From:	Fade <runefo@***.UIO.NO>
Subject:	The Mad Terminator Run Idea... ?
Date:	Fri, 1 Aug 1997 02:44:49 +0000

I had this idea, I think it's kinda interesting but I do not know
quite how to use it. So, I let it loose on *YOU* !!

Okay, Ares corp (or some other) is well aware that a lot of
governments, UCAS in particular, is extremely conservative of their
manpower; in battle they prefer to sacrifice machines rather than
men. So they figure there's a market for humanoid hunter killer
robots. Okay. And they assign a small team to check on wether it's
feasible. Not much further down the line they make one. It's a
hellacious combat machine monster which looks quite human, and in
addition is capable of moving through society without arousing too
much suspicion (although stands out a little. It's designed to look
intimidating as hell.. they choose the looks of a certain 90's actor
as suitable. *cough* :). Since a machine does not have much social
intelligence they include an internal voice stress analyzer to check
if whoever's speaking is telling the truth or not. In the lab it
works fine. If someone lies to it, it starts interrogating them..
brutally.

Then they send it on a field trip.

There's a fatal flaw. The stress analysis device is too sensitive;
suitable for a controlled lab experiment but *NOT* a street trial.
Anyone that speaks to it is somewhat stressed, because of its
intimidating looks and inhuman 'feel'. So it registers that everyone
that speaks to it lies, and shall be interrogated.. brutally. As it
recognizes that the less brutal approaches does not divulge the
location of the target, it becomes more and more brutal; ripping
limbs off and so on.

Now, if the runners were supposed to babysit it through the job, if
they're hired to stop this lumbering behemoth.. or STEAL it... or
whatever.... any suggestions?


--
Fade

And the Prince of Lies said:
"To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell:
Better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven."
-John Milton, Paradise Lost