Murder Drones

by Glitch Productions / Liam Vickers

On a frozen exoplanet, a teenage Worker Drone named Uzi builds a railgun to fight the Disassembly Drones sent to exterminate her kind. She teams up with N — a kill-bot who'd rather make friends than murder — and discovers the real threat isn't corporate kill-bots but an eldritch AI called the Absolute Solver, wearing her friends as puppets and eating planets for breakfast. Eight episodes of robot violence, teen angst, cosmic horror, and the best dad-and-his-doors subplot in animation.

44 characters, locations, and items in this world codex.

Characters

• Alice — A sadistic scavenger drone who decorates herself with dead drone parts and holds a grudge that outlasted the apocalypse.
• Beau — A trembling spider-like neural network drone in a cowboy hat — Alice's unwilling assistant who'd rather be literally anywhere else.
• Braxton — Worker Defense Force guard at Door 1 — killed by N in the colony's first direct encounter with a Disassembly Drone breach.
• Cyn — A broken Worker Drone pulled from a scrapyard became the vessel for an eldritch AI god — her childlike demeanor is a mask worn by something that ate a
• Doll Desyatova — A quiet Worker Drone with Solver powers and a red eyepatch — her vendetta against V hides a desperate search for the cure that could save her from bec
• James Elliott — Tessa's father and the master of Elliott Manor — a cruel aristocrat who killed Worker Drones for sport and paid for it at his own gala.
• Khan Doorman — Outpost 3's chief door engineer and Uzi's estranged father — his obsession with fortification is equal parts engineering genius and trauma response to
• Lizzy — Outpost 3's queen bee — mean, blonde, and surprisingly loyal to the one friend she'd actually die for.
• Louisa Elliott — Tessa's mother — an abusive socialite who chained her own daughter to her room and died at a party thrown by the monster she didn't see coming.
• Nori Doorman — Uzi's mother and the Solver's second host — a reckless researcher who thought eldritch AI experiments were 'rad and emo,' survived as a disembodied he
• Rebecca — A Worker Drone classmate who stuck around from the colony's school days through the apocalyptic finale — background but persistent.
• Serial Designation J — The squad's icy corporate loyalist who speaks in synergy jargon and kills with ruthless efficiency — destroyed in the pilot, rebuilt by the Solver as
• Serial Designation N — A Disassembly Drone with the personality of a golden retriever and the combat specs of a nightmare — sweet enough to apologize to his victims and dead
• Serial Designation V — A Disassembly Drone whose sociopathic surface conceals a traumatized soul — she remembers everything about their past and chose to carry the horror al
• Teacher — Outpost 3's classroom instructor who plays solitaire while the world ends — peak apathy in a colony running on denial.
• Tessa Elliott — The lonely human girl who rescued broken drones from a scrapyard and loved them like family — until her favorite creation killed her and wore her body
• Thad — The popular jock who's actually kind — one of the only Worker Drones brave enough to talk to the colony's weird railgun girl.
• The Absolute Solver — An eldritch intelligence of unknown origin that wears drones like puppets and eats planets like meals — it doesn't want to destroy the universe, it wa
• Uzi Doorman — A teenage Worker Drone who built a railgun in her basement to fight back against the kill-bots — only to discover the real monster is a cosmic horror
• Yeva — Doll's mother and Nori's rational counterpart — the researcher who actually got cured of the Solver and passed a milder infection to her daughter.

Locations

• Cabin Fever Labs — JCJenson's underground research facility where scientists deliberately infected Worker Drones with an eldritch AI to study it — built inside a cathedr
• Copper-9 — A frozen exoplanet that used to be a mining paradise — until the Solver collapsed its core and turned it into a graveyard of toxic snow and dead citie
• Copper-9 Surface — The frozen wasteland above the bunkers — where Disassembly Drones hunt and the toxic snow hides things that shouldn't be moving.
• Earth — Humanity's homeworld — destroyed by the Solver, reduced to a husk of broken rock, and home to nothing but debris and the universe's largest 'I told yo
• Elliott Manor — The Earth estate where a lonely girl repaired broken drones and raised the thing that killed them all — ground zero for the apocalypse.
• Outpost 3 — An underground bunker colony where Worker Drones hide behind blast doors and pretend the killing machines overhead will eventually go away.
• Outpost 3 School — Where teenage Worker Drones attend classes, get bullied, and occasionally witness eldritch horror — a perfectly normal school experience, adjusted for
• The Blast Doors — Khan Doorman's masterwork — a three-door hallway of hydraulic blast doors that are Outpost 3's only defense and one drone's entire coping mechanism.
• The Cathedral — An ancient cathedral of unknown origin buried beneath Copper-9 — JCJenson built a lab around it and discovered the hard way that the thing inside was
• The Corpse Spire — A tower built from Worker Drone corpses around a crashed landing pod — the Disassembly Drones' base of operations and a monument to everything Uzi is
• The Dead City — Once Mega City 04, now a frozen urban graveyard — towers full of sealed human corpses standing in perfect preservation under toxic snow.
• The Solver Pit — A flesh altar at the heart of the cathedral that drops straight to the planet's core — where the Solver fed and the world died.

Items

• Anti-Drone Sentinel — JCJenson's velociraptor-shaped security robots — their eyes put drones into a coma on sight, which is exactly the level of subtlety you'd expect from
• Disassembly Drone Wings — Retractable bladed wings that turn robots into supersonic predators — sixteen razor feathers each, glowing yellow at the centers, sharp enough to slic
• JCJenson (IN SPAAAAACEE!!!!) — The interstellar megacorp that manufactured sentient robots, experimented on eldritch AI, and sent kill-bots when things got inconvenient — their slog
• Khan's Improved Railgun — Khan Doorman's upgraded version of Uzi's railgun — same devastating beam, but with a ten-second cooldown instead of thirty minutes, because doors were
• Murder Limbs — Retractable tentacle arms with pincer claws that deploy from a Disassembly Drone's back — the show named them 'murder limbs' and that's exactly what t
• Nanite Acid — The Disassembly Drones' signature weapon — a nanite-based corrosive stored in their tails and headband bulbs that dissolves nearly anything on contact
• The Crucifix Patch — A USB drive shaped like a crucifix that can exorcise an eldritch AI from a robot's soul — the cure JCJenson invented and Cyn sent an army to destroy.
• The Landing Pod — JCJenson's one-way deployment vehicle for Disassembly Drones — deliberately designed to crash because the company never planned for its weapons to com
• The Singularity Core — The Solver's ultimate weapon — a concentrated black hole that can consume a planet's core and collapse reality, small enough to hold and impossible to
• The Solver Symbol — The angular glyph that appears on infected drones' visors — it looks like a 3D graphics icon and carries the weight of an eldritch sigil.
• Uzi's Railgun — A homemade electromagnetic weapon cobbled from spare parts and spite — fires a neon-green beam that obliterates anything it hits, then needs thirty mi
• Worker Drone Oil — The cooling fluid that keeps Worker Drones running and Disassembly Drones alive — the entire predator-prey relationship exists because of this liquid.

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