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Andec FacilityCharacters
Created at 11/02/2025Published at 12/02/2025

Turret experiment aka. "BOB"

"BOB" is a nitro-cooled auto-rifle firing military android controlled by a sentient AI that simulates human emotions. It's currently located in Sector C of the Andec Facility in Test Chamber C.  

Features

It's equipped with an Andec original AK auto-rifle with a laser attachment and an auto-cooled barrel upgrade. It has an internal processing unit for logical thinking, along with the use of a movement sensor (that also acts as a camera) and a microphone. It's capable of remembering faces, voices and recognizing them. It's also got a black display that lights up green, on which it prefers to show emoticons that indicate it's current feelings.  

Consequences and procedures

If distressed through, for example, vocal stimuli, it has the chance to fire at it's own will, most often doing so at the source of it's distressing. Thankfully, good behavior towards the turret causes a friendly bond to form, thus only workers confirmed to be "friends" with the turret are permitted in it's chamber. The only thing stopping it's infinite potential (at the moment) is that it's stationary. Nothing else can be safely done with "BOB" other than testing on the installed targets within it's chamber due to a danger of angering it.  

Purpose

"BOB" was created by the Andec Research Department to test out the firing capabilities of the original set of Andec firarms. Along with that, an AI (Andec Intelligence) was specially developed for this purpose to help advance smart systems within the facility, though as shown, this later idea backfired as the AI grew smarter...  

Other

It is also often referred to as a "he" by the staff due to both personal attachment and the name "BOB". Funnily enough, the robotic sounds it produces upon responding are a result of it's computing capability working in real time. It's being constantly supplied with a stream of near-zero Kelvin nitrogen fluid, to cool the processing unit, along with the barrel of the gun. The abbreviation BOB stands for Behaviorally Overridden Berserker, but nobody uses that name because whoever named it that must be stupid.   The turret's blueprint.
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Two workers dancing at the turret, with another one approaching. This seems to appease it.
An Andec mail from a worker with the caption "can someone read the manual and tell me what this mean" and the following image attached.
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