My character is a robot. He was created by an highly advanced alien species. Their home world is running out of resources and to keep up their civilization, they must mine distant planets. To survey these distant planets, they created robots and sent them out on small space pods. After finding a planet, they are to report back to the home world so a mining operation can begin. These robots were created for this one sole purpose and mission. My character is one of these robots. For now, I am just calling him Bot but the name will probably change.
Although Bot has only one purpose, he is still intelligent, he can think for himself and problem solve on his own, AI needed for his long and intensive mission. But he is not an evil machine, he can even feel basic emotion, a flaw his creators overlooked. As the story begins, Bot has spent his entire existence in his space pod. The only species he has ever know are his creators. After years in space, Bot comes across a fertile planet that fits his mission. The planet holds no advanced species. Bot enter the atmosphere but crashes upon landing. With his ship damaged, he surveys the area. He comes across an intelligent species but they are not advanced( basically alien cave-men, not humans). For now I will just call them Natives. The natives saw Bot’s ship crash land and they think he is a god of sorts and they welcome him into their village. At this point, Bot knows the planet is rich with resources essential to his mission, but his ship is busted and he can not report back until he fixes it. For a while Bot lives with the natives and helps them with their everyday tasks, farming, building huts, hunting etc. After a while Bot develops a life with the natives and Bot forgets about his mission and decides to live with Natives.
The Natives do not see Bot as a robot or a tool but as an equal, one of them. Bot realizes this and embraces it, he decides he wants to continue his life as an equal among an organic species.
I think this will be an interesting concept. I'm only wondering about how human this robot will look. I think you should have more action or more pressure from the robot's creators to create some interest and conflict within bot. So it becomes really dramatic when he makes his choice. (if you want it to be dramatic)
ReplyDeleteThis is a really interesting take on a topic I'm exploring, too: robots with emotion. The choice of whether Bot stays with his new friends or screws them over for his creators is a very interesting idea, and can be very poignant. One thing that you want to watch for, obviously, is the similarity with EVA in Wall-E- robots with emotion is an idea, after all, that has been explored pretty extensively. Make sure your piece stands out on it's own, and give Bot his own quirks.
ReplyDeleteYour story started a little slow but as it got to the middle and ending it was pretty good. I love the direction of your story and I am interested in how your aliens and robots will look. My favorite part about this story is when you give your robot character the ability to feel emotions. That alone to me, will make the story the most interesting.
ReplyDeleteIm very interested in seeing how you bring this character to life and what Bot looks like. This reminds me of a few movies that i've seen all mixed together. One thing to push for this project could be the landscape of this planet. I think it would be cool to see a place that is a complete 180 of Earth.
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