[ 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

I'll just say this much. Whoever thought that making robot soldiers that would only kill other robots in war would somehow make things normal for civilians must have either been full of shit, booze, or meth. The first problem we noticed was the noise. That might sound like a stupid complaint, but its the truth. Thing is that guns, tanks, grenades, whatever they use, are real fucking loud. Have you ever heard a gun fire before? It's not a little pigeon fart, it's an albatross screaming as it shits out its own intestines. And do n't forget, this is n't just the one gun. It's at least dozens at a time, probably hundreds on a bad day. And when heavy weapons are used, a metric shit ton of noise turns into a metric fuck ton. So the noise is the first pile of shit we have to deal with. 
 
 By now I've learned to wear these fancy headphones produced by Ultratek. The headphones cancel out most of the noise, but unfortunately that means instead of going deaf I just have to deal with being partially deaf whenever I go outside. Walking through the streets is n't exactly the most pleasant experience. As I survey the crowd around me, I notice that there are two kinds of people moving about: those like me, with headphones or ear plugs, that meander around to our destinations with scowls etched onto our faces, and those unlike me, without anything to quiet the noise, rushing around with pained and wincing expressions I could only pity, trying to get to where they needed to go as fast as possible to enter sound proof buildings. 
 
 I do n't know why most of the other people who can stand the noise travel slowly. I do it because I like... no, it is n't like. I do n't like it at all. I'm forced, compelled, I need to see the effects, the effects of the Bloodless War. See, the second problem with the robots is that they are designed so that they wo n't harm humans. This means that they ca n't bomb a place of business while people are inside. When there's no one in, however, and offices or kitchens or whatever are empty, bombing a building is fair game. Your office building? Rubble. Your bakery? Trash. That mini-mall? A null value. I myself had to switch between at least a half a dozen buildings in the last couple of years alone. In fact, last night I received news that the warehouse where I worked at had been destroyed last night. Generally the policy nowadays is to hire someone to squat in a building until business hours so that the building would be safe. Unfortunately, the guy who usually stays in our building apparently had a heart attack. As such, the robots who bombed the building had no qualms doing so. 
 
 That was n't even the only disaster to occur last night. A fire broke out in a rather large apartment complex last night. Normally firefighter robots would put out the fire after ten minutes, but unfortunately, when every human had left, it turned out a robot from one side had been hiding out in the building, and robots from the other side destroyed the place seconds after the last human left. By the time the firetrucks arrived, the place was already just a heap of metal and concrete. 
 
 That's not a completely uncommon occurrence. Generally every other month a big building a destroyed. There have been countless homeless caused by the Bloodless War, and countless jobless as well. As I scan the streets, they're not the hardest to find. To my right, up ahead on the sidewalk, there's an entire family that is dressed in rags leftover from high quality clothing. A father, mother, two sons, and a daughter. I do n't know they're story. I just know that the Bloodless War took them as casualties. 
 
 After about an hour of walking and checking a map on my phone, I arrived at the new warehouse. It was an old one, meaning the equipment I'd get to work with would be sub-par before new shipments arrived, but I could manage. Thankfully, I knew it would take me quite a while to find the place, so while it took me an hour to get there, I was still there an hour early. 
 
 Going inside, I took note of the old stock still left in place. Most of it ranged back by at least a decade, but there were a few models that were older than I was. This place had been used as storage for some time, and many discarded machines were just lying haphazardly about. While looking over them, I saw the one I was looking for. It was a nice deep red color. The chrome finish was still a marvel to see to this day. It's engine was an astounding piece of machinery, and overall it was a fine work of technology. If it were any other make, any other model, I would have adored it. But for one reason, I had trouble even looking at the thing. 
 
 The third problem of the Bloodless War is the length of it. Unlike most wars, were both sides are so concerned with preserving troops that they wish to end the war as quickly and efficiently as possible, unfortunately resulting in civilian casualties, the Bloodless War could also be called the Conservative War. Because there was little concern over the loss of life of robots, and since no humans were directly killed, the war could go on for years, even decades, without much media fuss. Most Artificial Rights Groups were laughed at with more scorn than even the hippies were, and the news sources were payed to be in full support of the war. 
 
 Not only was there very few calling for the end of the war, but the companies that produced the robots wanted the war going on as long as possible. The current reason why the Bloodless War is going on in Mariah's Bay was because it was a small island that both Ultratek and Ingis claimed as their property simultaneously. After Ultratek sent in settlers to build our city here, Ingis sent in drones to attack the city and claim it for themselves. Ultratek sent in their own drones in defense, and the companies found a golden opportunity. By using examples of their successes on Mariah's Bay, they could persuade potential buyers with proven examples of how superior their weapons were to their top competitors with real world tests, rather than unimpressive lab work. So, a decision was made. The Bloodless War would harm no civilians, and would have only robots fighting each other. But the Bloodless War would never end. 
 
 I look at the red, chrome finish before me. 
 
 Here's the thing. The Bloodless War was only called that for the last twenty five years. The No Civilian Damaged policy did n't exist for the three years prior to that event. The memory was fresh on my mind. My father back then still worked for Ingis. But he just could n't help but bring the newest Ultratek model home to examine the intricacies if its design. Besides, it had been nearly completely destroyed in combat. What harm could it have done. 
 
 One of the most revolutionary and amazing aspects of this model was that it was one of the first with an advanced self repair mechanism. As long as it had access to spare parts, even from incompatible cybernetic parts from, say, the workshop of a robot engineer, it could bring itself back from the dead.
