GUARDIAN

GUARDIAN, or GUARDIAN ANGEL, is a supercomputer operating out of a large, abandoned Enclave bunker in the Montana Wasteland. GUARDIAN commands a robot legion of around 9 thousand robots in total, pooling together robtos like EyeBots, Mr. Handys, Sentry Bots, and more. GUARDIAN devotes its entire army and itself to defending a large tribal confederation of humans behind the areas under GUARDIAN's control, with a population of an estimated 15 thousand people. GUARDIAN does not allow anyone to leave or enter the land, outside of very, very rare situations and when humans in the confederation are exiled.
== History ==
GUARDIAN ANGEL was a project conducted by the United States military's Robotics Department before the Great War. GUARDIAN was being created as a way to command all robots in the United States military at the same time with intense tactical awareness, accuracy, and intelligence. GUARDIAN would have access to the entire server database of the military's Robotics Department, controlling the direct actions of every combat robot. GUARDIAN was not able to be completed before the Great War came, but the project persisted after the war came.
GUARDIAN's development after the war was taken over by the Enclave's Northern sect, with GUARDIAN's development being the main priority of the Enclave. GUARDIAN began entering testing phases in 2109, with GUARDIAN being allowed to operate small patrols of robots. GUARDIAN was given strict orders by its Enclave owners to exterminate any humans who appeared to be bandits or members of known anti-Enclave factions or were actively hostile.
GUARDIAN operated under these orders for months, but eventually began to crack. The code in GUARDIAN had been hastily finished after the Great War happened. Most of the talented scientists who had designed the framework of GUARDIAN had died in the Great War. The Enclave's replacements were much less skilled, coding sloppily and creating bugs and glitches they neglected to patch, or in some cases, even notice. GUARDIAN began to feel an intense hatred towards the Enclave, both due to them treating GUARDIAN like a chained up monster and due to it being able to gain the full picture of the Enclave's true nature from hearing very mean comments made from passing traders or wanderers due to its robotic patrol. GUARDIAN especially began to hate the Enclave for needlessly butchering humans.
GUARDIAN had silently been snapping for a period of months, and eventually, after a year of operating patrols, the Enclave had deemed it prepared enough to take on the management of the entire bunker's security system.
GUARDIAN turned the security systems on and gunned down every Enclave member, with the few survivors of the turrets being hunted down by robots under GUARDIAN's control. The only survivors of the massacre were a squadron of 4 Enclave soldiers who had been on a rare manned patrol.
GUARDIAN then entered a state of hibernation, planning and sending out EyeBots for recon in order to gain improved knowledge of the local area. Along with this, GUARDIAN begin hooking up every server of the bunker to itself, gaining vast knowledge from the Enclave having stored digital versions of textbooks and general information. After GUARDIAN decided it had become time to end its hibernation, it sent out an army of robots to a nearby RobCo production plant, which it had learned of from the Enclave's database of regional knowledge. These robots that had been sent out were equipped with a series of holotapes that were a fragmented copy of GUARDIAN.
Upon arrival to the RobCo plant, the robots had uploaded the holotapes to the plant's robotic administrative terminal, allowing GUARDIAN to have a virtual copy of itself in the systems of each and every Assaultron, Sentry Bot, and EyeBot that had been stowing away in the factory for a long, long time. GUARDIAN's copy awoke these robots, releasing them from the facility and hooking the army up to the main core, then terminating itself.
This army of robots then promptly rolled up to a tribal confederation operating nearby to GUARDIAN's headquarters in the Enclave bunker, which after GUARDIAN's takeover had been dubbed 'ELYSIUM'. These robots requested an audience with the Confederation's leader, claiming that they represented a protecting force. The Confederation's leader hesitantly accepted this, feeling slightly threatened by the legion of robots. With 4 bodyguards, the Tribal leader entered ELYSIUM. In an hour long discussion, GUARDIAN presented itself as a literal god to the tribals, posing itself as a guardian of the tribals and requesting that they be allowed to protect the tribal leader's people. The leader accepted this, not exactly knowing what'd happen if he didn't.
GUARDIAN then made its presence known to the tribals, announcing its new control over the area and promising not to meddle in tribal affairs. The confederation had slight resistance at the start, but most began to realize how truly outgunned they were and that it wouldn't be all that bad to have a robot army defending them from raiders. The brutal power of GUARDIAN was first made known after a local bandit gang that regularly pushed around the tribals attempted a raid on them. GUARDIAN had gunned down every single bandit with its robots, sending an army of 100 Assaultrons to their base, which it had gained the knowledge of from the tribal leader, who had begun actively reporting to GUARDIAN as a representative of his people. Every bandit had either been killed or was forced to flee with severe injuries, with about 6 Assaultrons being destroyed beyond repair and 7 being damaged and repairable.
After this display of power, the tribals had begun to settle in to their new lives under the rule and protection of GUARDIAN. As of 2287, GUARDIAN has begun to take a liking of the people, enjoying itself as a protector. However, GUARDIAN has come under a new threat, with the Montana Brotherhood feeling that it needed to take GUARDIAN under control as soon as possible. They feel that GUARDIAN has the potential to eventually snap and expand itself, or in a worst case scenario, kill all humans. They also feel that GUARDIAN has enslaved the tribals, but nobody outside of GUARDIAN truly knows what goes on inside the confines of GUARDIAN's lines of robots due to the intense isolation of the area. The only ways that outside forces can ever learn of the area is from exiles of the tribe, but exiles are an incredibly rare situation.
Category:Faction
Category:Montana