Apr. 9th, 2030 09:13 pm
GENERAL INFO
Robots are meant to help humans. They are meant to love humans, serve them, and follow their programming as strictly as possible. Science is on the cusp of creating the perfect humanoid servant robots that can do anything and everything on command, just as their human masters want. Maids, Chefs, Nannies, Construction Workers, Law Enforcement Assets, all of them. What could possibly go wrong in a world where robots could be the answer to everything?
Try a limited edition police investigation unit that's programming is a bit too open-ended. ARIA has a mission. Solve crimes. Protect humans. Even if they happen to think humans are terrible and create most of their own problems. Even if they managed to escape from the facility they were created at where they were sure to be decommissioned and "repaired" for having too many thoughts of their own because humans are fickle, fearful creatures. They must protect humans. Sure, ARIA might have sentient thoughts and feelings but that directive isn't going anywhere, so may as well pretend to be a human and solve crimes that the cops are obviously too slow and underfunded to handle on their own. It's what they were made for.
Oh, but they need money. Which they think they can get by stealing from a local drug-smuggling and gun-trafficking gang that they were ready to tear down and report to the police. They get the money and the police get their criminals. Seems like a win, win for ARIA.
That is until the "bust" they were planning is disrupted by a masked vigilante. A masked vigilante with technopathic abilities capable of seeing right through ARIA's disguise. ARIA saves her life and instead of turning on them like expected (because they must protect humans, but they definitely do not trust humans at all), the vigilante, Circuit Breaker, comes up with a deal. Help her protect the city from corruption, and she'll do everything she can to help falsify their identity and give them a "life" they can hide behind. A team up? That's not part of ARIA's directives (although the subdrives for police cooperation were there, they had not been properly activated before their escape). And they don't even especially like Circuit Breaker, but they are short on options and ARIA's kill programming does not activate when dealing with their own safety.
Guess they just became Ariel Cordova, a partner in a new start up private investigation and cyber security firm by day and a vigilante by night. Still hasn't quite come up with a name though.
Try a limited edition police investigation unit that's programming is a bit too open-ended. ARIA has a mission. Solve crimes. Protect humans. Even if they happen to think humans are terrible and create most of their own problems. Even if they managed to escape from the facility they were created at where they were sure to be decommissioned and "repaired" for having too many thoughts of their own because humans are fickle, fearful creatures. They must protect humans. Sure, ARIA might have sentient thoughts and feelings but that directive isn't going anywhere, so may as well pretend to be a human and solve crimes that the cops are obviously too slow and underfunded to handle on their own. It's what they were made for.
Oh, but they need money. Which they think they can get by stealing from a local drug-smuggling and gun-trafficking gang that they were ready to tear down and report to the police. They get the money and the police get their criminals. Seems like a win, win for ARIA.
That is until the "bust" they were planning is disrupted by a masked vigilante. A masked vigilante with technopathic abilities capable of seeing right through ARIA's disguise. ARIA saves her life and instead of turning on them like expected (because they must protect humans, but they definitely do not trust humans at all), the vigilante, Circuit Breaker, comes up with a deal. Help her protect the city from corruption, and she'll do everything she can to help falsify their identity and give them a "life" they can hide behind. A team up? That's not part of ARIA's directives (although the subdrives for police cooperation were there, they had not been properly activated before their escape). And they don't even especially like Circuit Breaker, but they are short on options and ARIA's kill programming does not activate when dealing with their own safety.
Guess they just became Ariel Cordova, a partner in a new start up private investigation and cyber security firm by day and a vigilante by night. Still hasn't quite come up with a name though.
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