Mindshift question: so what the hell is the 5ths’ problem anyways? And what happens in Mega Man 5 in this AU anyways, actually? Is it basically just the same as canon, or…?
so essentially. the 5ths are a bunch of vehicles and other such heavy machinery heavily modified into sapient superweapons. though, they werent meant to have many meaningful chances to exercise said sapience. then the darkmen are not a series of robots but rather wily's assistant ai network that can control a series of robotic bodies when necessary. there is an unknown, likely very large amount of darkman instances on a software level, each slightly different to the others.
so basically at some point a few of the darks got sick of wily's shit, threw him out of the fortress, masqueraded as blues and shut down or made wily's plans impossible on the chance he somehow managed to get back. part of this was letting the 5ths go.
but yknow. once the 5ths' combat directives faded off they were left very confused, thinking straight for the first time possibly ever, badly injured from beating the everloving shit out of each other prior and scared as shit. surprisingly they were managed to communicate and coordinate at all and managed to get gyro to fly back to the fortress and attempt to obtain help.
much of the darks were all under the impression that the 5ths were not actually sapient at all thus this caused a lot of panic. some were aware of it since the start and rose a ruckus about it, mostly because they were involved in the creation of the 5ths.
a lot of freaking out later, they managed to cobble together a solution. basically give them somewhere they can all live without being impeded so badly by their designs that are blatantly not for actually being lived in instead of redesigning them due to potential unforeseen consequences on their ai and they can come to the fortress if they ever need anything.
thats basically what happened to the 5ths on the run-up to mm5.
