A group of four engineering scientists created the robo which they refer to as "the prototype", their names being Keiji Imahune (the head of the group), Gene Subskivix, Gerald Renstadt, Vance DeBlaum, and a fifth, less remembered one named Marto-Friggly. The robo was created for serving the purpose of the most powerful single-entity force, offensively and defensively, and to be used in the hands of a large military force of the time. Once they'd finished creating all parts that were to be used in conjunction with the robo, they came to realize how dangerous the robo could actually be should it go awry in its conscious state. So, in fear of such a possibility, they opt to take all of the parts and weapons they created for it and seal the weapons away in "temples" or different remote areas spread throughout the world, creating one large robot to guard each weapon, as well as many small robots to make the journey to the weapon chamber difficult. They seal away the less dangerous parts in safety devices (capsules,safes) and hide them throughout the temples/remote areas so that they never fall into the wrong hands... They seal the robo itself in a sort of stasis chamber that keeps it inactive, but would reactivate it in certain types of situations. Afterward the scientists break up and stow away to different locations, wandering the Earth as unknown souls away from society. They understand that the force they developed the robo for would only kill them if they were to see them at all, using the scientists' technologies and knowledge to safely retrieve the parts from the temples, reuniting them with the robo and ultimately awakening it. Several hundred years later, the laboratory that houses the stasis chamber the robo is in is crumbling to the ground because of a large war between humans and the scientists' abundant amounts of small (but dangerous) robots. The robots have gone awry by that time and escaped from their temples/remote areas, the chaos theory (the theory that supposed-to-be infinite loops will eventually be thrown off) taking effect on their looping guard routines and perimeter checks. They think the people they run into (as well as themselves) are inside the robot's assigned temple/remote area, and thus attack and kill the people. The stasis chamber's main computer, which performs consistent environment checks, senses danger in tremors caused by the war, and releases you. It is there that you awaken and begin your game, with an escape from the crumbling laboratory. Nine terminals will be spread out through the game in random isolated (but not too hard to find) rooms, information in every two from each scientist except one from Marto-Friggly. They explain what little they know about the nine secret weapons they've found or created and hint on how to get them and/or their required password (if they have one). These nine weapons are: X Shell, Space Flux, Space Flux Beta, Chip Beacon, Chewbacca, Chuck Norris, Oipi Parka, Reaverbot, and Twilight Sunset. SCIENTIST NAME WEAPON 1 WEAPON 2 -------------- -------- -------- Keiji Imahune Space Flux Beta Space Flux Gene Subskivix X Shell Reaverbot Gerald Renstadt Chip Beacon Twilight Sunset Vance DeBlaum Chewbacca Chuck Norris Marto-Friggly Oipi Parka NONE (or Tutorial Weapon) What might be said: Space Flux Beta - "I have discovered what seems to be a prototype weapon that has been left behind by an expired civilization. It utilizes a polarized antimatter core reactor to create fluxuations in the space around it, and form around it deadly deunified mimicks of a local energy form. This technology is very mysterious and powerful, though I can't seem to find a directory path for the prototype's systems to use it once it's been switched out..." Space Flux - "Finally! I have found what seems to be a full and final form of the mysterious space-fluxuational technology. Data scans show that it also contains a coordinatory directory path to the former incomplete version of the technology, which I discovered earlier. However, I fear for this being used in the wrong hands. I must seal it away the best I know how." X Shell - "A scan of this area rectifies that none of the alloys used to create these walls and floors are recognized. That would suggest that the objects in this area are from another time, and possibly even another universe. Especially interesting is this monochrome being and the strange technology he faces. They are as oblivious ghosts; I can not interact with them, and the being does not seem to see me. However, a very intricately detailed scan of them shows small similarities between them and the laser-based weapon which the team created for the prototype. These similarities may be significant enough to trigger some sort of reaction with the being." Reaverbot - "Date readouts on this ancient shell armor point to the fact that, its origins and the origins of the foreign technology I discovered earlier are in fact one in the same. The sole difference is a gap of several centuries, but they have come from the same universe." Chip Beacon - "Though further work on the prototype now seems futile, I feel that humankind will one day need the powers of our machine. Wouldst such a time come to be, I feel that it is my duty to develop a weapon modification that serves as an aid to the prototype, rather than a destructive force amongst the many others we scientists have created for it." Twilight Sunset - "It was here, in this mysterious black space where I planned to stay until my life met its end. It was also here that I felt - no, saw... I can not be sure what sense "it" encompassed, but the existence of an alter ego of this room, in eternal twilight, flashed through my mind. A horizon consisting of sillhouetted buildings - one distinct, a clocktower - and the codename of our prototype spinning in my mind then set into it. After this strange feeling subsided, I noticed through my Portable Local Arms Detection Interface a new technology alert. What strange properties this anomaly seemed to have, as if it were woven not with feasible data but with the essence of true twilight. I plan to study this phenomenon until my life reaches its untimely end, and perhaps ultimately incorporate it into some design..." Chewbacca - "Forget that Imahune and his followers, they can do as they like. But I am not under his control; he cannot force me to stop producing parts for the prototype, and therefore I won't. In fact, I'll put my own spin on the parts I create alone. I'll incorporate my own sphere-code system, separating the arms data into two parts that repel eachother via electromagnets that switch polarity when they touch. The only way to get the sphere-shaped enabler into the holster would be to fire it from a high-powered electrical charge cannon into the holster. Then one would have to use the corresponding character key to trigger the password sequence. Yes... Sure to keep Imahune and the others from interfering. Anyways, my first independent production shall be a tribute to my favorite intergalactic recruit from that ancient movie..." Chuck Norris - "I've had a revelation! I shall create the surely most powerful weapon in the history of mankind! I will incorporate its coordinatory directory path into my first independent creation. Also, the weapon data will be put into the sphere-code system of my previous creation. However, in order to attain this unmatched power, I must remember his name... The man from Walker Texas Ranger..." Oipi Parka - "HOOHoohoohoohoooo!! DeBlaum's sphere-code system will come in handy for this! I CALL IT THE OIPI PARKA! How fortunato-unfortunato I am to have created such a brilliantly inhabitual overcoat! It is almost too good to be true! Almost an opiate! This opiate Oipi Parka, it brings faces to the things we thought weren't organic...! Hm??? It seems to be spreading, oh my! Spreading fast, like a virus! These opiatic creatures need a home, one they can not get out of. Well that's not a problem!! Simply leave them in the cave I passed by on my way here, will I. I'll return for you, my Oipi Parka!" Tutorial Special Weapon (Maybe) - "Who would have thought I would dig out this piece of junk again... The initial test weapon for the prototype... Almost saved my life, but I'm afraid, not quite! HEEEEeeeeeeee, it seems that my own beautiful opiate creation backfired on me... Farewell then, I won't make it out alive..."