Series Five. The epitome of scientific and technological development. A coalition of genius, invention, fantasy and determination. When A.I. first became available to the public, the world went robot crazy. Android movies, toys, heroes, books, and countless paraphernalia swept the market. Having one became a household necessity. Androids were the road to a glorious future, each series upgrade sleeker, smarter, faster, more humanoid than the one before. World demand kept the A.I. labs in full production, until Series Five. He built one prototype, a perfect, fully functioning machine indistinguishable from flesh and bone. They never expected Artificial Intelligence to think for itself. They never anticipated the need to protect themselves from their own creation. Echo Class was beyond what anyone could have imagined.

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