“The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves.”
― Norbert Wiener, The Human Use Of Human Beings: Cybernetics And Society
In a world of global peace, that has forgotten the machines of war, the harmony is broken with the incursion of autonomous killing machines, vestiges of a lost age.
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The Characters:
Sofia Morales (D Gailey) the tech obsessed Engineer.
Professor Cyndy Diamont (John Holt) anthropological computer scientist.
Brouge Craklin P.H.D. (Ken Breese) military historian.
The Mission:
The Crises - A doomsday weapon from a bygone age has awakened in the frozen north.
The Limit - Time has forgotten the weapons of the past but the historians and hobbyists remember.
The Plan - Get to the "brain" and reprogram the mechs to blast themselves into the sun.
The Assets:
Employee Manual for Site X
3d Topographical heat map of the doomsday compound
A six-shooter pistol borrowed from a museum
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