Neigh on a century ago now, industrial advancements enabled engineers to develop androids resembling various animals. They were called RACU: Robotic Animal Combat Units. RACU were first built to minimize the massive consumption of bullets in the military. Since they fought like their organic counterparts, they did not need armaments to fight aside from their own fangs, beaks, and claws -- with some augmentations to help them fight and kill enemy RACU. They soon replaced almost all war technology in the military. The leading companies for developing RACU, Nature Corp. of the US, Wild's Deep of Europe, and Cycle Inc. of Asia, all signed a document to never develop RACU with free will, fearing that they would turn on humans if they did not follow the orders of their leaders. The document became known as the Creators' Rule. However, one group of engineers from Nature Corp. ignored the Creators' Rule and developed a RACU with free will, one that resembled a wolf.
About eighty years ago -- five years after the first free-willed RACU was manufactured -- a virus infected all the RACU development companies' computers, and the factories went haywire. They started pumping out RACU independently and rapidly. Twenty-five different RACU were being manufactured in one factory every week, each with red eyes instead of the natural green. Ordinary citizens could not control their RACU anymore, and in their outrage began blaming Nature Corp., Wild's Deep, and Cycle Inc., accusing the companies of causing the greatest catastrophe in history. The companies' CEOs did not understand what or who was developing these RACU with free will, and each company soon convinced the militaries of their respective nations to destroy the rogue RACU. However, the rogues had more advanced processors than the military-grade RACU, and thus killed more human soldiers and military RACU faster and more efficiently than the military RACU could kill the rogues. Within weeks, military power across the globe was effectively inert.
With the world's military forces utterly defeated, the citizens of each continent, along with whatever remaining active military personnel as well as veterans were forced into hiding. They built colonies and developed ways to defend themselves from the rogue RACU, which now ran rampant throughout the world. To the humans of that time, that was the most momentous event in their history. However, to the residents of today, fighting and/or fearing RACU is a way of life. Some humans have found different ways of trying to end today's way of life, and in doing so, the human race is divided when it should be together. This results in less effective, separate efforts than one cohesive method of dealing with the RACU. Every living person of today wish for a return to the times of last century, where humans did not fear the very machines they created. Every living person of today wish to live in peace, without the thought of dying in their sleep due to a RACU attack. A new, peaceful age for humans sounds more like a dream than a reality...
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Dawn of the RACU
Science Fiction70 years from the present day, mechanical animals terrorize the world, humankind scattered throughout the continents of the planet in colonies. Nychus Evo, the son of the leader of one of these colonies, is fascinated by these beasts of chrome and e...
