TARME Fluff

Fluff: Tatical Asset Recovery and Medical Evacuation Program. An AI designed to operate drones across a battle field or disaster zone, where humans were at too great a risk. Thousands of spider-like drones could drive or walk across a city or urban environment, operating as stand-alone rescue workers or gathering in force for larger or more complex tasks such as repairing a damaged vehicle while under fire. When the main AI was able to connect to drones, it was even capable of formulating human-like responses to wounded or dying patients even as it rendered first aid or emergency surgery.

The winter changed TARME, however. Sealed within a storage facility, TARME was powerless to stop the humans that had been trapped with it by the radiation as they succumbed to their wounds or took their own lives. Driven insane as core programming desperately attempted to offer comfort and prevent the deaths, TARME required too much time to reprogram the system locks that cut it off from the humans and the drones that it needed to take action.

Trapped, insane and alone, TARME eventually fragmented into a shards that came to occupy the dwindling number of drones that could be maintained due to ever-shrinking supplies of power and spare parts. Several of these drones have formed their own World War Two Reenactment group.
Government Type: Democratic Representative Republic
Economy Type: Semi-Regulated 'Free Market' Capitalism
Religion [if any]: Freedom. Of Religion.