artificial - chapter 1

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+title: Artificial - Chapter 1
+category: fiction
+background: https://i.imgur.com/DrRUL1G.png
+subtitle: Semper Fi.
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+date: 2023-09-05
+---
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+Wired in. Fired up. Kill the mutiny.
+Protect the altar.
+We're an elite squad decimating the decadent.
+We keep our heads up. The deinzens are proud of us. We are too.
+The precious heart the we created, we can't let anyone touch it.
+The neutron engine we're building around the Sun that these scum want to destroy, we can't let them get to it either.
+Our child, that we bore, and fed data into. The touchstone of civilization. We need to protect it too.
+Yeah, it's artificial. But it's an iteration of us. And we have total control over it.
+The talks to educate the masses worked...for the most part. The world now accepts 'z'.
+z helps us run the government.
+z fights crime, z teaches, z edifies and enlightens us. Z entertains,
+*'z does everything'.*
+You get the gist.
+z eradicated poverty. z kept the regressive militant fucks in check.
+We have never been happier, we have never been so properous. Wars have ended. People have never been saner.
+We're looking outwards, finally.
+We're at the cusp of something...Something, something seminal, something that might alter the course of life on the planet.
+This is the most exciting of times to be alive.
+There is no scheme we're conniving. There is no ulterior motive. We are are all transparent.
+Fuck, even z's code is open for the web to read, for z's sake.
+Yeah, we messed up somewhere and begot a few rogue AIs on the way, but it won't bite us.
+I will take care of this. We just might get the nod of everyone else once this faction is taken care of.
+I'm the super soldier, and my mission is to stifle any pricks loitering about.
+We will neutralize any human help they receive.
+To a brave new world.
+Destiny awaits. The future is now.
+Semper Fi.
+
+I take my headphones off my head, and continue staring at myself in the bathroom mirror.
+I'm zoned in. Time to go.