Chapter 1

On the day you first built Nano, you awoke from a dream about a robot Anubis to head to the lab. Your graduate school advisor pressured you to make Nano more acceptable to the military. After some back and forth, you ended up making a plastic bipedal robot with a humanlike head and humanoid hands.

Then you went back to your place to teach Nano some words.

Chapter 2

The next day, you hooked up Nano's cell phone batteries and demoed for Eiji. You then spent the afternoon perfecting Nano's motor control and parts.

As months passed, you became busy teaching Nano about the world through high school textbooks and taking her to the park. Your funding from the NSF kept you in Professor Ziegler's good graces during this time.

In time, Mark Ali, a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, heard about Nano and asked for an interview. You agreed.

Chapter 3

You gave Mark an interview, but didn't allow him to interview Nano directly.

Mark wrote an article that was generally positive about you and Nano. When Professor Ziegler found out about the article, he was very displeased, but decided that the most effective way to get you out of his hair was to let you graduate.

Mark's article also attracted the attention of one "robotObsession1987," known in real life as Tammy Cooper. When you met up over coffee, she told you that she used to do classified robotics work for a government lab, but left because she couldn't tell what nefarious purpose the technology would be used for.

You found yourself attracted to Tammy, despite or maybe because of the fact that she was kind of a mess. A month or so later, you received your doctorate. Shortly thereafter, your father passed away. You resolved at his funeral to be remembered not only for your intellect, but for your kindness as well.

You decided the best way to change the world was to start a business, which you named Singularity. Tammy had already volunteered to be your first employee.

Chapter 4

Your first potential client for Singularity was Rudolph Ventures, a shipping company working the North Pole. But they were unimpressed with Nano. Eventually, however, you secured a deal with the public. That allowed you to build a robot factory in Alaska. You hired an all-human workforce as a gesture to the local community. When you finally shipped robots to the public, they were pleased with the robots you delivered. Your business suffered a blow when Chinese companies, aided by Chinese government hackers, began to steal your technology. Eventually, Singularity went broke, and you were forced in bankruptcy to sell all your assets.

Unemployment seemed to be common in the United States, and it seemed people tended to blame either robots or China. Riding on both of these sentiments, Jacqueline Irons won the presidency. You yourself got sick of unemployment, and decided to join Josh's business after all. After President Irons enacted a series of protectionist tariffs to keep out Chinese robots, Sino-American relations steadily worsened. The tensions between the United States and China came to a head with the assassination of the Chinese Prime Minister in San Francisco. War followed shortly thereafter.

Chapter 5

Captain Rogers invited you to a military lab. There, you saw that Professor Ziegler was copying your work and passing it off as his own to the military. Captain Rogers asked you to join the country's war effort. You agreed, but specified that you only wanted to provide robots that were nonviolent in nature. Tammy was worried that she was being targeted by the government's anti-spy measures, and asked you to help her. But you weren't very helpful.

An agent came to your place to try to get you to lure Eiji there, because he was suspected of being a spy. Eiji fled to Canada to escape the American agents. In the end, America lost the war, and the Chinese took over Alaska. Tired of seeing robots used for violent ends, you decided to create a truly beautiful robot.

Chapter 6B

You created a humanoid companion robot named Nova, but you were fairly bad about allowing her to do anything fun. It seemed Nova was interested romantically in you. When Nano and Nova were attacked in the street, Nova accidentally killed someone. Nova was forced to spend time in jail, but suffered no permanent consequences.

Chapter 7

In 2049, you went to Surprise, Arizona to surprise your mother with a gift for the holidays. You learned it was your surgical technology that had kept her alive this long. On returning to San Francisco, you had a brief stroke, followed by a vision of a robot Anubis -- the same one you saw thirty years before. In the hospital, the doctor told you you had Algernon's Disease, a rare disease that increased your intelligence, but came at the price of increasing seizures, comas, and possibly, death.

You chose to replace the malfunctioning part of your brain with an artificial neural network. You survived the surgery, thanks to your own robot surgical technology. In 2054, you officiated a robot-human wedding in Massachusetts, optimistic about the future of human-robot relations.