S.A.M. 92
By A. Rhea King
PROLOGUE
Year 2210
Androids slowly and meticulously fit humanoid aliens with mechanical limbs and implants. Two androids monitor the construction while four androids move around the room injecting the victims. On the monitors above images show the liquid flowing from the hypospray needle into the victim's yellow blood with thousands of mechanical looking creatures in the flow. The creatures quickly attach to the blood vessel walls and burrow through, entering into the victim's bodies. They begin repairing damaged or worn body parts with mechanical ones. A half android and half humanoid leaves the room and walks through the halls passing other half androids. It walks through a door onto a starship's bridge.
Other half humanoid and half androids are manning the controls. Alien humanoids lay unconscious on the floor in a pile. Several androids pick them up and leave with them. The android at the navigation controls is charting a course. The course takes the vessel around areas occupied by strong alien races and intercepts a handful of weaker ones. The line continues off the map into an area marked as 'Delta (Incognizant)'. There is an area on the chart — a position that is far behind their blinking current position — that is circled and crossed off like those of the stronger races they are headed toward. The area is Earth and encompasses all areas humans have reached since after the year 2160.