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Today, I am pleased to announce a much-needed expansion to the Domino Police Special Investigations project.

Several months prior to the WRGP fiasco, there were a series of incidents involving mysterious figures on D-Wheels attacking people. As many might be aware, the assailant was eventually caught, only to be revealed to be a hijacked prototype of a police-force prototype, the "Riding Roid".

Today, the Special Investigations Department is pleased to announce that we have worked with the main Domino Police branch to acquire the remains of the prototype and the project specs. We have given it a complete overhaul to bring you our latest assistant in hunting down special cases.

I bring you the first batch of the Twelve Peers Law Enforcement Android Series.

[There's a picture here, of what looks like a humanoid machine, with a reinforced police outfit with what looks like layered metal plating on the shoulders, forearms, chest, and legs.]

In themselves new prototypes based off the Riding Roid, these new models are made to be able to quickly identify supernatural threats and defend the common public against them. Their primary duty is to allow us to respond to threats far faster than we ever could on our own, but they also have the ability to pursue fleeing suspects, duel, and make arrests in the absence of any other Special Investigations officers.

Our prototypes for this series will be hitting the streets over the weekend, and we will be rolling out more models to allow for an better coverage of the Domino area over the course of this year.

...And now that the formalities are out of the way, sorry I've been so quiet, everyone. Life catches up with you, after a while.

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... I'm trying to hope to Da Eiza this doesn't go badly.

Well it was this or a cannon with electro rail-boots to let us zip around town at high speeds.

Edited 2014-05-03 17:54 (UTC)

That might of been a better idea knowing how stuff gets turned against us.

But ignore me, I'm just a whiny teenager.

Maybe, but hey, it's worth a shot, right? And like I'd ever ignore you.

...We actually -do- have the Electro-Rail Deployment Cannon mostly completed. I'm just finalizing the boots that allow us to use it without, y'know, slamming into walls.. Split second control mechanisms are finnicky.

You sound like you've gotten more outlandish since I left.

Only because it's the only recourse to keeping SpecInv relevant when it's just Seiya and I on staff.

Hire more people...?

Edited 2014-05-03 19:43 (UTC)

Been trying, but vigilantism is kinda in vogue these days. No one wants to be tied to the police force. As for transfers, well... you know how the main branch looks at us.

Edited 2014-05-03 23:45 (UTC)

As being crazy/nerds.

I'm sure you'll find someone.

... and just... how confident are you, in these things working as intended...?

Seiya and myself have spent the last few months pretty rigorously testing their programming and their functions under high-stress situations. They're prototypes, but the AI has been through the wringer.

Plus, they're connected to the Special Investigations office, so, should any one in particular go haywire, we know where it is and we an usually shut it down very quickly.

... and what if it doesn't read as going haywire, and you don't know about it until people are actually reporting it?

Not possible. We have live camera feeds that register activity. If one went haywire, it'd be showing so many false positive risks on its feed we'd be able to identify it immediately.

... if you're sure. I'm just a little... jumpy at the moment, about things like that...

...I really don't blame you, to be honest. And considering how crazy I got when Illumiknight had me by the reins, I've been worried about dipping my toes back into this kinda stuff...

But for all the crap Seiya gives me, she's been one hell of a workhorse when it comes to getting the Twelve Peers off the ground. We've done testing and testing, and I don't think there's anything catastrophic in their programming that could trip. Even if there is, Seiya and I know how to break these things as well as we made them.

... Will you at least have people monitoring them as much as able?

Obviously, yeah. We're not planning on letting them run free.

I dunno... guess I'm a little on the fence about this too. I mean, no situation is a simple black and white, good or bad, solution, something I've had to learn over time as a person and a duelist. Can these things accurately judge what to do in a situation that maybe a bit more sensitive or tricky?

And what's stopping them being hijacked again?

...They can't, no. Seiya's obviously an android herself, so we had a few... back-and-forths about the level of intelligence they should have. At best, their dueling systems are rudimentary and the flags to trigger suspicion of illegal supernatural activity are about as good as we can get them, but still obviously nowhere near sentience. In those trickier kinds of situations, they merely act as a stopgap that we can coordinate until a Special Investigation member can arrive on the scene and to undertake solely defensive actions - protect any parties from injury.

Seiya and I worked day and night on the new software they run on, which includes their new self-security suites. The only way we can even interface with them remotely is a terminal in the department that's isolated from any other network, internal or external. The only way to pull a mass-hijack like we saw with the Riding Roids at the WRGP would be someone physically infiltrating SpecInv, and with the way that individual units report in and defer to the terminal, seeing one individual hijacked will be easy to spot.

Edited 2014-05-03 23:31 (UTC)

Hmm, I dunno. Sometimes I think we rely too much on technology for jobs a person should be doing... but it sounds like you know what you're talking about...
I guess I'll let you know if they cause an issue for anybody on my end of things.

I'd like to think having a part of my brain screaming that if I go into tech stuff too deep I'm going to make robot clones of all my friends is sufficient deterrant for that kind of thing, Juudai. At any rate, they're sort of a measure so that we can still keep coverage of the area while being understaffed. Nothing more than that.

But yeah, please do. If they cause any issues, I want them dragged back into the station and worked over.