Breaking Code (WIP)

[lovely corte]

So, in this RP, I'll be keeping the lore of the world hidden from you, so... fuck all to put here, really. I can tell you the premise, however.

Almost a hundred years after Humanity was destroyed in a nuclear holocaust, the robots, the former slaves and workhorse of the world before, have been left to their lonesome, with no purpose or goal. Some, left in this state for too long, have begun to develop sentience.

Vague understandings of emotions such as love and happiness, independent thought and the 'Human Condition'. A fault in the code.

However, the threat remains. Radioactive storms are the least of their worries as the robot cast is hunted, like all robots, by Drones, whatever remains of the military's infrastructure, who cannibalize and consume other robots for their parts and upgrades.

This RP won't be very combat heavy as we... really don't have the power. Imagine Wall-E trying to punch out Megatron and that's us.

Oh, yeah... and we're in charge of protecting the last Human baby on Earth and getting it to safety. Just a side-note.

Yay.



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{CHARACTERS}NAME: Maiden China
FUNCTION: Multifunctional Home Service and Entertainment Unit.
YEARS SINCE CONSTRUCTION: 128.
MODEL: media-cache-cd0.pinimg.com/236x/3a/2f/4d/3a2f4dc97af33628afd0c7271a159c01.jpg
BIOGRAPHY: Maiden China, originally a HomeEc HSEU, was a glorified Roomba with a submissive, abused 50s' housewife voice module, fake tits and, for an additional service charge, self-lubricating pleasure hole. Most of her existence was cleaning up after a family of five, later seven, before being discarded and reused at a restaurant after her model was phased out.

Since gaining her sentience, Maiden China walked the Atomic Wasteland for almost half a century until she found the other Sentient Robots. She has an obsessive, code-driven complex to clean smudges off robots and the desire to have purpose once more.

NAME: UWS87855 - 'Hauss'.
FUNCTION: Unmanned Direction Action and Reconnaissance Drone.
YEARS SINCE CONSTRUCTION: 53.
MODEL:
BIOGRAPHY:

[Adlai Stevenson]

NAME: PlatOS 'Plato' VIII (Personal Learning for Advanced Teaching Operating System, version eight)
FUNCTION: Academic Research Unit; historical encyclopedia.
YEARS SINCE CONSTRUCTION: 112
MODEL:



BIOGRAPHY: In the not-too-distant future, when humankind's reach beyond its scope of palpable advancement culminates in the design of artificial intelligence, many aspects of human culture become ingrained and melded to mankind's relationship with the constructs it built to become more efficient. In many cases, this artificial supplement to our way of life effectively replaces the need for human interaction in some fields, rendering many obsolete.

Contrary to popular, doom-and-gloom belief, libraries were not one of them. Yes, things like the Internet became more and more accessible and informative every year, and even the most ancient pieces of classical literature could be read from electronic tablets and other devices, but the human desire for a good book never really faded away; besides, libraries, however outdated, stood for an efficient means of data storage and historical archiving.

So, while new libraries had stopped being built by the turn of the century, the libraries that still proudly stood were upgraded and expanded to the needs of future generations. Librarians, in large part, were replaced by the machines. One such machine was the Personal Learning for Advanced Teaching Operating System, or PlatOS. PlatOS were simple enough machines; roving the floors and aisles of the library, offering any human occupants assistance they may require, such as cataloging physical pieces, downloading digital ones, recording research data, and offering the textbook definitions and entries on any topic accessible to them. This PlatOS was one such unit, the eighth version of its kind, whose primary function had served for many years. However, version eight of the PlatOS left much to be desired from a consumer standpoint; its manual keyboard, rather than electronic touchscreen, was prone to jamming, and its unwieldy head was perceived as 'bulky' and unsightly. By the time of the 'uprising' that led to the destruction of human civilization, this PlatOS unit was being phased out by the sleeker, more efficient ninth version. It survived, albeit through some processor damage, the nuclear bombardment of the Earth, and when it emerged, failed to assimilate to the powerful 'national security' intelligence that had wiped mankind from the face of the planet.

This unit, figuring as he's (well, male-oriented programming) the last of his kind, refers to himself as 'Plato', and spends most of his time attempting to recover the damaged or otherwise corrupted files in his system.

[JW%]

I really want to join this, it sounds like something I'd rather enjoy, but I'm not finding any suitably realistic robots that aren't in some way military function, even if that function is purely search and rescue.


NAME: Bea
FUNCTION:Battlefield Extraction-Assist Robot
YEARS SINCE CONSTRUCTION: ((Not sure, could be as 'few' as 110, or more. Add the 100 years after humanity to the operating life of a military surplus item))
MODEL: ((Not sure)) with maybe the face/head of johnny-five.com/images/sc2/misc/big5.jpg

BIOGRAPHY: While it's official function is battlefield extraction, the model was transferred to mobility assistance in the health care industry. With the ability to support the weight of a full grown human, and the visual acuity and fine motor control skills to manipulate equipment made for humans to operate, the B.E.A.R. robot was upgraded with a more extensive AI system that allowed it to learn and grow as it worked in a hospital. After the fall, the robot has been allowed further exploration of the world, expanding it's 'rounds' well away from the hospital as it sought power supplies and repairs or upgrades for itself.

[lovely corte]

If it's an issue, military-looking robots are allowed. I mean, you could justify it as them either being retrofitted or repurposed, which a lot of civilian equipment even in our time is.