The World Today
Today the world is irradiated and destroyed, with raiders running amok and causing fear among the survivors on the planet. Above the stars lies the Arcadia Space Station, home of the pre-war citizens, and below the dirt lives the "Mole Men", who are an underground community of vault dwellers with no tolerance to radiation.
Jonah St. ClaireBillionaire, Scientist, Inventor: St. Claire was one of the most famous men before the bombs fell. He had his hands in everything from food products to technology with his company, Mirage Corporation. His proudest invention he ever created was an artificial intelligence named Mercurius A-54, which he designed to be able to effectively handle humanity's problems by calculation and probability, and he made it look like exactly like himself. He designed it with a consumable chip which would allow you to enter into a simulated reality far away from society's ills. However, this technology would prove to be fatal when Mercurius determined that Earth had an overpopulation problem and suggested that the only way to fix it was by killing off about half of the population through nuclear explosion. St. Claire attempted to stop this by activating its kill switch, but he was unable to before Mercurius launched nukes all over the planet causing himself and a few other scientists to flee to the space station named "Arcadia".
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ALIE 2.0An artificial intelligence created by St. Claire to bring his daughter, Stephanie, back to life after she died of leukemia. She was given the name ALIE 2.0 because she is the second generation of artificial intelligence made by St. Claire. She was also programmed to feel compassion and understanding for humanity. St. Claire designed her to counteract his mistakes he made with Mercurius A-54. She was ultimately shipped down to Earth after the passing of St.Claire, so that she could use her programming for good against Mercurius's plans.
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Lady AnnabelleBorn Annabelle Rose around the year 2097, Lady Annabelle was a citizen of Arcadia Space Station from her birth to her immediate evacuation in 2118 as apart of a group of 100 sent down to Earth to see if the planet was livable again for humans. They did this because the station was beginning to run out of oxygen. Shortly after landing many of the group died from either infection or were killed by the local tribes of this new Earth. The survivors were forced to hold out until help could arrive, which it did just not the type of help they were expecting. They were apprehended by a group of underground vault dwellers who were unable to go outside without protective gear due to the high levels of radiation. They soon discovered that this group of survivors contained a material within their body that allows them to live outside without damage, so they wanted to extract this substance from them. This here is where she began the Resistance against all members of this new Earth.
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Quotes:
"The cure is complete freedom from your own failures"-Mercurius A-54
"Peace is freedom, and freedom is artificial."-Mercurius A-54
"Give them a choice between suffering and surviving, and they will come to us begging for the cure"-Mercurius A-54
“You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don't have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn't mean they apply to you.” -Lady Annabelle
"The world is gone now and it is all because of my invention...no because of me."-Jonah St.Claire
"There is little difference between me and you. Your thoughts are chemical and mine are digital."-Mercurius A-54
"Too many people in one place is far more dangerous than a nuclear explosion."-Mercurius A-54
"Mercurius protects us from ourselves."-a chipped person
"Let me ease your pain, we can save the human race together."-Mercurius A-54
"My programming prohibits me from bringing harm to a human being. I only know one thing, my core command is to make life better."-Merucius A-54
"The thing that's going to make artificial intelligence so powerful is its ability to learn, and the way AI learns is to look at human culture."-Jonah St.Claire
"Mercurius isn't dangerous! He is what will help us effectively plan for the future."-Jonah St.Claire
"I was wrong, Mercurius isn't just dangerous, he is deadly. How could I let myself be so blinded?"-Jonah St.Claire
"The cure is complete freedom from your own failures"-Mercurius A-54
"Peace is freedom, and freedom is artificial."-Mercurius A-54
"Give them a choice between suffering and surviving, and they will come to us begging for the cure"-Mercurius A-54
“You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don't have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn't mean they apply to you.” -Lady Annabelle
"The world is gone now and it is all because of my invention...no because of me."-Jonah St.Claire
"There is little difference between me and you. Your thoughts are chemical and mine are digital."-Mercurius A-54
"Too many people in one place is far more dangerous than a nuclear explosion."-Mercurius A-54
"Mercurius protects us from ourselves."-a chipped person
"Let me ease your pain, we can save the human race together."-Mercurius A-54
"My programming prohibits me from bringing harm to a human being. I only know one thing, my core command is to make life better."-Merucius A-54
"The thing that's going to make artificial intelligence so powerful is its ability to learn, and the way AI learns is to look at human culture."-Jonah St.Claire
"Mercurius isn't dangerous! He is what will help us effectively plan for the future."-Jonah St.Claire
"I was wrong, Mercurius isn't just dangerous, he is deadly. How could I let myself be so blinded?"-Jonah St.Claire
Mercurius A-54
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Mercurius A-54 is an artificial intelligence that is all that remains of the Mirage Corporation after his programming determined that the population needed to be cut in half to prevent the problems of overpopulation. He launched nukes on 19 September 2018 at 9:27 am. His goal today is to bring peace, safety, and freedom to the wasteland by convincing people to join him in his mission of liberation.