Oxygen
Oxygen is considered a commodity at Chasm Forge, a deep-space mining station in the far future. The Doctor discovers that the crew are being murdered by their own spacesuits and the handful of survivors are running out of air…
FEATURE BY CHRIS BENTLEY
Isn’t that just typical? You wait three years for a decent robot story and then two come along within a few weeks of each other.
On the heels of Smile with its Vardy microbots and Emojibots, Oxygen offers a very different type of robot, the Ganymede Systems Series 12 Smartsuit, a spacesuit with artificial intelligence that operates with or without an organic occupant. Both are killing humans, but whereas the Vardy have been unable to consolidate grief with their prime function of keeping everyone happy, the Smartsuits simply have murder built in: when the wearer becomes inefficient, the suit is programmed to dispose of them.