Editing The Iron General

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Among those leading Protectorate troops, unusual individuals can be found.

For many years, Protectorate scientists were trying to create artificial intelligence; an important task for a military composed not only of human beings, but of computer-controlled robo-infantry as well. Robots have proven to be inexhaustible and exceptionally precise in their actions, but they could not compare with a well-experienced human in flexibility. Miniaturization was also an issue - a robotic skull could not reasonably house a computer advanced enough to rival a human brain.<br />
Built-in computers of robo-infantrymen can only handle the most basic of functions; tactical and strategical planning is handled by mobile command centers, connected to entire robo-regiments at once. Such centers were the ones to receive brain-comparable artificial intelligence, as that would give the Protectorate a significant advantage.
One such experimental center had an accident leading to the creation of a creature later dubbed the Iron General.

It was the First Wave, when Protectorate researchers were running field tests of new control center prototypes and unexpectedly encountered a similar group of imperial researchers who were likewise running field tests of a new weapon - a thunderstorm cannon, intended to counter robotic infantry by firing an electricity blast frying all electronics in a several hundred meters' radius.<br />
So it happened that such a shot scored a direct hit on a prototype control center. The multiple layers of shielding prevented the worst, but something occurred to it nonetheless.

The battle was, overall, a Protectorate victory; however, strange behaviours were observed in robotic forces commanded by the damaged center. Sometimes they pointlessly walked to and fro, but sometimes they would direct themselves to seemingly unwinnable fights - and win; more so, after the imperial forces started to flee, the robots pursued them, reached them, and massacred those about to surrender.

From the science team's viewpoint, the computer has undeniably gone insane. The project leaders were divided; some insisted that the malfunctioning device must be disassembled, some argued that this was a display of actual machine intelligence. The latter team won, and the Protectorate got its first and only sapient computer general.<br />
For the newly-dubbed Iron General, a state-of-the-art robotic body was built, able to house its mind and programs.

Unlike his comrades in arms, the Iron General is machinely calculative and inhumanly bloodthirsty. "Leave nobody alive" - such is his creed, fulfilled; he is known to have ordered an entire city's population killed for the sole reason of it not being possible to find the exact Empire spies within time constraints.<br />
For such "tics", he's also known as the Iron Death.

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