While listening to music on the way home after a grocery trip, I had a pretty good idea including Subject: 10-A-049.
49 was a robot during the Wystan program that didn’t get a power himself, but was just a sentient droid that took education by observing his surroundings. Seeing how humans had to armor themselves to protect their skin, he took the opportunity to create Subject: AB, which was a cyborg from both a human corpse and machine from Subject: 010. The monstrosity was able to kill another 10-A, but Soundboard was able to terminate the being.
49 eventually escaped Site: 006 during the termination order with a small group of infected 10-A which followed 49. Long story short, he eventually becomes a Foremaker with the help of the Foremaker of War and takes control of the Omnikrov Installation, or at least becomes one of the head executives.
He becomes the Foremaker of Technology, and later inherits the Foremaker of War and is now the Foremaker of Mechanical War. Although, how can a robot obtain a Foremaker ability when it can only be obtained by a living or biological being.
I thought of this concept. He’s actually a Perfectionists, or not one physically, but somehow gained a virus and got the memory of one.
Since the Perfectionists can’t procreate like most species, they are only created initially. Some want to achieve immortality, almost like the Prometheans in Halo, so some of them upload their consciousness to a digital server. Somehow, one of them managed to get to Earth like that. Maybe the virus was on the very ship that Subject: 009 was on and crash landed, causing the server to malfunction. 49 could have stumbled upon it at some point and ended up downloaded the consciousness of a Perfectionists.
He will then have split personalities where his own mind is against the new parasite, but since they both share common goals, it’s symbiotic.
Since the Perfectionists was damaged when the ship crashed, it didn’t have the exact same goals as a true Perfectionists, but since shared a mind with 49, instead of a perfect start over the known worlds, they wanted to just remove life altogether and create a utopia with machine.
Sadly, this never can fully work, since Cabenus and other Foremakers also exist and they can’t be killed so easily, so they work in secret to eventually kill everything, at one point, 49 has conflict with himself since this Perfectionist was from a biological origin.
He gets so powerful, that he will be able to control any electrical device across the entire known worlds, trying to hunt down any known threat. Maybe if I get to the third or fourth book, this will end up happening. Which means he can control the Architects without a key, the star titans, the current existing 10-As, and even machines beyond the known worlds.
He’ll eventually be killed, but not before summoning something that should have been long dead.
An interesting concept and would make great content for future stories.
