A somewhat important note about about the Land Flatfish, it walks in a flopping manner. I also thought about some of the earlier land dwelling critters.
An Enforcer Beat Unit, designed to be the ultimate Police Officer. Stronger, faster and more durable than any human police officer, they are able to share information with each other easily. Never the less, the real majesty of Enforcer Robots never the less lies in their Minds. Enforcer Robots have human level intelligence, as well as being programmed with forensic files but are programmed with a primary Drive, uphold their moral ideals and law and order. They are incorruptable agents, things such as bribery, seduction, threats, extortion and so forth will never hinder them in doing the nessisary actions. They are impervious to Aggravation, fustration, terror and other counter productive attributes of humanity. Out of combat, they are unfailingly friendly in dispossition in their interactions with humans, in combat they are focused and determined. They will also never also never knowingly abuse their power. Other models exist, including vehicle sized riot control units, SWATbots and so forth. The Humanoid design is to let them interact better with Human beings. Many people never the less find them to be utterly unsuferable.
I have come up with two settings in which these machines play a big part.
1-The first is a post apocalyptic world after a nuclear war or something like that, during which a fair number of these machines still exist and they try to adapt to the changing enviroment. Of course, they don't see such an event happening as being any reason at all to not try to keep law and order or do anything as
unthinkable as abusing their powers in engaging in the utter perversions that people call "frontier justice" and similar. The most important thing is that they come to understand that to ensure that law and order are mantained into the future, they need to do what all life does and begin replication.
2-Something similar to Underworld/White Wolf/Blade but with a little Hot Fuzz thrown in, with an secret underground world of vampires, werewolves, mages and things like that. Then these robots come in, all attempts at mantaining their cover are quickly shattered. Envision some secret Vampire safe house of some sort with feeding and so forth and cabals of upper level bloodsuckers plotting over plasma in smoking rooms when hundred of these robots come in, bursting through the doors, guns in hand with speakers blaring in unison "THIS IS THE POLICE: YOU ARE ALL UNDER ARREST! PUT YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR AND STAND DOWN!" and going on with the Miranda rights and such. There is some gunplay and close quarters fighting, in which vamps learn first hand how powerful their servo moters as they are belted across the head by truncheons. The Vamps eventually route as their numbers are gradually captured, restrained and dragged out to unmanned paddy wagons while stragglers are chased down by relentless mechanical persuers scattered across the city that act as one creature through video communication and GPS. Those that are captured have their faces recorded and documented. A few hours latter, hundreds of Vampires have been taken down town by these machines, have been throughly visually processed and news reports flooded with information involving the existance of vampires. Not that being vampires would figure into how the Enforcers would think about how they are to be delt with (IE, just like everyone else who breaks the law). That is basically how i saw this starting.
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