Some time ago, I used to frequent the WALL-E forum, mainly to debate parts of the film, such as what happens with WALL-E's memory at the end (I concluded that the chip replaced is a robot equivalent of a "heart", for several reasons). However, I did attempt to dabble in the world of fan writing a few times.
One of these was an idea I had for a prequel of sorts after reading about Laika and the Russian Space Dog program, and I tried to adapt their history for use somewhere in an RP, as well as to create a RP character based off Laika.
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BNL SPACE DOG PROGRAMMETowards the end of the 22nd century, BnL started to look at the possibilities of extending their outlook to the rest of the galaxy. However, at this point, none of their robots had been made to survey other areas other than Earth. And so a new initiative was begun. The "BnL Space D.O.G. (Designated Orientation Gatherer)" Programme was founded. Several bots, unlike any ever seen before, would be designed and made for special trips into the Kuiper Belt, where they would scan the area, make sure that it was safe for Starliners to travel through, and possibly even to search other planets.
The mission kicked off with LAI-KA (Landmass Assessment Inspector-Kuiper Anaylsis Class), who was sent to evaluate the area, in a plan dubbed "Operation Sputnik". Despite obtaining a few notes about the area, LAI-KA's ship malfunctioned and lost contact with base, and she was presumed destroyed.
After the failure of LAI-KA, BnL scientists focused on upgrading the technology of the other bots being made. The result was BEL-KA (Basic Explorative Learner-Kuiper Anaylsis Class), and an advanced version of the same model dubbed STREL-KA (Space Transit Recording Explorative Learner-Kuiper Anaylsis Class). The two were launched together into unexplored regions, and returned with sufficient information to help BnL draw up the plans for their early classes of Starliners; The Zephyrus Class.
The next mission planned to obtain information about how passengers, both organic and inorganic would tolerate a trip into space. For this, two new probes dubbed PCHYOL-KA and MUSH-KA were made to go on a test version of one of the Zephyrus ships. The mission started off well, with the technicians noticing a few errors in the gravity field that needed fixing. However, the Starliner didn't re-enter well, and PCHYOL-KA and MUSH-KA were destroyed in the failed landing. However, with trash levels rising, Starliner designs were needed, and fast.
Building on the failure of the last mission, the scientists at BnL worked on a back-up of MUSH-KA, and created CHERNUSH-KA, who would work with a fake human onboard to test safety, in lieu of the recent disaster. This mission worked perfectly, and the Zephyrus Class of BnL fleets were launched several months after the misison.
Later on, the specialised bot DOCH-KA did additional surveys, and was the first bot to scan a planet for life-forms. There was little need for the Space D.O.G. programme after this, as there were now safe spaceships. However, the scientists decided to conduct one last test, this time focusing beyond the Kuiper Belt, in case the need ever arose. Thus VETER-OK and UGOLY-OK (OK standing for Outside Kuiper Class) were made with a special class of spaceship, to see if any life was possible on other planets. The spaceship was launched, and the bots did not return for a while. After the scientists had given up hope, the bots returned, with enough information to construct the new Epiglottus Class of ships. At the same time as this, a splinter faction of the scientists announced their finished designs for a planet scanner, who could search for earth-like substances; The EVE model.
After the construction of the EVE probe, the Space D.O.G. programme was abandoned. The surviving bots were deactivated and placed in a museum of space travel, and the information they had gained used to design a new line of ships that would be bigger than any ever seen before. These ships would be needed, especially in the shadow of the recent trash crisis that had sprung up, prompting research to now be shifted to a Waste Allocation Division.
D.O.G. DESIGN
*The D.O.G.s can be separated into several different stages, judged by how they changed,
Class 1: LAI-KA, BEL-KA, and MUSH-KA
Class 2: PCHYOLKA and STREL-KA.
Class 3: ZVYOZDOCH-KA and CHERNUSH-KA.
Initially, BnL planned three robots to work together on the initial mission, these bots were the class one bots. Each bot covered a different area of information gathering, and each bot was made by a different set of scientists, resulting in differences between the three. However, unwilling to risk their entire stock of robots on the first day, LAI-KA was sent up alone. LAI-KA's ship malfunctioned in the Kuiper Belt and was presumed destroyed. After this, the three-bot team idea was abandoned, in favour of sending out two robots who would work together. Copies were then made of BEL-KA and MUSH-KA, and these were upgraded with new info following the LAI-KA findings. The scientists who had previously worked on LAI-KA were moved to build a newly designed bot, PCHYOLKA. BEL-KA's upgraded replica was finished around the same time as PCHYOLKA, and was dubbed STREL-KA, to indicate a superior difference from BEL-KA. Together, these updated bots made up the second class of space D.O.G. BEL-KA and STREL-KA were successfully launched, but when it came time for the next mission, MUSH-KA's upgrade was unfinished, and so she was teamed up with PCHYOL-KA and sent into space on a mockup of a starliner. The mission initially went well, but when it attempted to land, a self-destruct charge placed for human euthanisation (In case something went horribly wrong) and/or safety reasons (In case it would crash) promptly exploded. After this, changes were made to the self destruct system, so they could only be activated or deactivated by a ship's captain, or one of his security bots following his orders. It was also feared that some of the mission's malfunctions had occured due to the bot's differences in programming, and so the crew of each future ship launch was reduced to one bot. MUSH-KA's double was completed, and named CHERNUSH-KA, but after completion, she was upgraded so she could work alone, and so the programmers could incorporate more of their findings to her design. Hence the beginning of the third class. In addition, the scientists who had worked on LAI-KA and PCHYOL-KA completed their final model, DOCH-KA (Nicknamed ZVYOZ-DOCH-KA, the ZVYOZ made out of their initials. The nickname was a light-hearted addition, as judging by the record of their previous bots, none of them thought DOCH-KA would survive. This was not announced to the public, and was later published "officially" as a friendly nickname). CHERNUSH-KA and DOCH-KA's missions were successes, and DOCH-KA adopted her nickname as her actual name.
*PCHYOL-KA had a planned replica, but after the crash, the half-finished bot was scrapped, and its remains sent to the group who would later build EVE.
*The leader of the scientists on the EVE project named her EVE as "she was the first of her kind".
*Each D.O.G. shared the design of being able to compact itself into a heat-resistant cylinder with fold out limbs and head. In the earlier stages of the projects, these attached to the body, After malfunctions with STREL-KA that required limb replacement and neck cable repair, focus was shifted towards a magnetic approach, which was later implemented to the third class.
*The changes to the bots include:
Class 1: (Following loss of LAI-KA) Better shielding.
Class 2: More durable shape, sleeker design, change of head shape.
Class 3: Limbs and head made magnetised.
Class 4: (The OK bots) Storage containers inside bodies.
I have a design for the bots now, but they currently exist as bad scribblings on a scrunched up piece of paper.
Each bot looks like a cylinder, and can be stacked on their sides to save room. They have stripes on the side (Like Axiom bots), and a stylised BnL logo in the middle.
When all limbs are extended, they look like this. (The tail on the back was a sattelite dish for sending and receiving signals that was later discarded). The head can also semi-retract for easy/safe travel.
(Darn! My lousy ASCII art wouldn't load. You can see it
here, if you really need to.)
LAI-KA Details
Landmass
Assessment
Inspector
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Kuiper
Anaylsis Class
Designed before 2100, LAI-KA was one of the earliest designs for what would become the EVE model. Compact, with analysis equipment and an AI (Not as sophisticated as some bots, as it was fairly new at this point), LAI-KA was designed to be launched into unknown regions of space, to see if they were habitable for human life, or if anything could survive there. Thus the BnL "Space Dog" program was begun, starting with "Operation Sputnik". Part of the mission was a success, and some information about space habitability proved crucial to designing the future Starliners. However, a navigational problem in the spaceship housing LAI-KA resulted in the ship losing contact with the BnL headquarters. Operation Sputnik was deemed a failure, and LAI-KA presumed destroyed. LAI-KA was later forgotten by BnL in favour of later missions that succeeded, and the surviving bots of the missions immobilised in a museum.
However, LAI-KA proved more durable, and survived the disaster. Equipped with an early model of EVE's anti-gravity engine, LAI-KA was able to travel through space, charged by a built in power pack. Eventually, after more than 800 years of dancing through space, LAI-KA found her way to Earth's moon, which she inhabited for a while, later witnessing the landing of the Axiom, and the return of humanity. She then chose to return to Earth, and made the journey.
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The second thing I came up with was a parody of V For Vendetta, with the characters of WALL-E assuming the roles of the characters from V For Vendetta. I don't remember quite where I got the idea for this, but I wrote a plot outline for it, and later updated it to include a "W" version of "V"'s famous alliterative speech.
W For WastedThe date is Nov 5, 2827, the anniversary of the Axiom's landing. On earth, an unnamed city is ruled by a totalitarian government led by GO-4. One night, a young EVE probe makes her way through the city, to be attacked by GO-4's "Fingermen" (SECUR-T bots, with the Halt screen). She is rescued from them when a mysterious bot wearing a stylised Captain McCrea mask appears from nowhere, disarms the SECUR-Ts with several well-timed trash-cubes, and introduces himself as "W", mispronouncing her name in the process. He takes her with him to the top of a trash tower, and, to the tune of "Put On Your Sunday Clothes" sets off a bomb which completely destroys a BnL building.
The next day, EVE goes to work on the Axiom, where "W" turns up again, pretending to have a bomb, and uses the bridge computer to broadcast his message all over the Axiom and the nearby city. EVE helps him escape, and he takes her with him back to "The Shadow Gallery", a mysterious building full of knick-knacks from around the city. That night, he takes her security pass, and assassinates VAQ-M, one of the Axiom's figureheads known for talking trash.
Inspector M-O begins to investigate "W", with the help from his assistant L-T. Meanwhile, "W" recruits EVE to help him with the murder of BRL-A, a bot who is a high-ranking official and also a pervert. EVE tries to warn him, but "W" disposes of him as well. EVE escapes, and flees to the house of VN-GO, a comedian who works with her.
Inspector M-O takes the bodies of VAQ-M and BRL-A to a forensic lab, where D-FIB notices that each of the bodies were found with a plant in a boot on them. D-FIB flees home, as she is connected with them, before "W" presents her with a plant of her own. However, she regrets her actions, and "W" deactivates her peacefully.
Investigating the murder, M-O discovers D-FIB's diary from when she worked in the Repair Ward of the Axiom, which doesn't show up in any records. It is revealed that it was a secret hospital, where robots with personalities were experimented on with viruses for some reason, until the only robot that survived (a bot in room 5.5), destroyed the Repair Ward with an Rocket-Cannon and a fire extinguisher.
At VN-GO's house, he shows EVE his recent Axiom performance, involving GO-4 falling to his death from the Axiom's bridge, courtesy of "W". VN-GO is subsequently captured by HAN-S, head of GO-4's secret police. EVE is also captured in the chaos.
Finding herself in a Repair Ward of some kind, EVE is subjected to questions about "W". She is ready to give up, when she finds a note in her room telling the life of PR-T, a beautician bot who loved the other PR-T's she worked with, and who got sent to the Repair Ward when GO-4 took power. EVE faces her guards without fear, and emerges in the Shadow Gallery. She realises it was an elaborate hoax by "W", to help her become free like him. "W" takes her outside the Shadow Gallery, revealing it to be a truck on an abandoned motorway, and she dances in the rain.
Meanwhile, M-O's investigation discovers that GO-4 engineered a computer virus, using tests conducted in the Repair Ward, to decimate the robot population, and allow him to rule in a land of fear.
On the next Nov 5, the SECUR-T's are overthrown by rogue robots also wearing McCrea masks. "W" gets HAN-S to bring him GO-4, where he destroys him. HAN-S and "W" fight, and "W" deactivates HAN-S, but is wounded in the process by a taser.
EVE returns and discovers a fatally wounded "W", who shows her his truck, filled with dynamite, on an old underground motorway heading for the Axiom. He dies in her arms, and EVE places him on the truck. M-O appears, and attempts to stop EVE, but she activates the truck, and it heads towards the Axiom.
Returning to the motorway where "W's" truck once stood, EVE and M-O, and all the other rogue robots watch the Axiom explode, to the tune of "Put On Your Sunday Clothes".
* * * "W"'s Speech * * *
Welcome! Witness, a worthless waste worker, cast weirdly as both wretch and worm by the world wrought by Fate. This wrap which withholds my head from the wind, is a waypoint, a whisper of what once was, whose whereabouts are now wayward, wrecked and whitewashed without warning. A word to the wise, this strong-willed whiff of what was before, is willing to give his word of honour to wipe out the wretched windbags who wrested the wheel from the widespread!
<Burns a "W" with his laser on the wall>
The only warrant is wrath, a wrangle, held as what is needed, that shall one day write off the woes of the weak, worn-out and wearisome, and withdraw them from the wicked.
<Whoops with glee>
Woefully, these words are winding way away from their worth, so let me simply wish you a most wondrous weekend and you may warble to me the name "W".
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So yeah, it's kind of silly. But what do you think?
