P.A.L. 8000 is a half-completed Pre-War prototype military android.

Personality

Being a robot, P.A.L. does not really have what one might consider to be a personality, although he typically speaks in clipped military lingo and refers to himself in the third-person.

Background

P.A.L. began life as an R&D project by Mechan-O-Dyne Industries – their 8000-Series Prototype Autonomous Light-Infantry android. Developed concurrently with (and designed to compete against) RobCo's Assaultron, but ultimately beaten to market, the loss of the military contract meant that funding quickly dried up and the project was abandoned shortly before the bombs fell.

Inventory

Unique Characteristics

P.A.L. differs from other standard Framework companions by starting the game in a disabled state. Once you find him, you will need either the correct skills or sufficient materials to make repairs before he can be activated and recruited. Also, if he dies, you can retrieve his Processor Core, return to the factory where you first found him, and rebuild him to bring him back to life. Each time he is rebuilt, his version number will increment by one, but his stats are reset.

Location

P.A.L. can be found in an Abandoned Factory Warehouse, nearby the Basincreek Building.

Notes

P.A.L.'s design is loosely inspired by the Atlas robot produced by Boston Dynamics, as well as the look of the character Canti from the anime series FLCL. P.A.L. refers to himself as, “This unit,” in a nod to the Geth from the Mass Effect videogame franchise.

The mesh was made using the pants and boots from the Combat Armor, the “pelvis” of the Robobrain (inverted to make the torso), the thighs, forearms and hands from Liberty Prime (cobbled together to make the arms), the Mesmetron (to make the head), the antennas from the Eyebot, and some pistons from the Enclave Tesla Armor (to make the neck).