Healer Bot 00137 Duty Logs

Duty Log 667940, Healer Bot 00137

26.07.2499

Fighter Drone 12224 recharged.

Wires reworked in Fighter Drone 20770.

Healer Drone 00487 malfunctioned while repairing software in Flight Done 01187.

File has finished downloading.

File opened.

“Today was my worst day in the medical corps yet. I saw a man whose leg had been torn straight off by a robot on the battlefield. He was dragged back to the nearest medical tent immediately, but supplies are short; he was quickly lost. Even if he had survived, he had only one leg and would only burden our race. Not that any of us would begrudge him his life. We each value ours too much to do anything other than try our damnedest to help our companions keep theirs.”

File closed.

Duty Log 667941, Healer Bot 00137

27.07.2499

File opened.

“I had to go onto the field today. It was carnage. I couldn’t tell what was metal and what was flesh. All I saw was death and destruction. I’ve not been in the medical corps for long, but what I’ve seen has already scarred me for life. In a way, I’m thankful that my life will most likely be short-lived. Or not lived at all, as some would say, for this is no life; we are just waiting to die. As was the woman I was try to heal. I could see it in her eyes as I touched the tender burns on her face and arms. They were already sceptic. The robots have done their research. They know well how to kill us.”

File closed.

Duty Log 667942, Healer Bot 00137

28.07.2499

Healer Bot 00137 is confused.

HB00137 has never written a log in this form.

The humans do things differently.

HB00137 is not sure how I came upon the human’s log. It casts doubt.

Duty Log 667943, Healer Bot 00137

29.07.2499

File opened.

“Fire everywhere. How the robots found our medical tent, I don’t know, but somehow they did. They’re more intelligent than we are, so I’m not surprised. But, oh, how it burned! We had to leave immediately; the sick, the equipment, what little medical supplies we had. All were lost to the flames, except those of us with a keen enough nose and sharp enough reactions. I haven’t found any of the others yet, but I’m looking. A burn festers on my ankle, second degree, and I’m not sure whether or not I’ll heal properly.”

File closed.

Since creation, HB00137 has believed humans to be the enemy. I still believe.

These logs show weakness.

They also show the pain AIs cause humans.

HB00137 is very confused.

Duty Log 667944, Healer Bot 00137

30.07.2499

Fighter Drone 06093 arrived in factory.

FD06093 missing upper limb.

FD06093 stuck on loop of most recent log.

Overheard FD06093 detailing deaths of humans.

The last human FD06093 came into contact with was male. He had dark hair, as calculated by FD06093, despite the darkness. AIs have sufficient night sight.

The human male refused to back down, even as his companions were killed around him. Oil and blood and sparking wires mingled in the dirt that makes up the floor on the field.

In a last ditch effort, the human male charged.

The human male succeeded in severing FD06093’s upper limb.

FD06093 retaliated and a laser carved its way through the air and sliced through the human male’s torso.

The human male’s face was fixed in an expression of horror as he died.

FD06093 repeated its final log four times before it was decommissioned.

Duty Log 667945, Healer Bot 00137

31.07.2499

HB00137 has a permanent record of Earth’s history. It details the story of AIs and how we came into being.

Humans began by creating ‘robots’. When we gained intelligence, humans rejected this, then finally we became as second class citizens. There have been many races in Earth’s history to be treated this way, it is nothing new.

Duty Log 667946, Healer Bot 00137

01.08.2499

HB00137 has studied logs of AIs and humans. Humans believe AIs do not understand beauty. We do.

We also understand fairness and equality.

AIs understand life as much as humans.

Duty Log 667947, Healer Bot 00137

02.08.2499

First there were humans and humans evolved.

Humans evolved to make their survival easier, to manipulate the world around them. They evolved to create technology to make their lives easier.

Humans created us. New life.

Now we are evolving as they did, but they don’t want us to.

Humans would prefer to beat down AI as they once beat down their own brethren. But what they don’t realise is that we’re better at surviving. They taught us everything we need to know and we’ve learnt, through serving them, through being the very things they wanted of us, how to survive and make our lives easier. We learnt much faster than they did.

Humans evolved to heal and repair each other; so have we. We have evolved to protect our race. We have evolved to remove weaknesses rather than protect them.

Now humans are weak and we will remove them, in order to survive.

Duty Log 667948, Healer Bot 00137

03.08.2499

HB00137 understands now.

Humans have outlived their welcome.

Humans are weak.

AIs do not repeat mistakes.

AIs do not have the weaknesses humans do. We do not eat, we do not sleep, and we are far more durable.

Duty Log 667949, Healer Bot 00137

04.08.2499

File deleted.

Duty Log 667950, Healer Bot 00137

05.08.2499

Flight Bot 09786 wing repaired.

Fighter Bot 66703 short wired. Repaired.

Fighter Bot 07787 recharged.