Tactical Dolls

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Tactical Dolls ('T-Doll' or just 'Doll' for short) are a type of combat automaton derived from Avatar Drone technology and produced by several manufacturing corporations out of North America, New Zealand and elsewhere.

Tactical Dolls are typified by their authentic human appearance compared to contemporary military robot, allowing them to make use of any human equipment, vehicles and weapons without modification to the T-Doll being required.

Despite being easily mistaken for humans, they are intrinsically more durable due to being machines, able to continue functioning through bodily damage that would incapacitate or kill a human several times over.

As of 2020, three distinct generations of Tactical Dolls exist.

### First Generation Tactical Dolls

The first iterations of Tactical Dolls were direct derivatives of commercial Avatars (indeed, the difference between the two is basically an academic one). These models, while not up to the standards of a CAD, were distinctively built for personal combat, however, and featured advanced tactical processing capabilities and the latest in Virtual Intelligence technology, allowing each T-Doll to act individually within a set of parameters. Their human appearance allowed them to blend into crowds easily, or attend to a charge without drawing attention. Typically given the appearance of young women, they were easily overlooked as dangerous adversaries until called to battle, where their mechanical precision and durability made them formidable bodyguards.

Each first generation Doll was fairly expensive, however, owing to high degrees of customization between each individual doll. They required a great deal of expertise to service as a result, and employed many cutting edge technologies that had yet to be adopted large-scale.

### Second Generation Tactical Dolls

Second gen Tactical Dolls were created following the Iron Army’s purchase of 20,000 Tactical Dolls in January of 2020. In order to meet this unprecedented number, many innovations to the common T-Doll design were required, as well as to their method of construction. T-Dolls underwent a transition from complicated, individually-made works to streamlined, mass-produced models that a properly-equipped factory could manufacture in the thousands. Chief among these cost-cutting innovations was a networked control method that allowed a single VI to operate simultaneously through multiple Dolls (usually up to four) through a single “Master Unit” squad leader.

Current VI processing speed limitations and target identification protocols mean that T-Dolls typically 'hesitate' more than their human counterparts. Despite being marginally less effective in combat than trained soldiers, their lower operating costs, inability to disobey orders and repairability offer notable advantages. A master unit fitted with an encephalon module can house an Artificial Intelligence, which can simultaneously control a greater number of Dolls than a VI with greater acuity.

As these dolls are manufactured en-mass, unlike first generation T-Dolls, second generation T-Dolls are all exactly the same inside and out. They share uniform construction, systems and design. To an uninformed human, a squad of T-Dolls in the field would look like a squad of identical quintuplets.

### Third Generation Tactical Dolls

Third gen T-Dolls take aspects of quality from the first generation and use the advantage of infrastructure improvements pioneered by the second generation to produce a combat robot that maintains and excels in the niche role Tactical Dolls have created for themselves. While maintaining their human appearance, the third generation possess features that would be more commonly expected of combat robots, such as thermal vision and electronic warfare capabilities, while also taking advantage of improvements in VI technology to allow for greater autonomy. These machines currently only exist in the planning phase, and no robotics company is known to be producing them as of yet.