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Government to Begin Robotic Soldier Research
(ANNA) - Regensberg, Avadria

Today the government announced the start of a research program that would hope to yield a fully operational, humanoid warrior within fifteen to twenty years. The program will be a joint venture between Gelinka Heavy Manufacturing, Avadrian Royal Motorworks, the Ministry of Military Science, and the Ministry of Military Affairs. The Ministry of Military Science appointed robotics expert Doctor Zal Tremana to head the project. Gelinka was granted the exclusive contract to manufacture the robots upon their completion, while ARM will provide specific materials and aid in the research effort. The project as a whole is being funded by the Ministry of Military affairs who will be have exclusive use of the machine.

'Tetra Vaal' is what Doctor Tremana christened the group which consists of nearly 100 scientists, engineers, and technicians. Tremana has promised to give the government a fully working prototype in at least seven years, but ideally wants to have a final product almost five years before the deadline.

The robot will in no way serve as a replacement to the military's infantry, but will instead serve to police unstable lands under Avadrian control. There is the potential of a special unit in the army being created which would utilize the machines for high risk missions that could prove exceptionally dangerous to the average infantryman.

OOC: are you FT? If so, I could assist in construction of the robots.

ViZion is glad to see another nation who sees the benefit of such a program. ViZion is willing to aid you in engineering and production, if we have rights to produce and modify them as we see fit.

We have expertese in this field, as we have long since produced such robots, and continue to perfect them.

Thank you,

President Maybury

(I'm Modern Tech, the operational robots wouldn't be complete for another 15-20 years, so by then it would be Near Future Tech)

Ministry of Military Science

Although we are glad you are interested in the program, we do not wish to grant the rights to our machine to any foreign power at this time. A deal may be able to be struck out in the near future, but for the time being the project is to remain in Avadrian hands.

Tetra-Vaal Project Head,
Dr. Zal Tremana

((I might include a little jump into the future to actually progress this. 15-20 years is a very long time. I figure I can have my nation in two different, but not vastly different, points in time))

((I might include a little jump into the future to actually progress this. 15-20 years is a very long time. I figure I can have my nation in two different, but not vastly different, points in time))
OOC: well, you're looking at someone who RP's modern, future, and space tech, and use to also RP ancient/Roman times... ;) and, no, none of my 4, or 3 now, ViZion's are linked together...

OOC: Just so you know, robots generally aren't as good as human beings, the main thing being complexity... you'd need to design combat protocols to make sure they follow the orders/rules of war, algorithims for operation, not to mention the nightmare of control systems, etc...

OOC: Hey now, not every project the government undertakes is necessarily sucessful. But regardless, the machines are being made mostly to police and there are some advantages too. They will be explained in a video (Which is basically where I stole the idea from).