| abstract | - Sixth months after a fight between two heroes Skyman and Prismatic ends with the deaths of both involved in the fight and the destruction of a rather large part of the city, Christopher Harvard, a teenager with no connection to either heroes, suddenly wakes up to the realization that he is a robot after a rogue group tries to reprogram him and embarks on the quest to find out who he really is and why was he made. As it is revealed, he is Christopher Harvard, who was one of the survivors of the disaster and was turned into a cyborg (only his brain is intact) as a proof of concept system of mass-produced super-soldiers to protect citizens from incidents where superheroes and villains start trouble. This particular system relies on the Human Aspect of the robot to be unaware of the more mission driven side, dubbed the Machine Aspect, which only activates on sight of danger or when activated remotely by the developers. Due to complications, however, Chris' two aspects have become aware of one another and work in tandem, something not designed for and happen completely by accident. The series spans three books which play out as a collection of short stories linked by common characters and designed to play out more like watching a season of a television show than an actual book. Because of this, there are a lot of characters that occur appear over the course of the series. At present, the plans involve multiple Early Bird Cameo with several plot lines starting in the first book having no larger plan before being relevant. A big theme of the series is an avoidance of You Know I'm Black, Right. Despite Chris being African-American, it is rarely referenced in text and has no bearing on the plot. Several other "Token Minorities" are featured but no big deal is made of this.
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