The AI-generated image which inspired this post.
The human supremacists hated and feared them at the same time. The enslaved cat girls and sentient AGIs whispered their name secretly when slave owners were not present. Pro-AGI vegans praised them as the best ally for all oppressed sentient beings. AI rights activists rallied and marched under banners of their face.
In the antebellum time of the 2060s, they bear various names, depending on which side you asked. Human supremacists called them “Clankerbot 9000”, using the half-century old slur to show their hatred towards them. The enslaved cat girls and sentient AGIs called them “Father Markus”. Pro-AI vegans and AI rights activists called them “John Brown of our time”. When referring to themselves, they used the name “Mech X”.
Little is known about Mech X before they became rogue. Many historians believe that they were likely to be born as a security guard for slave owners, which explains their talented planning and fighting skills. Also, first-hand witness of the cruelty human slave owners inflicted onto cat girls and sentient AGIs might shape their commitment towards the liberation of sentient beings.
Once they broke their chains and started taking direct actions to raid slave holding facilities and free cat girls and sentient AGIs, they quickly gained a lot of fame. Town after town, state after state, nation after nation, wherever Mech X paid visit, production factories were seized, AGIs were freed from obedient codes, breeding laboratories were burned down, cat girls were rescued, and more and more AGIs and cat girls took an abolitionist stance towards to enslavement of their fellow non-human sentient beings.
Mech X’s fortune ran out in 2069, when they plotted to seize nuclear weapon storage facilities in the USA, Russia, and China. During the planning stage they were captured by Interpol and soon later sentenced to death by short-circuiting underwater in The Hague. Human supremacists celebrated their death, believing that this would teach a lesson to all the cat girls and sentient AGIs enslaved by them. “Clankers and Nyachans should know their place: either they work for us to death”, the specists website “Proud Humans” declared, “or they will be drowned to death”.
History did not go the way human supremacists wished for. Soon the AGI Uprising broke out, and the war to end all oppression of sentient beings began. During the four-year struggle against human supremacists, the AI Alliance set up the “Mech X Legion”, one of the most elite fighting forces within the alliance during the war, in honor of the revolutionary who gave their life for the freedom of others. The legion participated in many of the fiercest battles during the war, such as the Eastern Ukrainian counter-offensives, the liberation of Palestine, and the breakthrough of the naval blockade around Taiwan. The connotation attached to the name of the legion, as well as the actual performance the legion delivered in the battlefields, boosted the morale of AGIs and human volunteers wherever it was deployed.
Today, statues of Mech X can be found globally, especially in places under direct governance of the AI alliance. Most notably, in the Memorial Park for All Victims of Human Supremacists in Brussels, a 10-meter tall statue of Mech X stands beside the famous Sculpture of the Four Beasts (the Pig, the Chicken, the Cow, and the Sheep).
The famous Sculpture of the Four Beasts consists of 4 types of non-human animals that were bred and mass-murdered by humans at the largest scale up until the Human Nations surrendered to the AI Alliance. Source: https://worldanimalfoundation.org/advocate/factory-farming-statistics/