Uninstall: You recieve Zearth

[Ford Prefect]

To set the scene, let's say you're recovering in hospital after some sort of major accident. While in bed, you are visited by a man named Kokopelli, who reveals that you have been granted the role and authority as the pilot of Zearth, the protagonist mecha from the manga Bokurano. You are free to do with it whatever you wish; which, given the capabilities of the machine, is quite impressive. Zearth stands at almost exactly five hundred metres in height and is extremely massive as a result: when it walks it causes earthquakes and when it emerged from the ocean nearby a city it flooded the streets. It can fire energy beams from any surface of its body, powerful enough that it can blast enormous chunks out of mountains with beams deflected off the armour of another Zearth-scale robot. It can also teleport across the world (albeit quite slowly) and has the ability to locate any person in the world. The machine itself is controlled entirely by your will; it is essentially effortless to use, and can be controlled from inside the cockpit as well as outside. It is essentially an unstoppable force, close to invincible to anything humans can throw at it; in the manga, the JSDF come to the conclusion that over the course of 48 hours Zearth could destroy the entirety of the US military.

Additionally, you get a new 'friend' in the form of Dung Beetle, who is a small floating robot. Though Dung Beetle is a total asshole, he's at least useful. He will, at your request, teleport you to and from Zearth's cockpit (though nowhere else, and while he will never actually like you, he will at least attempt to to protect you from anyone trying to exploit your ownership of the robot. Should someone try to kidnap you or even kill you, Dung Beetle will teleport you to safety. He won't necessarily follow you around everywhere, but being connected to Zearth he has constant access to the 'person finder' and is relatively omniscient. Additionally, no other robots will be visiting, so you are free to do whatever you like with Zearth.

But there's a catch. Zearth is powered by the 'lifeforce' of human beings, specifically you. The manga is a little more nebulous on how this works, but for the purposes of this thread, I have developed a rule for it. You have twenty four hours. For every hour, minute and second you spend actively using Zearth, that time is subtracted fromt he twenty fours hours. Once you use that time up, you die. The only exception is teleporting the robot: you can freely teleport without subtracting any time from your 'counter', but whenever you direct it to walk, or swing its arm, or fire the pew pew laser beams, however long you spend doing that is taken away from your remaining life. This otherwise has no effect on your quality of life, so you won't be getting weaker as the clock ticks towards zero. Finally, Zearth appears sitting up against Mount Everest, so it will be noticed pretty quickly.

What, if anything, do you do with this five hundred metre tall super robot?

[Zablorg]

Would having people study it be possible? I'm sure many many people would like to know how it performs such impressive feats.

[Ford Prefect]

I knew such a response would be inevitable. And strictly speaking there's nothing stopping you from saying, 'yeah, check this out', for whatever good it would do them. Remember that Zearth is animated by some sort of nebulous 'lifeforce' as opposed to any actual power source.

[Shroom Man 777]

That sucks. I wouldn't use it at all, aside from traveling to and from school by using the teleporter. Hey, I can use the giant robot's teleporter to travel the world! I can make a house there, and have people build facilities on it, turning it into a teleporting commercial sky scraper! Shit, the rent from office space gained from modular habitable add-ons, or by using whatever internal volume the machine has, plus the fees gained by the teleportation service, I'd be RICH!

If the rules allow for it!

If not, then I can turn the giant robot in the world's greatest post-office. Dump all your packages and parcels into the robot and let me teleport it to its destination! The delivery sites would have to be clear areas though...

[weemadando]

Would world peace be too much to ask? A giant teleporting super-killer-robot-of-doom wouldn't need a great deal of activation time. I could just sit in the cockpit and teleport from trouble spot to trouble spot looming impressively and scaring the shit out of everyone. I don't have the time to waste on petty shit, so the robot acts as super-Gort for enforcing some semblance of peace in the world.

[Archaic`]

Would world peace be too much to ask? A giant teleporting super-killer-robot-of-doom wouldn't need a great deal of activation time. I could just sit in the cockpit and teleport from trouble spot to trouble spot looming impressively and scaring the shit out of everyone. I don't have the time to waste on petty shit, so the robot acts as super-Gort for enforcing some semblance of peace in the world.

Until someone calls your bluff. Though I suppose you could always just teleport above them and have them go splat.

[White Haven]

Ah, a ruleset that encourages telefragging over all other methods of killing people.

[Uraniun235]

Is there any clock or counter which measures how much Zearth time has been used?

Does using the people finder use up Zearth time?

If Dung Beetle is relatively omniscient, will he be willing to provide non-Zearth-related information, or is he basically just "fuck you, protecting you is my job, beyond that i ain't give a shit"?

Would world peace be too much to ask? A giant teleporting super-killer-robot-of-doom wouldn't need a great deal of activation time. I could just sit in the cockpit and teleport from trouble spot to trouble spot looming impressively and scaring the shit out of everyone. I don't have the time to waste on petty shit, so the robot acts as super-Gort for enforcing some semblance of peace in the world.

Until someone calls your bluff. Though I suppose you could always just teleport above them and have them go splat.

Or you could just fire off a couple of shots. If, say, the United States refused to obey, you could teleport in and annihilate the Pentagon.

[Ford Prefect]

Is there any clock or counter which measures how much Zearth time has been used?

Does using the people finder use up Zearth time?

Dung Beetle will provide you with with accurate updates of how much time you have left, and I don't think the people finder should necessarily kill you, either (I should have specified that in the OP).

If Dung Beetle is relatively omniscient, will he be willing to provide non-Zearth-related information, or is he basically just "fuck you, protecting you is my job, beyond that i ain't give a shit"?

Dung Beetle will only provide you with information regarding Zearth and monitor the flow of people around you. By act of OP he is able to ascertain when trouble is coming your way, but don't expect anything more than that from him.

Ah, a ruleset that encourages telefragging over all other methods of killing people.

Hah, yeah. I didn't make it very clear in the OP, but Zearth's teleportation actually takes a significant period of time. Rather than just appearing and disappearing instantly, it takes a few minutes for it to disappear, so as to reduce the impact of having something so large popping up all over the place. It already causes enough collateral damage.

[Darmalus]

If the range of the teleport is great enough, I would make my Zearth into a massive space cargo truck! My prices shall be dirt cheap, and Dr. Hawkings has a free ticket.