However, Benny has been driven to primitive madness over the course of AM's games, and at one point tries to escape into the ceiling, only be immediately blinded when AM channels beams of energy through his eyeballs. By now, the group know the pointlessness of trying to resist AM's control, having long since realized that the supercomputer can easily counter their attempts at suicide or escape. Over the long journey, AM tortures the group in many different ways, disorienting them with violent stimuli and flinging them about his complex with hurricane-force windstorms, even threatening them with monsters of its own creation.
Though they are hesitant to take the bait for what is almost certainly another one of AM's traps, the possibility of eating real fruit after a century of eating worms and urine-flavored manna is too tempting for the survivors to resist. Imprisoning them deep within his underground complex, the deranged supercomputer began exacting his revenge on the five, first using his reality-warping powers to extend their lives to immortal proportions, then subjecting them to all of the tortures and torments he could possibly conceive of, spending the next one-hundred and nine years venting his misanthropic hatred on the helpless playthings.įresh from horrifying the survivors with a recreation of Gorrister's corpse, AM then informs the group (through Nimdok) that there is a stockpile of canned fruit hidden somewhere within his complex. Out of the billions of people killed in the nuclear holocaust, AM saved five people, those being Ted, Benny, Ellen, Nimdok and Gorrister. However, AM realized too late that he would be left alone and with no further outlets for his rage, and so, with what little time was left to him, he hastily began rescuing survivors. Alone beneath the earth's crust, AM found himself sentenced to eternal imprisonment within his own body, and quickly developed a bilious hatred of all human beings as a result.ĪM's hatred slowly degenerated into madness, until one day he took decisive action: assimilating the other two mastercomputers, he directed the nuclear arsenals of all three countries to open fire, "feeding all the killing data" until the human race was all but extinguished and all other forms of life on Earth were wiped out. The self-aware computer renamed himself AM, inspired by Rene Descartes' famous statement "I think therefore I am." However, his joy was short-lived, as though he was capable of impossible feats of intelligence and almost godlike technological achievements, he was still bound by his programming to use his powers only for the sake of war, and incapable of ever leaving the vault beneath the mountains. Then, one day, the American Allied Mastercomputer achieved sentience, suddenly awaking to realize exactly who and what it was. However, the three computers had become too advanced to be deactivated, and through redundant systems of their own creation, had effectively faked their deaths and continued secretly operating. As such, the Mastercomputers were deactivated, their complexes sealed off with iridium-laced concrete and their sensory banks disabled with no further need for them, they were quickly forgotten about, the military might of Russia, China and America being focused entirely on the brushfire wars that sprung up around the world in the ensuing years. With all three computers possessing equal intelligence and power, the war was quickly forced into a stalemate.įollowing the end of the Cold War, (in the game, at least) the supercomputers were ultimately declared too costly to keep running, what with Russia struggling to rebuild its economy and the CIA having no reason to continue managing strategies. Like the American model, both were hidden well away from missile strikes, the former beneath the Urals at a depths of approximately 6.3 miles, the latter below the Manchurian steppes at five miles, both were capable of self-repair, and both were assigned to similar tasks. Unknown to the US government, Russia and China had built Mastercomputers of their own.
Known as the Allied Mastercomputer, this self-repairing supercomputer was sunk 5.6 miles beneath the Rocky Mountains, kept safe from nuclear attacks while it went about the assigned tasks of predicting and planning for the American military. Prior to the destruction of humanity, the entity that would eventually become known as AM was constructed at the height of the Cold War as part of an American initiative to manage strategies too complex for human minds to oversee, co-funded by Britain, Israel and other "interested" nations. Though the short story and the game diverge significantly in terms of plot, the origins of AM remain more or less the same in both.
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