[ Yes, do fill Venom in on how clones replaced nukes, because that future sounds far more horrifying than bipedal robots running amok— at the very least, machines are depersonalized, no matter what sort of AI they decide to equip them with (the Mammal Pod comes to mind). Twice removed from a human counterpart, there's no guilt in trashing a machine with a heart made of wires, no matter how deceptive the artifice, but can the same thing be said about clones?
He recalls an operation done in secret in his own world, "Les Enfants Terribles". How ironic that the children were never the terrible ones— only the man who decided that they should exist. ]
...So they've developed humans as a deterrent instead of nukes.
[ He says that with a tinge of disbelief, as if a man who's been shaped by conflict could ever be surprised about something like this anymore. Let's be real, none of this sounds particularly good (restricted zones??? jesus). What a bitter pill to swallow, the folly of humanity. ]
'KN gene'?
[ Asking for clarification in the fewest words possible, he opens and closes his metallic joints, reorients himself. ]
no subject
He recalls an operation done in secret in his own world, "Les Enfants Terribles". How ironic that the children were never the terrible ones— only the man who decided that they should exist. ]
...So they've developed humans as a deterrent instead of nukes.
[ He says that with a tinge of disbelief, as if a man who's been shaped by conflict could ever be surprised about something like this anymore. Let's be real, none of this sounds particularly good (restricted zones??? jesus). What a bitter pill to swallow, the folly of humanity. ]
'KN gene'?
[ Asking for clarification in the fewest words possible, he opens and closes his metallic joints, reorients himself. ]