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‘We fell into a rhythm. Arms races followed by massive conflicts.
We’d pepper each other with all kinds of super-exotic weaponry in delightfully elaborate
successions of thrusts and feints and counters. But in the end nothing could match the hit of central
thermonuclear exchange. We always ended throwing everything we had at each other, in arsenal-clearing
deployments. After the devastation, we rebuilt towards another devastation. No complaints. Shelter culture
had come on a long way. Casualties could be patched up good as new. And fatalities were simply
resurrected – except, of course, in cases out outright vaporisation. The lulls lasted centuries.
The battles were over in an afternoon.’
Martin Amis
‘The Janitor of Mars’
‘Of most interest is a report I have received from Fulcrum, our morphcore specialist. As you now,
he has spent the last few months comparing the handful of tests run on our sample with the
descriptions of spontaneous replication found in the Primal Pentateuch’s more accessible passages.
He believes that this so-called “biomorphic” reproduction is not only possible,
but that it was once practised by everyone on the planet
The theoscientists are bleating on about genetic memory and the sanctity of some Primal mindgap
designed to obfuscate this method of auto-procreation. They say that attempting to create life outside
the Matrix is blasphemous; they say we were never meant to get this far.
I spit on their concerns. This is an opportunity to spread our influence across the galaxy.’
Extract from Trannis’s annual address to the Decepticon High Command,
50 years before the Great Exodus
‘No Autobots.’
Sign outside Maccadam’s Oil House, circa 4 million years BC