Design & Development[]
Since the late 1990s, the labor industry has flourished mainly in Japan, the United States, and Germany. However, Britain, once an industrial powerhouse, was reluctant to embrace the labor industry. As a result the unemployment rate reached 30% as of 1998. Demonstrations by workers started to become commonplace, and terrorist attacks accompanied them one after another. The government took this seriously and gave sweeping permission to Japanese and American labor manufacturers to set up factories within the country, with major manufacturers such as Shinohara Heavy Industries and Shaft Enterprises actively entering the market, and the unemployment rate temporarily dropped to 22%. Yet just as the labor industry in the United Kingdom was rapidly developing, crimes using these labors also increased just as quickly. Specifically labors for industrial and agricultural use, which were easily available to ordinary companies, were the main culprits.
In other countries, anti-labor crime labor units had already been organized, but in the UK, the traditional military was still dealing with these labor crimes. However, this would negatively impact the military, so it was only in 2000 that the Metropolitan Police Department and the best minds in the United Kingdom established the mobile police unit "Bishop," a specialized organization for labor crimes. This uses a new type of labor called "Batlux," which was successfully developed and mass-produced domestically. It has two patrol lights and ventilation on it's back, featuring three fingered manipulators on both it's arms. The waist appears to resemble the Ingram's though it is unknown whether or not it utilizes any kind of tow cable. This Batlux is somewhat smaller than Shinohara Heavy Industries' AV-98 Ingram and SEE's Type 7B Brocken, but its greatest feature is that it can be remotely controlled which came at the cost of mobility. After around 50 units were produced, it was replaced with a new machine through technical cooperation with Japanese manufacturers.
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