The Long Road

04/26/2003 Archived Entry: "Connect the Dots"

In the early 21st century, the first sentient computer was created: Skynet. Initially improving the lives of the people of Earth, it was not long before Skynet turned on its makers. With the help of its mechanical warriors, the Terminators, Skynet was able to overthrow humanity. Unprepared and outmatched, only a small band of humans remained led by John Connor who had trained his whole life to fight the machines. On his death bed, John Connor vowed that he would one day return to continue the battle.

Slowly losing the war, humanity retreated, hiding deep within the crust of the Earth. The Machines, feeding their ever growing need for energy, began to use humans as biological batteries. Countless humans were grown and connected to The Machines; their consciousness kept active trough a complex virtual reality known as The Matrix. For hundreds of years the war was at a stalemate. The Machines could not find the remnants of human civilization and humanity had no hope of winning. It was not until Neo had arrived that the tides changed. Believed to be the reincarnation of John Connor, Neo undid The Matrix and unleashed dormant humanity on The Machines. Its consciousness free of enslavement, humanity divided itself into factions to fight the war. Each faction eventually became known as a House.

For generations, the war endured on Earth and in other worlds. It was not until all the great Houses united that the last of the thinking machines were exterminated. So great became the fear of thinking machines that after the war, both law and religion explicitly forbid the creation of machines that would mimic the form and thought processes of man.

Utilizing the spice Melange, found only on the desert planet Arrakis, it became possible to travel between any two points in space in the blink of an eye. Finally unshackled, humans expanded throughout the universe, and colonized a million worlds. For fifteen thousand years, not a single thinking machine was seen again.

Replies: 7 comments

The encyclopedia says nothing of Neo!

Posted by Romer @ 04/26/2003 04:19 AM EST

haha, love it!!
YOu forgot to interleave Star Trek or Star Wars into it somehow though...

Posted by sbdep @ 04/27/2003 05:06 PM EST

I dunno...throwing those 2 other franchises in would be pretty difficult. I can't really think of a way that would make 'em work even with lots of fudging. Points to anyone who CAN!

Posted by Rayne @ 04/27/2003 08:28 PM EST

throw star wars in before any of these happen, as like mythology of an ancient space civ discovered, and put star trek in as the precursor to the dune storyline

Posted by shawnathan @ 04/28/2003 01:38 AM EST

but you can't have Star Trek before Dune because Star Trek never ever mentions any machine wars and in Dune there are no aliens, everyone's a human. It doesn't fit at all.

And Star Wars happens like a long time ago in a galaxy far far away.

Posted by Rayne @ 04/28/2003 08:17 PM EST

ya, whatever. so they just never mention any of those things happenning. as a last retort, the machines wipe of the humans minds and reocrds of events concerning the robot wars. there. but by the time due comes around, they have managed to discover this war against the robots

Posted by shawnathan @ 04/29/2003 01:37 AM EST

but..but...what about all the aliens in star trek, they can't all suddenly dissapear! and the years are so specific in trek...like they have the timeline mapped out from 2000 to 2400. whatever, i just don't think it works in there. its nowhere near as cool to have trek in there as well =P

Posted by Rayne @ 05/01/2003 07:27 PM EST