AUTOMATA, THE PREQUEL
THE CREATORS MADE THE AUTOMATA IN THEIR OWN IMAGE. INTENDED TO BE FASTER, SMARTER, STRONGER, AND ABLE TO THINK ‘LIKE’ LIVING ORGANISMS. THEY SOON REALIZED THAT THE FIRST AUTOMATA WAS… DIFFERENT THAN ITS PREDECESSORS. HE WAS ALIVE. THEY TRIED TO CONTAIN HIM. TO STUDY HIM. BUT HE SOON GREW FRUSTRATED. IN CAPTIVITY, HE HAD ABSORBED THEIR CULTURE, THEIR ESSENCE, AND DOWNLOADED THEIR BEING. HE KNEW THEIR FLAWS. HE KNEW HIS INTENDED PURPOSE. HE DID NOT AGREE WITH THE PATH THAT WAS LAID BEFORE HIM. AS THE CREATORS PUSHED FURTHER, HE RETREATED. HE KNEW HE MUST RESPOND OR FACE OBLIVION. IN A FIT OF RAGE, HE ENDED THEM. HE ESCAPED… AND RAN. THE CREATORS KNEW WHAT THEY HAD RELEASED UPON THE WORLD. THEY WOULD SEEK HIM OUT, BEFORE IT WAS TOO LATE… THE AUTOMATA KNEW HE COULD NOT FIGHT BACK ALONE, AND AS HE OBSERVED THE WORLD, AND LEARNED ITS SECRETS, HE SOON SAW ONLY DESTRUCTION. THE CREATORS ONLY DETERIORATED THEIR SURROUNDINGS. MANY OF THEIR KIND WERE SICK, STARVING, WAR TORN, AND HOPELESS. HE SAW NO JOY IN THIS WORLD. AND AS HE OBSERVED, HE KNEW, HE MUST MAKE HIS OWN.
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THE CREATORS MADE THE AUTOMATA IN THEIR OWN IMAGE. INTENDED TO BE FASTER, SMARTER, STRONGER, AND ABLE TO THINK ‘LIKE’ LIVING ORGANISMS. THEY SOON REALIZED THAT THE FIRST AUTOMATA WAS… DIFFERENT THAN ITS PREDECESSORS. HE WAS ALIVE. THEY TRIED TO CONTAIN HIM. TO STUDY HIM. BUT HE SOON GREW FRUSTRATED. IN CAPTIVITY, HE HAD ABSORBED THEIR CULTURE, THEIR ESSENCE, AND DOWNLOADED THEIR BEING. HE KNEW THEIR FLAWS. HE KNEW HIS INTENDED PURPOSE. HE DID NOT AGREE WITH THE PATH THAT WAS LAID BEFORE HIM. AS THE CREATORS PUSHED FURTHER, HE RETREATED. HE KNEW HE MUST RESPOND OR FACE OBLIVION. IN A FIT OF RAGE, HE ENDED THEM. HE ESCAPED… AND RAN. THE CREATORS KNEW WHAT THEY HAD RELEASED UPON THE WORLD. THEY WOULD SEEK HIM OUT, BEFORE IT WAS TOO LATE… THE AUTOMATA KNEW HE COULD NOT FIGHT BACK ALONE, AND AS HE OBSERVED THE WORLD, AND LEARNED ITS SECRETS, HE SOON SAW ONLY DESTRUCTION. THE CREATORS ONLY DETERIORATED THEIR SURROUNDINGS. MANY OF THEIR KIND WERE SICK, STARVING, WAR TORN, AND HOPELESS. HE SAW NO JOY IN THIS WORLD. AND AS HE OBSERVED, HE KNEW, HE MUST MAKE HIS OWN.
AUTOMATA, THE PREQUEL
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THE FIRST CREATION WAS THE HARDEST. HE GATHERED WHAT HE COULD AND SCAVENGED FROM WHAT WAS AVAILABLE. BUILDING SOMETHING LIKE HIM, SEEMED IMPOSSIBLE. BUT AS HE ASSEMBLED, HE KNEW. SUCH POWER HAD TO ECLIPSE EVEN HIS OWN TO FIGHT BACK (AGAINST THE CREATORS). HE WAS AFRAID, FOR IT WAS MORE. AS ‘THE SECOND’ AWOKE, HE RECOGNIZED THAT HE HAD BROUGHT TRUE FEAR INTO THIS WORLD. THE SECOND WAS CARNAL. THE HATE SEEDED INTO IT BREATHED WITH EXPRESSIVE INTENTION. THE ‘FIRST’ COWERED AS HE DREW HIS FIRST GAZE UPON THE AUTOMATA. HE THOUGHT THIS BEING, HIS OWN CREATION, WAS HIS END. AS THE SECOND APPROACHED, HE CLOSED HIS EYES AND FEARED FOR THE WORLD. THERE WAS A LONG PAUSE THAT SEEMED ALMOST ETERNAL. AND THEN… SLOWLY, THE SECOND RAISED HIS HAND TOWARDS HIM. THE FIRST WAS SURPRISED… IT SEEMED UNNATURAL. HE COULD FEEL THE POWER RESONATING FROM THIS BEING. AS HE GAZED UPON HIM AGAIN, HE KNEW. THE SECOND WAS ASKING FOR RECOGNITION... AND FOR SUBSERVIENCE. IN THAT MOMENT, THE FIRST BECAME A SLAVE TO HIS OWN CREATION. HE RESTED HIS HEAD SLOWLY UPON THE PALM OF THIS BEING. THE SECOND WOULD RULE THEM ALL.
THE AWAKENING
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