Rovers

The Rovers are a race of sapient robots native to Mars and have been a part of mars since at least the year 2350.

Culture
and they have always been a threat to colonists and human life. They are antagonistic, hostile, and lay claim to the planet as their homeworld. Few of the Rovers ever leave the planet, and those that do usually are granted the rights as other self aware machines within the League of Suns.

Technology
It is unknown when the transition from autonomous self-preserving robots to AI occurred they have mostly maintained modern standards of technological prowess by stealing and analyzing human technology from colonists but as of 2914 some of their technology appears to be original and unique indicating innovation has become part of their programming and that they may have attained true sapience.

History
Mars was the first world colonized by humanity, but not before legions of robotic rovers had thoroughly explored its surface. These rovers have all either succumbed to the elements, been dismantled, or put on display in museums.

However some of the later more intelligent rovers were unaccounted for during colonization, assumed lost they were forgotten. The self preservation AI within the “Salvation” rover led it to avoid humanities presence on the planet, and to eventually re-purpose an old robotics factory.

The first robot built by Salvation was more intelligent than itself and took ten years for it to construct, between Salvation and this first robot they were able to speed construction of a second up to four years for the second even more intelligent robot.

Between the three they were able to get the factory full operational within two years turning out five robots of a fairly standard design each vastly more intelligent than the first three.

They began stealing more advanced technologies from human colonists, and establishing their own what they call “Rover Imperium” in all official negotiations with their faction.

Appearances

 * Short Stories
 * Silent Moon
 * Memories of Mars