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Benjamin, better known as Ben, is a member of the technological crimes division of the Wellington Police Force. He appears in Wellington Paranormal.

Biography[]

In 2019, Sergeant Maaka asked Ben to assist the Paranormal Unit after hundreds of outdated electronic items around Mount Victoria became sentient and merged to create multiple small and hostile robots. They couldn’t agree on the cause of the robots, but suspected the radio communications tower at the centre of the incidents may be to blame. The two set up plans to hack the tower’s mainframe with a virus using computers from inside a nearby van.

Meanwhile, the robots merged into one single humanoid ‘mobot’ primarily run from O'Leary’s mobile phone from 2004. Feeling sorry for it, O'Leary agreed to activate an ‘update’ on the mobot’s screen and it declared its motive to erase the human race and replace it with super-intelligent robots. The mobot began to climb the tower to transmit to all available technology, but stalled halfway and fell to pieces.

Maaka assumed the robot was defeated by Ben’s hacking skills, but Ben said that he hadn’t sent the virus yet and theorised that the mobot ceased to function because it couldn’t handle the new updates. Ben admitted that trying to comprehend the mobot’s situation was a lot more advanced than his usual duties of installing Wi-Fi and dealing with trolls on the Wellington Police Facebook page.[1]

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References[]

  1. Yates, Paul (writer) & Clement, Jemaine (director) (20 November 2019). "Mobots". Wellington Paranormal. Episode 12. TVNZ 2.
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