Creative Writing: The Exoskeletons

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As the sun rose on the horizon over the East River, a young man named Rex woke in his apartment. The temperature outside was thirty-four degrees Fahrenheit, typical December weather. His morning routine was the same as any other three-hundred-year-old’s. A quick health scan by his M2-D2, a maid robot revealed that his health was optimal. He ate his breakfast, condensed into the size of a pill, slipped on his exoskeleton and rushed out of his apartment. He was late for work at Galactica, an intergalactic mining company. Galactica mined for germeralds throughout various planets in the galaxy. Gemeralds were used, along with adamantium, to create human exoskeletons. The exoskeletons formed a thin but powerful layer on the skin of an individual, protecting …show more content…
“The War is never going to happen again, stop being so paranoid,” she said.
“I know, but I just have this feeling that something it is about to go terribly wrong. What if the AI’s decide to eliminate humans? What if the we have been slowly handing our world over to them?”
“When have you last heard of a human birth? Or even a plant grown naturally? he screamed. They’re taken over Meg, they’re turning Earth into the cybernet. Our biological world is coming to an end”
“That’s never going to happen.That was the past, just get some sleep and you’ll forget about it,” she replied.
Meg tried to remain positive, but she knew in her heart that her husband was right. As Rex got into his bed, he thought about his day and continued to worry about the end of the anthropocene. Instead this He couldn’t help but wonder whether the AIs had designed the cytoskeletons to control human beings. Rex had previously voiced his concern to the human members of the Order, but they were afraid of inciting a future conflict.
“These devices aren’t enhancing use, they are becoming our lifeline. We can no longer exist in this new world without them, he thought.This world is theirs

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