This idea was part of the 2025 game jam ideas project.
New Job for a Kill bot
One Liner: New Job for a Kill bot
This story is set in the Warhammer 40k universe (or any other forever war style universe).
The war has ended. Energy to matter conversion has been perfected bringing in post scarcity across all the universe (No more wars over resources). Followed by the ability to travel between the multiverse ending all ideological wars (people just travel to the universe that suits their ideology). The universe is at peace and the humans have all become peace loving hippies where all life has value including the AI robots.
Our story follows the AI dreadnot that has been battling the endless wars for ~10,000 years with thousands of successful battles, as tacticians and a machine of war. Now it's being reformed, since all life is sacred they don't just decommission the AI. The AI prime directive is to serve its human masters, and not to self decommission.
The AI needs a new job (to service its human masters) in this post scarcity where most jobs are no longer needed. With its unique set of skills not a lot of the remaining jobs are well suited.
From this point it's a "Fish out of water" story. A series of ill fitted jobs that the AI warship tries to acclimatize to this new universe.
The first job the AI dreadnot tries is a puppet show operator and story teller for children. He tells his stories of conquest to the small children until they are traumatized and start to cry.
The next job is taxi driver, but it becomes a battle on the roads. It becomes his new war. He quickly destroys many of the other cars on the road as he competes with the other taxis and cars.
The AI dreadnot has a social worker (Steve) that is trying to help him to reintegrate into the world. He is earnest but not very good. Steve just doesn't understand how the world works or the experience that the AI dreadnot has lived.
After a few more ill suited jobs he eventually finds the perfect job for him. A metal recycler, taking the world's waste from over production in a post scarcity world. Ripping it apart and sorting the remains into different piles. It reminds him of his past and makes him happy.
The AI dreadnot and his social worker Steven become an "odd couple" style friendship and the AI dreadnot is happy with his new found life in this world.