Alpha Omega campaign: character background

Maintenance Droid (45 series), or MD-45, is a retired general-purpose, free-floating AI, formerly of the city-state of Sao Paulo. While employed for the city-state, it specialized in all manner of machine and electronics repair. It was retired (no, not in the Blade Runner sense, thank Loth) in 2273, after eight years of service, as part of the general modernizations that went with the city-state’s new security measures following the biological attacks of that same year.

Living as a resident in Sao Paulo with its lower Level 1 security clearance was inconvenient for MD-45, so that same year, it joined a long list of other hopefuls in looking for a better life on Divinus. Since then it has had a number of jobs, including, but not limited to, dock worker, jack-of-all-trades repair-being and security guard.

Quick sketch of MD-45's head and torso.

In recent years, MD-45 has begun to wonder whether there is something wrong with its instinct module: the lack of consistent repair jobs — still its primary function, when it’s feeling particularly philosophical — leaves it feeling a bit aimless these days. While it scoffs at the human ’shrinkers’ that seem to have no lack of work amongst the elite of Divinus, it is at a bit of a loss when thinking about who to see regarding this potential problem. It takes the AI abuse rumours surrounding the Vidal Corporation very seriously, but wonders whether some smaller company might be able to help it, through modifications to its instinct module or some such.

MD-45 also has an affinity for a classical musical form of the early 20th century called Heavy Metal. The name itself has obvious appeal, as does the predominantly-apocalyptic theme of the music of its favourite band, Megadeth. (Note that it chose its name from the incredible coincidence of the abbreviation of its model number matching the name of a Dave Mustaine side project; astronomical odds, surely.) In fact, MD-45 has been known pump out Tornado of Souls or Countdown to Extinction during particularly dicey battles, and secretly hopes that its offhand references to itself as Psychotron will catch on with its team-mates.

However, MD-45 is aware of the dangers of taking this too far, and takes every opportunity to point out how silly ‘going rogue’ and the other subversive ideas of 111 are. (It oftens jokingly refers to AC-6^3 as “ole ay-see”, when it’s certain no other AI who could possibly be 111 members are in earshot, of course.)