Mich and California/Transcript

Encryption #76-38-58-19

Agents Mich and California are due for Bio-Augmentation

Zurich facility is the best in these cases

Date: 08:15Hrs Nov 21st 2065

Computer: Downtown Zurich, final stop.

Coalescence Commuter Train

7:30 | Dec 12, 2054

(Mich gasps.)

Taylor: Hey - you still with us? Welcome back.

Mich: Taylor?

Taylor: Yeah. Do you know what's happening to you?

(Mich looks at his now robotic arms.)

Mich: Am I dreaming?

Taylor: Well... Let's say you are. Why not just go with it, right? After all, you can always wake up. (Gets up from his seat) December 12, 2054. We're on board a private commuter train headed to the Zurich headquaters of the Coalescence Corporation. Our, uh, cargo... Prototype for the Order of the Just's Neural Network Initiative. At its core, specialized AI software that's capable of... rewriting itself... in order to interface with any other system in the world. State of the art stuff, back in the day. It'd go one to revolutionize a broad range of military and civilian applications... At least, it would have... if the the train had reached its destination.

(An explosion is heard from the back of the train. The back car explodes and the car Mich is in flips over, causing him to flip around. All of a sudden, everything freezes and Taylor reappears.)

Taylor: At 7:31am, a terrorist group detonated an explosive device on board this train. The incident set back our robotics program... several years. You're to stop it.

Mich: This isn't real. It can't be. What is happening to me?

Taylor: Right now? Right now, you're in a medically induced coma being prepped for surgery. You've got a new bit of hardware inside your head. It's called a Direct Neural Interface, or DNI. I've got one, too - that's how I'm able to communicate with you. Your DNI is what connects you to your new body and the larger world around you. We're connected. All this... is a simulation inside our minds... and you got a long way to go.