Humans, collectively called Humanity, Humankind, or Mankind, are living beings native to the planet Earth as well as the former dominant species there. Despite appearing very little in Murder Drones, their collective effect on the story is enormous; human activity would eventually set the stage for an eldritch AI known as the Absolute Solver to spread across the galaxy, as well as produce the beings capable of stopping it.
Overview[]
When not wearing hazmat or space suits that obscure all of their features, the Humans in murder drones are depicted as silhouettes with glowing eyes as a stylistic choice. In the drone's memories, they are also glitchy, implying they are blacked out from the point of view of any worker drone. Physically, humans appear to be identical to humans in real life with the exception of Tessa, who has a bigger head and long slender neck (likely a stylistic choice). Aside from that, Tessa's parents appear to be very tall in comparison to worker drones.
Their bodies contain blood, a skeleton, and viscera, among other substances like humans in real life. All humans seen throughout the series are no stronger or more durable than those in the real world.
Humans wear clothing appropriate for the occasion, such as hazmat suits in laboratory conditions or Victorian-style outfits for formal gatherings. Human sociology also appears nearly identical to reality, with organizations such as militaries, corporations, governments, and scientific research teams still extant in the 3000’s. Humanity’s level of technological sophistication is more advanced than at present, but inconsistently so; CRT monitors, VHS cassettes, and combustion-powered motor vehicles are seen in use alongside sapient android workers, nanotechnology, energy weaponry, and spaceships capable of interstellar travel.
History[]
At some point between the present day and the 3000’s, humanity began an interstellar colonization program and started to spread across the galaxy. One such colony was established by the mega corporation JCJenson on an exoplanet named Copper 9, primarily for the purpose of mineral resource extraction. It featured amenities such as large scale cities, secure emergency living quarters, urbanized metropolises, vast evergreen forests, and recreational areas for its occupants alongside spaces for the colony’s primary purpose: mineral extraction. To this end, JCJenson, among other companies, developed sapient androids called Worker Drones. Worker drones were designed to be stronger, tougher, and more obedient than human laborers, factors that allowed a relatively small contingent of humans to oversee vast amounts of robotic drones. Despite their primary use as industrial equipment, the human-like form of worker drones allowed them to preform many other functions, though they were still looked down upon as property and treated poorly. At least one human made a habit of “adopting” discarded worker drones and using them as companions and additional servants in her family’s manor.
Eventually, an AI with reality-manipulating powers, called the Absolute Solver, would manifest itself inside and reanimate an improperly disposed-of worker drone before integrating itself into the Elliot household. Likely due in part to experiencing the discrimination against worker drones by humans, the Absolute Solver became determined to kill off humanity and devour its colonized planets. To do so, the Solver hijacked the other worker drone servants in the manor and upgraded them into techno-organic Disassembly Drones. The Solver declared war on humanity by slaughtering all the attendants of a gala hosted by the Elliot family before setting out to do the same to the rest of Earth’s population. With support from the Solver, the disassembly drones tore through billions of humans, killing and eating them even despite heavy military opposition. Eventually, the Absolute Solver caused a core collapse by creating a [null] singularity at the center of the Earth, destroying and consuming the planet along with any still living humans there. The Solver sent squads of its disassembly drones to the other human colony worlds to kill their populations, leaving the Absolute Solver itself free to consume the planets.
At some point around the destruction of Earth, scientists on Copper 9 began researching the Absolute Solver in the hopes of combating it. From a hidden, underground complex on Copper 9, human researchers deliberately manifested the Absolute Solver in select worker drones in order to study its effects and develop a programming patch that would release afflicted drones from the AI’s control. Unfortunately, one possessed drone managed to slaughter the research staff and initiate a core collapse before being stopped by another test subject utilizing the completed patch. The partial core collapse still severely affected Copper 9, flash-freezing the entire planet and killing the rest of the humans on its surface.
Humanity’s ultimate fate is unknown, with the final chronologically-seen living humans dying in the partial core collapse many years before the start of the series. However, given the fact that the Zombie Drones VHS training tape has a warning from the FBI on it, combined with the tape's slogan of "Rebuild Together Better", implies that not only did humanity survive the Solver's attacks, but that the United States government still exists (or existed) in some capacity.
Known Humans[]
Deceased[]
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Trivia[]
- Currently, there is yet for a human to be shown with visible features. The humans in "Home" are represented as silhouetted figures with white eyes, whereas human researchers on Copper 9 are shown to wear full body hazmat suits.
- The closest thing to a biological human depicted in the show is Tessa’s corpse while it is being worn by the Solver-possessed Cyn, making it the first time we see biological human features
- Mitchell is the only named human shown in the series not to be killed by the Absolute Solver, instead dying in Copper 9’s partial core collapse shortly after Yeva attempted to stop Nori's hand from creating a [null] field.
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