[ WP ] Some time in the future war is fought completely autonomously by machines . A densely populated city has become a war-zone , but the robots are programmed so well to avoid harming civilians that the humans living their can go about their lives completely ignoring the constant fighting around them

`` Jerry? Jerry! Hello, Mars to Jerry, come in Jerry!'' I hate my coworkers. All I could do was stare at this deep blue water cooler, ignore the sounds outside my office, and that pillock had to break my daydream. I shook my head like in the old cartoons, trying to coax more alertness from my mind. `` Yes Mark, I'm here. I'm just...'' Trailing off again. Slowly but surely, each government turned away from using human soldiers around this small red rock hurtling through space and entered the age of machines. War games, if you could call it that. The games took place in various places obviously, but one robot had a bug where he just kept walking. Just, kept, walking. And brought all those robots here to our grand city. 
 
 The phone rang incessantly, the only thing louder than the robots outside. `` Good afternoon, Martian Enterprises, this is Jerry how may I help you?'' I just had to be near the windows. While yes they are robots, they still used live ammunition.'But Jerry' you ask,'How do the robots not harm you?' I'll tell you, they have a protocol that each government agreed upon, that no human shall be harmed by something autonomous. Suicidal? Good luck jumping in front of a machine, they ca n't hit you even if they tried. They're so incredibly smart, you could n't even run them over. They *knew* the path that each car would take and stayed just out of the way. 
 
 `` Yes ma'am, I'll transfer you to someone who is better equipped to handle your problem, please hold.'' I literally could not hear a thing the person said. I did n't even know the gender or species of the person. That's been my go to line for the past two days while the higher ups figure out a solution to mute the battle outside. The screen shook again, they must have used some explosive, and I hope it was n't my car that got caught in it. Two stories above the ground, but the gunshots and explosions were still deafening. Why is this city not in a state of emergency? God I'm thirsty again. 
 
 `` Oh great, here's Mark again. What manila covered gift did you bring me this time.'' I knew he could n't hear me, the fighting masked my insults to him. Yesterday I even let out some expletives and some very convenient explosions drowned those out real well. `` Haha, Jerry you are such a kidder. I need you to take this to the fifteenth floor, some execs want to talk to you about something.'' The fighting just so happened to die down a slight bit that I think he may have heard me, but I definitely heard him. I might be in trouble. `` Right away stupevisor.'' Mark snapped his head back at me, a look of shock on his face. I had n't noticed that the robots stopped their fighting. Looks like the Mars Defense Force won this year's war games against the Lunar Colony Coalition and the United Terran Republic.
