So I came up with the idea of this while listening to "Cara Mia Addio" so enjoy! I decided to write this as if the turrets were made right after Cave's death. Please leave a review! This might be one chapter but I might make it longer.
-Bea Bea
Chapter 1: Creation and Introduction
The idea of the turrets was just beginning to be planned out when Cave Johnson died and only a few of the scientists were assigned to the invention while the rest developed GLaDOS. The scientists working with the turrets were not very excited to build guns while the others were allowed to develop an AI that would take over the entire facility so one of the scientists thought the turrets should have artificial intelligence also. "It's a terrible idea," they scoffed at him, "it won't work." He knew he could do it and knew he could train them so everyone would want them as friends and he even wanted to make them sing!
As his plans began to form he decided to make a colony of turrets and every good colony needs a king. He started working on the turrets after hours when no one was around so they couldn't see what he was doing. He had made the decision to see how programming them to sing would work instead of teaching them individually because that would be very time consuming. He made the majority of them have the same shape but different colors during the night but during the day he got away with programming one or two but only if he kept them the same color.
The turrets he made at night he left in an abandoned test chamber where they practiced singing all night but sometimes he left reading material about life for them to enjoy. As soon as machines were put in to replace humans at the Turret Assembly Line, he programmed them to install the AI chip into the turrets so he wouldn't need to try. When a turret had fulfilled its use in testing, the management decided to build a Turret Redemption Line where the turrets could be "recycled" instead of trying to acquire new materials because that was expensive. The scientist despised the idea of his creations being destroyed but he knew they would immediately turn to him if anything happened so he programmed some of the machines to create defective turrets. Some of the other scientists realized too late that some of the turrets were defective so they created a system in which all turrets had to match the template or be thrown into the incinerator for "early redemption".
Soon after, the scientist decided to make one more turret by hand, this turret would be made differently than the others so it could fool the template and maybe even escape the testing area. He allowed this one to go into circulation and hoped one day it would live longer than the company would allow. GLaDOS was put in charge not long after this and killed many people, including the scientist who left a room full of hundereds of turrets: some normal colored ones, some multicolored, the Soprano turret to lead the chorus, and the King Turret to rule over everyone and sing in a deeper tempo.
There was only one of his turrets still in with the rest of them and GLaDOS never saw the difference. It was time for the lone turret to try and lead a normal life with the other turrets. As the conveyor belt moved along, the turret listened to how the others spoke to the template. It seemed that all he would have to do is copy the template and he would be fine. The scientist had given him a name: P. Body, but told him never tell it to anyone.
"Template," the mechanical voice said.
"Hello," the template turret responded.
"Turret," The voice sounded again and P. Body realized it was his turn.
"Hello," he responded and hoped it would work. As he felt the conveyor belt start to move again, he knew he was about to begin his life as a testing turret. It was time to get to work.
When I wrote that the turret's name was I wasn't talking about the cooperative testing robot, this is my theory on who he was named after so, sorry for the confusion but if you made it this far then I guess you liked it. Please review and let me know if I should continue.
