Innovation Valley is the eight district investigated in Criminal Case: Pacific Bay.
Primarily based on Silicon Valley, Innovation Valley is a district mainly characterized for its technological and scientific breakthroughs, with things such as mega geniuses, tech corporations, genetic engineering labs, and advanced robots abounding in the area, giving everyone with a vast intellect the opportunity to prosper and shine.
Innovation Valley focuses on the dangers of rapidly growing and unsupervised science and technology, with a tech company known as Meteor Systems being behind many of these aforementioned dangers as they continue to research and produce self-conscious robots who, as expected, don't like being bossed around by humans, leading to a growing conflict between man and machine.
- Smart Money: A CEO is stuffed to death with money inside his own office.
- Uncivil Rights: A pro-robot Mayor is compacted into a cube with a car crusher in a scrapyard.
- Blood in the Blender: A scientist is cut into pieces then liquefied with blenders inside of a juice bar.
- Immortal Sin: A CEO is stung to death with jellyfishes near an underwater laboratory.
- Programmed to Kill: A programmer is eaten alive by nanobots inside of a factory.
Tropes:
- Androids Are People, Too: The robots you met in this district are treated like regular people, with the ones behind murder even facing a proper trial.
- Arc Villain: Aphro-Dyte, a Killer Robot behind the machine uprising in the district who also tries to annihilate all humans with nanobots during the finale.
- Innocuously Important Episode: Despite appearing to be a normal district whose conflict ends up being solved at the climax of it, the events of Innovation Valley are of big importance for the final act of Pacific Bay, since Karen Knight and Meteor Systems are revealed to be behind a lot of the bad stuff that had been happening during the entire game.
- Insufferable Genius: If Ivywood was characterized for having Upper Class Twits as its inhabitants, then Innovation Valley does the same with geniuses instead, with a lot of people (and even robots) acting all smug about their own intellect and genius.
- MegaCorp: The plot of Innovation Valley mainly revolves around Meteor Systems, a tech giant which is behind many of the immoral experiments and creations that you get to know during the district, such as Killer Robots, cloning, and mind swapping.
- Ridiculously Human Robot: The technology in Innovation Valley has reached such levels that they're able to properly create self-conscious and thinking robots.
- Recurring Character: The main recurring characters for Innovation Valley are Karen Knight, Aphro-Dyte, David Rosenberg, Dr. Rascher, Ambassador Lee, and to a lesser extent Bob Levene.
- Science Is Bad: A recurring theme during this district is that rampant science (and by extension, technology) can be a bad thing if not properly regulated, as it can lead to immoral and unethical things such as cloning and self-conscious robots being treated like mindless machines.
- Tomorrowland: Innovation Valley looks like a futuristic city thanks to the works of Meteor Systems and the genius people inhabiting it. Take a look at a park, for example.
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