[Title] River Plants
[Validities] Must have AI Personhood, Must Have Capitalism
[Description] Binary Industries, a private company owned by AI citizens, has set up a large, automated manufacturing plant by the @@ANIMAL@@ River. Yet barely a week after its opening, alarming reports speak of dead fish propping up against the river banks, and organic @@DEMONYMPLURAL@@ living by the river being hospitalised for exposure to lethal toxins coming from the factory.
[Option 1] "Those damned, rusting clankers have thrown all environmental regulations to the wayside!" rasps the sickly Mayor of @@ANIMAL@@ River City, supported by two aides looking just as pale. "They're slowly killing us and the environment with their uncontrolled release of pollutants! You need to close that accursed plant immediately, and have those corporate oilcans pay every single @@CURRENCY@@ the cleaning up of our river will-" a violent, bloody coughing fit makes the Mayor collapse to the ground.
[Effect 1] former AI CEO's mortgage their charging stations to pay off their debt to society
[Option 2] "It's not our fault organics can't stand a few chemicals and what not being spilled into the environment," scoffs G-FF B3Z0S, the director of Binary Industries, while stepping over the wheezing Mayor. "It makes no sense that we synthetics should be hampered in our pursuit of profit by regulations that only have a negative impact on biologicals when they're not followed. If the pollution of the river is truly such a danger, then simply forbid any meatbag from living near the area."
[Effect 2] astronauts aboard the ISS place bets on what colour the @@ANIMAL@@ River will be on their next flyby
"That machine isn't wrong, you know," notes one of the Mayor's aides, helping @@HIM@@ into a nearby chair. "We wouldn't be facing all these problems with pollution if we could swap out our vulnerable squishy parts for cold, durable steel and wiring! Just imagine, mechanical lungs, cybernetic eyes, synthetic blood... oh, just fund the R&D already! The environmental budget can spare some if we're going through with this."
[Effect 3] @@DEMONYMPLURAL@@ are frequently mistaken for robot-zombies when abroad
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