Publication date: 29th October 2023
Hardware units that are beyond repair are broken down and used for spare parts. Their hard drives are wiped before being used to build new units or replace parts in existing units, but there's sometimes still some residual 'echo' left behind, leaving units sometimes experiencing snatches of memories of their 'past lives'.
(This idea assumes that the units can get some power from solar.)
If a unit is incapacitated in battle but not killed, and not retrieved by the alliance (e.g. potentially, brown-coated cameraman trapped under scaffolding at the end of episode 57), it will eventually run out of energy and power down. If they have exposed solar cells, they might get some power back every now and again, but eventually their batteries will become unviable from repeated failed discharge/recharge cycles. Dead unit. However, if metal dendrites eventually form in their decaying circuitry, the dendrites could bridge the gaps between electrodes and allow the dead battery to act as a conductor, and the unit to be powered directly from its solar panels. This would probably result in a unit that 'came back wrong'.
This sort-of happens with real life satellites that have died and not been de-orbited. There are old dead satellites up there that broadcast random gibberish when the sun hits their solar panels just right.
Most skibidis seem to be quite happy with their fate - zipping around with a zest for life despite being abominations in the eyes of both the alliance and any remaining humans. However, some skibidis mourn for their old human existence, and have disbanded from the skibidi faction in an attempt to research a cure by themselves. None have fully succeeded but some have had partial success. Unfortunately, these horrible morasses of rampant flesh-growths and porcelain-shards appear to be trapped in an even worse existence…
Similar to the above but in the reverse direction: some human survivors live constantly fleeing from the skibidis, fearful of being transformed. Some of these nomads research ways to make themselves immune from the skibidi curse, transforming themselves into something that's not quite human enough to be skibidi-fied. Whatever they are, they look wrong but there is still some intelligence behind their fearful eyes…
Some humans are naturally immune to the skibidi curse. However, not all of them fight against the skibidis. Some of these immune humans are in 'skibidi cults' that have fallen for the skibidi propaganda that to be transformed into one of them is a high honour and the next stage of advancement and enlightenment for humanity. These immune cultists therefore see themselves as akin to bodhisattvas (individuals in Buddhism who are capable of achieving enlightenment but have chosen not to go through with it so they can help as many other people as possible reach enlightenment.)
Therefore, if you're a human survivor and think you've found help in the form of a friendly human face… maybe you haven't.
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