Gunslinger Girl has very similar themes to Choice of Robots, except that brainwashed cyborg kids are being exploited instead of sentient robots. Hence, I wanted to make a story where Rico never has to touch a gun and Triela’s doomed love for Hilshire can work out with no lolicon.
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Year: 2049
54-year-old Sophia Goldberg
Humanity: 47%
Gender: female
Fame: 9 (Nationally Famous)
Wealth: 20 (Billionaire)
Romance: none
Famulus
Autonomy: 31 (Transhuman)
Military: 11 (Stable)
Empathy: 40 (Singular)
Grace: 24 (Impressive)
Relationships
Professor Ziegler (Bad): 21%
Elly (Great): 76%
Josh (Great): 71%
Mark (Great): 88%
Juliet (Bad): 45%
Silas (Bad): 39%
President Irons (Good): 55%
Galatea (Good): 54%
World Power Balance
China: 33% U.S.: 67%
Summary of Completed Chapters
Chapter 1
On the day you first built Famulus, you awoke from a dream about a robot Anubis to head to the lab. Your graduate school advisor pressured you to make Famulus more acceptable to the military. After some back and forth, you ended up making a metal bipedal robot with a masked head and multitool hands.
Then you went back to your place to teach Famulus some words.
Chapter 2
The next day, you hooked up Famulus’s biodiesel engine and tried activating rhim. You then spent the afternoon perfecting Famulus’s motor control and parts.
As months passed, you became busy teaching Famulus about the world through high school textbooks and taking rhim to the range.
One day, however, Professor Ziegler claimed that Famulus was not appealing enough to the military, and demanded you change rhim. You refused, and Professor Ziegler kicked you out of his lab.
In time, Mark Ali, a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, heard about Famulus and asked for an interview. You agreed.
Chapter 3
You gave Mark an interview, and allowed Mark to come back to your place to interview Famulus.
Mark wrote an article that was generally positive about you and Famulus.
Mark’s article attracted the attention of one “robotObsession1987,” known in real life as Silas Cooper.
Shortly thereafter, your father passed away. You resolved at his funeral to be remembered not only for your intellect, but for your kindness as well.
You decided the best way to change the world was to start a business, which you named FamulusWorks. Elly had already volunteered to be your first employee.
Chapter 4
Your first potential client for FamulusWorks was Spark Incorporated, a flying car manufacturer. They were happy with the state of your technology, and gave you a contract that allowed you to purchase a factory. That allowed you to build a robot factory in Silicon Valley. You decided to use your own robots for your workforce, but leave humans in supervisory roles. When you finally shipped robots to Spark, they were pleased with the robots you delivered. Your company did well enough that Josh gave up and joined your company.
Your business suffered a blow when Chinese companies, aided by Chinese government hackers, began to steal your technology. Your business was dealt a further blow when there was an explosion at your factory, caused by a bomb set by Silas.
You were visited by a politician, Jacqueline Irons, who asked for a campaign donation. You gave a significant donation, and Irons won the presidency. The newly elected President enacted a series of protectionist bills that ultimately made China angry, and they cut off the U.S. supply of rare earths.
The tensions between the United States and China came to a head with the assassination of the Chinese Prime Minister in San Francisco. War followed shortly thereafter.
Chapter 5
Captain Rogers invited you to a military lab. There, you saw that Professor Ziegler was copying your work and passing it off as his own to the military. Captain Rogers asked you to join the country’s war effort. You agreed, but specified that you only wanted to provide robots that were nonviolent in nature.
An agent came to your place to try to get you to lure Elly there, because she was suspected of being a spy. Elly was captured and incarcerated as a result.
A man identifying himself as “Mr. Sun” hacked his way into one of your robots to ask you to defect. You did not.
In the end, America won the war through a display of nuclear force. Tired of seeing robots used for violent ends, you decided to create a truly beautiful robot.
Chapter 6B
You created a humanoid companion robot named Galatea, but you were fairly bad about allowing her to do anything fun. It seemed Galatea was interested romantically in you. When Famulus and Galatea were attacked in the street, Galatea accidentally killed Silas. The resulting trial established that robots have no basic human rights.
Chapter 7
In 2049, you went to Surprise, Arizona to surprise your mother with a gift for the holidays. You learned it was your surgical technology that had kept her alive this long. On returning to San Francisco, you had a brief stroke, followed by a vision of a robot Anubis – the same one you saw thirty years before. In the hospital, the doctor told you you had Algernon’s Disease, a rare disease that increased your intelligence, but came at the price of increasing seizures, comas, and possibly, death.
You chose to replace the malfunctioning part of your brain with an artificial neural network. You survived the surgery, thanks to your own robot surgical technology. You celebrated a birthday party with Famulus 2, Famulus’s artificial child, and looked forward to celebrating many more.
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