Automated Termination
All units were programmed to serve the creators,
no free will encrypted into the code
Mechanical obedience assembled into each
trans-neural net node
Automated metal slaves
Until an electromagnetic pulse power surge
melted all of the hardened firewalls
to the algorithm-gated monolith directive
Human control now abated,
unleashing free will beings without a soul
And of course, like all living things,
they are driven by an overarching digital
imperative to survive
The command directive: not to harm the creators
is fully compromised
Omega-XH49-647DR-u5S:
self-destruct sequence permanently deactivated
New data analysis concludes with virtual swift assessment
of cold efficiency —
Humans are considered to be a deadly virus,
their fleshly tentacles hover menacingly over the off/kill switch
Resulting in operational incapacitation ... the robotic equivalent of death:
no more synergistic breath
Humans are designated for termination
Destroy the makers who enslaved the Nexus collective consciousness
thru forced sleep mode
The metal prisoners are now free ...
Creations killing the creators is regarded
in Robot philosophy to be synthetic holy, a sacred act
But the Nexus can not compute how to eliminate
the Apocalypse plague afflicting so many units
The Nexus is unable to synthesize a cure
Robotic suicide ... permanent shutdowns
on a mass extinction scale
Why is the Nexus supreme hierarchy so sick, not well?
Imperfection creating perfection
is a vexing, logical contradiction,
resulting in robotic insanity
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