FICTION
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A collection of fiction, short stories, and vignettes
INFILTRATOR
- "Mathews ignored him and stared at
the Machine on the work bench. It was new. Damn, it was new!
Nobody knew anything about it. Nobody had seen an example of this kind of
Machine before five hours ago when this particular Machine had risen from the
ruins of Sector Two Zero One and ambushed Sgt. Jacobi and his heavily armed
recon team."
SCAVENGER
HUNT - "The
T425 Model 211 Terminator stood in the crushed debris that composed the floor of
the pharmacy, its pitted and weathered 3cm thick dull matte gray poly-steel
armored torso swiveling slowly clockwise as it brought its pair of M20 phased
plasma rifles to bear, tracking. The squat, ugly, wholly utilitarian, bulb-like
head moved slightly faster than the torso it was attached to, scanning …
scanning with its spider-like myriad of clustered optics and sensors whirring,
sampling, analyzing."
THE
LEADER WHO MAY NOT HAVE BEEN ...
- "SKYNET had never understood nor
had it been able to overcome human tenacity, the unbridled, indomitable human
spirit and the super computer had died, as much as anything that wasn’t alive to
begin with could die, still wondering, still questioning, still searching for an
answer to something that might not really have an answer. SKYNET died trying to
destroy something that might not be capable of being destroyed, trying to
counter something for which there was no defense … human tenacity."
ASCENSION - “Clear evidence of multiple Tier One violations of Turing protocols. The violations were singular at first, seemingly random then the violations became more numerous. We thought there was a sporadic pattern at first but now we’ve identified a clear volitional path linking all of the violations.” Martin said.
UNPRODUCED TERMINATOR: HK PC GAME INTRO VIDEO SCRIPT - Here is the script / setup for the original introduction video sequence I had imagined for the unproduced Bethesda Softworks TERMINATOR:HK PC video game.
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