Ranger Teams You Never Knew
Team 7: Power Rangers STT (Special Tactics Team)
(This team is based on Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters)
One hundred years after the fall of Venjix, the RPM Ranger's home dimension entered a period of peace and progress. Recycling the old Venjix attack bot technology and using it instead for good, humanity began a new era of man AND machine, where AI's are given rights and are considered "non-human persons." The dome around Corinth was kept as a historical site, with a new city having been built around it: Prometheus. The city of Prometheus was built by man and machine, for man and machine. Several districts were populated entirely by robots, while others were either mostly human or totally integrated between humans and robots.
But this peace was fragile. Several humans took issue with giving equal rights to robots; likewise, many robots felt looked down on for crimes they never committed. The humans that looked down on robots created Buddy Roids: unthinking, unfeeling machines built only to serve humans. Several robots took issue with this, and began to move away from Prometheus and into the Wastelands. These robots founded Circuit Town, a haven for "non-human persons." This happened the day before someone broke into the Ranger Museum of Corinth, stealing the old RPM Morphers.
A year later, a mysterious virus began infecting the Buddy Roids, turning them violent. Although Prometheus counted on a rather sophisticated security system, the Buddy Roids were somehow much stronger than they were designed to be. To counter this new menace, the government of Prometheus created a new team of Rangers, improving greatly on Doctor K's old plans and schematics by implementing new technologies. This new team was called the Special Tactics Team.
Originally, there were three. The leader of the team was Rhett Johnson, police lieutenant. He served as Ranger Operator Agent Red. Second on the team was ten year SWAT veteran Link Dougal, serving as Ranger Operator Agent Blue. Finally, detective Zelda Smith was Ranger Operator Series Yellow. To aid them in their fight new and intelligent Buddy Roids were created to serve each specific Ranger. Red was aided by Cheetahbot, a Roid built for combat. Blue was assisted by Gorritron, a Roid built to be a walking arsenal. Finally, Yellow had Bunnadar, a Roid built for recon duty.
The addition of the Buddy Roids to the team was met with great scorn by a large portion of the populace, due to a growing anti-Robot sentiment. As more and more Buddy Roids went rogue, people began to distrust robots more, to the point where lynchings were becoming common place. The government kept trying to point out that only the unintelligent Buddy Roids were going rogue, but a new underground movement, the Luddites, kept pushing their anti-robot narrative, slowly gaining more support with each passing day.
Not helping the government's case was the fact that the rogue Buddy Roids were being assisted by a new force of robotic foot soldier. The STT Rangers christened these strange robots "Tinheads" because the metal that covered their heads seemed to be made of tin. Of course they were actually made of a light but durable metal called Tinotium, but that's besides the point. Tinheads didn't just aid the Buddy Roids on the land, they also piloted Warzords that could cause a lot of destruction. For a while it was believed that the Tinheads were coming from Circuit Town.
Robin Smith, director of Prometheus' Defense Ministry (and Zelda's father) insisted on going to Circuit Town to dispel these rumors. Escorted by the Rangers, the four were shocked to discover not a town, but a giant factory. A lone robot named Gamma 14 stood by the entrance, waving at the Rangers for help.
Gamma 14 explained that, within a month of the town's founding, a human came to Circuit Town with a box. When he opened the box the robots of Circuit Town began to lose their sense of self, becoming mindless machines. Gamma 14 was unaffected as he had built a strong firewall in his Motherboard, protecting his intelligence from outside interference. Gamma then explained how the man directed the machines to build the factory, which not only made Tinheads, but Warzords as well.
Zelda was the one who commented that this incident could be related to the theft of the old RPM Morphers. Robin took Gamma 14 with him, back to Prometheus. He took out two morphers, keeping one for himself and giving the other to Gamma. Thus the two became the Gold and Silver STT Rangers.
It was eventually discovered that John Doe, leader of the Luddites, was the man who stole the RPM morphers. The reason he gave was unbelievable: a voice in his head, which he called "Messiah," told him that doing so would help bring humanity closer to Paradise. John Doe was a 112 year old man, previously believed to be senile. A scan of his body revealed, however, a horrifying truth: he was a Venjix Infiltrator. The voice in his head was the Venjix Virus communicating with him, using him to start a new plan to destroy all of humanity.
With his plan exposed, Venjix spread his influence to every robot he could. Infecting almost all of Prometheus' technology, the Rangers saw no choice but to destroy literally everything, from the robots, to their cars, even to the Buddy Roids they had grown so accustomed to. Understanding that Venjix was a threat to the world. Gamma 14 volunteered to destroy himself, so as to make sure Venjix and his ilk would never return. With most of nature destroyed and without the blessing of technology, humanity entered a new, dark age. But in a century's time, Magic would be rediscovered...