User blog comment:PerhapsTheOtherOne/Synthetics In RWBY and Beyond: What's that all about?/@comment-3965075-20150601030239

So Penny is basically like a Geth from Mass Effect? :P

There's also a question as to where her Aura came from. Far as we know, it comes with most living organisims on Remnant. How could she have access to something that's usually found on organic entities? Could her father used planted someone's Aura (or even bit of their life-force) into her?