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* ''[[Girl Genius]]'' has a [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110926 self-conscious] Mechaniac:
{{quote|'''Vanamonde''': <small>um</small> — I wonder if growing up here might make us a little... ''weird''...}}
* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' has a few.
** ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' has a few, but theThe cake goes to nice blimp-creature Hioefua Far-Wanders, who described Eina-Afa as "large facility with attractive open spaces", but "currently infested with vermin". The chapter about adventures in that place is named "Can Full of Sky". Because Eina-Afa turned out to be a [[Big Dumb Object|cylinder big enough to store Mars, Luna and Europa inside]], and you'd still need a lot of bubble wrap to prevent them from rattling. AlsoThe "open space" is most of its internal volume, and sometime during last ''more than ten millions of years'' it developed its own ecosystem, which includes several species adapted to symbiosis with runaway industrial-grade nanorobots (and sporting nice metal-plated skeletons or exoskeletons, which [[Square-Cube Law|allows many of them to also be absurdly huge]]). In part thanks to its AI, who got bored after the builders gone extinct and arranged a stable pair of hurricanes across the can's diameter to ramp up selection pressure in hope ''something'' will eventually evolve enough to talk with it.
** Author's notes, fairly often. "Note: [...] the officers and crew of the UNS Battleplate [...] great many of them can no longer be reached in order to comment on exactly how much better the operation could have gone." (under the comic with remnants of the battleplate in pieces just big enough to recognize what it was)
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