"Male" robot grows murderous towards man

[Strangebuddy]

Sci-if which allows for an all-female or male society always fascinates me. So here's an idea I came up with.

In the future, a colony ship full of women lost control of its navigations and became seperated from the rest of the fleet. It ended up having to start on an undiscovered but habitable planet. With a little tinkering, they're able to make sperm from the blood marrow of the colonists so they can keep a sustainable population.

Only thing is, many of the female colonists want men for companionship. They can't produce y-chromosomes or it's too difficult, so they start creating robots who are designed to look and act like males.

The story starts decades later where a young woman is presented with her top of the line male robot. She is ecstatic and quickly starts taking him around, having sex with, even introducing him as her boyfriend. Things are perfect.

Then a distress signal comes in and the colony has to rescue a ship that has a male as its only occupant. The women are at first nervous but they soon fall for the dashing pilot. The robot just keeps tending to his lover and thinks nothing of it. Then the guy starts spending time with his lover...and then seducing her. The other robots take it in stride but this robot was specifically designed for his lover and is capable of expressing a variety of emotions.

The pilot makes it worse by continually making fun of the robots and the ways the women designed them to be masculine. Once again, the other robots have no resistance to the jabs but the robot can barely keep himself from snapping.

Then the final blow comes: his owner, as she no longer uses him for companionship, is pregnant. The last intimate function that he had left is gone. After months of finding the perfect match among the Genebanks, the robot is now worthless. Even worse, his owner is to with the pilot to reestablish contact with the rest of the human race...and he is to be reprogrammed and repurposed as a manual labor bot after all, once he men start coming, what need will there be for companion robots?

Still, everyone expects he'll just submit to this and there's never been a robot rebellion before in fact, robots have free reign to where they please if it's to serve their masters...even if it's a hangar or someone's sleeping quarters.

 

[Sean Renaud]

So essentially the Matrix. . .but with the sex that we know was happening but is never explicitly stated.

Honestly not a bad go. I think a writer might be wise to just clean up your prompt and use that as the background or maybe start halfway through.

 

[Strangebuddy]

Lol...yeah, that does make me think. We're the pods hooked up with a penis vac and an impregnation for the women?

 

[Sean Renaud]

Lol...yeah, that does make me think. We're the pods hooked up with a penis vac and an impregnation for the women?

First, I apologize. I should have been specific. I meant the Animatrix. It comes between the first and second movies and has an explanation for how the war actually began. Which long story short we built robot slaves and one day a human said "I'ma turn off my robot" and the robot killed him. It was taken to court and plead "I didn't want to die." And then to quote Ron Burgundy "That escalated quickly." I'd say more but if you haven't seen it I hope this makes you go fire up netflix. It's worth the fifteen minutes (its' a series of shorts and this is like the second and third. Called the Renesaince if I remember properly)

As to your question I don't think we have any reason to doubt Morpheus. People aren't born they are quite literally MADE by the machines and then inserted (into the story not the woman) with no more difficulty than an author introducing a child to a show with flagging ratings.

 

[Strangebuddy]

Oh, got ya. No, I have seen the animatrix and I agree that it had some fantastic shorts. The expanded background for the setting, the one duel in a feudal Japan landscape, the one where a group reprogram a machine, and the runner shorts are my favorites.

So the machine actually makes people...I'm really starting to buy the "humans aren't actually needed for power, the machines just didn't want to exterminate humanity" fan theory. Though to be fair, I always kind of figured that was the case since not only does it create a virtual world where they can live without having to face reality but they actually make sure their physical bodies don't atrophy when they probably could just shape humans into balls of organs and tissues and just produce heat all day.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Oh, got ya. No, I have seen the animatrix and I agree that it had some fantastic shorts. The expanded background for the setting, the one duel in a feudal Japan landscape, the one where a group reprogram a machine, and the runner shorts are my favorites.

So the machine actually makes people...I'm really starting to buy the "humans aren't actually needed for power, the machines just didn't want to exterminate humanity" fan theory. Though to be fair, I always kind of figured that was the case since not only does it create a virtual world where they can live without having to face reality but they actually make sure their physical bodies don't atrophy when they probably could just shape humans into balls of organs and tissues and just produce heat all day.

Cool. A lot of people haven't seen it and yeah the Feudal Japan one was great, but I love that animator, he also did Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust.

Morpheus states he has seen fields where people are no longer born, they are grown. Granted so much of what we learn by the end of the Matrix suggests that Morpheus's head was so full of lies from the system that it's impossible to know if he's lying/mistaken but assuming he's not.

I assume that the fan theory is at least partially correct. Though there may have been some Asimov laws worked in somewhere that prevented them from ghosting the entire species but via logical work arounds allowed them to kill specific individuals.

Really keeping humans alive because you can power things with our body heat is stupid beyond measure. Filling the Matrix with puppies would produce the same amount of power (really more in the long run as they breed and reach maturity faster) and without any of the pesky rebellions. Originally the Watchowskis wanted it to be that human minds were necessary for computing power. 7 billion brains made one helluva processor. It also explained (sorta) why they gave a shit about the resistence.

 

[InfiniteLemon]

I think your idea is unique and would enjoy reading it. It reminds me of an Outer Limits episode "Family Values" where human men weren't doing fulfilling their traditional roles, so these robots were created. At first, the robots were supposed to be helpers, then they gradually took over the household, until the robot "father/husband" was the head of all human households. I really liked that episode.

The robot rebellion sounds interesting. I'm trying to imagine if the robots would just turn against the human men, or would they be against the women too? I imagine this would be a frightening time. I wonder, when the women programmed the robot men to be masculine, did they program anything into them about war, or if that something the robots would learn on their own?

Are you thinking about turning this into a story or just sharing the idea?

 

[Strangebuddy]

I did come up with a few possible ideas for the ending or direction. i figured the "masculine" traits were based on media they had archived or the few memories the original colonists had. As time goes on, those traits are flanderized to the extreme so you have ultra-pretty boys, disgusting slobs (their models), muscular hulks, or DILFs. As for subjects, they would have the historical understanding of war but little wish to engage in it. They have contests of strength and there are some disputes their masters have tehm settle but outright killing isn't something they wish or can do freely.

For the most part, the robots don't have agression naturally and just accept the coming change in status quo. Some show confusion over their duties being reduced but their core programming is just to obey. The robot in this had his prime function be the happiness of his "wife" when he no longer is her main source of happiness, it drives him mad and starts making him explore options outside of his outer functions.

As for the ways I see it going:

1. The robot explores the man's computer, failing at first to even penetrate the OS but eventually finding a way to interact with it and explore its contents. He discovers that the man is a conartist and has even been married before on several occasions. He was attempting to run from police when he came across a section of folded space that led him here (a bit of world building I wanted to have when I wanted it to connect to another sci-fi idea I was workign on is that during humanity's exodus, they couldn't fit FTL/warped space technology on all of their ships so they instead had massive ships go ahead of the fleet and create a path for all of the other ships to follow in. It worked but theirs still pockets of space which remain warped or folded).

The robot tries to warn his mistress but she and the others either don't listen or don't care. Besides, as the conartist reveals, him finding the lost colony and returning with a representative, as well as their superior tech, would make him beyond reproach. Even when he starts engaging in multiple affairs, the women just think that's how men are. So the robot, now freed of having to care for his beloved, just keeps poring over the data, even tossing away his personality for hours at a time so he can devote his full processing power to deciphering more. He discovers the other colonies are engaged in war, disease is rampant, all of the issues humanity created still exist and are waiting on the other colonies. Once again though, the other colonists ignore his warnings and his mistress threatens to deactivate him if he explores the matter any further.

The robot decides to then investigate his own colony's data and finds that information they've never been able to access before was encrypted and compressed with programs that the colony was never given...but more advanced versions of those programs are on the pilot's ship. A little tinkering and he has all of the information about the truth behind the colony, as well as technology that was thought to be lost. He tries to tell his mistress the news, thinking she'll praise him but that's when she reveals her pregnancy.

The robot's madness peaks and he begins to make plans using his new information.

Things split here:

1a. The robot goes into the hangar, seemingly to sabotage the ship. He is confronted by his creator, who is revealed to be his mistress' mother. She apologizes and then, when it looks like he's too confused and distraught, she attacks him and deactivates him. She tells her daughter the next day that he had to be sent for repairs. She hugs her daughter and wishes her well, knowing that the decades long journey will mean she will probably never see her again.

What she didn't know however was that the robot's goal wasn't to sabotage the ship but rather to launch a nano-probe that is carrying an FTL drive. The human race and the other colonies never ahd the materials to create a proper one but the theoretical blue print and the colony's solar system's raw materials and manufacturing allowed the robot to create one. It will make the trip in a month and now, it will take advantage of all of the security issues it noticed while scanning the man's ship and infiltrate every colony's defenses and infrastructure.

Ultimately, it can't disobey it's prime directive and it wants its mistress to be happy.

...and what better way to make sure she's happy than to have her favorite meal laid out for her at the landing strip, a recreation of her home, and an entire sector of space that has been cleansed of all of the dangers that were waiting for her there?

1b. The robot tempts the man into following him to a lab where it claims some new technology is. When the man comes out, he runs out screaming that the robot attacked him. Sure enough, it chases after him screeching in incomprehensible noise. The robot's mistress tries to reason with the robot but when it attacks the man, she deactivates it. The man comforts her afterwards and they decide to name their child after the robot's pet name. The man acts strangely though and after having sex and falling asleep, she notices he seems surprised and amazed at the breakfast she makes the next morning but chalks it up to hi trying to make her feel better.

Unknown to her, the man she's lying with is long dead, being melted down while the robot is not only receiving her love for the first time in a long time but is also experiencing taste and touch for the first time.

2. The robot engineers the man's death in such a way that he can't blame himself and therefore didn't break any rules. The death makes his mistress sad of course but the robot is able to calm her over time, convincing her to have the baby first before making the trip. He then engineers a fake disease, claiming the man brought it with him unknowingly. He overwrites all of the medical information to support his claim. Since there is no way to know how many men are infected by it, the trip to the colonies is cancelled, though a special beacon is set up to call to the colonies, which uide them to quarantine stations where they are forcibly brainwashed into obeying the robot and all of its future incarnations. Meanwhile, the robot sends the man's remains to the genebank so the demand for real men can still be met.

...men who will be subservient and live to please the women of the colony and their robot servants.

3. More straightforward. The robot can't handle his madness anymore and inflicts it on every robot he can, attempting to win them to his side. the robots however, don't respond the way he thought they would; each one pursues their own mistress' interests. Sabotaging each other and even attacking other women their mistresses don't approve of. Then man meanwhile is wanted by many of the women so their robots wage war with one another, damaging the colony. The original robot even takes significant damage defending his mistress and can only watch as his madness spreads as robots try to reruit more to tehri side, only to make their brawl more encompassing.

4. (the Matrix) The robot brainwashes the man into forgetting about what he discovered and sends him off without his mistress. His mistress meanwhile is trapped in a dreamworld where she is exploring the universe. When the baby is born, it will join the dreamworld, and anyone who tries to stop it will be made to join a world where his mistress is always happy and he is the source of her happiness.