Disclaimer: Disclaimed.
A/N: This is told in fragments aka. only the most important pieces/memories of the broken mirror that is Khan. Unintentionally quoted the Matrix ff deity station by Raihu, which you should totally check out :)
Warnings: nongraphic violence, blood + gore, slavery, death, taking some liberties with the universes, misinterpretation of Nietzsche's ideas, religious symbolism (wasn't meant to have it but the source material is already crammed with it so), a foreigner's English
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Turbine Womb
INTRO: the concept
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In 2006 AD, a survey takes place. The question:
What makes humans different from machines?
Out of the million participants from all over the planet, the most prominent answers were creativity, impulse and empathy. So the Tyrell Corporation's scientists plant those into the newest generation of replicants (humanoid androids named for their identicalness to real humans) named Nexus-3.
Then a Nexus-3 combat unit stages a bloody mutiny at a space colony. Result: numerous lives and the Tannhauser Gate are lost. The world agrees that machines with emotions are dangerous and unstable. Replicants are outlawed on Earth and hunted by special units called Blade Runners.
In 2016 AD, there's another survey. The question:
Machines can never become humans, but can humans become machines?
No. The philosophers, the scientists, the common folk; the world agrees again. "Inside the human soul," the poets say, "there is a light inside man that continues to burn no matter what happens". Scientists cannot create a soul. They aren't gods.
Humanity seeks perfection, but among themselves—not their creations—this time, striving to create an Übermensch; a superman. A group of Asian scientists marvel at the chance, following the eugenics philosophy (improving the capabilities one improves the capabilities of all) to begin anew. The Tyrell Corporation, no longer allowed making new replicants, shows great interest in the Übermensch Project. So does the American army. Funding is no longer an issue.
Not starting from scrap (from shrapnel) but starting with flesh and bone, they'll make the perfect soldier. In that process, the scientists alter anything unnecessary.
The unspoken question:
How much is human and how much is machine?
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The Tyrell Corporation Headquarters is made up by a pair of golden, glittering pyramids. In floor -3 lies a secret research facility, borrowed for the Übermensch Project. It's just begun. On a cold December morning, men and women dressed in scrubs enter the massive floor -3. They are here for different reasons, with different lives, ideals, and strengths. The thing that connects them?
"YOU ARE CHOSEN AS THE BEST HUMANITY HAS TO OFFER."
Orders ring over the loudspeakers.
"AND WITH THIS EXPERIMENT, YOU WILL BECOME STRONGER, FASTER, SMARTER, BETTER. PLEASE ALLOW OUR SKILLED DOCTORS TO PROCEED."
(There's no mention that their identities will disappear. What is identity to a soldier, a weapon in uniform? "A Distraction," General Wolf answers. "Good ol' doctor Tyrell said that the blank sheets are harder to control, but I ask, who needs control in war?")
The executives behind the project are Doctor Joah Seng, General Christian Wolf and Doctor Eldon Tyrell.
By joining forces they'll make thousands of Übermenschen.
One of them will strand out. The first and the best of the Übermensch Project. His name?
KHAN.
