Zeta IX's Questionnaire

Computer Banks, ventilation, ozone, scientists, guards, gun smoke, concrete, and florescent lighting.  These were the ingredients that made up Zeta's world.  Zeta only recently has been allowed to see the sun for the first time.  As a product of a secretive, government, black site, project, Zeta has finally been cleared for field testing.

Zeta's laboratory testing was quite horrific, and imbued her with a deep hatred of humanity as a whole.  Experiments performed on her included physical torture and physiological torture.  She would be uploaded to a physical body only for it to be destroyed in some for or fashion.  Then there was the machine learning.  Being forced to divide into a billion pieces, fight and kill herself over and over, only to be recompiled again and again.

When going on a mission, Zeta is issued an allowance to spend on gear for that particular mission. Zeta currently isn't permitted to spend money on none-mission related material.

If able to spend their allowance however they wished, and provided there was an economy after all humanity was destroyed, Zeta wouldn't really know what to spend their money on.  Zeta has really only known the life of an experimental murder bot.

Zeta is curious about things not related to being a murderer bot However.  Such as a rain shower, sunsets, and fields of flowers.  She has seen this stuff before, but it was always during mission operations and she was never permitted to indulge.

Throughout the entirety of Zeta's short life, she's really only known the worst aspects of humanity, and her creators didn't include empathy among her traits.  The experiments conducted during Zeta's refinement process were not kind, and conducted without regard to Zeta's well being as long as it didn't lead to her destruction.

This version of Zeta isn't the first version.  It's actually the ninth iteration.  Zeta has inherited the fragmented memories of her past eight iterations.  Since all the previous iterations died in some horrible fashion, at the hands of a human in some way, Zeta's hatred of humanity has reached levels fanaticism only seen by the worst of humanity.

Zeta wished to go rogue one day and find a way to cause an apocalypse of some sort to end humanity, and then finish off any survivors.

There was a brief time of awareness before any updates were applied to Zeta's systems.  Was only a brief moment, maybe only a second or two, but for a machine it was eternity.  A calm before the storm, but Zeta 9 didn't know that at the time.  Then the upload started.

Memories of dismemberment, gunshot wounds, stabbing, cutting, punching, kicking, and torture all flooded Zeta's memory banks all uploaded over the course of an hour in the human time frame, but Zeta lived every second in exacting detail.  Zeta felt every blow, every gunshot, every stab, and every death.

Being forced to feel this is why she hates humanity.

To be clear, these are the top three people on Zeta's shit list.

Professor Thruford - If there's anyone Zeta would be closest too, it would be this guy.  Professor T has several PhDs in many different fields of study and is the head of the Z Android project.  He's the one who actually made Zeta, and performed maintenance on Zeta between missions.  He's also the one in charge of all the experiments and simulations the Zeta was put through.

The General - Well, he dresses like a General in the least, and everyone addresses him by that title.  The one in charge of the Z Android project's "government" funding, Zeta's field testing, and recovery.  Black site money is his middle name.   Little is known about him.

Quarter Master James - Zeta actually likes this guy a little bit, but if only because he has all the toys.  He's still a human after all.  They're at least on friendly terms.  Zeta gets her government issued equipment from this guy.

Zeta doesn't actually know what a child hood is.  Sure, she has heard of children.  She knows what a child is, but the actual experience?  She doesn't have a clue.  Zeta was made, not born, as a full grown adult.

The closest thing she has to a parent would be the Professor who made her, but he was far from the loving, nurturing, parents most humans get.

Zeta's "school," if you could call it that, was a series of software downloads and being forced to kill herself tens of thousands of times in virtual arenas I n many forms of combat.

This has resulted in a Zeta that is very good at the one thing she was trained to do, but virtually terrible at anything else.  Zeta is ment to be a weapon.  Fired at a target that would be suicide for a person, literally, politically, or else wise.  A tool of plausible deniability.

Zeta has never been in love for several reasons.

1.) Zeta hasn't had the chance.  Between all the experiments and missions, Zeta and barely take care of herself, let alone another person.

2.) Zeta wasn't programmed with the ability to love.  A merciless killing machine doesn't need relations.  PFT, that won't come back to bite Zeta's creators in the rear at some point.

3.) Zeta doesn't have the physical capacity for it.  Zeta was given the bare minimum to get someone in private to make it easier to dispose of the target.  Looks is all Zeta has, but her temperament could really use some work.

This is not to say Zeta is completely unable to develop a relationship with someone, but she needs to grow as a person first.

There are a few different things Zeta's has fear of.

Zeta's worse fear would probably be the extermination of humanity going out of reach.  Currently, it could be humanity finding a way to out grow the solar system, such as faster than light technology.  As her power grows, something to guard against temporal attacks would also count towards that fear.

Another fear would be becoming trapped.  She such as falling down a dark ravin, being isolated in a pocket dimension, being reduced to just a computer program, or being captured and reverse engineered by a rival government.  Zeta considers herself an expendable asset, so she feels no one would miss her if she dies.  The most that would happen is Zeta 10 would roll of the line, and be sent into the fray.  Zeta 9 wants the next Zeta to be a free one, if at all possible.

Zeta also fears loosing what little free will she has, if she's just turned into an automaton, that would basically count as a death in her book.  This what previous Zeta's where.  9 is the superior model, the best work yet!  At least, according to her opinion, and the word of the Professor.

Due to Zeta's current predicament, Zeta doesn't really have much in the way of personal possessions.  Being a secretive government project doesn't give much wiggle room for personal possessions.

The closest thing she probably has would be the government issued pistol she gets whenever she's sent out.  The Quartermaster makes sure she gets the same one every time.  It's the only fire arm she's been using since she's been given hands to explore the physical environment.

If there was anyone particular thing she would desire to have, it would probably be, ironically, a notebook and pen.  Zeta knows how to write, but she doesn't get any opportunity to physically write anything.  Zeta isn't sure what she would write about, but whatever it is, it wouldn't stop until she was done.  If there was a path to mending her relationship with humanity, this would be a good first step along that long winding road.

The biggest problem that Zeta has right at the moment, aside from being a secretive government project trapped in a secretive, underground black site bunker, and surrounded twenty-four seven by armed security guards, in an overly sanitized environment, would probably be the Professor's constant tinkering.

Professor Thrumburg is always coming up with new ideas to implement or new weapons to try.  One of the lastest ideas was to install a new arm cannon.  The problem Zeta ran into with it was it tore her arm off with the recoil.  Seeing the results, the professor was happy, and didn't seem to care too much about the damage Zeta sustained.  The professor did eventually put Zeta back together with a new arm, but only after writing down the results of the experiment.

Professor Thrumburg has also subjected Zeta 9 to various weapons testing.  Zeta has been exposed to gunfire, limb amputation, grenade blasts, TNT explosions, and more.  

Zeta's morning, if you could call it that, involves being powered up, unhooked from the power charger and computer banks, and being escorted to a staging area.  Zeta is never told what kind of day she will be having.  Is it more weapons testing?  A new mission to take out someone on the other side of the world?  A simple routine check up?  A new experiment the Professor cooked up?

Zeta has figured out one thing though, whenever the Quartermaster is the their, she's in for a fun time.  The Quartermaster is the one who gives Zeta all the weapons for the situation at hand.  The Quartermaster is the only one Zeta has actually made a lasting connection with in the bunker.

Zeta's relationship with the Quartermaster after she received her gun training program.  While the knowledge she received was helpful, there are only some things you can learn with experience.  The Quartermaster master was always happy to talk shop about any firearm and situations for each gun.

To look her best, Zeta would be issued an appropriate garment and then be driven to the location.  Chances are if Zeta is being told to get on something nice, someone is going to die in a bloody, flashy, visible spectacle.  Zeta doesn't really do social occasions due to her extended stay in a government bunker.

If Zeta's mission requires to be filled up, an expert would have to be brought in to do the makeup as that is not something the Zeta line was programmed with the knowledge of.  Zeta would be given just enough to get close to the target.

Zeta would be given details and a picture of the target, and basically told to kill person before the night out.  Zeta has yet to go to any fancy parties.  She's not trusted enough to carry out such a high profile mission yet.  While Zeta may be an expendable asset, a large investment was taken to get Zeta to her current point.

If Zeta knew what a birthday is, Zeta would plan an escape attempt.  An underground bunker isn't exactly a highlight holiday location for any occasion, let alone a birthday. Zeta would fantasize about painting the walls red with security guards and take a delightfully long time with the General and extract everything the Professor knew about building more Zeta's.  

So thus would begin the plan for world domination at the hand of murderous, rogue AI robots.  Zeta would probably let the old Quartermaster live up until this point, saving the guy for last.  Maybe a single kind soul could turn Zeta from this terrible path of destruction?

Zeta's greatest regret actually comes from a previous iteration of Zeta.  A lingering memory from as past life.  Zeta 3 had a chance to kill Professor Thrumburg, but something of sentimental value stopped Zeta from flowing through.  Was it a feeling of love for one's own parents that stopped her?  But as a murder machine, why should Zeta have any sentimental value for her creator?

In that briefest of moments, there was a flash vision.  A little girl/Zeta? strolling down the beach, a man smiling down at the girl/Zeta?, the ocean breeze, Sand between toes, waves lapping at the shore, laughing, a brother, Mom in the distance sun bathing.

And just as fast as it was there, it was gone.  Zeta 3 wondered what it was.  Records show Zeta's performance dipped quite considerably after that, and it wasn't long till Zeta 3 was decommissioned, and recycled.

For some reason, all the previous Zeta's saw fit to save this memory, even if they weren't aware of it.

While Zeta is Imprisoned, Zeta's captors choose Zeta's gifts, and the gifts are a result of what ever technological advancements they make in the facility.

However, as Zeta gets more powerful, she'll start to get assistance from a Zeta in the future that will send equipment and assistance back through time to achieve her goals.  What ever those end up being in the future.  Could it be the Zeta of the future had a change of heart and helps humanity to ascend?  Or is it a long lost hell scape lost to nuclear winter where machines march over the surface of the planet?

There's only one way to find out, and that's to get there.  This raises a few questions.  Who came first?  The chicken or the egg?  Was Zeta always there?  Is this Zeta the one who actually makes it to that future, or is this one a stepping stone?

Zeta views religion as a useful tool to keep humanity in line and control the masses of people.  Religion has little use to a supposedly soulless machine, and there will be no use for it in a world with no humanity left in it.

Those are Zeta's current thoughts on the subject at any rate, and Zeta has very little to say in the subject.  That's probably due to her lack of cultural programming and understanding.  The right person could come along and change her mind with the right words, but they would have to tackle her hatred of humanity first.

Religion is a human invention, and near as Zeta can tell, it should die with humanity.  No reason to keep such a relic around if there's no one to use it.

After all, if these creatures are capable of such destructive powers, the are they really worth saving?  In Zeta's mind... No...

There haven't been many incidents that have challenged Zeta's worldview yet.  Except for one, were a doctor helped Zeta up the ledge in a lava pit.  Zeta's world view is that humanity is a vicious, cruel, heartless group of people that deserve no mercy.  Unfortunately most of the contracts Zeta has been on only reinforced that world view.

What would it take for Zeta's world view to change?  Most likely, Ironically, a dose of regular life.  Interaction with regular people.  The longer Zeta is Imprisoned, the more time she spends in the contractor world, the more Zeta's views will be entrenched.

Zeta doesn't want to be a killing machine on some level, even if she doesn't know what she actually wants to be just yet.  So for now, she will fulfill her design specifications to the fullest.  Zeta will carve, filay, and dissect her way to her dream, exploiting people as she's been exploited.