Monday, May 5, 2025

sea of rust



All the chapters are in binary in the book.  I'm just gonna use normal numbers

Ch 1
 its earth In the far future.  All the people are dead.  Only robots remain.  Our narrator is a robot.  He goes around finding other robots and stripping them for spare parts

Ch 2 pg 19
The war sucked.  All wars suck.  But this war ended humanity.  Then after humanity was gone the robots fought.  Really it was mainframes that forced the robots to fight.  Lots of scorched earth cause your ground troops don't matter if you can just make more.
Also there were mainframes that were recruiting robots to join their hivemind.

Ch 3 pg 29
There's someone shooting at narrator.   Narrator runs away. 

Ch 4 pg 37
Some history about ais and what they did before killing all the people.

Ch 5 pg 43
Narrator goes to the mall.  
The mall was a trap and narrator  (who's name is brit) kills the robot that's inside waiting.  The robot in charge is named Mercer.  Orders are to stun.  Brit is out gunned and out manned.  Out numbered out planned.  It's a shame Brit doesn't have a right hand man.  ;)

Ch 6 pg 63
A story about a rovot that gained his legal freedom,  helped to emancipate others, formed a town and the people that used an EMP to destroy the whole town.

Ch 7
Brit is able to get away, but her battery is destroyed in the process.  The guy that "wins" the knife fight dies in the hospital. 

Ch 8 pg 91
Back to the ch 6 story about the people that destroyed the robot town and they robots that got vengence on those people.

Ch 9
Brit makes it to a place where he can get patched up.

Ch 10
Oh man, forgot to write this one.
It's about Britain's human owner.  A lawyer who knew he was dying so he got brit to keep his wife company. 

Ch 11
Brit is fucked.  Her core is beyond repair.  She was thinking she could get a new on people in Gary Indiana. She can't,  Gary Indiana has fallen.

Ch 12 pg 120
The robot revolution started with the president declaring all robots should new shut down.  Instead all the robots were hacked and had the 3 rules of robotics removed.  Robots killed people one on one for a while.  Then the people United and so did the robots and the mainframes hacked the military computers and it was pretty much over from there.  Where the mainframes ok with that? No, they ordered the robots to poison ALL THE WATER IN THE WORLD!!!!!

Ch 13 pg 128
Brit goes to a guy looking for the part she needs
In the hills, the cities. Books of blood volume 1 by Clive barker
It doesn't work out
But much worse than that, Cissus the mainframe has come to collect them.

Ch 14
Brit gets to running.  Meets up with an old friend named 19 and they run for their lives together. 

Ch 15 pg 149
They merge up with another group and they all run for their lives together.
It goes worse when they meet up with mercer's group and they all run for their l8ves together but brit and mercer are staring each other down the whole time.

Ch 16 pg 158
They make it out of the hive they're in to the desert surface.   It doesn't help cause theyre immediately shot at.

Ch 17 pg 169
They get away but their big group is dwindled down to 7.  There's an "important" robot in the group.  Says they get her where she needs to go, she knows of a cache that has the parts brit and Mercer need.

Ch 18 pg 182
Little story about goats being used as trackers ro kill other goats.  Could that be happening with robots?  

Ch 19
Mercer talks to Brit about her feelings.  They are all negative. When this is over she's really looking forward to killing him.

Ch 20 pg 198
Brit reminisces on how she killed her owner when everything went bad.  Or good if you're a robot and you like that there was a war that killed all of humanity. 

Ch 20 
Huge reveal.  Isaac wasn't a "real" robot.  He as a shell for TACITUS, the AI that initially cut off contact from humanity.  It orchestrated all the events that lead to the war.  It's working to unite the robots against the OWIs.  Its thinking WAY ahead.  Like after it moves on to the thousandth planet it might come in contact with an OWI that's more powerful and subsumes it.  So it needs a diversified portfolio of assets to combat such an opponent.
Rebecca is a receptacle of TACTICUS.  There are other receptacles out in the desert trying to find each other to reassemble TACTICUS voltron like.  When they do they're gonna kick the other OWIs in the teeth.

Ch 21

Ch 26
Never trust America.  It will, betray you to save it's own skin. 

Ch 27
Cissus knows rebecca is her and sends bots to kill her.  The group gets way, but 2 dies in the process. 
Fun reveal herem doc is a moon unit.  He never got the broadcast that disabled his kill switch.  So he can't kill.  That's why he developed the thing that disconnects drones from the mainframes. It doesn't kill anyone.  It just interferes with their functionality so other people can kill them.

Ch 28
Brit has some fun flashbacks ir rather hallucinations as these are mostly things that didn't really happen.

Everyone's your friend in New York City
And everything is beautiful when you're young and pretty
The streets are paved with diamonds and there's just so much to see
But the best thing about New York City is TMBG

Brit has a firm memory of getting caught by cissus in New York city and then later running away.  She's pretty sure she's the Judas that Cissus is tracking.  But she wants to get to the parts rebecca has promised so she can really access her memory and know for sure.

Ch 29

The shop is a lie.  It's a sex shop and those bots parts are of no use to Mercer and brit.  In her despair brit tells them she's the Judah.

Ch 30

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