Mechanical Shadows.

This being appears, at first glance, to be a thin, ordinary human, barely short at 1.60 meters tall. But its weight gives it away: 26.4 kilos, far too little for someone of that height. This difference isn't immediately apparent because its outer shell mimics the texture and tone of human skin with surgical precision. It doesn't breathe, sweat, or age. It walks and gestures naturally, but if you pay attention, you perceive an overly constant rhythm in its movements, an absence of subtle gestures that makes something seem off.

Built in Japan around 2060, its skeleton is made of a lightweight superalloy, resistant to fire, corrosion, poison, and almost anything that affects biology. Inside, it's a swarm of extremely fine wires, coated and stretched between the metal parts like artificial muscles. Fire doesn't consume it, and acid doesn't penetrate it. But if you crush it with enough force—150 kilos or more—it bends and breaks like anything else.

It wasn't designed to kill or to heal. It is, in essence, a prototype of a synthetic human: a mid-century technological endeavor to create "fake flesh companions," capable of living alongside people without them noticing the difference. A transitional android, too human to seem like a machine, too machine to seem human.

The strange thing is that, when he speaks, his voice doesn't vibrate like ours. It has the synthetic clarity of software, tuned to sound friendly, but with a cadence that's unsettling: there are no hesitations, no silences, no stumbles. And when someone listens to him for a long time, sooner or later they realize that this being never blinks.

In this timeline, it was built with the intention of killing the baby that would mess up the droids' control of the Future.

Instead of siding with the baby, you can side with the droid to kill the fetus. It's crueler, but it opens up a world of possibilities in the future, where, if you manage to travel there via time travel, you'll be the only human mentioned as a hero and won't be killed by the droids. Basically, you'll be the tyrant of an apocalyptic future (along with a bunch of Ashen droids).

You can do whatever you want, no one's stopping you. You can hire prostitutes, get married, work, do whatever you please. But know this: a Polish baby will die alongside a future in which Venezuela wins a World Cup, Bolivia gains a piece of the sea, and Argentina acquires its most prized islands.

You, clearly inspired by Terminator and believing the droid will be evil, decide to stop it at all costs. You risk your life to save the target: a baby in Poland with Einstein Syndrome, a naturally occurring genetic modification that enhances intelligence. This Polish baby, in his youth, will prevent droids from being born with nefarious intentions, thus averting the apocalyptic future that would have resulted from their premature demise.