The A647-B2 Aerial Assault and Assassination Droid, aka "The Gunslinger" was a revolutionary weapons system that combined Adaptive Artificial Intelligence or A2I and Compact Delivery Plasma Weapons (CDPW). Heuristic Robotics, a 22nd century manufacturer of advanced artificial intelligence ordinance regularly improved the unit's weapons capability from the A1 series through the B2 series.
The A647-A1 was developed and deployed to patrol the vast Martian wastelands for colonial law enforcement spread too thin to protect far flung settlements. It had a humanoid form factor and Active Scan Targeting technology.
The A647-A2 used a portable cold fusion Class B reactor to power its impressive array of plasma weapons, and its micro avionics propulsion system could go from zero to Mach 0.9 in 15 seconds.
By the time the A647-B series debuted its feature set had expanded to include adaptive human speech and behaviors, a personal force shield, and advanced hand to hand combat skills. No wonder the A647-B was first choice for black ops and assassination missions.
The last iteration of the A647 was the B2 series. It featured a Hyper-Threaded Quantum Processor, which meant loosing the force shield or shooting it full of holes did not affect its command and control or targeting processors. Smart Gun Tactical Technology gave the A647-B2 the unique ability to see around corners, and destroy all moving or concealed targets.
Unfortunately, Heuristic Robotics famously lost all of its Beta prototypes to theft. They vanished without a trace under heavy security. It was one of the greatest unsolved cases of industrial espionage ever recorded. Without the A647-B2 the company lost its competitive edge and sold off its weapons division to a competitor.The A647 "Gunslinger" came into the hands of the Guardian Counsel. Its time traveling agents stole the "Gunslinger" prototypes and brought them back to the future. In truth, most sensitive technology used by the Guardian Counsel was stolen from historically advanced human civilizations. The Counsel feared that home grown weapons development would spark an arms race that would ignite into another brutal civil war.
For 75 years, the Great Clan Wars raged on destroying generations and creating a huge Diaspora hiding out along the Timeline. The Guardian Counsel was established to maintain order and enforce negotiated settlements between the waring factions. But convincing Counsel agents to set aside their clan loyalties to enforce questionable treaty infractions met with marginal success. A dispassionate third party was needed to administer justice without regard to rank or clan affiliation. The Guardian Counsel stole civilian and military technology from any era in history to protect the common good.
As proof of its non partisan intentions, the Guardian Counsel shared all civilian technology with all clans and factions; only weapons systems were the exclusive property of the Counsel. Soon hostilities ceased, an armistice was signed and treaty violators were brutally surppressed. The lethal legacy of the Gunslingers embedded itself into the collective dread of the population. Order was maintained.
Curiously though, as the generations passed, innovation and independent technological development began to dwindle. Failing civilian and military systems were discontinued but rarely replaced. Indeed, no one sounded the alarm when the first A647-B2s began to malfunction. It was still a formidable weapon. No one doubted the lethal capacity of its systems. So what if the A647 could no longer mimic human behavior or shoot around corners! The Gunslinger was still the premiere tactical weapons system in the world!
