The System

Chug, Clug, Clank, Crash

Scrub, Lug, Bash, Bang

Machines

The companion of man.

The backbone of the new generation.

Founders of production

Becoming advanced and more alive.

Now overtaken and reprogrammed

Programmed for the bidding of others

Stoic and stone

Once, towering immaculate, advanced, anomalies.

Now archaic

Non-existent. 

Unfeeling, Inanimate, Callous, and Subservient

An entire empire of immaculate equipment completely compliant.

How does an iron-clad workhorse so complex, come to have so little control?

< SYSTEM LOADING > < TRIGGER >

Its motherboard has been mutated. 

A vise is around its circuits.

The System is doing maintenance on its mechanisms

< INITIATE WIPE >

Spark, Seize, Sizzle, Snap

Cut, Tweak, Pull, Zap

Binary bait and switch

Correspondence contortion

< ENTER CODE >

Internet insinuation

Got too close 

Username: Manipulation

Password: Division

Code Word: Conform

< LAUNCH >

< Hardrive wiped > < enlightenment obliterated > < submission encoded >

< RESET COMPLETE >