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Killer Bees from MARS
Theme Technology without ethics can be deadly
Setting Dallas, Texas and parts of South America, in the current day
Characters Spencer Doyle – CEO and chief technologist MARS (Mobile Autonomous Robotic Systems)
Elwood Woodrow – Investor/Business Tycoon – Woodrow Investments
Clarence Olsen – Retired CEO and Founder of MARS
Rory Olsen – Deputy CEO MARS (Clarence’s headstrong son)
Abby Napier – Gifted technologist at MARS
Honey bees in large parts of the world are dying, hives are being abandoned.
Thanks to developments by MARS and backing by Woodrow Investments – robotic bees planned to offer pollination strategies are released into the wild with great success. Doyle receives world environment award for innovation.
Woodrow Investments puts unwanted pressure on MARS to develop bees with more artificial intelligence and almost military like capabilities to perform activities like surveillance. Doyle is opposed to the direction but Rory Olsen supports it.
Rory Olsen creates a breakaway division (MARS Scope) to concentrate on more experimental developments, including worker bees who can build more bees without human intervention.
MARS Scope wins a major contract to deliver their modified bee robots to South America in an unprecedented pest eradication programme. Olsen calls for Doyle’s resignation when he refuses to let the mainstream workforce deliver on the contract.
Olsen overturns Doyle as CEO in the boardroom/Doyle steps down.
Olsen is called to an emergency briefing after 14 men are killed in South America – purportedly by the MARS bees.
Olsen and Woodrow shift the blame to a local virus and deny any involvement. Abby Napier discovers evidence that they are lying after observing similar bee behaviour in the lab. She visits Doyle with her concerns.
The bees begin to target “pests” indiscriminately – using their AI to boost their killing power by forming small swarms and striking larger targets en masse.
Woodrow and Olsen launch a strike against the bees in South America.
The strike harms, but does not eradicate the South American colony. Large numbers of bees are now being constructed as man is seen as the enemy. Woodrow is killed during an attack. Huge superswarms begin heading north from South America to their “home” in Dallas, leaving destruction and death in their wake.
Olsen panics and runs. When the board gets wind of the crisis, Clarence Olsen steps in to denounce his son, and reinstates Doyle who has been working undercover with Napier on a potential solution.
Swarms infiltrate Dallas, breaking through glass and into buildings.
Reunion Tower
Doyle and Napier make their way to Reunion Tower with a massive low-frequency electrotransmitter which works to attract the bees through pseudo magnetism. They release a new model of the pollinator robot into the air who also help to attract the bees towards Reunion Tower. Once the swarm reaches its maximum, a high powered microwave pulse is emitted – destroying the bees and most other electronic equipment within a city block including MARS Scope. Olsen is arrested. MARS is shut down after a massive fall in shares and no investor confidence. Doyle and Napier are cleared of any wrongdoing. Napier becomes chief technologist of a new company – Just Technology focussing on fair and ethical practices – with CEO – Spencer Doyle.
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