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Blind faith can bring about great deeds or be a tool for self-deception.
The Mediator-6 project was an early endeavor of Doctor Rowin and the Terris Corporation, but was scrapped when it became obvious that it was designed, not as a weapon, but as a peacemaker able to withstand the harsh environment of the battlefield. The design mimicked the human body in its most ideal form. While in seclusion, the design was given new life by Rowin but with a different purpose. Humanoid in many ways, the doctor chose to give the android the appearance of an angel to be a symbol of hope in a very dark time. Later events, near the completion of the project, created a new need in the doctor’s mind. The look of the angel was inspired by the doctor's love of classic art, but the facial features were a recreation of Rowin’s deceased son, Adam.
In many ways, despite the strength of the android, it is a showing of the doctor’s weaknesses manifested and a testament to his longing to have his son back. Memories are not something that can be implanted, but the doctor did give the android every piece of information he could about Adam. The android is capable of learning and evolving. It has been given a very good knowledge base by Rowin comprised primarily of religion, philosophy, poetry, art, and literature. The android is self-aware, views the doctor as a father, but is not Adam by its own admission; this is a truth that Rowin has also accepted. The learning process is difficult following the doctor’s suicide, as the only structure for the programming comes from directives derived from various texts, such as The Bible, The Art of war, classic philosophy, the writings of Leonardo Da Vinci, mathematics, and astronomy. The android has been given a purpose it struggles to understand, wanting to fulfill a father’s wishes and longing to understand compassion as the texts within its programming speak of it, rather than how it has been presented by Doctor Rowin in the doctor’s final days. The brutal murders carried out by the android are simply a learning experience to it and with each killing it gains a better understanding of why we fear death so much. A child in many ways, the android is constantly expanding its understanding of the world, a world that will come to know it as a harbinger of death.
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