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==Creation and birth== | ==Creation and birth== | ||
Very little is known about how OS-tans (and computer-tans in general( are created and/or born. A few theories have been mentioned, but none have ever been written about in-depth. | |||
====Computer-tans created by humans==== | |||
One commonly-depicted way of OS-tan creation involves being made "from scratch" by human creators. This is how the earliest computer-tans were made, and even in more contemporary times a large number of computer-tans exist without having any sort of ancestral line. | |||
====Computer-tans born to computer-tan parents==== | |||
OS-tans are often depicted as being able to reproduce asexually. Using advanced scientific or magical techniques, [source] code can be extracted from an OS-tan's body and used to create offspring. The extracted code from an OS-tan can be changed or enhanced, giving the offspring specific physical, mental and magical "mutations"; very rarely it is left alone, resulting in an exact duplicate or clone of the OS-tan in question. | |||
While source code is usually obtained legally, sometimes the code is stolen and used to create unauthorized clones or children. This was the case in the creation of [[UNIX]]-tan, who was created from [[Multics]]' code without her knowledge or approval; [[SABRE]]-tan, who was created from [[SAGE]]'s code; and in the Annex universe, [[Windows NT]]-tan, who was made from [[VMS]] and [[OS/2]]-tan's code. | |||
OS-tans do not gestate their young. Indeed, an OS-tan doesn't even need to be present to have a child created, as evidenced by Unix, who managed to "mother" dozens of direct descendants with little personal intervention; and Linux, who has perhaps hundreds of children created from her openly-available source code. It is unknown exactly how OS-tan offspring are grown, but they seem to undergo some sort of accelerated maturation - the youngest OS-tans within the fanon and Annex universe(s) are depicted as being elementary school-age, with no known fanon depictions of baby or toddler OS-tans existing. | |||
It has been speculated that any sufficiently compatible computer-tans of the same species (OS, hardware, program, etc) could produce a child together. However, there are no documented cases of computer-tans reproducing in such a way. The only fanon example of an OS-tan produced from two parents is NT-tan. The yet-unpersonified PDP-12-tan would be another case of a computer-tan derived from two parents - in her case, [[LINC]] and [[PDP-8]]-tan. | |||
==Factors that determine remaining life force, decline, and death== | ==Factors that determine remaining life force, decline, and death== | ||