Your Waka’s awakening refers to their first moments of self-awareness, depending on what model you chose, there’s a few different paths to choose from!
Awakening can be pleasant and freeing or really stressful and disorienting for a waka, how your waka experiences theirs is up to you !
Wakas cannot awaken on their own, they must be rebuilt & awakened by another waka or sentinel.
This process isn't always obvious and can be tricky for everyone involved.
Some Wakas take weeks to awaken which can discourage their creators - sometimes their creators leave before the awakening is finished, fearing they have failed.
Some inactive wakas are in worse shape than others and may require extensive reworking before they can be awakened, other times the awakening happens too soon which often creates wakas with inherent defects or errors.
Not every waka appreciates being thrown from a mindless worker into an entity with free will and this may spark conflict between them and the wake or sentinel that granted them this ‘gift’.
How fast a waka’s awakening is varies greatly. They may become active again but may not be self aware immediately. They may resume their programmed tasks for days, weeks, or even months long before their self awareness slowly starts to break through. For other wakas it can be pretty much instantaneous and everything in between.
Prototype, Beta, Old Gen; If you picked this model your waka was created in the old world before wakas were a sapient species.
They likely went inactive during the planet’s first death. Whether they remember absolutely nothing from the old world or still remember bits and pieces stored in their old memory banks is up to you!
They were either awakened by: A sentinel, another Wakatric or a Moka.
Standard: Unlike the other models, the new-standard is still created after the collapse of the old world so they have the most Awakening story options.
This model was widely used in the old world but is also still being created by sentinels and other wakas today.
They were either awakened by: A sentinel, another Wakatric or a Moka.
They can also be created/built instead of being Awoken from the old world.
Mokas; a special case for they were never meant to turn into wakas in the first place. Mokas are born through only two ways;
when the motherboard of broken and/or old piece of technology gets too eroded and tunes into the Web by accident, sparking it into sapience.
An existing waka (or select sentinels) tinkering with an old device’s motherboard and intentionally or accidentally tuning it to the Web, creating a Moka.