A.L.E.C

A.L.E.C 42 (Automated Lifeform Elimination Construct) & Lucy

A.L.E.C (Automated Lifeform Elimination Construct): Programming still present. No perosonality…yet

Warforge construct containing 2 consciousness fragments.

Unknown man.: Consciousness of what appears to be a solider trying to save Lucy. No memory of self.

Lucy: Consciousness of 7 yr old girl

ACTIVATING MEMORY FILE PLAYBACK:

Video status = 85% reliability

Audio = 0% reliability

The static riddled image slides back and forth across a desolate battlefield. Smoke and charred remains litter the earth as far as the image can render.

——Alert——

Target detected.

The image shakes and pans down, showing a small child with tattered cloths and only one shoe. She doesn’t seem to be poor, and appears to have lost the shoe in some kind of violent event. Her face is obscured by hair but you can see the tears running down her chin. She is standing over the corpse of a human woman and is mouthing words, but there is no audio.

——TARGET ACQUIRED——

——ANALYZING TARGET——

Range: 1 Meters

Status: Unarmed

Astral/Magical Sensitivity: Confirmed

Running facial recognition: PRIORITY TARGET CONFIRMED

Race: Human

Gender: Female

Height: 2.3

Weight 30

Instructions: PRIORITIZE AND ELIMINATE TARGET

You see a rifle raise into view held by two battered looking mechanical arms. The rifle is aimed at the little girl.

——ALERT——

Re-Calculating strategic analysis.

Additional variables: Low munitions

Processing with additional variables.

Adjusting elimination method.

Elimination Method: Blunt force attack.

The rifle is rotated around in the mechanical hands, the arms are raised up. Behind the girl another figure springs into view

——ALERT——

Additional target detected

Range:  Hu0101010101010010101010010-000000000-0-0-0-0-0-$$@^(\*&@$)

You see the tattered patch with the letters 42 on the figures chest as slams into the viewpoint. The screen shakes and shudders and static washes over the screen in waves. The image is hard to follow, but there is clearly a struggle. The image stabilizes looking at smoke filled sky. The image slides back down to bring the scene into view. A man as standing between in front of the girl, one of arms hangs limply at his side and blood runs down his face, but he is holding his ground in front of the girl.

—ERROR—

Visual systems offline

—-REBOOTING —-

Visual system rebooting

Reboot complete

—ALERT—

Active engagement

Emergency threat assessment

——Emergency Analysis——

2 targets detected

——TARGETs ACQUIRED——

——ANALYZING TARGETS——

2 Targets detected

Target 1 Analysis: Threat level minimal

Target 2 Analysis: Threat level MODERATE

—Calculating—

Prioritize Target 2

Range: .1 Meters

The image snaps back just as the man is lunging forward, one of the arms whips up impossibly fast to bat him away as if he were the child, and the view slides back down to the rifle.

Instructions: Emergency elimination of targets authorized

Ammo conservation parameters: Deactivated

Energy conservation parameters: Deactivated

Instruction: Retrieve external weapons system

The image swivels back and forth and then fixes on the rifle at it’s feet. The rifle slides raises up as if grabbed an invisible force. The view slides back up following the rifle as it floats up and starts to rotate. The man comes into view again and is backing away with the girl positioned protectively behind himself. Another figure further has come into view further back from the man and the girl who is clutching a doll to her chest and has the blank look of shock on her face. The new figure appears to be struggling to stand but has their hand outstretched towards the unfolding scene with their fingers twirling in an arcane gesture. The twirling hand stops in a closed fist and the twirling rifle crumples and drops to the ground. The view follows the descent.

——ANALYZE WEAPON SYSTEM—-

External weapons systems status: Not functional

Internal systems systems status: Depleted

The view snaps back up and zooms in on the target in the background.

——TARGET ACQUIRED——

——ANALYZING TARGET——

Range: 20 Meters

Status: Unarmed

Astral/Magical Sensitivity: Confirmed

Running facial recognition: PRIORITY TARGET CONFIRMED

Race: Human

Gender: Female

Threat level - EXTREMELY HIGH

Instructions: PRIORITIZE AND ELIMINATE TARGET

The figure in the distance stands fully upright and parts the arms. The view jumps forward with a jarring quickness, and you see the arm come up and swing down on the man like a war hammer. He crumples under the blow and has most likely been instantly killed by the force of it. Astral tendrils reach up all around the girl, the man and the mechanical killer. It reaches out and grabs the little girl by the throat and lifts her up in the view. You can see the gears, gyros and inner workings of the automatons  hand cycling through the motions that cause the fingers to constrict on the Childs neck. The girls doll still dangles from her hand as the machine is about to break her neck. She seems to be holding onto it out of force of will as if she will be able to take it with her to the afterlife. The astral tendrils wrap, constrict and merge around everything and….

The figure in the distance brings their arms together in a clap, a wave of energy of indescribable and non existent color; which comes through the image as waves and threads of fabric through the image, surges out from the figure as they dissolve into astral and ethereal dust. The surge comes forward just as the hands are bout to snap the Childs neck.

END OF MEMORY BANK RECORDING