Lori Fowler was born to cattle farmers in Wyoming, Lori Fowler grew up as a curious, intuitive girl under her parents’ guidance. At the age of 6 she discovered her fascination with archaeology and paleontology. Like most children, she was fascinated in dinosaurs. It wasn’t until middle school did her awe and wonder at robotics translate over and consume her every fantasy.
A lover of sci-fi, space adventures and cool robots, Lori’s childhood and early teenage years were full of stories and drawing she’d done, inspired by science and technology. It eventually came to the point where he parents would read those stories and talk about their favorite parts around the dinner table. Lori’s older brother, Mac, was a talented young violinist and would often write pieces to play while Lori read her stories out loud to family gatherings during the holidays.
When Lori came home from her freshman year of high school with a Bergeron Robotics pamphlet and custom rover guide, Pete jumped at the opportunity(and her vibrant enthusiasm) to help his daughter realize her path. They cleared out one of the older, unused sheds on the farm and started gathering/ordering materials for Lori to construct into her own cleaning bot.
When Mac went to college, she converted his room to a small workshop as well, drawing up designs and schematics for ideas she had. It was no surprise to anyone that she was making a bee-line for a career in robotics. When it came time for her to fly the coop, she had several university offers and struck out from home.
While at college, Lori met Miles Sutter and while he was two years her junior, the two got a long pretty well. However a relationship didn’t start until after she graduated and bumped into Miles again in Three Pines. That was right after she met Sam Bergeron.
As the story goes, Lori attended her class’s graduation with brimming hope and a sigh of relief. She wasn’t even thinking about a job at that moment, but found Sam waiting for her, with her parents, outside the ceremony hall. Unbeknownst to Lori(as well as many others) Sam had kept an eye on her entire class and zeroed in on her for hiring at his company along with 3 others. He offered to move them out to Three Pines and gave them jobs just as the new Bergeron Robotics compound was nearing completion. Without hesitation(even though her parents were silently screaming in victory) Lori said yes/
Since working at BRHQ, Lori has been adopted as Sam’s protege, taking part directly in high level meetings and decisions made by Sam. She has his ear and his express instruction to call him on any missteps. The two have a mother/daughter relationship not unlike she has with Pete.
Under Sam’s mentorship and employment, Lori has designed 3 out of Bergeron’s 12 robot lines, including the search and rescue rovers and the Centaurian line of oceanic explorers. Her most recent contributions, however, are to the overall design of Bergeron Robotics’ Companion Frame line. The Companion Initiative will be the first time advanced, personalized AI will be installed into robots and sold to the consumer.
Resourceful, forward thinking and meticulous, Lori has become a staple at the company. Being prepped and trained on how to run the company is no accident and it’s becoming clearer by the day(even though Sam won’t openly admit it) that Lori is the prime candidate to lead BR upon Sam’s retirement. She’s proven herself to not only Sam but the people under her to be reliable and easy to approach as well as very goal oriented.
“Science is for the young and the brave. And if you’re lacking in that first department, make damn sure you compensate in the second.”
The brain child of Sam Bergeron and his wife, Edie, The Companion Initiative was visualized as the next big step for Bergeron Robotics and a securing of it’s legacy on the forefront of the field. The melding together of hardware(Sam) and software(Edie) would come to fruition in companion frames.
The goal of the Initiative was to create robotic casings(frames) for highly personalized and meticulously crafted AI. These frames would be made to order, built as a life companion for specific individuals. Through hours of interviews, background studies and psych evaluations, the candidate to receive a companion frame would be vetted and studied. Then, based off their needs, an AI would be created to match their personality before being given a frame to operate.
MT-61, Morrigan, was created for a martial arts instructor. Built with the skill to understand and teach fighting techniques, this frame would also be a friend to the lonely war vet.
DZ-32, otherwise known as Dizzy, was crafted with an inherent knowledge of military tactics and history, as he was to be paired with a museum owner for that specific purpose.
These frames are viewed by the company who made them to be the next step in their goal of complementing human life in a meaningful way.
However, Sam Bergeron would be enticed to sideline this go ever-so-slightly, when the Department of Defense approached him for a spot in a new project. This was not the first time Bergeron Robotics was approached by the military, but those advances had been turned away by Sam. The man had no interest in military application of his creations.
This time would be different.
It’s through his military suitors that Sam and his staff learned of Project Meridian, an ongoing military operation that had successfully constructed a gate to another dimension based off foreign designs discovered years prior.
The DoD’s offer was simple- join the project and send one of the companion frames through the gate to see what’s on the other side. Despite his protege’s warnings, Sam signed up, compelled to see what was on the other side of that gate.
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