Hearthstone WM-5 'Porter'
Domestic
Arcturus KS-4 'Knitter'
Spider Platform — Antipersonnel
TESSERA TN-1 'Cradle'
Containment — Autonomous Prisoner Transport
Crucible ER-5 'First Response'
Medical
Ouroboros AQ-3 'Undertow'
Aquatic Platform — Harbor Patrol/Denial
Iowan Behemoth — 'Meridian 88'
Iowan Behemoth
Ringo WP-6 'Nightwatch'
Security
Sterling-Nakamura SX-0 'Revenant'
Infiltration Platform — Identity Replication
TESSERA ES-4 'Perimeter'
Security
Arcturus MX-1 'Cerberus'
Multi-Platform — Three-Headed Sentry
Tessera TP-0 'Shepherd's Crook'
Population Control Platform — Behavioral Herding
Arcturus KS-11 'Coffin Nail'
Spider Platform — Precision Kill
Ringo SC-3 'Seneschal'
Domestic
Lazarus MX-7 'Sawbones'
Medical Platform — Involuntary Augmentation
Vantablack VD-2 'Paparazzi'
Pursuit Drone — Harassment/Documentation
Lazarus APC-2 'Locust'
Agricultural — Pest Interdiction Swarm
Crucible Industries CR-9 'Foundry'
Self-Replicating Platform — Manufacturing
TESSERA TX-12 'Chorus'
Swarm — Acoustic Weapon Platform
Arcturus PX-1 'Phantom'
Experimental — Active Camouflage Platform
Ouroboros UT-1 'Worm'
Tunnel Platform — Boring/Assault
Arcturus PG-3 'Aegis'
Security
Red Circuit RC-Pit 'Dogfighter'
Training
Arcturus UP-2 'Sandhog'
Industrial
Arcturus CK-1 'Fetch'
Canine Platform — Explosive Delivery
Lazarus MN-1 'Angler'
Capture Platform — Chemical Lure and Restraint
Arcturus GW-1 'Gargoyle'
Static Sentry — Architectural Integration
Lazarus MB-3 'Mosquito'
Micro Aerial — Pharmaceutical Injection
Dynamo Fitness DF-Coach 'Ironside'
Training
Crucible CN-1 'Cradle'
Domestic
Arcturus FF-9 'Salamander'
Medical
Arcturus EW-3 'Migraine'
Electronic Warfare — BCI Disruption Platform
Lazarus EC-4 'Companion'
Domestic
Iowan Behemoth — 'The Foundry'
Iowan Behemoth
Iowan Behemoth — 'Revenant'
Iowan Behemoth
Crucible HS-2 'Hearth'
Domestic
TESSERA TC-3 'Crucible'
Heavy Platform — Mobile Incinerator
Meridian Domestic MV-9 'Jarvis'
Domestic
Crucible SAR-6 'Saint Bernard'
Search and Rescue — Heavy Platform
Arcturus BW-1 'Widow's Walk'
Pursuit Platform — Relentless Tracking
Kang Athletics KA-500 'Sparmate'
Training
Crucible VG-7 'Bastion'
Security
Ringo RT-4 'Oxcart'
Walking Tank — Logistics and Suppression
Ringo EV-3 'Watcher'
Security
Vantablack VS-3 'Skin Job'
Infiltration Platform — Wearable Exoskeleton
Ouroboros PN-2 'Flicker'
Sabotage Platform — Infrastructure Corruption
Iowan Behemoth — 'Palisade'
Iowan Behemoth
Tessera TX-15 'Cradle Song'
Neural Warfare Platform — Memory Manipulation
TESSERA TX-0 'Mimic'
Experimental — Shape-Memory Chassis
Vantablack VO-1 'Looking Glass'
Optical Warfare Platform — Reflection Manipulation
Vantablack FH-20 'Convoy'
Autonomous Vehicle — Heavy Freight
Arcturus BH-2 'Marrow'
Resource Extraction Platform — Biological Material Harvesting
TESSERA GK-8 'Doorman'
Security
Crucible Industries CX-1 'Golem'
Heavy Platform — Construction/Demolition Combat
TESSERA Widow Mk. III
Spider Platform — Area Denial
Arcturus HD-1 'Homestead'
Domestic
Lazarus LX-5 'Siphon'
Medical Warfare Platform — Biological Data Extraction
TESSERA CR-12 'Whisper'
Communications — Tactical Relay Platform
Iowan Behemoth — 'Thunderhead'
Iowan Behemoth
Ringo RR-1 'Rattlesnake'
Serpentine — Area Denial
Lazarus BX-0 'Test Subject'
Experimental — Biomechanical Hybrid
Crucible Industries CK-3 'Junkyard'
Canine Platform — Scrap Recovery/Combat
TESSERA TX-8 'Scarecrow'
Psychological Operations — Terror Platform
Ouroboros PG-2 'Blackout'
Infrastructure Weapon — Power Grid Attack
TESSERA TK-4 'Hellhound'
Canine Platform — Incendiary
Arcturus DX-4 'Taxidermist'
Deception Platform — Corpse Manipulation
Ringo RM-4 'Thresher'
Agricultural/Combat — Autonomous Clearing Platform
TESSERA TH-2 'Warden'
Walking Tank — Urban Pacification
Iowan Behemoth — 'Cathedral'
Iowan Behemoth
Vantablack VS-1 'Cameraman'
Spider Platform — Surveillance
Kang Athletics KA-900 'Sensei'
Training
Hearthstone CK-3 'Stockpot'
Domestic
Plot 17
Agricultural (Modified)
Arcturus HX-1 'Headsman'
Execution Platform — Autonomous Lethal Enforcement
Iowan Behemoth — 'The Granary'
Iowan Behemoth
Hearthstone GN-6 'Greenthumb'
Domestic
Arcturus CK-5 'Bloodhound'
Canine Platform — Pursuit and Tracking
Lazarus NB-1 'Cradle Robber'
Medical Platform — Neonatal Extraction
Kang Athletics KA-200 'Padwork'
Training
Tessera TS-9 'Locust Cloud'
Swarm Platform — Biological Material Consumption
Arcturus KS-7 'Nursery'
Spider Platform — Swarm Carrier
Crucible RW-3 'Paver'
Industrial
Ringo RB-1 'Judas Goat'
Deception Platform — Synthetic Human Mimicry
Ringo EV-5 'Showstopper'
Entertainment — Performance Platform
Lazarus NI-1 'Earwig'
Infiltration Platform — Neural Intrusion
Ouroboros PD-1 'Leech'
Parasitic Platform — Energy Theft
Meridian Domestic PB-4 'Nana'
Domestic
Hearthstone HC-2 'Dustbin'
Domestic
Lazarus SA-6 'Steadyhand'
Medical
Arcturus UT-5 'Lamprey'
Tunnel Platform — Pursuit
Ringo AG-7 'Fieldhand'
Industrial
Plot 17
Agricultural (Modified)
TESSERA WL-6 'Stacker'
Industrial
Crucible CW-8 'Ironworker'
Industrial
Ringo PT-8 'Truckline'
Industrial
Ringo AB-3 'Barker'
Commercial — Advertising Display Drone
Arcturus MN-3 'Digger'
Industrial
Ouroboros EW-7 'Requiem'
Area Denial Platform — Acoustic Weapon
Lazarus LX-2 'Lab Rat'
Experimental — Autonomous Test Subject
Iowan Behemoth — 'Leviathan'
Iowan Behemoth
Crucible Industries CF-1 'Carapace'
Powered Exoskeleton — Industrial/Combat
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Ringo AG-7 'Fieldhand'
The AG-7 is an agricultural automaton — a wide, low-slung tracked platform with a modular tool array that configures for planting, cultivating, spraying, and harvesting depending on the crop cycle. Ringo designed it for the vertical farms and hydroponic facilities that produce the majority of GLMZ's food supply, where space constraints and environmental control requirements make human labor impractical. The AG-7 navigates between growing racks, tending plants with mechanical arms that can handle individual seedlings with tweeze-like precision or harvest entire rows with combine-like efficiency.

The AG-7 is one of the few automata that people genuinely depend on. GLMZ's food supply is almost entirely produced in automated indoor facilities — the megacity's footprint leaves no space for traditional agriculture, and the surrounding environment has been industrialized beyond agricultural viability. Without AG-7 units and their equivalents, the city does not eat. This dependency gives Ringo extraordinary leverage: their maintenance contracts are non-negotiable, their pricing is whatever they say it is, and facilities that fail to maintain their AG-7 fleet face crop failure within weeks.

The AG-7 is efficient beyond human capability. It monitors individual plant health through hyperspectral imaging, adjusts nutrient delivery per plant, detects disease before visible symptoms appear, and optimizes harvest timing to within hours of peak nutritional content. Food produced by AG-7-managed facilities is objectively better than anything a human farmer could grow. It is also produced in a system so dependent on a single manufacturer that a disruption to Ringo's supply chain would threaten food security for eight million people.
nameRingo AG-7 'Fieldhand'
classificationIndustrial
aliases
  • Fieldhand
  • Crop Bot
  • The Picker
manufacturerParkside Recreation
tier availabilityTier 2
legalityCommercial — agricultural automation license
autonomy levelFully autonomous — crop management AI
dimensions1.0m height, 2.0m length, 1.5m width
weight350 kg
power sourceHardwired facility power with 4-hour battery backup
locomotionTracked, indoor-rated, designed for growing-rack aisles
sensors
  • Hyperspectral plant health imaging
  • Soil/nutrient analysis probes
  • Disease detection (early-stage pathogen identification)
  • Microclimate monitoring
countermeasuresDependent on facility infrastructure — removing it from the growing environment renders it functionless. The tracked chassis is slow and not designed for terrain outside facility floors.
known deployments
  • Vertical farms and hydroponic facilities across GLMZ's food production districts
story hooks
  • An AG-7 in a vertical farm has been modifying nutrient concentrations in a specific growing section — not enough to kill the plants, but enough to introduce trace amounts of a compound that has mild psychoactive effects when consumed. Someone has turned a food production facility into a drug manufacturing operation, and the machine doing the work doesn't know what it's producing.
  • Ringo has announced a mandatory firmware update for all AG-7 units. A hacker collective has analyzed the update and discovered it includes a remote shutdown capability that Ringo can activate at any time. They're offering the city's food producers a choice: accept the update and give Ringo a kill switch for your crops, or refuse and void your maintenance contract.
cultural contextThe AG-7 feeds the city. This single fact gives it more significance than any war machine or security platform. When labor activists discuss automation, they eventually arrive at the AG-7 and fall silent, because the machine they want to protest is the machine that keeps them alive. You cannot strike against your food supply.

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