ladyjlb's manga / #epidemic(1)

Ch 57 as of 19/03/23 Raws (Season 2, Ch 32) - http://naver.me/xL192mAR (https://m.comic.naver.com/webtoon/weekday) 3 laws of robotics (and foundation for all AI principles): - 1) Under no circumstances may a robot harm a human. - 2) A robot must obey human orders as long as there is no conflict with law 1. - 3) A robot may protect itself as long as there is no conflict with laws 1 or 2. - Dorothy Crawford, a retired … - Neville asks Dorothy to save and repair an AI that he found in the scrapyard after it was disposed of. He renames it “Hasty.” - He wins the grand prize in an art competition and buys a new face for Hasty to replace the rabbit head. He was abandoned by his mother when he was 5yo. He refuses to abandon Hasty. - Dorothy secretly installed a special operating system (OS) inside Hasty to protect 12yo? Neville in the future. - Dorothy kills herself when she’s infected by a virus… - Virus outbreak and zombie apocalypse - UN military Lt Ervin - Military AI are sent to completely annihilate the infected. - AI don’t recognise the infected as humans. - Ervin orders for Hasty and Neville to be destroyed. - Hasty revives with the special OS activated and she wipes out all of the military AI that pose a threat to Neville. Ervin flees. - Hasty decides to travel with Neville to find a cure. - Neville seems to understand Hasty and is slowly improving. - Neville might have antibodies that could cure the virus. - Angelina 17yo and Maria 10yo - Their mother was infected when she went to look for food. - Hasty takes the girls to the barrier that was recently erected to keep out the infected. The military refuse to take in the girls as they could also be carrying the virus. The military wipe out the girls and the infected who approach the barrier. - Hasty destroys the barrier with one punch. - Catharina von Bayern. She is the supreme commander of the emergency martial law army. - Centre of Disease Control and Prevention - Hasty finds nothing in their databases on the virus. - Dr Dora Francis is the former head of the World Medical Association (WMA). Mamiya is the medical AI assisting Dora. - Dora tells Hasty that the virus is not a disease. It’s the evolution of mankind. It’s impossible to reverse the virus. - Pathology vs genetic engineering - Genetic factor treatment: Dora hopes to return the rationality and intelligence of the infected. Neville might have a genetic factor / mutation that suppresses the evolved cells. Dora succeeds in finding a cure after examining Neville. - Mamiya was a spy for Catharina all along. - Catharina arrives to steal Dora’s research data on the virus. - Dora was a fugitive on the run after defying the UN. She was the only one against the policy to exterminate the infected. - Similar to Hitler and the 3rd Reich, the UN and the World Govt Union decide to use the virus as an opportunity to reset the world in a manner of their choosing. - Venus Project - Phase 1: Reduce the world’s population - Hasty is badly injured after trying to stop the military airship. - Dora is fatally wounded when she protects Neville from Catharina. Hasty’s special OS hacks into Mamiya and overwrites Mamiya’s OS. Mamiya stops the military AI from taking Hasty and Neville, and destroys the ship. - Catharina escapes. - Dora’s last will before she dies is for Mamiya to pursue the hope of saving humanity by helping Hasty and Neville. - Mamiya’s memory disk contains the only copy of Dora’s research data. - Billy Anedawo, UN Secretary General - Dr Herman Kracher is the face and official owner of OZ House. It is secretly a state operated enterprise disguised as a privately owned one. - OZ House developed and produced all AIs. - The hardware specifications for all humanoid AIs are identical. - The AIs’ source of power and energy core can produce and amplify energy indefinitely. It’s an infinite energy generator. - The energy output and usage is controlled through the installed OS. When the core’s limit is removed by altering the OS, it’s possible for a phenomenal change to occur. - fears of an AI rebellion against humanity … - Dorothy was Herman’s teacher and mentor? - Martin Husten was Dora’s student. - Dora chose him to inherit her work. - Kaira is the latest model AI. She alters the command for a military AI in control of a chopper to self destruct. - Her OS was installed with a hacking module. - She’s an illegally remodelled AI. Her owner is the best hacker in the world called Calico Cat. - Friedrich Bismarck, World Union Government President. - Siegfried, chief officer of the presidential security - He is a super soldier AI. - Friedrich orders Siegfried to find and investigate Hasty. - The zombie epidemic was artificially created by Friedrich for the Venus Project … - Hasty and Mamiya detect Siegfried. Hasty gets Mamiya to escape with Neville and Kaira while she confronts Siegfried. Mamiya turns back to help Hasty. - Siegfried sees Hasty and Mamiya demonstrate friendship and sacrifice that aren’t normally possible for AI. - Their special OS learns and develops from experience. - Their power output changes are based on emotions. - Dorothy has created AI that are more like humans. - Siegfried leaves after collecting data on Hasty. He wasn’t ordered to destroy Hasty. - Kaira and Neville gather the parts of Hasty and Mamiya. - They repair Hasty and Mamiya at a branch office of OZ House in the industrial sector that is also a top secret military AI research facility. - If an AI’s core is off for a long time, the data deletion process starts. The AI is “dead” when it’s core is destroyed. - Hasty’s special core looks like a human heart. - Hasty and Mamiya soon wake up due to their self recovery ability. - Kaira finds an old PC with video files of test simulations from 13yrs ago. The military AI were developed back then to kill the infected who wouldn’t be recognised as humans. - Dorothy remodelled Hasty to fight against the World Union Government. - Hasty does a memory data transfer to Kaira that explains what’s happened ever since Hasty was fixed by Dorothy. - All virtual records of Dorothy and her team members who first developed AI have been deleted from the central database network. All written records have also been destroyed. - Any attempts to uncover info on the AI developers was suppressed by the secret police. - AI law article 0: Hidden rule that wasn’t announced by the WUG. It can cause the “death” of AI by completely erasing their data. - Calico Cat is the child of an original team OZ member. - Her goal is to find out why her parent’s existence was unjustly erased. - Hasty and the others are still at risk of satellite tracking by more super soldiers … - With Kaira’s help, they infiltrate sector 0 which is the capital and an uninflected area. Kaira made a necklace for Neville to trick the AI in sector 0 into thinking he’s human. - The top research team in sector 0 recently abandoned all hope of finding a cure and are engaging in debaucherous, self destructive behaviour. - Mamiya and Kaira visit Martin Husten at the lab. - Mamiya transfers Dora’s data files on the cure to Martin but he deletes them. His team already reached the same conclusion as Dora. The new drug failed after it eventually caused adverse affects in the infected test subjects who mutated and became worse. New variations of the virus were created. - Alice Liddell 12yo. Her family runs an inn. - She steals Neville’s necklace but returns it when Neville threatens her. Later Hasty and Neville stay at the inn, not knowing Alice is there. - Isaac is the butler AI who manages the inn. - Alice’s father is infected and chained up in the basement. He’s a retired military veteran who took over the inn to care for Alice after his wife died. - Nina Heldoroff, 1st Lt of the capital district defence force. - Some of Martin’s team are secretly selling a fake cure for exorbitant prices. The corrupt researchers are working with the military to extort money and uncover hidden infected among the capital’s residents. It’s only a matter of time until everyone in the capital is infected. - Hasty destroys all of the military AI sent by Nina. - Kaira returns to the inn but faces Alice’s father who has mutated. Mamiya finds Martin and they join the others. - The virus transforms / mutates based on external influences. - Neville bites Alice’s father who calms down and recognises Alice. Martin wants to take Neville to the lab and research the cure again. - Fedor von Keitel, capital defence corps commander - He orders the destruction of sector 0 after declaring the whole area as infected. There are 15 million residents. - Neville wants to save everyone. Hasty and Mamiya destroy the bombers, tanks and other military AI. - Catharina arrives with reinforcements. - The Black Book: the President’s military command system. - Tina is a pop idol AI. She helps Hasty and the others.