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The year is 3098; humans and robots are engaged in a fierce war for survival, control, territory and scarce resources.

They have been locked in combat for close to half a century now.

The Humynx (human alliance) comprising the minority groups of apes, humairds (flying humans), humans and the majority advanced Humanoids are led by the Humenes the last-stage-humans with superior psychic capabilities. They have taken residence in the belly of Everest herself, to be close to the last remaining source of natural heat on earth.

The machine alliance comprising the 10th generation robots has superior intelligence only matched by the Humenes. They populate the southern hemisphere in mega machine cities with their capital, Atlantyx, the pearl of the South.

The internet has long crashed, a 5 string code that had bound the world wide web together, known only to its maker the immortal brain, Sir Tim Berners Lee was stolen from his secret safe in the vaults beneath the Fort Knox.

It fell into the hands of the 5th generation humanoid robots in 2658 who exploited it in their operation “Purple Kidney” which sucked all  data off the internet crashing it in the process. The horrors of this day are still remembered by the human race in what they label Purple Monday.

Big Data that had been harvested is stored in level 10 secret facilities near the earth’s core under Atlantyx.

Climate change has long caused its worst; the earth is now barren land. Water and food are 3D printed in high-end level 10 facilities and distributed by Wybyx, the supposed successor to the Web. The sun is almost burned out.

The last alliance of civilisations worked on a replacement having decoded the nuclear fusion reaction with the help of Einsteinis IX, 5th generation brain from Albert Einstein cultured in the foremost Biotech facility known to the Human race.

In the midst of all this turmoil, the last charge that will destroy or build the earth is nigh.

In a small hamlet, in faraway northern lands of Aphrykantu, a video is discovered in the most mysterious of circumstances.

The video shows a recording from the 21st century, the year is 2014, the month June, Thursday the 24th, the then leader of the free world a black man of the human race by name Barack Obama meets the 1st generation Ancestor, ASIMO of present day High Byte (the leader of the machines) Optimus XX.

…. In that meeting they shared pleasantries and engaged in a brief game of football, an ancient human game.

This very act of mutual respect, hard to come by these days is viewed by all as a gesture that could lead to eternal peace between races!!!

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