It's 2081, crime riddles the futuristic metropolitan city streets of Chicago, one lone investigative journalist, a pessimistic man named Lucas, is set to find out the one question the world is debating. Are mans new best friend, Androids, becoming sentient?

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ANDROID USER
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“I could care less if you're a tin-can.
You aren't some programmed zombie.”

"Please... stay with me."

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ℭ𝔥𝔦𝔠𝔞𝔤𝔬 𝔗𝔦𝔪𝔢𝔰
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In 2081, privacy doesn't exist. Between majority of all interacts, jobs, schools, and now all-digital transactions, everyone's personal information is at the tip of their fingers, that is if they know how to exploit into databases. Cyber crime runs ramped, steadily growing with the technology boom that seems to be ever-advancing. In Chicago, nobody feels safe, not even in their homes.

An invention meant to aid from every day life, to working jobs and maintaining cities, the population of humans was overrun by 2074s newest state of the art technology, and artificial intelligence, Androids. Robots so uncannily human it was hard to tell who's who, with the exception for the signature LCD display beneath their collarbones that tell they're name and model number, along with any other needed or curated information.

Flooding the workforce and every willing household in droves, it left most without a job or much less a stable career. Kids left to Android caretakers, every school taught by the machines programmed for they're exact task and nothing more, every desk job, every construction crew, every librarian, and by 2079, over 75% of the workforce in the United States was overrun with Androids in the place of humans. After all, Androids were simply programmed to their divided tasks, no delay's needed, no human input needed, no emotions needed... or was there?

By late 2079 the first crime committed by an Android happened. Robbery.

An adult male wearing a ski-mask designed in anti-AI patterns entered a large designer clothing store in downtown Chicago in the early afternoon. No other customers were currently present, leaving only him and the Android helpers and cashiers. Recorded in security cameras, he walked up to the Android running the check out and demanded the Android to access the store's virtual network, where some money mostly used for refunds was stored. The Android refused, prompting the man to pull a gun from under his hoodie and point it at the Android, shooting it point-blank in the abdominal area. Quickly turning to flee, the man was then met by the Android leaping over the counter and tackling the man to the ground, quickly afterwards the Android used its fist to murder the man later identified as a notorious cyber criminal by the Chicago Police Department, and the Android was promptly put into custody.

The ordeal had shaken up the United States, and many other nations whom employed Androids into the workforce. People were horrified by the idea that an Android had committed murder, stating it was a sign of the impending rise of Androids versus Humans, but others argue the Androi