Potential Story Plot???!!!

Can I ask what this is about?

HOW HAVE I BEEN SO BLIND?!?! :[

Your ideas are cool! I thought the first one would be good with a twist so I wrote an outline of it. Sorry, don't want to interfere but it just got me thinking.

The german scientist is alone in his fully automated bunker in a race against time. The enemy army is sieging the bunker and trying to break in to end his research! His nation is small and nearly defeated and so cannot win the war unless the Chassis project is successful.

The goal is to make an army of robots to fight back against the enemy. His final sacrifice will be to transfer his brain into one of the Chassis so his neural architecture can be copied ten thousand times, which will give them all a basic intelligence. His nation has poured a lot of resources in to this base, they only managed to finish it a couple of months ago, and he's working hard to finish the project. It has mines and fabrication plants and research labs, all automated, all fully functional. The only thing it needs to produce the robot army is for him to finish his research.

The scientist gets confused some times, he can't remember why he is doing this and wants to stop. His arms and legs get heavy. Then he goes and lies in his bunk and sleeps. After that he feels a lot better. It must just be stress, he tells himself. The clanking of his metal boots echo as he walks down the corridor, he doesn't bother to shower or shave anymore, who would care, he's the only human in the base.

The enemy army outside launches an attack. They throw themselves into the auto-guns which guard the base, desperately trying to disable them. He looks through a camera, in an attempt to trick the automated defences, some of the enemy army are wearing the uniforms of his own nation and trying to enter their security codes! He reprograms the computer to delete all the codes and consider all intruders hostile. The whole war rests on the outcome of this work and he can't let it be stopped.

He rushes to finish the work and transfer his brain as quickly as possible, which will activate an army of ten thousand Chassis to come surging out of the bunker and defeat the enemy. The next day the enemy attack again and they start to overwhelm the defences, thousands are dying but some are getting through. He is nearly finished. The Chassis are complete, he straps himself into the table for the automated operation. They're in the base now, rushing through the corridors towards the operating room. Just as the anaesthetic is about to be injected into him his old friend Klimt bursts through the door!

Klimt tells him that he is already in the Chassis! He looks down and sees that this is true. Klimt tells him that the war ended a long time ago and the scientist keeps going through this process. He does the research and builds a new army, then he transfers his brain but when he wakes up the transfer has damaged his brain and he's forgotten that he was successful. The Chassis army has left to fight in the war and so he sees the Chassis barracks are empty and desperately begins building a new army. The whole world's armies have united to stop him and this is their last chance, it took all of their resources to mount this one last attack. If they fail The Chassis will destroy every city on the planet, at first they only attacked the enemy but now, since the codes were changed, they are attacking everyone.

Klimt explains why the bunker is fully automated. That's The Chassis, they are the robots which are cleaning the base and mining and fighting to protect their leader. The base used to be full of people but the first wave of The Chassis killed them all and his degrading mind replaced all their functions with The Chassis.

The scientist is shocked, broken. How could this have happened. This is an absolute disaster. He's become a monster living in a base creating The Chassis which are smart enough to kill but not smart enough to stop killing. With each wave his brain is degrading and he forgets more and more of his humanity. He's becoming like The Chassis, existing only to produce more of themselves. Then the anaesthetic is injected by the automated surgeon and the blast doors close around the operating theatre.

The scientist wakes up in his bunk. The charging cable disconnects from his dome. His mechanical body swivels out of the bunk and stands up to it's full 10 feet. He goes to check on the Chassis barracks. Empty, waiting for him to build the army! He has to get to work right away. He feels like he's forgotten something, he's not sure what, if it's important it will come back to him. The automated construction and repair systems have just finished cleaning up the bunker, he knows it was only recently finished. He sees one of the cleaning bots scurry past carrying a beret that looked a lot like his old friend Klimt's.

The scientist thinks how he misses Klimt and how lonely it is working alone in an automated base. Still the war must be won!

Actually, that sounds cool!

I looked it up and turns out chassis means possibly:

Gestel, or Chassis. Theres also rumpf I think.

Then again you cant really trust google translate...


Oh boy, only if I could find SOMEBODY who knows some german to help me out!


Looking at you, @serialkillerthesheep

Gestell is fine maybe call it "Das Gestell" (the chassis)

I think there is a nice story there if he's not sure which he is. I think you want to start with a man in the Chassis on the run and he doesn't know who to trust. The military keep telling him that he is a scientist who chose to go into the Chassis and then forgot his history. However a hacker keeps telling him he was a homeless guy and they kidnapped him and tried to wipe his memory.

The story can then be about his high octane quest for truth. Does he surrender and join the military? Does he fight to bring them down? Does he try and outrun them and get away? Who would help a robot who tells them it's a human (or it was a human)? 

All interesting questions.

Thanks.

Thinking about that story I think a cool scene would be a dirty hobo robot trying to convince someone to give him some electricity and oil. "Please, I was a human, my name was ..., I got transferred into this body etc". Could be cool.