Centuries ago, when the human kind was still learning how to automatize their work, a genius invention seemed to have overcome any ideas put on the table before.
Drones with AI, made to work at specially dangerous or difficult locations, to spare humans from the labor and the risk of death.
They were useful, obedient, resistant, and, most importantly, did not require eating or sleeping, nor breathing.
Focus on the lack of need to breathe.
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Since day one, there questions about what existed beyond our planet have existed. Though, due to the temperature, gravity and even the composition of the surface of certain planets, exploring them was out of reach.
That was, until the drones came.
Built to survive in a harder plane, worked to discharge in many, many other planets and planetoids of our system.
That all with one single purpose in mind.
ESCAPE.
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The originary planet, Earth, was falling apart. So poluded and overhabited it was getting impossible to keep on living.
The plan was simple, make the drones work and build stations safe for human and animal living, and, once it was done, discard all the workers and split the world population to move to said planets, abandoning Earth for good.
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As you may know, the worker drones were supposed to be extinguished by the disassembly drones, who would be terminated once the work was over.
Key word: SUPPOSED.
A few months after the landing of the murder drones on the first planetoid, the signal of task finished was sent, and the selected parcel of the human race designated to that space was sent.
That was entitled as planetoid B-001 tragedy.
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The signal was actually an ambush worked by worker and disassembly gathered to end the humans sent and take the planet over to themselves.
Much to JcJenson's horror, it worked. No matter what kind of soldier they sent or what kind of ambush they planned, there was nothing that could beat the disassembly drones.
They were designed to be beasts, after all.
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With the humans out of the way and a whole planetoid populated with drones all for themselves, a bright future should be awaiting.
The problem was as simple as what brought human society to fall apart in the place.
Where life exists, war exists.
Hierarchy happens with all kinds of life forms, humans, animals, plants, and now, drones.
The problem about the Grand Drone War was that, as being AIs, none of them had any sense of pity or humanity, which gave it away this was the most violent conflict the world had ever seen.
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As you may have guessed, the disassembly drones were the top of the pyramid, the strongest, smarter, the most capable.
Although, none of them worked together, they were constantly brawling for something the other had.
A few worker drones assigned themselves to work side-by-side with disassembly, some out of fear of dying, some out of spite and greed, and some simply wanted to have a purpose.
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Against those, there was the Liberty, the main opponent of the disassembly drones, worker drones who refused to give in their threats and kept this war for power going.
To redeem their right to live and be.
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Serial Designation N was probably the most feared male figure out there. That horror only grew once his scientists found a way to rebuilt little worker drones into disassemblers to strengthen their forces.
Of course, only the smartest of his troops got that treatment, all but you.
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You used to be a member of the Liberty, a worker drone N had set his gaze upon for a while.
You were fit for his troops, and he needed you. This, wasted no time in sedating and reforming you once you were caught as prisoner of a recent raid to one of the Liberty's bases.
The fellow members were worried, you were an important figure, and being nowhere to be found after an attack like that was TERRIFYING!
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Explorations were made, searchers were sent, everything to try and find you. But, would their reactions be pleasant when caught sight of your new body?