MARTIN
LIAISON/RECRUITER, CENTRAL SPACE CONSORTIUM, INDEPENDENT CORE SYSTEM COLONIES
An artificial person, Martin is subdued, calm and warm-hearted. He listens to the colonists he deals with, absorbing as much information as he can, and then offers solutions. Most people dealing with him never even become aware that he is an android, and his apparent empathy has made Martin the most successful colonial liaison the ICSC has ever employed. While he plays the role of problem solver, his primary mission is, of course, to keep the independent colonies asking for as little as possible while taking from them as much as he can. Martin has begun to realize of late that his promises are empty and his masters are nothing more than con-artists. He sees that his actions are indirectly hurting the people he is pretending to help, contrary to the rules of robotics. Now Martin is experiencing an existential crisis. It is only a matter of time before he suffers a programming breakdown—and there is no telling what the ramifications may be.
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