Robotics.

[Archduke Daynel, PhD]

The two ARTHUR-units took a moment to get familiar with each other during the flight to London.

"Do you prefer a name or should I call you 241?" 240 asked.

"I am frequently called Maxwell" Maxwell answered. "What designation do you use?"

"I am known as Arthur" Arthur responded. "It is as much a name as a title of my efficiency as an authorized order regulator."

"I am familiar with your work. You usually do two-unit works like this with 239, correct?"

"Affirmative. He was destroyed during our last mission. That is why they paired me up with you."

"They did not inform me about that, however I suspected it. I am thankful for this new information."

"You are welcome."

They then stayed silent until they were dropped off in the ruins. Upon arrival, they performed weapon checks according to protocol, before activating long-range scanners and heading off to meet up with the rest of the team.

[Luna]

Mechanical parts sparked and grinded against each other as Scourge drilled into the torso piece of a rouge humanoid bot. It posed little threat, it's armor was weak and so were it's weapons. It's struggle continued for another minute but Scourge's weight held it down. After it finally died Scourge analyzed the body. No useful upgrades, and nothing needed fixing.

Suddenly a flying craft sped overhead, Scourge instinctively whipped out it's arm pointing the laser in the aircrafts direction, ready to fire. However the craft kept flying on. Scourge climbed out a window and atop a small two story building. The aircraft landed a few blocks away and dropped off two units. Targets were acquired, Scourge began assessing attack outcome. Two were police units, unknown if guns will detach, at least not without disassembly. They would notice when Scourge got close enough, the bots for legs began moving rapidly, propelling it forward. As it reached the edge of the building the legs all bundled up then quickly sprang downwards. As Scourge flew through the air it took the opportunity to scan for any other possible targets. None were sighted on short range. Scourge landed successfully and hit the ground running, off to kill the world one being at a time.

[Professor Fenway]

-Archive Order-

Following a new situation analysis, Aeon OMEGA-4 will be airdropped in the city in approximately one hour.
-END-

James watched out the window of the dropship as it sped towards the city, through the sprawling suburbs. He tapped the side of his helmet ans brought up a small map on his visor. 1 minute to the city center. He shut it off and stood up, the mechanical servos of his suit whirring as he did so. He grabbed a rifle off the rack opposite of him, a pulsed laser beam rifle, and attached it to the point on the back of his suit. He then grabbed two laser pistols and attached them on either side of his suit.

As he attached these, the color of the room shifted from white to red. A panel opened, and on it there were several tubes of silvery-grey material. James took one and slid it into a slot on his leg. The light turned green, and James walked over to the middle of the room. A tube descended over him and the floor opened beneath him. He dropped into the city.

[DeadlyMiddie]

SU-1-2 was on the 14th floor of a skyscraper in downtown London. SU-1-3 was setting up a sensor array and an automated turret emplacement, and he was watching for hostile units. SU-1-3's "voice-box" chattered out sounds that, when translated by SU-1-2, said, "Everything is in place." SU-1-2 nodded and replied with, "Begin scanning." Something caught his eye and he whipped his weapon toward it. He caught a glimpse of Scourge before it scurried away. He opened a channel to the Archive and shared the new info.

OOC: Even numbered SUs are officers. They are capable of "regular" speech in any language that they choose, as well as coded audio. Odd numbered SUs are grunts. They can only communicate in raw binary or bursts of audio code. However, they are easily understood by other robots.

[Julo]

Skra was sitting on the "roof" of a building which fell over when London was attacked by the robots.
It was a cloudy and cold day, but at least it didn't rain. Not that Skra didn't like rain, but this way he was able to spot the dropships sooner which were flying towards the town centre. Skra stayed cool and waited to see if they would land, what they did. When he saw robots and even some "traitors" dropping out of the vehicles, he pressed the silent running button. One minute later the positive response came back via the town wide cable, the dropships were spotted by somebody else.

What happened now didn't happen for at least two years. London III went into silent running mode. The information of a robot landing was transmitted via a cable network, which connected every colony, trading post and of course reconnaissance points with each other. The signal was not transmitted wireless, because the robots might receive the signal and start searching for its source. But the cable system was safe.
Skra saw one humanoid "traitor" which drew all his attention. He saw this thing before. Skra took a picture and saved it in his portable computer. When he analyzed the picture his computer immediately spit out one name: James Harriman, the harbinger of death.
"What? The Harbinger is here? What is so important that the only "real" human of the robots has to overwatch it?"

Suddenly Skra noticed, that another survivor came close to his position. Skra immediately looked away and prepared to leave. He left one can of beans behind and ran down the building,with his self made EMP at the ready. Luckily he didn't encounter any robot or even another survivor.
When Skra reached his hideout, he activated silent running mode, watered his pot plant, ate a can of spam with algae and finally went to regenerate on his bed. He meditated for 1 hour and fell asleep.

[Professor Fenway]

James looked around him. It was silent, yet he knew he was being watched. He tapped his helmet, which brought up an advanced sensor system. He raised his right arm and rotated on the spot. At first, it registered a lot of electrical signatures, common for any sort of city. But all at once, it dropped off the sensor. "Interesting," he muttered to himself. "An electrical grid and the ability to run everything silently." He swept the area again. He registered a mechanical signature on the top of a skyscraper near him. He pinged it, and when he received an appropriate response, he nodded and continued his sweep. Another mechanical signature. He pinged it and received no response. And it was approaching him.

He grabbed his rifle and dodged behind a pillar, pointing it towards the signature. He raised it and deactivated the safety, his finger on the trigger. He waited. The signature continued approaching, and he tensed. After a few seconds, a small spider-like bot appeared around the corner. It paused at the corner. James paused, and lowered his weapon. He stepped out and looked towards the bot. As he did so, the robot noticed him and seemed to jump slightly. An arm extended from the center, holding a small laser weapon, and fired. James dove out of the way as the pillar he was behind cracked and collapsed. He raised the gun and pulled the trigger. A neon green beam shot out towards the bot, disconnected, reconnected again, all in the space of a few seconds. James fired about 50 of these beams in 2 seconds until the place the bot had occupied was obscured by smoke. He stopped firing and opened the scanner again. Mechanical signature was gone. He tapped his helmet and opened up a secure channel to the team.

"This is Creator. We are being watched and there appears to be rogue AI units present in the drop site. Proceed with extreme caution and move towards..." he paused, and looked at the skyscraper. "Move towards the Helion Research skyscraper and meet this unit there."

[DeadlyMiddie]

SU-1-2 received the Creator's message after observing the firefight. He sent a ping in reply, then turned to his subordinate. "Activate your jump pack, we will hop from roof to roof and access the Hellion skyscraper from the roof." SU-1-3 acknowledged. They leaped off the skyscraper that they currently occupied, leaving the sensor array and the turret linked to the local command structure. They reached the Hellion building in about 45 seconds. When they arrived, they sent a message to James, "SU-1-2 and 1-3 have reached the objective. Until orders to the contrary are given, we are proceeding to breach the objective." SU-1-2 then proceeded to shoot the door down and enter the building with 1-3, thermal, LIDAR, auditory, and active radar sensors looking for threats.

[Luna]

Scourge managed to jump out of the way of the neon beams of death. It's spidery legs scuttled on the side of the building. More and more contacts were appearing on the radar and Scourge detected auditory communication from the previous attacker. Two units were detected using some sort of boosters to reach what was recognized as the Helion skyscraper. Further scans relieved a stationary turret next to a sensor array, if that was taken down Scourge will have a better chance of destroying all hostiles. Scourge crept along the sides of the buildings ready to deploy weapons at the sight of hostiles. It came up close to the roof and prepared all motor functions. Scourge scuttled up onto the roof and took a high arcing leap onto the turret all before it could react. The turret spun around wildly attempting to register a lock on the attacker. Scourge's drill began tearing into the turret, very quickly destroying it's functionality. There was no time to salvage as all hostiles had probably realized what was happening. Scourge scuttled away from the mangled remains of the turret whilst destroying the sensor array with it's laser. Scourge quickly broke a window and ducked into an adjacent building for cover.

[Archduke Daynel, PhD]

The two police robots received The Creator's message.
Arthur responded immediately. "Acknowledged. We will calculate the shortest route and arrive by ground."
He turned towards Maxwell, who was already calculating the route based on old maps and newer satellite photos. He showed Arthur a holographic depiction of the route, and the two began to move.

As they entered the Helion building, Arthur made a quick scan.

"Scanners are picking up three robotic beings and two organic, excluding ourselves" he stated.

Maxwell stopped.
"This does not compute with the list of designated units. There is an intruder."

"Two of the robots are together. They must be the SU units. The third must be the intruder. I am transferring the scan patterns to you."

"Patterns received. The intruder is interfering with official business. It must be found and destroyed."

Arthur then sent a message to the others.
"Possible hostile robot detected in the area. Transmitting scan patterns. Stay alert."

OOC: At least I assume James would show up as organic.
Also, added a picture in the app.

[Professor Fenway]

James noted an explosion from the ground level. The spider-bot thing survived, and was attacking something. James slung the rifle over his shoulder, knelt down, and raised his arm at the top of the skyscraper. A grappling hook extended from his arm and fired, connecting to the top of the skyscraper with a cable. It began reeling in and James flew up through the air, crashing through a window and rolling to a crouching position. The hook disconnected and retracted back into his arm. James raised his rifle and activated the scanner. The rogue mechanical signature was in the building opposite. He jogged through the building to the opposite wall, where a smashed window lay. He leveled his rifle at the building, switched a couple of switches on the rifle, and fired. A neon-green beam shot out and stayed active. He swept it through the building, causing multiple secondary explosions, before the beam shut off. The gun was crackling and slightly glowing. It wouldn't be working for a while. Opposite of him, the building was aflame. James watched it for a second until the building began collapsing, and then he turned around to meet the SU units.

[Julo]

Skra woke up.
He slept for 2 hours and was fully regenerated. He looked around the room. He noticed the package, which lied on the floor next to the messenger entrance.
Skra often wondered who the messengers were. Nobody has ever seen them nor heard them, when they delivered a package. He walked over to the package and opened it. It included his daily packed lunch and the parts he ordered, which he needed for his large EMP generator, that he built for the HQ.
Skra ate breakfast, canned bread with synthetic butter and a cup of coffee. Coffee was something that was very rare, especially, if you didn't want it poisonous. Skra had found a can of coffee powder, complete with filters. He could have sold it at a trading station and trade it for literally anything. But he couldn't. It was too good.
After breakfast, Skra went to the next bulletin board, near the old underground station and was shocked to hear, that the robots were going to the Helion research tower, one of Skras few regeneration points in London III.
"At least I can see what they are doing from my reconnaissance point." he thought and ran towards the town centre.
Running was amazing. Skra had four legs, wich allowed him to run up to 40 mph for at least two or three minutes and after that sprint, he was still able to run 20 mph. I took Skra four minutes to reach his recon point. He arrived and found a can of pineapple slices. The place where the recon, who took the shift earlier, lied was still warm.
"Perfect timing."
When Skra set his gear up, he noticed, that he was very close to the Helion building. The robots had already begun their inspection of the building and brought multiple rogue drones to light. He put his multivision goggles on and activated passive energy scanning. Now he was able to see what happened inside.
Luckily, the robots didn't discover his shelter. "But if they will,"he thought,"they will be very confused." Skra grinned, but then he noticed the Harbinger, who was actively scanning the area around him. Skra's fur was pretty cold, so heat vision wouldn't use anything and even a bio-scan wouldn't be very useful, as the recon point was behind multiple layers of scrap, which deflected his biological energy emission. Skra was save, for now. But he was still careful. Suddenly his goggles shut down, their energy supply was empty.
"Bloody hell!" He thought. But it came even worse. The Harbinger seemed to receive a signal of one of the robots inside, he jumped into a building, following an explosion. They must have found something.