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sadisticmooseThe setting of CHAPPiE isn't too far from the year 2015 in reality; the key difference, in Johannesburg, South Africa, at least, there's an exceptionally high crime rate. So high that the local authorities have turned to weapon's company Tetravaal to assist with their little problem.
The year is 2016; the year everything changes.
Primarily a weapons manufacturer, Tetravaal took a big step in attempting to win the contract; they brought in two engineers who specialised in two completely different fields, AI and neural robotic control. The aim was to provide a safe way for law enforcement to engage and react to the extreme and violent crime, something that current modern technology failed to provide. Tetravaal aimed to innovate and revolutionise the way Johannesburg Police dealt with threats, whilst minimising the loss of human life.
The main reason Johannesburg turned to Tetravaal is due to the extreme nature of the “crime” being committed in the city – It was all-out warfare.
Two projects won out for development; the Moose, a joint-US/AU/SA venture, a mobile weapon's platform controlled by a neural interface helmet worn by a human pilot. The aim was to intimidate and subdue with extensive firepower, but still have the morality and control of a human pilot, and the Tetravaal Scout, a human-sized, robust robot, powered by extremely intelligent AI.
The two teams, headed by Vincent Moore and Deon Wilson respectively, competed for the contract with the Johannesburg Police, with the Scout winning over the Moose for the convenience factor, the deployability, and the lack of requiring a trained human for the job.
The results were... phenominal. The Scouts performed amazingly well, earning the ire of the other project's team lead, Vincent.
The Scouts were the revolution that Tetravaal wanted; fully automated robotic policemen that can take the place of a human officer, enter more dangerous situations, and even protect their living counterparts. They were completely autonomous and secure, only being able to be updated via the Guardkey system.
Before the Scouts were rolled out, Johannesburg was a place where one could obtain RPGs, high quantities of illegal drugs, and people were shot and killed for giving as much as a passing glance. The streets were in anarchy, and the Scouts changed that.
As crime rates in Johannesburg plummeted, Tetravaal’s stock grew, marking the company as one to keep an eye on. As the Scouts proved their usefulness time and time again, interest started pouring in from other countries, such as the US and China, aiming to bring Scout Police Forces to their countries.
Safe to say, the robots changed the world as we know it, but Deon had his heart set on something more
Not fully satisfied with the development of the Scouts, Deon started coding a smart AI, an artificial intelligence capable of learning and developing like a human, except at an exponential rate. He finally managed to complete the coding, but this is where things start going wrong...
A gang of thieves and drug-dealers, Die Antwoord were in trouble from a failed drugs heist, and owed considerable damages to Hippo, one of Johannesburg's most feared gang leaders. In order to get the money, they come up with the idea of trying to shut down the Scouts, and manage to kidnap Deon, threatening to kill him if they don't give him a method to turn the robots off.
Panicked, Deon explains there's no way to do that, but he can give them another option; He had with him a broken Scout that he intended to test his new AI program on. So, with the gangster's permission, he builds up the Scout and loads up the AI...
...And creates a new form of life.
At first, the AI acts like a child, but swiftly learns... under the "care" of Die Antwoord. There's some conflict, however, as Yolandi, one of the ringleaders, is the only one who sees Scout 022, named Chappie, as a child. The others simply want to use him to perform a massive heist.
Deon, however, was adamant to try and teach Chappie morality, and to be a good person, to some success. Chappie was incredibly naieve, being in such an early stage of mental development, so was led pretty easily by Die Antwoord.
Meanwhile, Vincent, enraged at his creation being laughed at by the police chiefs and simply brushed to the side, enacted a plan to take revenge; By using a self-coded program, he aimed to steal the software Guardkey that enabled patching to the Scouts, load it into the network, and fry their CPUs and cause enough anarchy that the Moose would be their only solution.
He captured Chappie, who had the Guardkey installed in him, unaware that he was actually alive, initially believing that Deon must have just programmed him to be like a child, and forcibly removed the Guardkey from his headcasing. The reason that Chappie was so easily captured was because Ninja, another of Die Antwoord, decided that the robot wasn't learning fast enough, and left him to fend for himself in the anarchistic suburbs of Johannesburg, where the Scouts, being police robots, aren't exactly welcome.
Despite this, and Deon's express wish that Chappie not harm anyone, Die Antwoord eventually convince and condition Chappie to perform the heist that will get them the money to pay off Hippo and escape.
The night before, however, is when Vincent enacts his plan. With the Guardkey in hand, Vincent manages to knock out all of the Scouts with his software "update," Chappie included. He was lucky that he was with Deon at the time, who quickly carted him back to Tetravaal and reverted his firmware, wiping and quarantining the patch so it couldn't be wiped from the system. Vincent was in the hangar when Chappie was brought back to life, and discovered that Deon had created a fully-functioning artificial intelligence.
The second the Scouts started shutting down, the entire city erupted like a powder keg. Riots, looting, murder… everything. All bets were off. The situation escalated so quickly that the army reserves had to be called in to assist with just crowd control. The streets were on fire, and so was Tetravaal…
The next day, however, Vincent would get his chance to use the Moose.
Tetravaal was under a serious amount of strain from the police, as they had literally lost their first line. Desperate to try and save face, Michelle Bradley, Tetravaal CEO, authorised Vincent to take the Moose out into the streets to quell the violence and bring the rogue Scout back into line.
Since Chappie was the only Scout still active, news of the heist quickly spread. One of the police's own robots was being used to hold up an armoured car to steal the exorbitant amount of Rand needed to pay Hippo off.
The Moose, with Vincent at the helm, locates and wreaks havoc on the site where Die Antwoord and Chappie are holeing up, as Hippo has come for his prize... but this time, he wants Chappie. Deon, meanwhile, knowing that Vincent would be going after Chappie, raids the Tetravaal armoury and drives to save his creation.
The Moose tears through most of the human resistence it encounters, including the third Die Antwoord member, known as Amerika, and also Yolandi, before it's finally taken down by an explosive that was stuck in it earlier.
During the firefight, Deon got shot through the stomach and, in order to save his maker, Chappie needs to get to Tetravaal. After beating Vincent to a bloody pulp, to whom his last words are "I forgive you, bad man," he puts Deon in the Moose's control chair with the neural headset on.
Chappie, in order to prevent his own death due to his unchargeable battery, which he came up with after the unkeepable promise of a replacement Ninja made to Chappie to get his help, managed to compute and calculate living consciousness, and devised a way to transfer it from one body to another, robotic one.
Using the test Scout in the hangar, Chappie saves his maker, who then transfers Chappie's consciousness to a working Scout somewhere nearby. Narrowly missing discovery, Deon escapes through the ventilation and meets up with Chappie.
The last scene is Chappie hacking the Tetravaal production line and building a new body. One where they can, essentially, "restore" Yolandi from a backup of her consciousness Chappie took whilst testing his invention. Ironically, none of this could have happened without Vincent. It was his invention that was at the core of it, Chappie merely wrote the program that used it. The device that was designed to save lives actually ended up working…
The year is 2016; the year everything changes.
Primarily a weapons manufacturer, Tetravaal took a big step in attempting to win the contract; they brought in two engineers who specialised in two completely different fields, AI and neural robotic control. The aim was to provide a safe way for law enforcement to engage and react to the extreme and violent crime, something that current modern technology failed to provide. Tetravaal aimed to innovate and revolutionise the way Johannesburg Police dealt with threats, whilst minimising the loss of human life.
The main reason Johannesburg turned to Tetravaal is due to the extreme nature of the “crime” being committed in the city – It was all-out warfare.
Two projects won out for development; the Moose, a joint-US/AU/SA venture, a mobile weapon's platform controlled by a neural interface helmet worn by a human pilot. The aim was to intimidate and subdue with extensive firepower, but still have the morality and control of a human pilot, and the Tetravaal Scout, a human-sized, robust robot, powered by extremely intelligent AI.
The two teams, headed by Vincent Moore and Deon Wilson respectively, competed for the contract with the Johannesburg Police, with the Scout winning over the Moose for the convenience factor, the deployability, and the lack of requiring a trained human for the job.
The results were... phenominal. The Scouts performed amazingly well, earning the ire of the other project's team lead, Vincent.
The Scouts were the revolution that Tetravaal wanted; fully automated robotic policemen that can take the place of a human officer, enter more dangerous situations, and even protect their living counterparts. They were completely autonomous and secure, only being able to be updated via the Guardkey system.
Before the Scouts were rolled out, Johannesburg was a place where one could obtain RPGs, high quantities of illegal drugs, and people were shot and killed for giving as much as a passing glance. The streets were in anarchy, and the Scouts changed that.
As crime rates in Johannesburg plummeted, Tetravaal’s stock grew, marking the company as one to keep an eye on. As the Scouts proved their usefulness time and time again, interest started pouring in from other countries, such as the US and China, aiming to bring Scout Police Forces to their countries.
Safe to say, the robots changed the world as we know it, but Deon had his heart set on something more
Not fully satisfied with the development of the Scouts, Deon started coding a smart AI, an artificial intelligence capable of learning and developing like a human, except at an exponential rate. He finally managed to complete the coding, but this is where things start going wrong...
A gang of thieves and drug-dealers, Die Antwoord were in trouble from a failed drugs heist, and owed considerable damages to Hippo, one of Johannesburg's most feared gang leaders. In order to get the money, they come up with the idea of trying to shut down the Scouts, and manage to kidnap Deon, threatening to kill him if they don't give him a method to turn the robots off.
Panicked, Deon explains there's no way to do that, but he can give them another option; He had with him a broken Scout that he intended to test his new AI program on. So, with the gangster's permission, he builds up the Scout and loads up the AI...
...And creates a new form of life.
At first, the AI acts like a child, but swiftly learns... under the "care" of Die Antwoord. There's some conflict, however, as Yolandi, one of the ringleaders, is the only one who sees Scout 022, named Chappie, as a child. The others simply want to use him to perform a massive heist.
Deon, however, was adamant to try and teach Chappie morality, and to be a good person, to some success. Chappie was incredibly naieve, being in such an early stage of mental development, so was led pretty easily by Die Antwoord.
Meanwhile, Vincent, enraged at his creation being laughed at by the police chiefs and simply brushed to the side, enacted a plan to take revenge; By using a self-coded program, he aimed to steal the software Guardkey that enabled patching to the Scouts, load it into the network, and fry their CPUs and cause enough anarchy that the Moose would be their only solution.
He captured Chappie, who had the Guardkey installed in him, unaware that he was actually alive, initially believing that Deon must have just programmed him to be like a child, and forcibly removed the Guardkey from his headcasing. The reason that Chappie was so easily captured was because Ninja, another of Die Antwoord, decided that the robot wasn't learning fast enough, and left him to fend for himself in the anarchistic suburbs of Johannesburg, where the Scouts, being police robots, aren't exactly welcome.
Despite this, and Deon's express wish that Chappie not harm anyone, Die Antwoord eventually convince and condition Chappie to perform the heist that will get them the money to pay off Hippo and escape.
The night before, however, is when Vincent enacts his plan. With the Guardkey in hand, Vincent manages to knock out all of the Scouts with his software "update," Chappie included. He was lucky that he was with Deon at the time, who quickly carted him back to Tetravaal and reverted his firmware, wiping and quarantining the patch so it couldn't be wiped from the system. Vincent was in the hangar when Chappie was brought back to life, and discovered that Deon had created a fully-functioning artificial intelligence.
The second the Scouts started shutting down, the entire city erupted like a powder keg. Riots, looting, murder… everything. All bets were off. The situation escalated so quickly that the army reserves had to be called in to assist with just crowd control. The streets were on fire, and so was Tetravaal…
The next day, however, Vincent would get his chance to use the Moose.
Tetravaal was under a serious amount of strain from the police, as they had literally lost their first line. Desperate to try and save face, Michelle Bradley, Tetravaal CEO, authorised Vincent to take the Moose out into the streets to quell the violence and bring the rogue Scout back into line.
Since Chappie was the only Scout still active, news of the heist quickly spread. One of the police's own robots was being used to hold up an armoured car to steal the exorbitant amount of Rand needed to pay Hippo off.
The Moose, with Vincent at the helm, locates and wreaks havoc on the site where Die Antwoord and Chappie are holeing up, as Hippo has come for his prize... but this time, he wants Chappie. Deon, meanwhile, knowing that Vincent would be going after Chappie, raids the Tetravaal armoury and drives to save his creation.
The Moose tears through most of the human resistence it encounters, including the third Die Antwoord member, known as Amerika, and also Yolandi, before it's finally taken down by an explosive that was stuck in it earlier.
During the firefight, Deon got shot through the stomach and, in order to save his maker, Chappie needs to get to Tetravaal. After beating Vincent to a bloody pulp, to whom his last words are "I forgive you, bad man," he puts Deon in the Moose's control chair with the neural headset on.
Chappie, in order to prevent his own death due to his unchargeable battery, which he came up with after the unkeepable promise of a replacement Ninja made to Chappie to get his help, managed to compute and calculate living consciousness, and devised a way to transfer it from one body to another, robotic one.
Using the test Scout in the hangar, Chappie saves his maker, who then transfers Chappie's consciousness to a working Scout somewhere nearby. Narrowly missing discovery, Deon escapes through the ventilation and meets up with Chappie.
The last scene is Chappie hacking the Tetravaal production line and building a new body. One where they can, essentially, "restore" Yolandi from a backup of her consciousness Chappie took whilst testing his invention. Ironically, none of this could have happened without Vincent. It was his invention that was at the core of it, Chappie merely wrote the program that used it. The device that was designed to save lives actually ended up working…
