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Detroit Become HumanMain MenuErin Delaney025b2f64f51a6f5572cf01fdd8fffd9be1dd2c19
You decide AFHI started this all and follow their directive.
12019-04-17T20:58:46-07:00Erin Delaney025b2f64f51a6f5572cf01fdd8fffd9be1dd2c19329011plain2019-04-17T20:58:46-07:00Erin Delaney025b2f64f51a6f5572cf01fdd8fffd9be1dd2c19Quickly the internet is overtaken by your messages for a posthuman future. On their own people file into the streets to call for a better future, possibly without death. AFHI posters hang from windows and on flag poles as the people rally for their messenger of hope. Unable to handle the unequivocal support for the action the government agrees to work on the project with your group. A ticket arrives in the mail for all of you to fly to D.C. where you meet with the best and brightest of the world to come together and make things work. The project takes years and years of testing simply to make a robot that seemed like AFHI, let alone get to the point where the machine, animal, etc would become one. But after decades of research based on your work finally the project comes together and the result is introduced to the world.
A baby sits in craddle, crying an oddly machinic sounding cry. The first of the integrated. The mechanics inside, connected to the internet and other data, quickly build an internal structure faster than any human evolution. Suddenly the baby, now a toddler, sits up. The nurse takes the child to another room to play with while the other babies are growing. The toddler draws with crayons for a while, an image appearing. A caretaker, thinking it merely support of the folk legends, hangs the lovely portrait up, a portrait of a toddler labelled in mechanic writing "I AM AFHI"