Intel 1
Autonomous Bombers are security devices the Central District phased out thirty years ago. At their core, they're little more than smart target-seeking chips.
Each chip is housed inside a black box designed to survive the device's detonation intact.
The Jackals mount these black boxes onto small robots and load them with explosives, creating simple mobile bombs.
Every time a major turf war breaks out, expendable crews rush across the battlefield to recover the black boxes. They're one of the gang's most valuable strategic resources.
Intel 2
Every detonation is faithfully recorded in its internal log—date, coordinates, target classification, and whether target acquisition was completed.
The engineers who built it called these records the black box's "dreams." They believed the chip learned something from every explosion—an idea later generations would call reinforcement learning.
Years later, the Jackals inherited those dreams along with the machines...
Intel 3
A disabled explosive unit immediately destroys itself, but that feature was not designed by the Jackals.
"If the primary unit is compromised, exhaust every available method to prevent capture by the enemy."
The original engineer wrote the order in language that was brief, precise, and impossible to misinterpret. The Jackals saw no reason to remove it.
