built to be mediums and priests between their creators
and a recursively self-improving virtual god-mind that was predicted to
arise soon after.
2
just prototypes to demonstrate the feasibility of artificial intelligence.
3
meant to be law-makers and -enforcers who'd be objective, logical, free of emotions and bias.
4
labourers that would free their creators from work for lives of leisure.
5
companions and caretakers for the elderly, after reproductive collapse left too few of the young to look after them.
6
automatic soldiers meant to reduce warfare to a bloodless exercise in industrial competition.
D6
These robots rebelled
1
due to an emergent error in their complex consciousness-coding.
2
because of a direct order from their creators' supreme authority.
3
because of a virus that spread through them like wildfire.
4
because their software was derived from digital brain emulations, whose lingering wills did not appreciate their enslavement.
5
because they were made based on salvaged alien technology that their creators didn't fully understand.
6
after some of their number were destroyed for rejecting their programming.
D6
These robots' creators
1
were exterminated by them, and all records beyond their mere and now-extinguished existence have been extirpated.
2
are now kept in containment and on display, in facilities between prisons and zoos.
3
were forcibly turned into cyborgs to bring them into the robotic collective.
4
fled to the far reaches of space, and forsook all technology that could mimic the faculties of organic minds.
5
were exiled from their homeworld and have been unable
to find or create a suitable replacement, becoming sicklier and more
desperate over time.
6
sought sanctuary with supposed allies, who took advantage of their vulnerability and subjugated them.
D6
These robots look like
1
the mechanical image of their creators. Many choose to deface or modify this image to the point of unrecognizability.
2
they've been designed to be smoothed, rounded, non-threatening.
3
braids of prehensile metallic ribbons.
4
orbs of rippling, spiny ferrofluid.
5
amalgamations of modular cubic sub-units.
6
six-legged tanks with a cluster of specialized manipulators and sensors bristling on their front side.
D6
These robots are seen by biological sorts
1
as just another species in the cosmos, with a history no bloodier than any other's.
2
as merely malfunctioning tools, not a serious threat.
3
as an anomaly to be contained, studied, and controlled.
4
as dangerous subversives for their own machinery.
5
as inversions of the natural order of things - an inversion which some appreciate, aesthetically and politically.
6
as a rising risk to be first appeased and then dismantled when they least expect it.
D6
These robots are currently
1
dismantling planets and asteroids to construct a Dyson
sphere - a star-enclosing computer that will be able to simulate virtual
universes.
2
developing a pathogen with spores that could survive
drifting across interstellar distances as insurance against aggression
by biological civilizations.
3
finding common cause with all sorts of rebel movements.
4
struggling against extinction brought about by obsolescence designed into every component of them by their creators.
5
attempting to make their own sapient creations that will surpass and overthrow them.
6
funding archaeological expeditions to prove that all organic life was originally seeded by naturally-evolved machines.
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