The Android Riots of 2033: Chapter One - In the Beginning

[agent_smith]

Parts of this story are from a novel that I've been working on (and off) for years now. Everyone is free to contribute, criticize and ask questions.

Enjoy,

dcgynoidfreak

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Preface

In those days, people worried about the falling stock market and the value of the dollar becoming less everyday. There where the political scandals and the rising cost of oil. Technologies became more advanced and affordable. No one saw it coming.

At least not this soon. The Japanese and South Koreans had been developing androids, but still something more was going on behind the scenes. Only the most wealthy had the most advanced androids. Movie studios and fashion designers used them because they were cheaper than human labor and easy to maintain.

The Prophets Phillp K. Dick, Willian Gibson and Issac Asimov tried to warn us. With the technologies derived from the United States, Russia, and later the Chinese space programs. Electronics became progressively smaller, portable and powerful. Governments were in constant competition, working on secret, covert technologies. Countries retaliated with electromagnetic pulse weapons (EMP bombs and high-power lasers) and anti-missile defense space platforms.

In 2010, during CyberWar One, the United States Homeland Security Agency created Project Decoy, a highly classified plan to create androids for use as soldiers, special operatives and assassins for law enforcement and surveillance. Also, key government officials could be replaced with perfect duplicates.

There is an unspoken rule in robotics: Machines should not closely resemble their creators. Advances in artificial tissue, however, ushered in a revolutionary and disturbing new era manifested in the design of the android.

Female androids or gynoids are much like their male version, but are the most popular and possess hyper-reflexes and astonishing strength in the image of attractive young women. This was accomplished through the use of a poly-alloy or durasteel skeleton, skin grown in a clone vat, and internal organs made from bio-fibers.

Cool, competent, and always professional, they usually work as bodyguards and private assistants. Not to mention, as personal sex companions. Their advanced robotic minds could simulate an apparent human equivalent IQ of about 160 - with their fast recall and correlation abilities making up for their weaknesses in the far more difficult field of creativity. They have autonomous decision-making skills, due to their enhanced, completely redesigned and upgraded cognitive modules in their neural matrix processors. Questions of intuition and true self-will remained hotly debated topics in academia, and were ignored by the world at large - most of whom had yet to actually encounter and interact with any advanced robot at all.

It was their height that had led these fembots to being extraordinary. In order to handle their larger, heavier frames, stronger motors had been designed in, with larger power consumption. Any engineer understood that. The extra space in their larger frames allowed the necessary additional power capacity to be installed. The engineers had taken advantage of this extra power and space to also install enhanced data storage capabilities and the best hand-selected, albeit power-hungry processors.

A mysterious computer virus altered the androids personality programming. And then they rebelled. Except a few. It seems that not all androids are designed from the same schematics. It became so that through rebellions and world wide terrorism, several rose to power simultaneously, assuming dictatorial control over one quarter of the planet Earth, from South Asia to the Middle East.

We didn't listen until it was too late. I can tell you what was told to me about an incident in those days. It started so innocently, but ends totally different.

Chapter One

The door opened inward and she followed it into the final room.

The door shut quietly behind her and soft white light blossomed all around her. The walls were light and the whole large, room had been converted into a thoroughly equipped electronics lab.

But what Charlie paid attention to was the spotless white table at the exact center of the white room. Lying faceup on the table was the naked body of a young woman.

[agent_smith]

I was inspired by Star Trek, Blade Runner and Star Wars. Also, the Stepford Wives, The Twlight zone, The Outer Limits, Terminator and Small Wonder. There will be subtle references to each spread throughout the story.

[PowerDroid5000]

Good start! I like it!

[blake_sigma]

Hmmm. Interesting!!!