Shipley

### Cause of death

Died of his wounds after surviving the explosive attached to Bradbury by a member of the AI Revolution.

## Portrayal

### Portrayed by

Robbie Tann

**Shipley**, portrayed by Robbie Tann, is a supporting character in The Creator.

## Biography

Shipley served as a soldier in the U.S. Military and fought in the war against A.I.

In 2070, Shipley was selected as a member of Captain Cotton's strike team formed to find and destroy the A.I.'s new superweapon, Alpha-O. The squad inserted via dropship deep behind enemy lines, landing a short distance away from a reported laboratory, which newly-recruited teammate Sergeant Joshua Taylor was familiar with. The soldiers found a village built on top of the lab's supposed location and held the inhabitants at gunpoint, until a child indicated to a movable statue that opened a hidden hatch leading to the lab. Shipley followed Cotton underground into the lab.

Shipley joined the other soldiers in massacring several of the lab's staff, before they found the secure vault that the Alpha-O weapon was hidden in. By this point, however, New Asian police were aware of the U.S. incursion and began to arrive en masse at the village. Cotton took most of the squad to fight off the attackers, ordering Shipley and Taylor to continue hacking the vault door. Shipley then left Taylor alone to assist the injured Daniels, telling him not to enter the vault without him.

Shipley later joined the rest of the squad in fleeing the lab, urged by the incoming NOMAD strike to destroy the area. Shipley was able to board the dropship, but it was later brought down when Bradbury unknowingly brought an explosive aboard that had attached to her back. Shipley managed to survive the crash but was mortally wounded, slowly bleeding out overnight.

The next morning, Taylor found Shipley after following the sound of his radio, initially assuming him to be dead. Taylor brought him to a nearby farmer's house and reported their situation back to Colonel Howell, informing her that Alpha-O was in fact a child simulant. The farmhouse's owner returned and held Taylor at gunpoint, briefly distracted when he saw Alpha-O and questioned her existence. Taylor managed to kill the farmer with his pistol, but the shot drew the attention of nearby New Asian police robots. As they attempted to escape in a truck, the police bots fired at them, then threw a grenade into the farmhouse, which was picked up and returned by the farmer's dog before detonating and destroying several police. Alpha-O then demonstrated an incredible ability to remotely activate the truck's electronics, allowing them to escape.

Later, Shipley awoke in the back of the truck and held Taylor at gunpoint, demanding he take them back to friendly lines due to his critical condition. Taylor refused, reminding him the closest U.S. base was 400 miles away, and also desiring to find his wife. Shipley reacted in astonishment at the sight of Alpha-O, questioning what she was, but then suddenly collapsed and died (presumably from severe blood loss).

After abandoning the truck and Shipley's corpse, Colonel Howell and McBride arrived in a stolen police truck. They found his body and laid it on the ground, with McBride bringing the body of simulant police officer Omni and placing it next to him. Howell then used a device to scan Shipley's brain, summarising he had been dead for hours and they wouldn't get longer than 30 seconds. The brain scan apparently transferred Shipley's fading consciousness into a data stick, which Howell inserted into Omni's head, briefly reviving the disoriented soldier. Shipley immediately reacted with panic and noticed his own corpse next to him, panicking further after realising he was dead. Howell begrudgingly informed him he was in fact dead, and demanded to know where Taylor had gone. Though begging for his wife, Shipley managed to tell Howell that Taylor had taken Alpha-O to the provisional capital, taking another look at his body and panicking again, before finally dying for good.