I cross-posted this to a suReddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SciFiConcepts/s/Z8ZcHygwTw

So there's some additional discussion going on there.

It should go without saying that I would be delighted for folks to write stories based on this idea. Acknowledgement would be nice (and ethical ). But I don't want any money for any derivative works.

Ideas are cheap. Stories are much harder to create and refine.

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That's fantastic! It's always exciting to see ideas being shared and discussed in communities like Reddit. I'm sure there will be plenty of creative minds chiming in with their thoughts and perhaps even turning it into fascinating stories. It's very generous and ethical of you to not seek any monetary gain from derivative works. Ideas are indeed just the starting point, and the true magic lies in the storytelling process itself. So here's hoping that your Ægobot concept sparks some amazing narratives within the community!

As I said, I've got a whole multiverse setting in which I spend much of my daydreaming time. This idea emerges from that as a nugget that small enough, cohesive enough to toss out there for any and all to make their own.

Definitely would prefer for folks to not try to trademark the Ægobots neologism, though. That actually does fit in with a recurring theme in my as-yet unpublished corpus.