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The New Myths
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The gruesome truths were announced some two months after the disappearance. Mass graves of cyborgs were uncovered, and an official report published. The zeta-five program had developed a fatal flaw that spread quickly through the linked cybernetic consciousness and crippled many essential functions, causing what was speculated to have been ‘…an excruciatingly agonising death caused by a complete disorganisation of the brains ability to coordinate nerve information…causing intense body spasms… finally heart failure and/or lung seizure…’. Professor Knutsvik’s body was not among those found.
Though this chapter in our history has finished, and the zeta-five project permanently closed, the legend, apparently, had only just begun. Constant speculation about the fate of Aki Zeta-Five has lead to many wild stories. Conspiracy theorists claim she and her followers where murdered by the Good Academian, to protect his position, others claim he is using them as slaves to fuel his research. The most popular theory though, is that her and some of her followers escaped into the wilds, where now they live still.
Now there are stories or people being saved from mind worms by ‘metallic angels’ who then disappear back into the fungus once the danger is over. People in some of the more remote homestead’s claim that dark figures with robotic hands steal unprotected children in the night.
Most outrageous of all, are those who claim to have visited cities of the cyborgs. Accounts printed in the tabloids speaks of cities organised in the structure of a super processor, with every individual working as efficiently as machines to guide research.
The rumours of a cybernetic community seemed to be proven real when last year it was reported that there had been a conflict with a colony pod manned by cyborgs. The official line is still that these where the last of the cyborgs, who initiated a conflict and where destroyed. The truth though was that it seemed this group of people, who called themselves cyborgs, where in fact looking for the legendary ‘Alpha Prime’, and not in anyway possessed by the zeta-five alogorithm. It is rumoured that some fifty people a year leave the safety of the bases to search for the legendary Cybernetic Consciousness, many not returning.
It is no surprise that we should desire such myths, we live in a world that is still new and alien to us. The idea that we can reach some sort of rational perfection, and gain greater understanding of ourselves and the world we live in is appealing to most. The cybernetic cities are now an ‘information’ El Dorado, a city of wonders. The truth may be a tragedy, but Aki Zeta-Five does live on in a very real sense – in our imagination.
[This message has been edited by XWaste (edited September 24, 2000).]
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The gruesome truths were announced some two months after the disappearance. Mass graves of cyborgs were uncovered, and an official report published. The zeta-five program had developed a fatal flaw that spread quickly through the linked cybernetic consciousness and crippled many essential functions, causing what was speculated to have been ‘…an excruciatingly agonising death caused by a complete disorganisation of the brains ability to coordinate nerve information…causing intense body spasms… finally heart failure and/or lung seizure…’. Professor Knutsvik’s body was not among those found.
Though this chapter in our history has finished, and the zeta-five project permanently closed, the legend, apparently, had only just begun. Constant speculation about the fate of Aki Zeta-Five has lead to many wild stories. Conspiracy theorists claim she and her followers where murdered by the Good Academian, to protect his position, others claim he is using them as slaves to fuel his research. The most popular theory though, is that her and some of her followers escaped into the wilds, where now they live still.
Now there are stories or people being saved from mind worms by ‘metallic angels’ who then disappear back into the fungus once the danger is over. People in some of the more remote homestead’s claim that dark figures with robotic hands steal unprotected children in the night.
Most outrageous of all, are those who claim to have visited cities of the cyborgs. Accounts printed in the tabloids speaks of cities organised in the structure of a super processor, with every individual working as efficiently as machines to guide research.
The rumours of a cybernetic community seemed to be proven real when last year it was reported that there had been a conflict with a colony pod manned by cyborgs. The official line is still that these where the last of the cyborgs, who initiated a conflict and where destroyed. The truth though was that it seemed this group of people, who called themselves cyborgs, where in fact looking for the legendary ‘Alpha Prime’, and not in anyway possessed by the zeta-five alogorithm. It is rumoured that some fifty people a year leave the safety of the bases to search for the legendary Cybernetic Consciousness, many not returning.
It is no surprise that we should desire such myths, we live in a world that is still new and alien to us. The idea that we can reach some sort of rational perfection, and gain greater understanding of ourselves and the world we live in is appealing to most. The cybernetic cities are now an ‘information’ El Dorado, a city of wonders. The truth may be a tragedy, but Aki Zeta-Five does live on in a very real sense – in our imagination.
[This message has been edited by XWaste (edited September 24, 2000).]
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