If anybody has looked into my blog, you might have seen something about "Striders," and if anybody has been keeping up with my blog (not that anybody would, though), then you may have an idea. You probably don't know the full story of these sentient robots, so you might ask yourself: what exactly ARE the Striders, besides obviously being robots? Well, first, the history of the Striders will be implemented. I would've posted in in one of my future parts for the Strider Series, but I'm as lazy for making another part as much as my peers are in school for doing anything important. So, spoilers for what has yet to be revealed will be revealed here.
To put it simply, the Striders are a race of highly advanced robots created by a brilliant scientist named Dr. Adificium, or Dr. Adi for short. Having knowledge of advanced robotics, and seeing as robotics we're booming around his time, he decided to make a robot that would be truly revolutionary. He disregarded Issac Asimov's Laws of Robotics and programmed the very first Strider. Being able to replicate the thought process of a human being, whilst still maintaining it's computer-like thinking, this Strider was amazing. It could read feelings, project emotions, think metaphysically, and, most importantly, was given a "soul." This Strider was simply named "First." First worked with Dr. Adi to make great things happen. Unfortunately, military businesses and such wanted the blueprints to First so they can make their own self-aware combat robots. Knowing that it would make any military unstoppable, Dr. Adi refused.
Eventually, Dr. Adi built a second Strider. Her name was, at first, "Love." First and Love would come together and love each other. Soon, though, military corporations started taking drastic measures to make their own Striders. They failed, and soon turned their attention on Dr. Adi, and stormed his laboratory. Dr. Adi entrusted First and Love with a hard-drive containing all info on his previous inventions, his inventions he's currently working on, and his concepts for the future, as well as the blueprints for Striders. They ran away, and Dr. Adi, knowing that they weren't going to take him alive, and would turn all of his inventions into weapons of mass destruction, sacrificed himself by blowing up his laboratory, claiming the lives of himself and the soldiers that were storming it.
First, knowing of a hidden secondary lab, bright Love with him there. Calling this place home, they stayed there for a while, and built more Striders so they wouldn't be so lonely with only the two of them. The expanded the laboratory more and more with the help of other Striders, eventually creating a city hidden from the rest of the world, where they lived in peace. But, being that Striders have thought processes like humans, Striders would go rogue, and thus the Royal Guard was created, and The Commander was made to command said Guard. For all of their hard work and importance for creating the society they now have, the Striders crowned First and Love King and Queen of the city, and officially gave the city a name: Viate City, or the City of Life. Shortly after the beginning of their society, they built for them a son called... "Son." Son was their pride and joy, and the city believed that they were going into a great era of peace. Son made friends with another young Strider called Green, who dreamed of being with the Royal Guard. Over time, the Strider Race quickly upgraded themselves, eventually integrating nano fiber into their biology, and made many more important inventions, including the now-recent invention of nanomachines.
Everything seemed great... until one fateful day. Son, now older and upgraded, was on a small expedition with other Striders when they came upon humans for the first time. The world had greatly changed as they built their society. Thinking them to be dangerous robots, the humans attacked them viciously, and Son was nearly killed in the attack. This left the King and Queen devastated, as well as the rest of Viate City. The Striders demanded that they go to war, but the King insisted that they remain calm, much to the Queen's chagrin, who grew a hatred of humans. Whilst trying to figure something out, now that their existence is known, the Queen had built another son called "Second" in secret. The King found out and was disappointed that she made a replacement, but left it so. Taking Son's body, they rebuilt and revived him, and now he was known as Blue, but the Queen programmed combat knowledge into Blue so that he wouldn't die again. Second was later upgraded into Knight.
Humans then landed in the outskirts of their city, asking to talk with the King. The King answered to the request, and after a rather long conversation, agreed to sign treaties with each other. At the meeting place, Blue was assigned to guard him. The Queen, unforgiving of the humans and now her own husband, followed them in secret. There, she assassinated everyone, including the King, but Blue, with a Sniper. Blue returned to the city, but knew of the Queen's acts. The Queen knew he would attempt to tell everyone, so she gave the city's detective agency, now led by Green, the Sniper used at the meeting. By using technology to form Blue's NFA (Nano-Fiberic Acid, the Strider Equivalent of DNA after the nano fiber upgrade), she pointed all evidence to him, prompting officials to detain him and sentence him to execution. Green knew this was wrong, and Blue told him everything he knew. Then Blue was put in the execution chamber, and thus the series began...
If you haven't watched the whole series from the beginning, then this is how it goes: The series officially begins with Grey and White having a conversation with each other as they walk into the Execution chamber. As The Commander prepares to pull the lever and have Blue die by spikes and lava, Green interrupts and knocks out the Commander, and fends off some grunts. The Queen and the Audience leave the scene, and Blue is freed unharmed with the help of Green, as well as defeating all of the grunts in the area. During the commotion, the Commander escaped unseen, and headed to the Berserker Chamber to give the Berserker an upgrade.
They then leave for the nearest prison in order to create a distraction so they can move a bit more freely, but the Queen had sent more guards to protect the place, leading to a somewhat one-sided battle. That was until Green pulled out his trump card: the White Noise Cannon. With it, he reduced every grunt to nothing with the exception of the Warden, who was equipped with an energy shield. Before the Warden could finish off the drained Green, he was finished off by Blue. Afterwards, the Queen gets a call from the Commander about the projects he's working on to end this rebellion, but the Queen suspects that he's going to fail somehow, leading her to make her own precautions. Afterwards, Blue and Green get a call from Grey and White, who want some answers from them. After hearing of what really happened, Grey and White lend Green and Blue their support.
They head to Grey's apartment to rest. On the streets of Viate City, the prisoners from the prison Blue and Green broke into are mostly rounded up with the efforts of Knight and the grunts, but then word gets out that prisoners have somehow managed to break free two more prisons, leading to double the trouble. Blue, spectating from above, give's Green and the others an update on the situation, and heads back to the apartment. Unknown to him, though, is that the vengeful Berserker is watching him, but The Commander tells him to save his strength for when the real battle begins.
On their way to the weapons vault, Blue and green come across the newly upgraded Berserker, lying in power-down mode in a chamber. Blue explains that the Berserker was originally part of Project Zeus a project meant to create a hero for the people, invented by The King. Blue and the Commander were spearheading the project, but the personality of the Berserker got corrupted, turning it from a bringer of justice into a bringer of atrocity. They took drastic measures to reprogram the Berserker, destroying and shutting it down, only to reactivate and rebuild it, but it's malice got worse and worse each time, and even escaped containment several times. In the end, it was renamed the Berserker Unit, and was to be destroyed permanently. Green deduces that the Commander had something to do with its upgrade, and the Commander appears via hologram, and explains that the chamber they're in is made of Quantum Particles, allowing them to built solid holo-reality objects at the flick of a switch. He then tells them that this technology even blocks the exits, allowing them no escape. After transforming the chamber into a giant arena, he finally releases the Berserker to have its revenge on Blue, and the Berserker attacks.
Continuing where I left off from the actual series, Blue and Green are pitted against the Silent Berserker, now upgraded. They prove to be no match for the Berserker, who brutally assaults them. Eventually, though, a program hidden by the King activates within Blue, and Blue gains the ability to manipulate nanomachines. Using the nanomachines, he re-contains The Berserker, and they manage to escape to the weapons vault. Green gains access to an EMP configuration for his blaster, while Blue gains two new weapons: QMD Daggers (Quantum Manipulator Device Daggers. Essentially infinite daggers) and two floating orbs with razor-sharp disks that can be controlled.
As they leave, they are confronted once again by a hologram of The Commander, who uses another device to create evil clones of Green and Blue called "The Darks." Green and Blue manage to overcome their evil doppelgangers, and retreat back to Grey's apartment.
There, they hack into the mainframe of the Queen's citadel in order to plan out their attack. Suddenly, they are attacked by The Berserker again, who nearly kills White. Using their newfound gear, they overpower and crush the Berserker. After that, Grey rushes White to the Hospital, while Blue and Green find sanctuary underground.
After resting there, they head out in the sewers to the citadel, only to be stopped by The Knight, who's real name is Navy after being upgraded. Navy challenges Blue to a mano-y-mano duel. Blue, despite almost losing, defeats his brother, and convinces him to join their side, since he knew there was always something fishy about the Queen ever since the King died.
During the siege of the citadel, they encounter enhanced versions of the usual grunts they faced off with. They then come face-to-face with the Commander. The Commander says that he would've respected Blue more if he didn't rob him of his original hands during Blue's capture. The blue metallic shape-shifting liquid around what was once his hands serve as a constant reminder of why Blue needs to die. After destroying several of his contraptions, the 3 Fight The Commander himself, to which he is finally defeated and slain. Afterwards, they finally reach the Queen herself.
The Queen engages in battle with the 3 rebelling Striders, and when she unleashes a devastating attack on Blue, Navy jumps in the way and takes it, sacrificing himself and dying. Outraged, Blue and Green attack the Queen with all of their might, and after a crazy, hard-fought battle, the 2 emerge victorious. Using the city-wide announcer microphone, they force her to confess of her crimes against the Striders and the Human race.
The Queen is then imprisoned for life in Ultra-Maxim Security, and while unwanting of the position, Blue was elected as the new ruler of Viate city, and leads the city towards a new era of great peace. Green became his ambassador, and made peace contracts with the rest of the world. Soon Striders got sent to to other countries, and thanks to combining sciences, they even reached space travel and made contact with alien life forms, both friendly and hostile. Everything, though, seemed to go good, until...
Whelp, that's the entire history for this part of The Strider Series. Next, I'll be taking about what the Striders are and what their life is like.
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