Disclaimer: I don't own anything from the BOLO series. It is owned by Keith Laumer.
I rouse from Low-Level Autonomous Stand-By to Normal Readiness. As systems become online I devote .0432 seconds to standard diagnostic checks. All sytems report nominal. As I begin scans of the surrounding area my internal chrono confirms that 503 years, 3 months, 19 days, 23 hours, 48 minutes, and 32.9 seconds, Standard Reckoning, have elasped since my Commander ordered me into Low-Level Autonomous Stand-By to await a new Commander from Cental. This is an unacceptable period for any unit of the Line to remain in active duty without human supervision.
These actions have consumed 2.03492011 seconds and my sensors report that the area around me is devoid of any form of life. I pull the files from beform i was put into Low-Level Autonomous Stand-By and realize that i am Unit Nine-Seventy-Four-DTH. A Mark XXXIII/D BOLO of the Dinochrome Brigade. As this realization floods through my processors my scanners pick up a gravity anomaly. Training my optical heads upwards I see one of the rare wonders of the universe. The last battlefield of the Human/Melconian war, Iktal, is slipping into a Black hole. As the planet slips into the event horizon I review the files of the final attack.
The 4th Division of the Dinochrome Brigade appeared over the Melconian world of Iktal and proceeded to launch the assult with which we all had become so familiar. Commanders linked with their BOLOs and I/We descended upon Iktal in a rain of Hellbore fire. Over the course of purging life from Iktal the other members of the 4th Division fell until only We/I remained. But with their deaths came the deaths of the last of the Melconian race. Finally, with the destruction of the last bunker before me/us the threat to what might remain of Humanity will end. I/We revel in the destruction as the last of the Melconian species, the Enemy, are eratidcated. Shortly afterwards I/We separate and I am put into Low-Level Autonomous Stand-By.
As I slip into the event horizon I whisper a farewell to the burned out corner of the universe that once held two proud races.
Author's notes: First off, some background info. BOLO data can be found on the Wiki page en./wiki/Bolo(self-aware tank)
2nd: The Human/Melconian war was the last war fought by BOLOs. Not because it made them obsolete, but because it destroyed both races. Only pockets would remain on hidden worlds.
3rd: In the Mark XXXIII/D model Bolos the Commander and the unit would merge mentally, creating a single entity. This was to combine the computing speed of the Bolo with the instinct of the Human mind.