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Built: 1896 Style: Futurism Instruments: Guitar, Bass, Keys, Mandolin Features: Titanium alloy spinal column, blue matter ray projector arrays, tesla coil high voltage discharger The Spine, like his fellow Steam Powered Giraffe band members, was created in 1896 by an inventor named Peter A. Walter, to be featured at the Cavalcadium's scientific convention. The Spine was originally created with a spinal column made up of smokestacks similar to a locomotive, thus he was appropriately named The Spine. In 1955, the US government invested millions of dollars into upgrading The Spine. Therein he received a brand new titanium alloy spine, and a multitude of highly classified weapons. Along with his weapon upgrade, The Spine received new adaptive programming. Instead of being an old fashioned automaton, The Spine was reprogrammed and redesigned to more closely represent a human. This way, he could serve Uncle Sam by performing special ops missions as their number one 'guy', without any human lives being put in danger. The upgrades were a success technically speaking; however, they weren't put to good use in Vietnam, where guerrilla warfare overpowered all of Walter's robots- including The Spine. Despite a history of war, The Spine does not like violence, even in the service of his country. He, along with the rest of the Walter automatons, has downloaded a vow of peace since Vietnam, and will not use his weapons. As a musician, The Spine plays the acoustic guitar, the bass, keys, and the mandolin. The Spine is a stoic automaton, and often plays the straight man in the trio of robot musicians. The Spine tries the most to fit in and be human around organic company, but spends most of his time interfacing with the Walter's in-house computer network via The Hall of Wires.

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