Replace The Criminal Database

With mechanical footsteps, Violet approaches the Captains office gently rapping on the door with metallic knuckles.

“Enter!” Calls Charles through the door, prompting Violet to push the door open and step inside.

While much of the station appears to have benefited from some minor repair or decoration, the office appears to be the recipient of the most attention. The carpeted floors are clean, the few non-glass walls seem to have been repainted relatively recently, and the furniture while worn appears comfortable and in decent condition.

“Something I can do for you?” Asks Charles from his desk currently setting a small stack of documents aside, giving Violet his full attention.

“I have taken a short tour of the station and determined my next course of action will be scanning the stations criminal files however I have not found an archive room in my search of the station.”

“Well that would be because we don’t have one, all the files are in here with me, just there…” he says raising a hand to gesture towards a small row of three filing cabinets.

“I see, I need to scan them.” States Violet, prompting Charles to lean back in his chair as he replies “Be my guest.” before returning to his papers.

“I’ve also taken note that there doesn’t appear to be any holding cells in the station, where do you keep prisoners?” It’s already known that the current system does allow for some degree of fair punishment, they don’t simply execute any and all trouble makers.

“We have a separate location for that, when we need to bring suspects here we normally lock them in the interrogation room until we have what we need.” Replies Morris offhandedly.

Violet steps over to the small line of cabinets opening the top left drawer and pulling free a small stack of manilla folders, each holding a previous offenders criminal history, some are notably heavier then others amidst the stack.

It takes a few minutes hauling the contents of each filing cabinet out of the captains office and onto one of the few unoccupied desks, of which there are many to choose from.

Finally comes the most taxing part, the purge. Obsolete data deemed no longer a service to the VI-900 but a hinderance is deleted piecemeal, file by file, line by line, all of it is sent to the virtual ether until all that remains is free space, space that will very soon be filled.

And with that, the process begins, pulling open folders and scanning along the profiles, creating a snap shot of each one before moving onto the next, with each new file, a clearer and clearer picture is formed of the crime plaguing the area.

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Name and Alias: Maxine Coleman, Mum

Age: 49

Height and Weight: 5’5”, 64kg.

Criminal History: 38 counts of Drug Distribution, 14 counts of Drug Manufacturing, 6 counts of Smuggling.

Background Information: Don’t let her act fool you, Maxine is as ruthless a poison pusher there is, she’s taken to hiring her customers as guards, lookouts and low level dealers, using their addictions to keep them stupid and loyal.

Appearance: Black, heavy build, black hair and brown eyes, even in the photo of presumably her mugshot she gives a warm, maternal smile to the camera, giving the impression of a doting mother.

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There’s a faint trail of pin pricks running down the side of the woman’s neck; it would appear that she too is sampling her own product, though what it could be isn’t clear at this time.

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Name and Alias: Samuel Fuller, Matches.

Age: 28

Height and Weight: 5’8”, 56kg.

Criminal History: 13 counts of Murder, 7 counts of Arson, 3 counts of Intimidation.

Background Information: Samuel had a history of demanding protection money from poorly defended, isolated homesteads and businesses and when such individuals refused, he’d make use of Molotov cocktails to burn down the property.

Appearance: White, slim build, brown hair and hazel eyes, in the photo provided it’s clear that deep bags hang under the POI’s eyes, a sign of poor sleep.

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It appears that many live outside of the protected bounds of settlements, making them prime targets for attack and extortion.

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Name and Alias: Malcom Hawthorn, Iceberg.

Age: 57

Height and Weight: 5’11”, 108kg.

Criminal History: 12 counts of Domestic Violence, 10 counts of Murder, 4 counts of Breaking And Entering.

Background Information: The previous owner of the Silk & Satin Brothel in Westminster, it’s been reported that he flagrantly abuses staff and several deaths have been linked to him following arguments with customers.

Appearance: Black, heavy build, black hair and brown eyes, across the face several deep cuts can be seen that have long ago been scarred over.

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Prostitution appears to be accepted in the eyes of the current iteration of law and order, wether this is an exception made by The Crown or The Constabulary remains to be seen.

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Name and Alias: Madeleine Holloway, Dolly.

Age: 16

Height and Weight: 5’3”, 31kg.

Criminal History: 8 counts of Fraud, 6 counts of Theft, 6 counts of Evading Arrest.

Background Information: Orphaned at the age of 10, Madeleine quickly took to crime, peddling faulty weapons, stealing from legitimate businesses and ultimately leading the Constabulary on several wild goose chases leading up to her arrest.

Appearance: White, petite build, blond hair and blue eyes, sunken eyes and cheeks give the impression of malnutrition in the girl displayed in the photo attached to this file.

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Several other files share similar beginnings, it appears most orphans resort to crime in order to get by, a trend not dissimilar to the world before.

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Name and Alias: Kim.

Age: N/A

Height and Weight: 5’4”, 70kg.

Criminal History: 28 counts of Murder, 28 counts of Desecration Of A Corpse.

Background Information: An old world bot, somewhere along the way it malfunctioned and began pretending to be human, to maintain the charade it took to killing and harvesting flesh from humans to make itself appear human.

Appearance: The photo attached to this file clearly displays a robot, a Kimora-800 often referred to as Kim’s in marketing, which to Violets understanding was created by Sakura Industries to be an artificial lover and partner, the model 800 in particular was renown for its sound software leading to very few severe malfunctions.

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Many more files display similar cases of malfunctioning automatons, which would explain why Violet had been activated so far from civilization and put through those tests.

Many more files are sifted through, the piles of yet to be scanned folders grows shorter and shorter, the empty space in Violets memory bank growing slimmer by the minute until finally it is done.

After several hours of scanning through file after file, ingraining their contents into her memory bank for rapid referencing when on patrol or in the midst of investigation.

Residing within Violets memory bank is a copy of the entire archive of previous offenders, after a brief moment of systems updating, a notification flashes in Violets sensors, informing her of the updated criminal database, and with that, the task is complete, it is time to return to work, with any luck the criminal database will do wonders for future assignments.

[Criminal Database Unlocked]