"So, mister dumb-ass author decided to be a dumb-ass again, and come up with another dumb-ass idea. No way this idea is going anywhere with him in charge, but he felt the least he could do would be to send this out in hopes of inspiring others. Good luck, you'll need it."
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"If they are nearly indistinguishable from humans, then where does the machine end and life begin?"
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Earth. A large sphere of rock floating through space, a surface made up of over 70% water, and an atmosphere of gasses that allowed for sustainable life. For the entirety of recorded history, it had been the human race who stood tall as the dominant species. But that was not always the case. Countless millennia before the emergence of homo-sapiens, the race of reptiles known collectively as dinosaurs where the ones who held claim of the land. They may not have been as intelligent as humans, but they still ruled the planet. And it was a rule that came to an abrupt halt. A mass extinction caused by a meteor, made way for the next cycle of life to begin. The cycle where humans would eventually come out on top.
Yet humanity never once thought that they would befall the same fate as the dinosaurs. They were wrong...
It may not have been the same form of cosmic intervention, but once again it was something from beyond the stars that brought humanity to its knees and snapped their necks. But before the human race was dead and gone, they attempted to combat their space-borne enemy through the use of man-made race of 'machines' known as androids. The androids were humanity's last and best hope for surviving the alien incursion. With their numbers dwindling, humans needed a force to combat the enemy to ensure their own survival. But this plan came too late to save those who remained.
Humanity finally became extinct, and the world was inherited by the androids. The sentient race of robots who would continue to combat the Machine menace, even though their creators had long since perished. But there was something poetically ironic about the whole situation.
The androids succeeded their human creators, while the machines succeeded their alien creators. Neither side was aware of the others loss of a commanding force. The aliens were hidden deep beneath the Earth, while YoRHa, the android Black Ops command force, created the ruse that the remnants of humanity had retreated to the moon for safety. Both sides had lost who they were fighting for, yet they continued their fight nonetheless. A fight that would pointlessly drag on for years and years...
However such a conflict came to an end in a way neither side could have predicted.
Back when the aliens first attacked, humanity devised a number of different plans in order to destroy their opposition, but they also made plans to escape from said opposition. Dubbed; Operation Exodus, deep space probes were sent out in search of other habitable planets that humanity could flee to. It was determined that should they fail to retake Earth, humanity would escape to the new potential home and rebuild their society there. All the humans would be put into cryo-sleep while the androids piloted a massive space vessel to the targeted planet. And although they had never received a response from any of the probes, construction on the spacecraft code-named 'Ark' had begun. Yet it wasn't until centuries after its completion that a probe signal had reached back to Earth.
Under normal circumstances such a development would be cast aside by YoRHa Command, seeing as how it was too late and there were no longer any humans to evacuate, but the probe managed to send back several screen captures.
They were images of a city inhabited by humans. Though the humans of Earth were dead, it appeared that humanity existed on other planets as well.
YoRHa took total command over all android forces and had them scramble to execute Operation Exodus under the pretense of evacuating the remnants of humanity to a new planet. But in reality it was a mission to join with the 'new' humanity that had been discovered.
It had been centuries since the last human had died and left the androids without a master. And now they finally could reunite with them.
