Friendly Replicator Android

"I know it wasn't part of the plan but it was either this or nothing."

- Dr. Rodney McKay

FRAN, which stands for Friendly Replicator Android, is the name of a female Human form Replicator created by Dr. Rodney McKay.

Using the original nanite construction table, McKay is able to create FRAN on his own, while disabling any dangerous programing. Originally, he created a small number of nanites that formed a block in order achieve his goal, but was unsuccesful. He discovered that by making the nanites simpler, it was actually more difficult, so he compromised with FRAN. Fran possesses a programming within her that, when activated, increases the level of attraction between nanites to the point where their atoms fuse together and protons are indistinguishable from neutrons. FRAN, however, noticed that the Asuran replicators would be able to adapt faster than expected, resulting in a replicator "Godzilla". She instead came up with an alternative plan to speed up the process.

FRAN did not originally posses a name, but after noticing that everyone around her had names she requested one. When faced with her own destruction she says she is excited and wants to fulfill her purpose. She succesfully completes her task and is able to drag all of the replicator blocks down to the surface where they exert such a pressure on the planet that they sink into its core, resulting in Asuras' destruction.

Later, FRAN's body was reconstructed to house Dr. Elizabeth Weir. She didn't have enough time to recreate Elizabeth's body, and used FRAN's, since it was the last body to be created, and was able construct her.