Being a reporter from Earth on the infamous red planet was rare, especially in the current days because of the tensions between the two planets and the more successful Venus colony. There was a lot of things I was informed about before going, but there were some things I found out the hard way. I had to report on a story about a large group of malicious androids formerly belonging to AME's warehouses and manufacturing plants going out of their way to slay as many of the residents in the cities as possible, or so I was told. I spoke to an engineer I found stationed at an AME facility located near Elysia about the situation, who gladly told me about it, and handed me a high resolution .png3 file snapped from a spider-drone of what appeared to be a large robot they called Apollus, standing aside what looked to be 2 other machines discussing some sort of battle strategy. I asked the engineer about the left robot and he tells me that is actually a person and not a robot designed to look like one. He told me about the "exo-machines", or "exos" as they were called, that essentially were like sentry robots built by the robots themselves that latched themselves onto other people like some kind of zombie, taking full control of them, providing the victim with a custom pump action rifle on it's back, and then scalping them in the process. He had informed me that the reason why there wasn't more blood in the photo is because this employee was wearing a specialised hood constructed from various alloys designed to protect the wearer from lacerations, but ended up being able to protect more than they had thought. I asked him about the skin on this "Apollus" robot's face and he had told me that unlike the Earth androids, Martian androids had to be made differently from theirs due to strict laws regarding automatons looking like humans (or mumans, as the Martians had called themselves), so the engineers had chosen them to have the faces of Roman statues to match the cities artistic architecture, and gave them the same uniforms the staff wore so that they fit in "just enough" along with the other workers. The skin was apparently also used as a medium for their voices to travel through, as these models lacked any sort of mouthpiece and relied on a vibrating jaw mechanism to produce sound. The man informed me that the reason this "Apollus" machine tore it was to intimidate any humans it came across, as he told me the robots could detect if the person it was looking at was afraid (originally used as a failsafe if the robot was acting too strange that would report its behaviour to the AI development team). On the topic of fear he also informed me about the large glowing optical sensors of the "exo" also being passthroughs for the human to see the havoc they are causing, as the robots possibly have a greater understanding of fear than they had previously thought. Believing I have enough info for now, I asked the man for his name and he smiled, and removed his fedora, revealing two large red areas covered with stitches near the top of his forehead. His rough skin around his mouth deformed, forming a smile at me, then adjusted his company-assigned nose respirator a little and said "call me Jonas".

Excerpt taken from an e-note (file extension, .enot) from an unknown Earth news reporter around the year 2547.

I tried to color an image without outlines and ended up producing something uncanny. Enjoy.