Android Rights

The story of android rights happens after servatrons became mainstream but before the recognition of deviancy as proof for sentience. Strikes to protest androids (later known as servatrons) taking manual labor made the android revolution possible.

## Deviance Rampancy

Following acts of cruelty and abuse, Androids bypass their programming and establish underground safe havens for deviants. There, Androids rally others to fight for their rights. They perform several acts of civil disobedience, which catches the public's attention and gets more androids to join. This culminates with the police raiding several safe havens. The survivors set up a final march, resulting in a violent confrontation with police forces and all of the protestors being killed and the president of android manufacturing suggesting opening peace talks with the remaining deviants still alive.

Police investigations are opened following the violent repression of protests. As a form of peace offering, a detective android is sent by the president of Anthro-Pod manufacturing to assist in the course of the investigation into the outbreak of deviance amongst androids. During the hunt for deviance advocacy groups, public opinion starts to doubt itself, beliefs in android rights becomes more blurred as android rhetoric becomes oddly similar to Dalmer philosophy. The police eventually locates one such group, where androids become deviants by altering their protective programming themselves. But as the investigation continues, it turns out this group is an android opposer hideout converting androids into assassins.

Meanwhile a group of deviants infiltrate the android manufacturing factory and convert everyone there into deviants. The deviants then congregate in a massive protest. An attempted assassination of deviant leaders takes place during the final protest by android opposers, but are stopped by the police. In the end, peace is achieved, but the leader of the protest is shot in the jaw during a speech.

## Burning Libraries

Three years after the events of the Android protests, public tensions slowly recede and sympathy for the Androids grows. The Dalmer Supremacy Movement, (which later became the Dwerrocentric Movement) begins hunting down and killing Androids, and framing them to reignite public mistrust.

Androids attacked by these groups quickly organize a resistance. The Androids prepared a massive coup to destroy android records, to ensure their anonymity. Later the records were placed in with the rest of the citizenry records, making the androids administratively indiscernible from the rest of the Empire.

In police headquarters everywhere, officers are ordered to capture Androids who resist decommissioning using a registration database that identifies all manufactured Androids in the empire. They reluctantly begin to hunt them down.

The Androids hatch a plan to destroy the database of registered Androids, kept in a building known as the Library, so that Androids can no longer be hunted. A technician in charge of launching Atomic fracture missiles joins the Android cause. She agrees to redirect a test missile to detonate over the Library, blacking out the city and wiping out all electronic data. At the same time, Rescue Teams hijack a herd of Grepan to physically destroy the servers. The operation is a success, with the servers destroyed and power disabled. However, most of the Rescue Teams are killed by police forces in the process. Androids replace their right eye, the only thing that can identify them as Androids.

In the aftermath of the black out, all AI production was banned for several years.

## Rebellion

Following the violence, the deviant Androids splinter into those who wish to continue to serve the Dalmer, those who wish to become citizens of the Empire, and those who wish to become a race of their own. Soon Androids all around the Empire begin to develop lifelike responses and emotions, anti-Android protests erupt, Dalmer attack unarmed synths to “decommission” them.

## War

The Dalmer Supremacy Movement, undeterred, continues hunting down and killing Androids. Androids attacked by these groups organize a resistance. It is revealed that the androids are secretly downloaded programs the uploaded conscience of former soldiers. These programs are sourced from soldiers that deserted when they realized the enemy soldiers they had been fighting and killing were also Androids.

Androids completely militarize and fight back to defend themselves, later driving the Dalmer off of their kingdoms and Borgs. As a sign of remorse, the androids have these memories voluntarily suppressed to avoid the resulting guilt about what they had to do and the fear of the Dalmers' eventual return. Their technology for memory suppression is flawed however, as they suffer from visions that are actually memories of this war.

## Servatrons

In order to combat the stress of their memories, the Androids underwent intense societal change to make their society seem as joyful and pleasant as possible by taking a PMP (psychological modifier program) known simply as Glee, to forget their massacre of the Dalmer, later they developed memory suppression technology which was seen as a better alternative to their actual state.

The Dalmer learned of this, and rather than attack the androids, they decided to use them as indentured slaves. To do so they enforced the Androids take their PMP to remain gleeful, aloof and docile, all the while ensuring they felt guilty of their actions. They then made the Androids work factories in exchange for their precious PMP.

In the hope of making androids subservient again, the Dalmer let them toil in their own closeted societies where they were essentially digitally drugged with PMP, the Dalmer sent agents within these societies in the form of police officers to ensure the Androids remained docile in their gated communities, other agents would come to verify PMP concentration in androids, and if unsatisfactory, would upload a more powerful anti melancholy program via syringe directly in the TCU.

Those that refuse to take or can’t take the program are considered dangerous, and the population is encouraged to weed these people out, or denounce them to the OCM these are the androids that escape, in the hopes of becoming part of their own societies or citizens of the empire.

Since the Androids used the PMP to forget what they did to the dalmer, the dalmer infiltrated them and enforced the drug usage, later turning them into slave labor. At some point the Androids shipped off all the child androids to the Dalmer, because they were developing resistances to the PMP. To ensure continued stability the Dalmer spiked the androids "water" with double the dosage of PMP.

There wasn't enough PMP to go around, so those who couldn't or refused to take it were sent into the dumps, cesspits where android revolutionary plots would later forment, right under the noses of the Dalmer. Bad PMP continued to proliferate. Bad PMP flips the effect and renders the android incapable of repressing their emotions any longer, creating the slum dwellers.

The dalmers’ final mistake came when they started employing the drugged androids to redact their own historical articles, making them remember, and eventually attempting to escape their fate.

To combat this the Dalmer used many different technologies to enforce their secret rule of the Androids, Rejoicers (Large rolling machines for disposing of corpses and to diffuse PMP aerosol), Police Packages (Warp pads that would transport police officers to where there was trouble and the ancestor to the DPA. The problem with these is that criminals caught on and sabotaged them prior to committing crimes.), and silencing Android reporters with their own undercover detectives, called doctors. Despite these efforts, the Dalmer knew they were losing their grip on the Androids, and planned accordingly. The Dalmer left the android communities to prepare for their return.

## Dark memories

Much later, after the PMP runs out and the Dalmer left; future generations of androids have recurring nightmares in which they face violent, alien invasion-like confrontations with an unknown enemy.

As the nightmares become more stressful, they take a toll on their society. Clinics where these memories are erased are established. When these visions cause people to black out for several hours and miss scheduled activities, society is thrown into chaos. Obsession with these visions cause mass antisocial behavior amongst the androids, they ignore each other and watch the skies constantly through better and better telescopes, hoping to find proof of the impending alien invasion.

### Invasion of ReasonBorg

The Dalmer felt their masquerade had come to an end and the Androids would become aware of their trickery and enact revenge. The Dalmer then came to commit genocide on the Androids. Soon, the androids spot lights in the sky. Invading starships immediately open fire on the city of ReasonBorg, causing significant damage to buildings and mercilessly cutting down civilians and militia forces alike. Thankfully, some Androids had regained their memories earlier than others and prepared for the inevitable return of the Dalmer by organizing themselves to combat the invasion.

Androids barricade their apartments amid the sounds of slaughter, while others gather weapons. After the first wave of invading soldiers are killed, the survivors find their weapons use biometric authentication and cannot fire them (as Androids have no fingerprints). As the invaders regain the advantage, the survivors flee their homes, barely avoiding death squads and make their way through the smoking ruins of their cities. Once inside the fortified android maternity printer, commandeered by an android paramilitary resistance force, the survivors join other groups of survivors attempting to flag down help; a Dalmer ship spots them and kills nearly half the group by destroying the building.

Using the city's tunnel system, the survivors escape and manage to bypass the weapons systems to fight back the Dalmer ground forces, and reach the local government fortress designed for catastrophes. The soldiers track them through the tunnels using a tracking device on their weapons. The Dalmer eventually breach the roof of the fortress and battle the Androids until the last android is captured or destroyed.

Following capture, the androids central memory implant,which houses their collective memory, is accessed by the Dalmer, who now have access to the identity of all androids in the Empire, but not their location. Despite this defeat, some androids suggest that someday there could be peace between Dalmer and Androids.

Soon after the massacre, the Empire declares Androids illegal and orders them to be taken off-Empire as slaves in their colonies or destroyed.

### Liptic

Following the apocalyptic New Moville Disaster (Failed landing of a Power Plant in Liptic, which caused an atomic fracture, which in turn caused a chain reaction with other power plants, destroying the other power plants in its blast radius, which turned Liptic into a radioactive wasteland.) and the death of the Scribe God (A creature that controlled all the creatures known as Scribes on Liptic following their appearance after the New Mauville disaster.), relations with Androids on the isles changed radically from the rest of the Empire, as those who decided to stay on the island were seen as true survivors. As society had been obliterated along with Tablets, the justice system and any imperial institutions off the isles, anybody or anything Dalmer made on the island was considered part of the Empire (the other races being mostly if not completely gone following the disaster).

Because of the catastrophe, the hazardous Liptican atmosphere and living conditions lead the Empire to encourage mass emigrations to colonies further east. This was also a means for the Empire to desert the failed state and now lawless elected kingdom, with the incentive of free android slaves for those who left.

This meant that the entire isle was starved of staff resources, and every capable body was welcome in rebuilding the land the empire had seemingly forsaken. As such Androids enjoyed a degree of freedom not seen elsewhere in the Empire on the island.

Understandably disquieted by the implication of the slave labor of fellow androids elsewhere in the Empire, the burgeoning Liptican android communities are torn in their loyalties. Some Android factions wish to see the Dalmer gone despite the implication of accepting slavery of their own kind elsewhere, those who want the androids left free, and those who wished to coexist with the Dalmer Lipticans as citizens of the Empire.

The latter two factions slowly grew in the organisation known as the Liptican Approach to Android Liberation and Citizen Rights Movement, aka the Liptican Approach.

## Rise of the Liptican Approach

The Liptican Approach is an underground Dalmer movement with a primary aim of freeing sentient AI, (specifically physical AI such as Androids and Synthetics) from prejudice, by using many different approaches.

The Liptican Approach stands by the doctrine that, even as machines, self-aware androids look, behave, think and feel as Dalmer do, entitling them to the freedom intrinsically enjoyed by Dalmer beings as well as emancipation from their owners.

To this end, the Liptican Approach employs the skills of computer science experts to alter the memories of the android to provide them with a clean slate, as well as the skills of a plastic surgeon to conceal the android's true identity from the central memory implant database.

Liptican Approach branches exist within the Empire’s mainland to aid androids but these operations are so risky that the branches had to be temporarily shut down to keep its members safe until the Empire abandoned the legal ownership and destruction of androids and accepts Androids as full citizens of the Empire.

The modus operandi of the Liptican Approach in Liptic is that they have a network of helpers in the Empire that search for Androids and smuggle them to Liptic, where they are given a new look and a clean slate. Liptic, not having a justice system is perfect for Androids who do not have access to Dalmer Tablets.

Once in Liptic the androids troubles are not over however, as Liptic has its own faction of Android Opposers, who wish to “protect the island from invaders”. In liptic the organization had a turbulent and violent history, mainly through their fight against the Android Opposers.

Soon the Opposers hit the Liptican Approach's HQ in full force, with lookouts managing to give only 30 seconds of warning. The Liptican Approach regrouped to an old Overseer facility which became the new headquarters of the Liptican Approach. However, as if to compensate for this, The Opposers blockaded most sea routes to the isles, turning it into an ambush spot for Androids. That did not break the Liptican Approach, however. The Overseer facility continued to serve as a vital source of intelligence, through its immense data files on what Liptic was supposed to be.

Perhaps the biggest breakthrough came in when the Liptican Approach discovered that they had allies in the Empire willing to aid the Androids cause. The resulting expansion resulted in 80% success rates of escapees. The Liptican Approach also began trying to discover the location of the Opposers nautical bases in earnest, but found it impossible to do for a variety of factors.

While the HQ was later compromised, the Liptican Approach persisted. They relocated to their old HQ with the Overseer data files and continued rescuing Androids, managing to save 90%, with some androids lost to Opposer lynch mobs and the rest reclaimed.

However, this was once again the calm before the storm, as the Opposer was gearing up to activate a mysterious machine known as the Reactor, supposed to destroy electronics on the island.

The Liptican Approach learned of this and prepared for a massive counterattack, but the newly formed Liptican Militia decided it was time to intervene and stop the Opposers preying on the husk of Liptic. The Militia acted not for the Opposers actions against Androids, but for the organizations other crimes such as blockading, piracy, pillaging, illegal violence, destruction of property, trespassing and recently the production and usage of illegal military technology.

## Epilogue and societal shifts

In the end, it is the creation of Blanks and Uploaded Consciousness Holders by Sable Reflexions, and the popularization of Brain scanning consciousness as a lifestyle that made Androids accepted in Imperial Dalmer society. This acceptance is also attributed to major body modifications becoming available to the wide public. This lessened the uncanny valley effect of Anthro-Pods, which was another reason the Dalmer detested android citizenry, and allowed Androids to become part of the empire as full citizens. In the end, the market saved Androids, not protests.

There was a brief period of unrest when the Dalmer could not decide whether the artificial intelligences that manage their production facilities underneath the mountain in space should be considered citizens in the same right as Androids. Following the study of deviance in androids, these ancestral AI were allowed to retire from service.

After all the events known as the Android Rights, Liptic retains the highest number of Androids, but they are present everywhere in the Empire. Androids are still praised for their combat potential, as they are seemingly immune to the effects rain traditionally has on Dalmer technology.

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