Mlaatr XJ6 origin story
Prologue:
15 years, 15 years of progress on the XJ series, most of which have been only useful as an evolutionary purpose, in hopes of making the one XJ the perfect one. Hoping I can improve on the plans, the model, the AI, but most importantly, the purpose of the XJ's. They have been made as a means of protecting the world by means no force, not even Skyway patrol could or any other military force could overcome. When times did come to which it would be only last-minute efforts that saved this planet, like a Meteor, Alien Invasion, or more of the forces of Vexus's Army, we have come many times to which we almost lost, but only survived out of luck, and the technology we have. These things may get us through many situations, but it's apparent that more and more of these issues are arising, so It would be up to a special inventor, such as myself, to hatch a project to make the job easier. The first of these ideas, Armagedroid.
Armagedroid:
-Purpose: To destroy all forms of weapons to obtain world peace
-Status: Terminated (trapped in the center of the earth)
-Reason: Wouldn't follow orders and just followed its parameters and attempted to destroy all of the worlds weapons, regardless on whose it is.
Failure. My first, and yet also my biggest failure to date that I have ever conceived, the higher ups were more than upset knowing one of their brightest scientists almost doomed the world, but if it wasn't for said scientist also eliminating the disaster, I would've been fired from the job, so they gave me another chance.
Conceiving the Idea was, at most, time consuming. Spending most of my time at home coming with plans on another idea, maybe a team of robots that can unite to one ultra-robot? Nanobots that can form into any device/weapon? Time Travel? Another Armagedroid? None of these Ideas really sticked, mainly because these seemed like things either will heavily back fire on us or be used to our enemy's advantage if they got their hands on it. There had to be something, or perhaps, Someone.
The Idea spurred to me to create the Perfect robot, the one who will always listen to its commander, not out of coding, but out of loyalty. Learn and progress through time, not from updates, but from adapting to situations. One who judges not on the merits of their parameters, but on the face of the subjective manner. 'Human' is the kind of creature we need, obvious problem is that we aren't as strong, fast, calculative and obedient as robots are, and we can't just program a Robot to be human, we haven't got the necessary data to understand a Humans intent, but maybe, over time we can.
From this I have devised, the XJ project.
A project which intends to produce a line of Robots, starting with the most basic of architect and knowledge, using whatever previous knowledge it gained from its predecessor to its next version, where it will evolve its understanding of emotions, judgment and the meaning of humanity. It will be under a controlled environment though, where we can make sure it has the right influences. It's meant to follow up like how a Human grows up, from childhood to adult hood, the AI's will mature into a better understanding of the world naturally and not artificially.
It was a revolutionary idea, and the higher ups agreed on that, but the main complaint was, of course, timing. This project will be absoloutly time constraining, building a project about a maturing AI is gonna take a literal life time, maybe even past mine if this project wasn't gonna go anywhere soon. Non the less they agreed, they think this 'XJ' project will be very useful, and hopefully not backfire, and so It began.
My very first Creation on the project, XJ-1. Nothing more but a lightbulb with a simple circuity and basic parts for the AI to evolve. This was nothing more but a crying egg, something that could be used as a way to teach High Schoolers how it is to take care of a baby, very simple and pretty plain, this wasn't going to go anywhere, but It helped me get thought the first stage of childhood into infant hood. Though through the year I felt as a Mother to it, from all the crying, puking and time raising the invention I felt something a part of me that felt filled, a motherly side. Though a Scientist should never get their emotions wrapped in their work, I just couldn't resist by the very fact it was just like a baby, So instead of dismantling it, I only disabled it, for memory's sake.
XJ-1:
-Purpose: Adapt from babyhood into infanthood
-Status: Disabled
-Reason: served its purpose.
Next, XJ-2. This was when I added a bit of combat for the AI to adapt on, particularly on ranged combat with its mini laser canon. It could do significant damages to most material with this projectile weapon, and yes, giving what is a 2 year old a laser canon doesn't sound that safe, but to decrease the time period I had to start young, besides, it helped learn a lot quicker with that done. It was for the first few months, it couldn't even hit the side of a barn, but later got better at it, and this was considered a success to the Generals, which under their authority, decided it was best to test how this little robot would do in combat. I reluctantly agreed, but only because this might help it evolve from being in combat with stress. So the first ever mission the XJ project was to try was on a small time robbery by nothing more but some street gang, this was to be 'easy' according to the Generals, but they underestimated the 'stress' this robot was about to undertake. When XJ-2 First sited the enemy, the first response to it was a hiccup, literally it just started releasing hiccups and with each hiccup was blasting the laser all over the building, almost killing a civilian and one of the robbers. The Generals were disappointed but I reminded them this was their call not mine, and let me carry on raising it. One month later I decided to go to the next version, as It had naturally accumulated overcoming the fear of combat and practice of projectile weaponry, but was also glitched because that event left the poor robot 'traumatized' and every so often it will just have a fit of hiccups in my lab, so I had no choice but to shut it down.
XJ-2:
-Purpose: assess on Combat and Projectile weaponry to AI
-Status: Disabled
-Reason: Hiccups that cause weapon discharge at random, too dangerous.
Here we hit the Stage of Infanthood, XJ-3. This model I based on a more humanoid feature. She's got two legs and two arms, but for hands she's got scissor like claws and for a head it's just an eyeball with antennas. Here, her purpose was to go through the stages of walking and picking things up, while also taking a more adaptive view of her surroundings. Her process was a success, and raising her was a breeze, acted like a 4 year old and had no hiccups like our last XJ. I took care of her for over 2 years, it took that long to see when her speech would kick in, but to no luck. Apparently, her microphone is busted, but that not the only thing busted. Her body was falling apart all the time, the equipment like her jetpack boots, her extra tools and components were to heavy and thus all her limbs kept getting loose and breaking off. Her combat was thus incapable and under developed at this stage, but in trade, for those 2 years, I've helped her developed a more emotional setting. With her, the next XJ will be able to express normal emotions like a 8 year old girl.
XJ-3:
-Purpose: To gain the ability of walking and have a better sense of adapting in a Humanoid body.
-Status: Disabled
-Reason: Fulfilled its role, but also had issues with parts and unable to commit to combat.
So now, one of the most indirectly useful, XJ-4. She was at the stage of being a kid, from age 8-11. I took her for 3 years, as she had some use for combat and most notably, she always cleaned up everything, and I mean everything. She would see a mess in some dirty alleyway and get out of her way to clean that just because she felt like it. She most likely developed this feeling when I kept telling XJ-3 to stop leaving a mess, and so it translated into her to have a better ability to clean. She makes use of her 4 arms which were more intended as a means to hold multiple weapons at once while also handling other tasks at hand, this backfired as she only tends to use them for cleaning more than for fighting. Her motto is to "Clean up crime!" And this impressed the Generals with her enthusiasm, but when they saw she only meant literally, they lost faith in her ability to help commit to fighting crime. She was nice to have around, not needing to do laundry and vacuum the house is always nice and she always had a nice attitude, always wanting to even have conversations with me, she even always addressed me as "Mother", which I found both interesting and appropriate. I felt like a mother over these years taking care of these XJ's as my own, so having her always call me by this means has given me comfort. Alas, she wasn't suited for combat as I had hoped, she didn't even fight the villains really, she most of the time focused on the mess they made then on the criminals themselves. The Generals ordered I start on the next XJ, so I shut her down and got to the next one.
XJ-4:
-Purpose: To initiate advanced combat and further personality AI
-Status: Disabled
-Reason: Failed to initiate combat appropriately.
My last creation so far, was XJ-5. Whilst I enjoyed the chatting with XJ-4 very much, all this one did was basically babble on with unnecessary conversations, both within and away from her combat. I decided to design her with the intent that she can maybe be more of a persuader then a fighter, that there are usually situations in which speech can out do and alien force without much conflict. She can adapt to any language from any species with ease, can hack into most terminals and security system in place and most of all can enter to any frequency within 10,000 Miles. She has an advanced architect that can make her basically unhackable by all means in which we know, all that and more. Without help with my new colleague Dr. Herban Styles, his knowledge on advanced Robotics and security, XJ-5 would've been hackable like any mere Droid. Alas, her flaws are pointed out by many of the Generals that asked for a "Combat Certified Android" and not a "Persuader", this made more evident by which her persuading skills didn't always work out. She is very capable with human matters quite easily, she even has an assortment of weapons as a means of last resort, but they aren't as full blown and the previous XJ's. Her being a small target makes things easier for her to move around and get people from behind. A BIG issue with her is as I said, her conversations. All the time she can go on and on without letting the other speak, and when she's dealing with certain situations, the villains usually just stop listening and either go to sleep or just open fire. Her service was good as It was but her personality kept getting the way of things, I hope this wont cause any issue with my next XJ, and that she would be more tame, but at this stage she is going through being 14-16 around, so that might not come to be, but none the less, I am confident that this next XJ would be the one.
XJ-6:
-Purpose: To asess the assets of her AI, Build and Personality, and see if she is checked out to be the adequate XJ.
Status: Pending.
