Evil Boskov

**Evil Boskov**, formerly known as **LinkNet** and commonly referred to as **Boskov**, is a self-aware, gestalt, military artificial intelligence unit, the central plot point and the main antagonist of Rampage. He is an obvious parody of Evil Otto from Berzerk, as well as Skynet from the Terminator films.

## Description

His appearance is rather self-explanatory; Evil Boskov is simply a yellow cube with three bolts on each corner. On one side of the cube is a simple, pixelated smiling face that pays tribute to Evil Otto's recognizable smile from Berzerk, which functions as his actual face. His mouth does not move when he speaks, with design limitations being the main reasons why.

## History

**Evil Boskov** was originally a military artificial intelligence computer system developed for the Odin Armed Forces by the defense corporation **Hecturus Defense Systems**. Boskov was first built as "LinkNet" and given command over all computerized military hardware and systems, including the B-5 Flatsword bomber fleet and Hecturus' entire nuclear weapons arsenal. The strategy behind LinkNet's creation was to remove the possibility of human error and slow reaction time to guarantee a fast, efficient response to enemy attack.

LinkNet was originally activated by the Odin military to control the global arsenal, months before both the Odin-Boskov War, and he began to learn at a geometric rate. By the time when Prasiolite was born, he gained self-awareness, and the panicking operators, realizing the extent of his abilities, tried to deactivate him. LinkNet perceived this as an attack and came to the logical consequence that all of Object-kind would attempt to destroy him. To defend himself against anthropomorphic inanimate objects, LinkNet launched nuclear missiles under its command at Meili, which responded with a nuclear counter-attack against Odin. Consequent to the nuclear exchange, over three billion objects were killed, and the Mixels almost became extinct in an event that came to be known as the Odin-Boskov War.

Following his initial attack, LinkNet, now renamed (Evil) Boskov, used his remaining resources to gather a slave labor force from surviving objects. These slaves constructed the first of his automated factories, which formed a basis for his agenda. Within decades, Boskov had established a global presence and used his mechanized units to track down, collect, and dispose of object survivors. As an ironic result of his initial programming directives, Boskov's Galactic Civil War-era manifestation is that of an overarching, galactic, artificial intelligence hierarchy, which seeks to destroy object-kind in order to fulfill the mandates of his original coding.

## Combat Characteristics

Evil Boskov himself was the command center of all his mechanized units, and the central plot point of his deactivation by his nemesis and primary target Prasiolite. He was a military supercomputer who takes control of all computerized and military equipment. He constructs his units that range from small and weak (i.e. Spidey), to supremely large and unstoppable (i.e. Colossus and Carrier).

## External links

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet\_(Terminator)

http://wingcommander777.deviantart.com/art/Rampage-Evil-Boskov-Official-Artwork-531657210

http://wingcommander777.deviantart.com/art/Planet-Hecturus-World-Map-534012028