Project Sentience

Project Sentience was a project by Dimensional Bloon from 1997 to 2003 to create a sentient bloon; it initally succeeded.

History
1997. The bloons were losing; 53% of all bloons had been wiped out, 67% of all bloon bases and the monkeys had extremely powerful weapons.

Dimensional Bloon had a idea - a mindless killer doesn't work. He needed sentieence. Self-aware. it needed to decide its own actions if it wanted to succeed. They started work.

By the time it was finished, 92% of bloons had been destroyed and 96% of all bases.

A test was set up with two red bloons. One was self-aware and sentient; the other was normal. The normal one was popped and the sentient bloon picked up the dart and threw it at the monkey, taking away 2 HP.

This success made Dimension put it out for battle.

For weeks it worked. The monkeys were pushed back, until one turned against the bloons. It was a MOAB. It realized that it was killing innocent monkeys and that others were doing it; it started getting other bloons to revolt.

This also worked. In February 2003 165,000 bloons protested at Bloon HQ to stop killing monkeys.

Dimensional Bloon realized his mistake. He couldn't undo the project, with the amount of changes made to the bloon formula it would take years to undo. He couldn't suppress - they would get worse and there were millions against him. He snapped on March 1, 2003 - realizing he was being controlled by ENTITY, and tried to find him.

Meanwhile the monkeys started advancing again, as 50 million bloons were with them. All sentient.

By April 23, 2003 the monkeys had regained all lost territory. 0.1% of bloons (137 million) had turned against the Bloon leaders. It was climbing higher and higher up the ranks. Evolution Bloons, ZOMGs and SUPERBs and the first and second lieutenants and 500 privates of the military were going against Dimensional.

On July 14, 2003, a state of emergency was declared by Genesis Bloon. 5 billon had turned against him.

Things reached their climax in March 2004 as Apocalypse Bloon attacked and threw out Genesis Bloon.

By early 2005 the non-sentient (now just 1.2%, with just 0.07% of 98.8% (the % of sentient bloons in total population) supporting Genesis, had one last base and they surrendered on February 25, 2005.

On April 24, 2006, The Source was destroyed by Dimensional Bloon. ENTITY was stripped of all power and was banished to Dimension Four.

Today
The Bloons consider the Monkeys as rivals. Tensions have increased in recent years with skirmishes being fought every year or so. However they are mostly peaceful and trade with each ovther, with trade increasing for the fifth year in a row and being worth 250 billion Monkey Money or 77 billion Bloonodollars.