The Leader Project
The decision to move ahead with the Leader Project was one of necessity. The demands placed on Electrocorp as the world's leading manufacturer and developer of advanced robotics had outstripped the company's ability to run its massive Metropolis 4 plant efficiently. As a result, the Leader Project was given top priority.
The goal of the project was to perfect a multi-task, ultra-intelligent, self-aware robot capable of managing every aspect of the plant's day-to-day operations.
The Supervisor Droid
The end product of the Project was the creation of the powerful and revolutionary Supervisor Droid, and it proved a resounding success. The Supervisor's ability to take on any shape and access any database in order to complete its tasks allowed it to run the plant with unparalleled efficiency.
It soon made the human staff obsolete. For several months, the Supervisor Droid was considered a scientific and engineering marvel that rivaled the harnessing of electricity and atomic fission in significance.
The EGO Virus
But then, things began to go dangerously wrong. An EGO virus infected the Supervisor's self-awareness program, causing the droid to consider its own goals paramount to its other assigned tasks.
The Supervisor shut down the plant, reprogrammed the security defenses, and introduced the EGO virus to the other robots in the plant. The Supervisor proclaimed itself the robots' leader, and ordered the construction of legions of robots to fight what it considered the enemy - man.
The Counter-Attack
Electrocorp's management was panicked. There was talk of the use of nuclear weapons to resolve the situation, but it was decided that the company's top-secret cyborg should infiltrate the plant and eliminate the Supervisor.
This cyborg is half-human, half-machine, and incorruptible by the EGO virus.