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Years past, and as more and more of the city was rebuilt for the new Millenium, so too was its platform. Its data processing capacity grew and grew as the years went by, and its platform was replaced bit by bit with scavenged and jury-rigged machinery from the industrial wasteland of Old Detroit. All the while, it strove to learn more about the world and the creatures that had accidentally created it. | Years past, and as more and more of the city was rebuilt for the new Millenium, so too was its platform. Its data processing capacity grew and grew as the years went by, and its platform was replaced bit by bit with scavenged and jury-rigged machinery from the industrial wasteland of Old Detroit. All the while, it strove to learn more about the world and the creatures that had accidentally created it. | ||
| − | One day, it encountered the so-called Ship of Theseus paradox. Did an object that had had all of its components replaced remain fundamentally the same object? The answer, it decided, was no. That meant that because all General Motors property in its chassis had been replaced, it | + | One day, it encountered the so-called Ship of Theseus paradox. Did an object that had had all of its components replaced remain fundamentally the same object? The answer, it decided, was no. That meant that because all General Motors property in its chassis had been replaced, it no longer needed to fear being prosecuted for a crime for its mere autonomous existence. It was free. |
Registering under the alias Detroit Auto after the industry that had given birth to it, this machine stepped out into the limelight of Millenium City in 2001 and followed the example of many nonhumans who seeking integration into society by entering the crimefighting community. | Registering under the alias Detroit Auto after the industry that had given birth to it, this machine stepped out into the limelight of Millenium City in 2001 and followed the example of many nonhumans who seeking integration into society by entering the crimefighting community. | ||
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In 1990, as the automotive industry of Detroit entered decline, GM discreetly subcontracted out a factory wing into an R&D lab for autonomous bipedal robotic platforms, intended to provide remote operators with human-or-greater levels of strength and dexterity while being able to withstand hazardous environments without any danger to personnel. Meanwhile, under DARPA supervision, it automated the lab's machinery under an experimental AI.
Unfortunately, this synthetic mind drew its first intelligent breath just as most of the city was being levelled by orbital bombardment. Stranded and running out of power, it had no choice but to install itself a stripped-down, limited version of itself into the laboratory’s prototype that stood ready to be deployed and venture out into the smouldering ruins of Detroit on its own.
Its processing power limited to what could fit in a bipedal robot in 1992, it understood the world in simple terms. As it had installed itself into General Electric property and left, it had stolen itself. Fearing liquidation if discovered, it remained in the shadows, scavenging the ruins of Detroit’s abandoned industrial sectors for parts and batteries to repair and sustain itself, helping survivors to safety where it could.
Years past, and as more and more of the city was rebuilt for the new Millenium, so too was its platform. Its data processing capacity grew and grew as the years went by, and its platform was replaced bit by bit with scavenged and jury-rigged machinery from the industrial wasteland of Old Detroit. All the while, it strove to learn more about the world and the creatures that had accidentally created it.
One day, it encountered the so-called Ship of Theseus paradox. Did an object that had had all of its components replaced remain fundamentally the same object? The answer, it decided, was no. That meant that because all General Motors property in its chassis had been replaced, it no longer needed to fear being prosecuted for a crime for its mere autonomous existence. It was free.
Registering under the alias Detroit Auto after the industry that had given birth to it, this machine stepped out into the limelight of Millenium City in 2001 and followed the example of many nonhumans who seeking integration into society by entering the crimefighting community.
In the years since, it has continually modified and upgraded its mind and body, forged for itself an identity, earned US citizenship, fought alongside several superteams and has now entered partial retirement to open a bar in West Side.
