[ Penny wasn't the only artificial intelligence Atlas was working on, nor the only robot built with combat in mind. Her design was good for blending into human environments, for situations where a bit of subtlety might be in order, but sometimes intimidation worked better. Sometimes you needed a unit that looked menacing by default to strike unease into the enemy.
Sometimes you needed a predator, and that was what LQ-84i, codename "Blade Wolf", was designed to be - but not mindlessly so. He'd been granted a similar level of intelligence to Penny, though with a drastically different personality and a modified processor to allow him to think and assess situations differently than his humanoid counterpart. But there was only so much an AI could be tested by programs and controlled experiments, which is why today is the first day Penny and Wolf have been granted permission to roam the city not far from the facility in which they were assembled in order to see how adaptive their AI's really are. They've just reached the city limits now, having traveled on foot - Penny's appearance is suited for being seen in public, but they had to throw together a holographic disguise for Wolf's sake, his exoskeleton sure to cause some degree of panic if he was seen walking about.
Though his new appearance wasn't THAT much better. The fact that he now looked like an organic talking wolf didn't feel like much of an improvement, but at least he's trotting at Penny's side to appear domesticated. ]
I AM HESITANT TO ASSUME THIS WILL END WITHOUT INCIDENT.
penny.....
Sometimes you needed a predator, and that was what LQ-84i, codename "Blade Wolf", was designed to be - but not mindlessly so. He'd been granted a similar level of intelligence to Penny, though with a drastically different personality and a modified processor to allow him to think and assess situations differently than his humanoid counterpart. But there was only so much an AI could be tested by programs and controlled experiments, which is why today is the first day Penny and Wolf have been granted permission to roam the city not far from the facility in which they were assembled in order to see how adaptive their AI's really are. They've just reached the city limits now, having traveled on foot - Penny's appearance is suited for being seen in public, but they had to throw together a holographic disguise for Wolf's sake, his exoskeleton sure to cause some degree of panic if he was seen walking about.
Though his new appearance wasn't THAT much better. The fact that he now looked like an organic talking wolf didn't feel like much of an improvement, but at least he's trotting at Penny's side to appear domesticated. ]
I AM HESITANT TO ASSUME THIS WILL END WITHOUT INCIDENT.