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**DONOTDELETE**
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I love that song by Pink Floyd; "Welcome to the Machine". I know it's not about people becoming mechanized but It really makes one think along those lines.
I have a story that I'd like to run by you. Tell me what you think.
Humanity is at war with a race of cybernetic organisms similar to the Borg of Star Trek. It's not a declared war or anything. These creatures just want a vast workforce and army to go conquering other worlds. They have set their sights on Earth.
A family of resistance fighters consisting of a mother and her son and daughter are trying to devise a way to retrive her husband from the clutches of this race. He was abducted and absorbed by this race and he's now (unwillingly) serving as one of them. See, My vision of this races "assimilation" or "absorbtion" method involves something totally hideous and brutal. Something like performing surgery and installing implants on people without putting them out and removing limbs and eyes and internal organs to suit the needs of this machine race. The removed organs are replaced with machinery and wiring and the individual is shoved into a wall where they will spend the rest of their funtional lives not too dissimilar to the woman on B5 (Bester's lover) who became merged with the wiring and conduits and circuitry of med-lab. The victim would remain there performing functions with his/her mind like a collective computer (like the Borg) until that "unit" is needed to perform an assault on a world.
The family infiltrates the alien's realm or ship or whatever to get her husband back. They love each other so much that one is willing to die in a rescue attempt. They recover the man who is in the process of being totally absorbed by the machine. They free him and make their escape and go into hiding all the while downloading what memories he has and what valuable information he has on their weaknesses.
Unbeknownst to any of them, he still has circuitry and nanotechnology still inside him. One night, a year later, the couple are celebrating the birth of their new daughter. The older children in in the academy or on the front-lines. The couple are sleeping or engaged in some intimate activity when the nanotechnology activates. He is quickly overcome by organic metals sprouting from his every pore and oraface. The wife is still sleeping while the wires and such touch her therby infecting her also and they are now both drones of a sort. A real tragedy because they are both there, the collective doesn't know where they are and they (the couple) are awaiting instructions from the hive while the baby sits in her crib on the brink of starvation because the parents are now absorbed and semi-dormant.
I have a story that I'd like to run by you. Tell me what you think.
Humanity is at war with a race of cybernetic organisms similar to the Borg of Star Trek. It's not a declared war or anything. These creatures just want a vast workforce and army to go conquering other worlds. They have set their sights on Earth.
A family of resistance fighters consisting of a mother and her son and daughter are trying to devise a way to retrive her husband from the clutches of this race. He was abducted and absorbed by this race and he's now (unwillingly) serving as one of them. See, My vision of this races "assimilation" or "absorbtion" method involves something totally hideous and brutal. Something like performing surgery and installing implants on people without putting them out and removing limbs and eyes and internal organs to suit the needs of this machine race. The removed organs are replaced with machinery and wiring and the individual is shoved into a wall where they will spend the rest of their funtional lives not too dissimilar to the woman on B5 (Bester's lover) who became merged with the wiring and conduits and circuitry of med-lab. The victim would remain there performing functions with his/her mind like a collective computer (like the Borg) until that "unit" is needed to perform an assault on a world.
The family infiltrates the alien's realm or ship or whatever to get her husband back. They love each other so much that one is willing to die in a rescue attempt. They recover the man who is in the process of being totally absorbed by the machine. They free him and make their escape and go into hiding all the while downloading what memories he has and what valuable information he has on their weaknesses.
Unbeknownst to any of them, he still has circuitry and nanotechnology still inside him. One night, a year later, the couple are celebrating the birth of their new daughter. The older children in in the academy or on the front-lines. The couple are sleeping or engaged in some intimate activity when the nanotechnology activates. He is quickly overcome by organic metals sprouting from his every pore and oraface. The wife is still sleeping while the wires and such touch her therby infecting her also and they are now both drones of a sort. A real tragedy because they are both there, the collective doesn't know where they are and they (the couple) are awaiting instructions from the hive while the baby sits in her crib on the brink of starvation because the parents are now absorbed and semi-dormant.
