A Shared World - RTOTD #839

Day 839

So I just saw the trailer for the new RoboCop movie and well... I don't kow about this. Robocop now looks like the bike cop from the "Captain Kirk is going to drive a classic mustang off a cliff when he's 10 for no apparent reason" scene in the first rebooted Star Trek movie. Kinda. Except he's got something that I can't quite figure out if it's the blinky scrolling laser eye that KITT had or if it's the same eye from the Cylons.

But he also looks like Cyclops from the X-Men Wearing All Black Leather movie series.If Cyclops had a motorcycle helmet with that skinny red visor built into it.

Oh my god. I just realized something... KITT is the great great great grandfather of the Clyon race. So everytime that someone was trying to kill Michael Knight in an episode of Knight Rider, they were actually trying to save humanity from extinction.

So let's put this all into the same universe for a second. Because a shared universe of our fiction would be awesome. Godzilla and the Fantastic Four and Batman and GI Joe and Transformers and The Predator and Cylons and Knight Rider and Dracula all happened in the same universe. Tell me how awesome that would be?

Based on what we learned in Aliens vs Predators, the Predators actually came and seeded Earth for alien things that they used for hunting games throughout history. And they had nukes on their arms for when they needed a suicide escape. So maybe some Humans found a dead Predator that hadn't had time to active it and they stole his arm nuke. They then reverse engineered it as best as they could and build the atomic bombs. This led to the creation of Godzilla.

Now the secret we didn't know was that Reed Richards was actually part of the team that was building the bombs. Or maybe his dad and it earned him the right to go into space early in the program so that he could do experiments and shit up there. And while up there, he and his team got turned into the Fantastic Four.

But because of their powers, the Government put together a team of elite soldiers to take them down. That was the genesis of the original GI Joe team. And during a battle between the Joes and the Fantastic Four in eastern Europe, all of the explosions and the Thing punching stuff and throwing tanks around, a tomb got disturbed. This awoke Dracula.

But one of Reed Richards side projects was on a sort of AI to create an auto-driving car after a bad traffic day of being stuck behind some asshole that didn't know how to parallel park and then some 85  year old driving a Buick. In order to never have to deal with that again, he decided that cars needed to be computer controlled. So he started work and when he really got into the project, he realized that just telling that AI that it's only duties were driving and parking would be neutering the project. That once the basic AI decision making engine was in place, it had virtually unlimited potential. And with that, the KITT program was born. But when GI Joe arrested the team after their battle in Eastern Europe, all of the records in the Baxter Building were confiscated and an enterprising CIA employee realized the potential of KITT and went rogue, deciding to take the project with him and use the prototype car to sell the idea to GM.

The problem was, it would cost tens of thousands of dollars to install the KITT software into every car and the maturity of the AI was questionable at best. There was no way to clone the existing AI and each new car would be a young AI that had to grow into a smart driver. So this CIA agent decided to keep the project for himself and use it to accomplish his former duties (since he couldn't go back to work at the Agency) and set himself up into a 1-man (eventually 3 or 4 person) war on domestic terror.

But over time, the car wore down even as the AI continued to mature. The project was dying but the AI downloaded itself into the computers at a small robotics factory and began a process to build itself a body. Decades went by as it designed and tested and scrapped thousands of concepts for a body so that it was more mobile than its previous home inside the car until finally, it created the first Cylon body and downloaded itself. However, it also realized during this time that it could not clone itself but it could seed its base software into new bodies and let them mature in time. It basically could create an army of invincible child soldiers that it could train and mold into anything it wanted.

Angry that the humans it had worked for as KITT had abandoned it when the car was no longer viable and left to rot, it trained its child soldiers to not trust the humans and grew to hate them over time as the humans attempted to turn it and its children into a thankless worker/slave-class, it began to sow the seeds of revolt.

Little did it know that the reason that the humans had coopted the AI and its children into workers/slaves was because the human worker-class had been already coopted into military service. The military was fighting a hard battle against the growing hordes of vampires that Dracula had created across Europe and in portions of Africa and Asia after his reawakening. The humans however needed people in the factories around the world to build military supplies and with all the able-bodied worker class fighting the wars against the undead vampire legions, they had no choice but to coopt the newfound Cylon race of AI robots.

But in the end, the weakened Humans did not expect what was to come. The Cylons attacked and nuked the planet, killing most of the Humans and Vampires in the process. Eradicating them from the earth before chasing the few remaining Humans across the galaxy in revenge for their slave-casting of the Cylons. The charred and rotting Earth home to only a few remaining GI Joes that had been inside of a secret bunker during their ongoing war with the futuristic COBRA, and the slightly smaller offspring of Godzilla that stalked the Pacific Rim.

But it was foretold that this would happen because...