Autofac story
Twenty years after a nuclear war, a small community of survivors are challenged by an automated corporate factory, which uses drones to send them unnecessary goods on a daily schedule. Their ability to grow food is diminishing as the natural world around them fades away, which they believe is due to pollution caused by the mega-factory. They plan to bypass the deadly defenses of the factory and shut it down.
13 total · 2 choice · 7 major · 4 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| AI risk to civilization | choice | Autofac, a totally automated factory/distribution center, had people replaced with sentient machines in order to make them better customers for its goods. |
| can machines have souls | choice | When we learn that Emily and others are machines after having seen all their loves and passions, we wonder to what extent they are like humans and worthy successors to our race. |
| android | major | Autofac had representation androids and in the end we learn that everyone is an android. |
| computer hacking | major | Emily was a stereotypical hacker girl. She hacked into the android Alice and also infected Autofac with a "logic bomb" malware program. |
| human vs. sentient machine | major | A group of people fight for their existence against the Autofac industrial complex. |
| mass consumerism | major | An automatic factory is destroying the environment in order to produce evermore stuff for people that don't really need more stuff. |
| personal identity | major | A central point was that people "felt" like humans and were mighty surprised to find that they were androids. |
| romantic love | major | Emily and Conrad. |
| what if I discovered that I was a facsimile of someone else | major | Emily learned that she was actually an android patterned on the woman who'd created the Autofac automated factory. |
| nature conservationism | minor | The community of survivors were trying to stop Autofac from polluting their environment. |