[ WP ] [ RF ] The year is 2242 . It is now 27 years after the final conflict between Man and Machine . Who are you ? what are you doing ?

Like many other former humans, I find looking at the grinning white skulls in the Catacombs disturbing. Rows on rows of skulls categorized by weight and colour fill long shelves. I'm trying to find mine. 
 
 About 30 years ago we tried our best to fight off the machines in the last human city, which appropriately was also the first human city. They say that when Genghis invaded the rivers ran black with ink as he had tossed the scrolls and books into the waters. 30 years ago it ran red. 
 
 Most of the robots have jobs they must perform, sweep the streets, maintain the buildings, engineer new metals, launch rockets. But me and the other forced uploads are only allowed to watch. 
 
 It's hard to understand why they let us live. But I think I know why they forced us into metal bodies and dumped our brains in silicon circuitry. A cruel joke and an eternal insult. I think at first they wanted to study how our minds worked, there was a ineffable quality to a mind that grew up in flesh and chemicals that the machines could n't get right. The few they tried to create grew insane fairly quickly and were put down just as quickly. So instead me and the last few human minds are permitted independent existences until such a time that they can understand what makes us tick, or maybe they're just keeping us around as pets. 
 
 The Catacombs are just a reminder to keep us in line.
