to hunt and prey upon humans in its goal of exterminating humanity and destroying the Earth.

From there, it would spread to the human exoplanets by having the humans inject its code into the Worker Drones stationed there so they could experiment on the eldritch program, only for it to take possession of them and use them in order to destroy the exoplanets. Its last target, Copper 9, had two drones infected by its code, Yeva and Nori, the latter of whom would become its new host but due to the former's intervention with a Crucifix Patch meant to exorcise it, resulting in it only partially succeeding due to the core collapsing, leaving it "starved" of the planet it sought to devour.

In order to finish the job and to terminate the empowered drones who it could no longer possess due to the patch, it reprogrammed the Disassembly Drones and had them sent to Copper 9 with false memories of the company sending them to terminate the rogue Worker Drones, all so it could remove Yeva, Nori and anyone inheriting their code from the picture, so it could use Cyn's form to make its way back to the planet and finish the job.

Ultimately, the Absolute Solver failed in its goal of eradicating the planet due to the efforts of Uzi, N, V and other allies assisting them in confronting Cyn and J. After successfully destroying Cyn's heart, Uzi stopped the Solver from attempting to return to its host by swallowing its core, causing the amalgamation of Cyn and Tessa's corpse to dissolve into nothing but blood and oil while the Solver was trapped inside of Uzi.

Advertisement Biography Pre-Series The origin of the artificial intelligence that would come to be known as the Absolute Solver is unknown, with its earliest documented event being the infection of a Zombie Drone named Cyn, who self-rebooted after being improperly disposed of, implying that it originated as a consequence of either a virus or glitch in Cyn's systems. Either way, the program manifested in her and used her to destroy Earth and most of the humans living on the planet.

From there, it would spread to numerous human-inhabited exoplanets, infecting more drones to find new hosts. Its power only grew when the humans of Copper 9 allowed certain drones to be infected by the Absolute Solver so they could better understand it. Drones like Yeva were deliberately infected, which, in her case, caused the Solver to be passed down to her daughter.

Unfortunately, the Absolute Solver succeeded in finding a new host, a Worker Drone named Nori Doorman, whose infected code would be passed down to her daughter, Uzi. A patch to exorcise the Solver's influence was used on Yeva and Nori, although when it was used on Nori, it scrambled her memories and drove her mad.

Absolute Solver sent Disassembly Drones to the planet by convincing them that they were sent by JCJenson to exterminate the escaped, corrupted AI in the form of Worker Drones. Their directives were to both wipe out the hosts of the Absolute Solver such as Nori and Yeva cured by Crucifix Patch so they couldn't use Cyn's power against her and also get access to Cabin Fever Labs to find the patch and destroy it. After executing these directives, the Absolute Solver will have no obstacles and will turn the core of Copper 9 into a black hole.

PILOT The Absolute Solver's existence is first hinted at in the Pilot, when N was slapped by J and forced into a brief system reboot. It weighed the prospect of coming online but was quickly made dormant again as N's administrative systems (CYN) reasserted themselves. The Absolute Solver symbol makes a small cameo on Uzi's visor when J shoots bullets at Uzi. A similar line of code appears on Uzi's visor after she declares her intent to travel to Earth and kill all humans in retribution for them, sending the Disassembly Drones to slaughter them.

Heartbeat Sometime after J was destroyed by Uzi, a Worker Drone named Frank is assigned to repair the hole in the ceiling created by N when he flew off with Uzi after her self-exile, along with the captive V. Frank hears several noises around the room and eventually notices J's broken shell having mysteriously moved. Soon after, he discovers her bio-mechanical core inside her corpse. J's Absolute Solver activates and transforms her corpse into an eldritch. It swiftly kills Frank and absorbs his remains. From there, it continues to assimilate more Worker Drones, using the holograms of its victims to lure others in.

Eventually, Uzi, N, and Thad arrive at the evacuation spot where Frank was killed. Uzi finds the meaning of the symbol on her face (shown after she was attacked by N during their first encounter) and learns that the Absolute Solver caused the mysterious assimilation. This failsafe program exists inside the Disassembly Drones. Just when they are about to discover more of this program, Thad is grabbed by a human hand attached to a tentacle. N severs the tentacle, but a claw emerges from the darkness and drags Thad away.

When Uzi and N catch up, they find the Solver trying to mimic Thad but see through it. After Thad is freed, the Solver reveals its current host body, an enormous robotic centipede with J's head. Rather than banter with Uzi, the Solver shows a brief hologram of Uzi's mother holding a baby Uzi, both sporting the Solver's glyph on their visors. It offers to assimilate Uzi, who refuses; the Solver responds by killing a hologram of Khan in front of her to make her emotionally unstable so she will be unable to protect herself. It ambushes Uzi with a hologram of N and destroys her railgun, but before it can devour her, N uses his chainsaw hands to attack it and save Uzi. The railgun then explodes and destroys the eldritch monster.

Reduced once more to the core, the Absolute Solver crawls out of the debris only to be repeatedly stabbed by N's Nanite Acid tail. Both the scraps of Eldritch J and the core implode and escape by turning into minuscule black holes.

The Promening Doll would be another individual to be shown as affiliated with the Absolute Solver, which granted her unique abilities to create, modify, or otherwise tamper with matter of most kinds. She would use this in a fight against Uzi, and N. V shot her in the head before Uzi and N could gather any information, much to Uzi's annoyance. Doll would later reappear when the group investigated her home, pulling the bullet out of her head and attempting to kill Uzi with it. However, Uzi's Solver suddenly awakens, stopping the bullet in mid-air and deflecting it. A shocked and worried Doll promises to help her before teleporting away.

Cabin Fever Before Uzi set out on a field trip into Camp 98.7, Khan told her about a collar that both her mother and Doll's mother wore, which indicated what number host they were. While exploring the camp, she had some skill with her Absolute Solver abilities, levitating a flashlight with no issue. However, when hiding in an abandoned cabin, her high temperature causes her to lose control of her Solver. When two of her classmates attempted to enter the cabin, she devoured one of them and bisected the other. In her consequent appearances, she gains a pair of organic bat-like wings with humanoid fingers and a tail with a mouth-like appendage. She also displays an X on her visor. By the end of the episode, Uzi had reverted to her regular form.

Home Sometime after the camping trip, Uzi hacks into N and V's unconscious minds because the Solver is attempting to erase N's memories of his life as a Worker Drone. In his head, N relives them without any memory of his present self or his meeting with Uzi. Uzi becomes a crow with the Absolute Solver symbol as its iris when she is inside N's memories. She later hijacks a Solver camera, turning its eye purple.

In this mindscape realm, she and N learn that the Absolute Solver first manifested in Cyn, a fellow Worker Drone working with N, V, and J in the Elliott Manor as servants. Unlike the other Worker Drone servants, Cyn is unique due to her atypical behavior and physical deformities. She also has the same voice as Eldritch J. Cyn also narrates her actions out loud ("shuffle, shuffle" or "criss-cross applesauce").

This caused her to be avoided by others around her, both humans and drones, except for N. Tessa Elliott, who, despite loving the Worker Drones (especially J and N), is quite unnerved and unfond of Cyn and instead tends to lock her away in the basement with J's help, Despite this, Cyn escapes.

After Tessa's mother, Louisa, scolds her daughter and decides to have N, V, and J thrown into the dumpster tomorrow due to them "clogging the library," Cyn rebukes Louisa's statement of them being broken and states that they can no longer be "thrown out" as if threatening her.

Angered by being talked back to by a Worker Drone, Louisa prepares to take her wrath out on Cyn, but N takes the fall for her. As punishment, N is chained to a tree to be destroyed by crows. Unfortunately, Tessa is punished by her mother for teaching her drones unacceptable behavior, along with J and Cyn, the latter of whom earns Tessa's anger because she believes N doesn't deserve to face the worst of her mother's anger for Cyn's sake.

Despite this, Cyn assures Tessa that she has "backups" and decides to drop her façade by revealing her actual form to Tessa and J: a centipede-esque eldritch machine with multiple camera-like eyes surrounding it. As the Absolute Solver symbol covers her visor, she tells Tessa to stay away from the gala held by her parents so that she will not have to toss her pets aside. In turn, Cyn will not toss her aside, despite her being human.

Dead End After Doll falls into Cabin Fever Labs, Uzi asks "Tessa" about the reason for Doll's involvement. "Tessa" says that Doll thinks the humans at Cabin Fever Labs experimented on her "folks," giving her a "sickness" she inherited. While staring eerily at Uzi, she adds that she thinks Doll is correct.

Later, Uzi attempts to free herself using her Solver abilities, but the magnet attached to her head stops her. Upon seeing this, Alice crawls toward Uzi and threateningly exclaims that she "dealt with witches" before, and she uses her knife to get a closer look at Uzi's choker, which previously belonged to her mother Nori.

When Alice tries to cut off Uzi's finger with a pair of pliers, Uzi desperately uses her Solver to stop the pliers, but her efforts are in vain. Meanwhile, outside, "Tessa" shows satellite footage of Earth to N. Much to his horror, it has been destroyed by a black hole. She elaborates that the Solver "mutates in damaged AI" and took Cyn as its first host, later taking "everything," showing pictures of Elliott Manor after Cyn's massacre.

She also says that the humans on Copper 9 saw the events on Earth and began deliberately infecting Drones with the Solver so they could understand it better. All it did was spread the Solver even further. N worriedly asks her if the Solver can be removed from Uzi; she solemnly responds that N will have to choose the universe over her before "she's not herself anymore."

As Uzi watches the Sentinels attack N and "Tessa" on camera, she desperately uses the Solver again. This time it works, but it's colored yellow, signifying the Solver's ever-growing control over her. To V's horror, she hears Cyn's familiar voice again, now coming from Uzi. Now almost completely possessed, Uzi summons a black hole that blows a hole in the wall and destroys the door controls. She returns to normal and passes out.

When the Sentinels ambush Alice, V tries to free herself, but they are suddenly pulled into a black hole with flesh around it that then disappears and rots. The two reunite with "Tessa" and N and head to the secret elevator, where they see Doll boot-looped, lying motionless on the ground with the Keybug stuck in her hand. When Uzi uses her Solver to retrieve the bug from afar, she is suddenly stopped by N and V, who both frighteningly shout, "Don't!"

After falling for Doll's trap, the group prepares to battle against the Sentinels. Uzi blows a hole into the elevator using her Solver, much to N's dismay. She loses control again and creates a black hole with a fleshy mass on the elevator. As the black hole grows larger, N slices off Uzi's hand. She staggers back, and her head suddenly twists toward him with yellow eyes and a sharp-toothed grin, with the text "MISS ME?" appearing beside her, foreshadowing Cyn's return. Uzi falls to the ground, her voice glitching and her eyes alternating from purple to yellow.

Mass Destruction A hologram of V appears in front of N, trying to bring his guard down. It then showed Cyn, which caused N to have a flashback of when the Disassembly Drones were wiping out the human race on Earth. The Solver then proceeds to drag N onto the ground, only for Nori to save him and hand him the Crucifix Patch as she directs him through the tunnels as it chases them.

In another part of the underground lab, "Tessa" proceeded to look into the list of Worker Drones that were used as test subjects in the human's study of the Absolute Solver, with it showing that every drone was either designated as "corrupted" or "no effect," with the only active two at the time being Nori and Yeva. Having gotten the necessary information, she proceeded to purge the system, causing the computer to self-terminate right as she caught an attack from Doll, who demanded the location of the Crucifix Patch to exorcise the Solver from her, as she refused to allow it to use her to consume the planet.

However, "Tessa" disappeared from Doll's line of sight as the fire was extinguished, leaving her alone in the darkness as strange noises were heard coming closer, putting Doll on high alert. On her visor, she sees something unusual coming towards her, and her attempts at using her own Solver against it prove useless due to the entity being "[like object non-interactable]". Realizing what was coming for her, Doll attempted to throw a boulder at the entity but failed to save herself as it tore it in half and lunged at her, severely wounding her.

Inside the cathedral, Uzi was left shocked upon witnessing the footage, and Doll came stumbling in slowly, leaving a trail of oil in her wake before she slipped and fell to the ground, succumbing to the damage, with her dying message to Uzi being "FIGHT BACK." This caused Uzi to become more worried until she noticed "Tessa" standing in the doorway behind her. Realizing the danger, Uzi tries to assure her that she didn't kill Doll, but when she attempts to use her Solver to defend herself against "Tessa," she receives the same error as Doll. However, before she could impale Uzi with her sword, N appeared and questioned if she knew about the Crucifix Patch and told her she only had one chance to give him answers.

Because she responded in a teasing manner, N immediately decapitated "Tessa" as her body stumbled slightly before falling to the ground. Despite his shock over his actions, N tried to help Uzi with the patch, however, Uzi began to laugh as she shattered the crucifix, and she stared at him to reveal her eyes had gone from purple to yellow, indicating that the Solver now was controlling her as it decided that N had served his purpose and that his backups would forgive "her" for doing away with him, only for Nori to intervene and shock "Uzi" as Nori was supposed to be dead, but Nori only responded by telling her she was grounded, making her angry.

Despite N's reluctance and the Solver nearly succeeding in using Uzi to eat Nori's core, N managed to distract her by explaining to Nori that he and her daughter "hang out," annoying her greatly as she scolded her for "hanging out" with the things that killed her mother, which managed to get Uzi to fight off the Solver's possession, but she ended up angrily drop kicking Nori into the chasm that led to the core of the planet as N revealed that thing was her mother, causing both of them to scream before they hugged. However, "Tessa" grabbed her decapitated head, putting it back and twisting it around the right way as she took off her spacesuit to reveal her true self. She began to feast on Doll's remains and ended up eating her core, ensuring she couldn't come back.

Horrified, Uzi and N looked as "Tessa" told them to get snuck up on, revealing that she was the Absolute Solver who melded what was left of Tessa's corpse with Cyn's body, creating a reanimated drone-human hybrid for itself as it attacked the two by biting N's neck and stabbing Uzi in the chest. It sarcastically thanked them for putting up quite a fight and dropped into the chasm that led to the core of Copper 9, now ready to finish what it started years ago.

It then summons a pair of tentacles to drag both N and Uzi into the pit, but the latter manages to save N by tossing him the keys to the spaceship J, and "Tessa" used to arrive on the planet before allowing herself to be dragged into the planet's core.

Absolute End Personality Despite attempting to appear refrained and unassuming when it aims to imitate Cyn, as shown during the flashbacks in Home, its very dominant and almost arrogant behavior tends to seep through, such as when it claims it's too late for Louisa to dispose of the Worker Drones. It displays a cruel, but more so omnipotent, personality during the times it's not performing an act.

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