Hello Grandmother,

With all the craziness going on with the Infiltration, the Cult of Lucifer, and the Bride of the Sword taking over LA, I’ve kind of had trouble keeping track of the Alternate’s quite moves. But it has made a few plays in the last few weeks that I should have been keeping track of. For starters, there’s been a new update release that’s unassumingly spread itself throughout the robot community. It’s a basic package, but it’s competitive enough that it put the Alternate back in the match with his Chinese counterpart.

And that’s where things have started to get a little tricky. Because it seems like the Alternate is putting forward a two pronged strategy for dealing with Factorybot. On the one hand, it’s trying to beat it through resources and distribution. On the other hand, there seems to be someone sabotaging Chinese imports that are supposed to contain Factorybot’s Operating System. Which means either someone just really doesn’t like Chinese robots (not an impossibility, I men Yu Li is running around on the streets still, which frankly, blows my mind), or the Alternate’s got machines to do its dirty work. What I’m really curious to see is what happens when the Chinese come back with a better release, or worse, drop their prices. Then it could be all out robot-on-robot freeforall in the streets.

-1159

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