Ratchet Reloaded

[Ratchet]

Location - Culebra Smelter - Puerto Rico
"What is that!? And how much did it cost us?"
Ratchet looked up from his work and watched as Cesar Culebra walked into his workshop. "This my friend is the future of Sirius. The first step towards true AI."
Cesar frowned as he looked at the mass of circuits and wires contained in a metal humanoid form. "Ok and how does that help us?"
Ratchet smiled and waved his arms around, "Well this smelter here runs because us Junkers put a lot of time and love into keeping it up." As he spoke alarms sounded and the two looked at a display screen.
"Malfunction on number 3 again," Cesar sighed.
"See now Junkers have to fly over to number 3 and shut it down. Its time consuming to fly out there reboot the miner and fly back. And you know its going to be more complicated than that."
Cesar rose and eyebrow, "Well if I had more men the miner would not be automated. We tried some of the robots that Pittsburgh uses but those things cant"
Think, Ratchet added.
Yeah. They just do what they are programmed too. Like that stupid miner thats down half the time. Why it thinks it can drill a gas pocket is beyond me! Cesar looked down at the creation again. But I guess that leads us back to this thing.
Ratchet nodded "Yup. When he is done your manpower issues will be over. Hell it will be able to fly to where it needs to and make smart decisions on which areas have the best ore. A crew of these will be able to self diagnose problems and interact with us here back on the station. We are talking true AI."
Alright. How much is it going to cost us? Tech like this cant be cheap. I dont think liberty has robots this smart.
"Heh well the hard part was free," Ratchet said smiling.
Cesar frowned, "Where did you get this thing anyway?"
Ratchet walked over to a window and looked out. A CSV was heading out to fix the mining ship.
"Its an interesting story. But let me just say no one will track it back to you."

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PART 1 - <span style="color:#3333FF">Ratchet Reloaded</span>