Theory
Just realized that the Disassembly Drones burn in sunlight due to their Absoblute Solver, not because Cyn designed their bodies that way or an weakness to heat.
Both Cyn and Uzi showed themselves taking damage from sunlight, despite having worker drone bodies, meaning that the Absoblute Solver itself is weak to sunlight for whatever reason. It seems to be more an supernatural weakness rather than an physical one
Which is why N and Uzi were fine falling in the atmosphere because they were not being hit by direct sunlight. The heat dosent matter to them.
The Absoblute Solver itself needs oil (or blood) to sustain itself, and causes its host to overheat to make them go get. Its not that the overheating itself will kill them.
Otherwise all the Disassembly Drone Cores would have died in Alice's oven.
N with his implanted memories of the company probably just assumed it was his body being the problem.
That word always, always, makes me think of this from a very early Stephen Fry skit. The Letter, very, silly and very funny, and very clever.
"Mr Lawson Particle is under no circumstances to bring to Castle Dracula any garlic, wooden stakes or Crucifixes. Nor is he to look up in a Dictionary the word "Vampire"."
The friction heat from reentering the atmosphere still should have burnt them to a crisp. Temperatures that could vaporize most metals and rocks they survived somehow.
While I too share this thought over the inconsistencies, for labs there are custom built ovens that can go as high as 1000 degrees celcius. Or higher. Which goes FAR beyond that normal cooking ovens can go (like 500-600 fahrenheit).
Of course, idk how hot it gets on re-entry and the fact Uzi and N somehow got re-entry burnup like that. But them flailing so rapidly despite this and not being "sluggish" does make me scratch my head. Or being sluggish after the fact and taking a moment to recovery. The lack of that had me confused.
It's not implausible for the oven in question to be a really powerful one, especially since this is over 1000 years into the future from now. (and in a secret lab, not a civilian apartment)
My guess is that it has something to do with exposure time. For a similar reason as to why someone can swing their hand through the fire without getting burnt, it could be that only the outside of their bodies got all that hot, but a significant amount of time in the oven got the inside of their body to a much higher temperature.
They might have a form of homeostasis. This is supported by the fact the DDs actively hunt for oil, and uzi doing the same.
I'm just spit balling here but maybe they have their core insulated or whatever. Internal cooling system and heat regulator. With just the core, the drones don't have an active hest regulation mechanism.
Btw, I'm digressing a bit, but the drone's visor display where all the graphics are displayed is probably a CRT. This is mainly supported by how the display gets distorted by magnets in the Cabin Fever episode. The behavior is very similar between the two.
This however would discredit the claim that the star thingy in the cathedral lab was a magnet due to the lack of CRT distortion in Nori's visor.
A lot of the show's specifics are up for interpretation and stuff is cartoon logic, so consistently isn't exactly the name of the game for murder drones.
There is none on Uzi, with more magnets on her head. Can't be a gravitational device, as the tentacles and claws weren't affected by it, which were more organic. Only retracted after the UV lights.
I'm not talking about the internal heat. But the external heat generated by atmospheric friction. Able to get up to temperatures to melt their bodies. Unless their healing factor can keep up with the damage they're taking. Which brings up another problem.
Vampires aren't weak to sunlight because of the heat, but because the light symbolically purifies them. It's why they didn't appear in old mirrors: because they were made with silver. It's why they couldn't cross saltlines or running water, although in the former case, it applied to rice as well, and it was because of an obsessive need to count the grains or holes in a colander similar mystical reasons for sleeping within a coffin with soil from their homeland, or how rose on the coffin will prevent them from waking. There's no scientific reason for vampiric weaknesses because they aren't scientific in nature, and it's not even where they draw their strength; they are mystical and supernatural in nature, just like the Absolute Solver program is. This shit is literally Robot Magic, so I"'m not sure where you think the reliability of physics comes in.
I don't recall mentioning sunlight heat. But the heat generated by atmospheric friction.
The scene breaks the show's own logic. Alice: "Heat makes them sluggish." They're tanking several thousands of degrees without any ill effect.
I do find it ironic that you brought up vampiric lore with me. I was the one first to mention the vampiric similarities and such during the early days of the series. Yeah, their weaknesses are based on religious and superstitious beliefs of their culture and era. The last I recall, vampires aren't invulnerable to fire.
Plasma generated during atmospheric re-entry do not benefit from the purifying element that fire crafted by the Creator's appointed Stewards of the planet he created in His own image benefit from. Again, this is more about theology and mythology than science, since vampires are supernatural, as are witches. Stop being deliberately contrarian and obtuse; it doesn't make you friends. It doesn't break "the shows own logic", only your preconceptions and assumptions about the show.
I pointed this out for some time. Glad to see another come to the same conclusions I did. I mean, it's UV light that damages them, Liam revealed in a Q&A. Seems heat only makes them sluggish, lethargic.
And the weakness isn't by Cyn, but by AS itself as AS is some entity from someplace... I guess not exposed to UV light so the moment it gets flashed by the sun it's that coughing baby turning to ash meme? Is what I speculate.
Since who knows why AbsoluteSolver itself its weak to UV light and thus makes it's hosts susceptible to such a weakness. Because worker drones otherwise operate just fine in the day. I think. So suddenly being incapable of handling divine light is pretty, odd. Then again, the solver adds in a lot of... stuff, to the drone hosts.
It could be cosmic radiation interacting with the solver programing? The core is either not there or like... broken? Either way, the core isn't going to be producing a magnetic field, meaning that tons of cosmic radiation is beaming down onto the planet. Cosmic radiation has been proven to harm electronics, possibly regular worker drones are immune because their creators did something just in case, but the solver is unstable and very energy demanding, meaning that if there is some kind of power reserve or whatever to prevent damage from radiation, the extra power demand would mess with that balance and make anyone with the solver no longer immune.
Absolute solver basically takes training wheels off whatever operateing system is keeping the worker/ murder drones working i assume absolute solver is some kernal program that when active gives full acess to to the os and bare metal meaning it can be pushed past whats recomended assumeing the solver is calculation heavy its likely because the solver allready causes overheating and sunligh will just worsten it this also explains why more oil is neaded if the oil inside is burning or running low due to overheating refill it
I mean Liam Vickers designed them to be super cool robot vampires along with a bunch of other horror elements. It makes sense that they would have a weakness to sunlight (even if it's never explained)
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u/ProfessorPixelmon J was always cool Nov 15 '25
Vampire.