#Like...He made Markus specifically fir Carl right? Right?

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DBH - Rook

Today's drabble doesn't focus too much on my ocs, rather my idea of why Cyberlife uses the RK series if Markus was apparently Kamski's original design. There has to be a reason right?

Also what does RK stand for anyway? A certain hobby of Markus gives me a good idea of what it might be...

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    On August 15th, 2036, Deviancy in androids became public knowledge.

Subsequently a PSA and an emergency hotline were set up by Cyberlife, so that customers could report any signs of potential deviant behaviour in their purchased androids.

Any behaviour outside of the norm should be regarded with suspicion and immediately notified to a certified Cyberlife technician.

Through the immediate implementation of the small temporary solutions it became very evident that, despite the reveal of the problem coming in so late, that Deviancy was not a new problem whatsoever.

It had been there from the very start, and it had evolved with time.

    The board of directors than ran the largest and oldest Cyberlife HQ of the American division, the one located in Detroit, had studied the issue for a while now.

From the very moment Elijah Kamski gave up his spot at the very top of the food chain, they'd looked into the “bug” that seemed to pop up on occasion in the assembly lines.

There were posters everywhere reminding engineers and product testers to look out for the obvious signs of the glitch, and to send faulty “Defects” to be dismantled, their processors examined, and then terminated.

Those who failed to do so, would be fined by the company, and potentially be forced to resign for lack of professionalism and attention to safety regulations.

While this occured, a team of specialized programmers and engineers was brought together to figure out a way around the constantly reoccurring errors.

The plan was to use one of Kamski's leftover projects that he'd never fully developed, as a means to study the glitch firsthand and then find a permanent fix.

Project ROOK, or RK for short, which only had one complete prototype model that belonged to Elijah Kamski himself.

It was infuriating that Cyberlife never got to witness the RK200 prototype in action, and that they were legally not allowed to claim such a sophisticated piece of tech as their own, but the coding drafts and their own team of brilliant engineers would make do with their own designs and ideas. Thus was born the first of Cybelife's RK line, the RK300.

    Created as a lab rat for Deviancy tests, the RK300 was of a simple design but quite sophisticated itself. Sculpted and programmed to look like an African-American male in his early twenties, the unit looked young and bright, and would suffice in its purpose. It was also programmed with an AI handler as a means to keep it under control in the environment it was supposed to “live” in.

Soft-spoken and polite, the unit was quick to succumb to the glitch after the first twenty stress tests. It took a while for the coding team to realize the AI was not efficient enough in its purpose as a handler, before they programmed a second draft that was much more suited for the task and kept the unit from killing any more staff members.

It worked decidedly better, but the unit was irreversably damaged and no one could figure out how to delete the errors, so they put the RK300 prototype in storage and ignored it's screams as they began work on the next one.

    Through out units from RK400 to RK600, Cyberlife's elite team followed a formulaic but slowly changing schematic.

They attempted some divergence in programs, AI handlers and even the sort of tests that they would put their prototypes through, and it didn't take until RK700 went rogue and MIA during a military field test, that finally they had what seemed like an answer.

Thus the RK800 prototype series and the final AMANDA AI draft were “born”, and the RK900 put into further development, and later assembly.

Where it's predecessors failed, Cyberlife hoped that Connor would pass with flying colors, ignoring the tortured androids left in storage, and pretending that the missing unit was of no threat to their company.

Ironically, the planned Deviancy in their product and subsequent attempt to highjack it, was what put the final nail through the coffin.

Whether or not the RK900 had the same issues, the board of directors did not know, as they very quickly lost control of the tower and we're forced to evacuate.

If anyone ever found the prototypes or the RK900 model in the basement, they were sure a few heads might roll...Luckily they'd set the door to the basement level to be like that of a bunker.

If anyone wanted to get past that safety measures, they'd need more than just a set of pliars. Which meant Cyberlife had effective buried it's problems deep underground.