2Q is the one-and-only prototype of Kolony-Korps Robotics’ ultra-secret “Q-Line Executive Entertainment” series, catalog designation 2Q-T33 (internally nicknamed “Too-Cute”).

Officially she was listed as a “high-morale luxury companion prototype.” Unofficially she was commissioned by a handful of very wealthy, very lonely mining-station executives who wanted an impossibly curvy, eternally cheerful ant robot to keep them company in deep space.

The night before her formal unveiling at the Phobos-9 gala, the engineering team decided (half as a joke, half as advertising) to have her “pose” on the 15-tier welcome cake in the grand banquet hall.

The cake was never engineered to support 180 kg of glossy ant.

2Q happily climbed on, sank butt-first straight through seven layers of sponge, fondant, and buttercream, and sat there beaming while frosting oozed up around her hips, gaster, thighs, and waist. She spent hours giggling, kicking her legs, and declaring it the “best tickly warm hug chair in the whole galaxy!”