His moral code sometimes caused him to question his superiors and to adopt a protective attitude to the robots under his command. However, it is noteworthy that from fairly early on in his career he showed signs of having been given a little too much higher cognitive ability to be compatible with the unquestioning slave-like obedience traditionally expected from robots.
Hammerstein's actions during the Volgan War earned him the Iron Cross, 1st class. As the war progressed, he became a sergeant, in charge of a commando unit whose name became synonymous with the ABC Warriors, alongside the sniper Joe Pineapples, the absurd Happy Shrapnel, and later several other recruits including Deadlock, Mongrol, Steelhorn and the reprogrammed Volgan robot General Blackblood. Hammerstein was the first of what came to be known as the ABC Warriors, created to deal with atomic, bacteriological and chemical warfare, which humans had no defence against. (To be fair, he later tried to screw it back on again.) This was the first emotion he ever experienced: jealousy. He took a swipe at the psychiatrist with his hammer, accidentally killed Jodi instead and removed the psychiatrist's head. The psychiatrist exposed him to a variety of novels, paintings, films and musical pieces in an attempt to induce an emotional reaction, but this only happened when Hammerstein saw him kissing Jodi. 'our side' being permitted to do things that are evil when 'their side' does them) had caused him to enter a catatonic state. When Hammerstein was three months old his programmer, Jodi Jones, took him to a robot psychiatrist because the contradictions inherent in human warfare (e.g. Hammerstein was the prototype Mark III, a compromise solution, given programmed emotional responses but a deep-seated sense of patriotism and a belief that his commander is always right and the enemy is always beyond redemption. The Mark I War Robots were first deployed circa 2009 but had difficulty distinguishing friend from foe and had to be destroyed, while the Mark II models (programmed with moral values their predecessors lacked) were by nature pacifists who refused to fight. He is a Mark III War Robot, created by Quartz Industries to fight the invading Volgan forces who had originally conquered Britain in 1999 (see Invasion!).
Hammerstein is a character from the strips Ro-Busters, ABC Warriors and Nemesis the Warlock.
0 kommentar(er)
