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| Topic Started: Feb 11 2017, 11:48 AM (450 Views) | |
| Yiqi15 | Feb 11 2017, 11:48 AM Post #1 |
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The fascinating story of Moon Ex Machina began in the year 2617 six hundred years from now, when artificial intelligence is now commonplace. Across the galaxy, robots and androids (the terms are generally interchangeable) live alongside us. They preform almost every job imaginable, from doing simple household duties like cleaning and cooking, to fighting alongside us in wars or terraforming entire planets, like Mars. They come in all sorts of models, from tiny nanobots no more then a few nanometers used to fight diseases in our blood stream, to giant mobile spaceships measured in acres, and every type of robot in between. On August 1, the first terraforming androids and (human) workers were sent to the gas giant planet Cameron, named in honour of 21st century filmmaker James Cameron, specifically to work on one of its moons Schwarzenegger II (after an actor who starred in several of James Cameron's movies). The process of terraforming it for making it sustainable for human life was fifty years later in 2367, and the first settlers came a few years later in 2372. For almost a hundred and seventy years afterwards, Schwarzenegger II would be a prosperous moon, with several new nations within a union sprouting across it and new languages forming with them. However, this was not to last, for disaster struck in the year 2792. A culture of bacteria was found during a mining operation. They were taken for study to a nearby university to help study whether life had existed on Schwarzenegger II prior to terraforming the moon, but the droid transporting it got into an accident and crashed, letting it spill out. It was a fatal mistake. The 'bacteria' were actually a type of supervirus which causes irreversible damage to nutrient intake and respiratory functions. For the next three decades, the virus spread across the moon's surface, destroying all but the simplest forms of life it infected. No matter what the brightest minds of the governments could do, the virus adapted to the point it was generally thought of as undefeatable. By the time 2830 rolled around, 99.8% of all life was gone: Schwarzenegger II was declared off limits, and seemed like it was now a dead moon once more.... But it was only biological life which was affected. It was an entirely different story for the robots left behind. Obviously, because they were weren't biological, they were spared from the cruel fate their masters had. All sorts of robots were now inhabiting it, and they had it all to themselves. What happened next was one of the most amazing things to ever happen in the story of life: an entirely artificial biosphere. Welcome to Moon Ex Machina: world of living machines. |
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