Skullberry

Details

Coloured pencils on 118 gr toned grey paper

22,8 cm x 30,5 cm

€ 180 (ex. shipping)

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The story

In the year 2028 Skynet went online.

It wiped out 58% of humanity in the first attack, 20% more in the assaults that followed. The rest of humanity however proved more difficult to terminate. Once again the resistance rose up, with John Connor as its leader. This time Skynet did not send a Terminator to kill the resistance leader. This time they tried to let him kill himself.

Skynet used their proven Terminator technology in combination with genetic engineering to create the perfect trap. John’s favorite fruit. A strawberry. Sweet, juicy… and deadly. Designed to grow fully autonomous they soon covered patches of land near the resistance bases. Too good to resist. They were just strawberries after all.

Skynets plan worked.

Not long after the introduction of the T-Nom-thousend, as Skynet called it, John bit down on one of the little things, and it exploded.

It was the victory Skynet had been waiting for all this time. But it was short lived. The objective of the T-Nom-thousand had been simple: Explode when eaten. Because of that, and its small size, it had minimal processing capacity. It was fully autonomous -it could even seed itself-, there was no link to Skynet. There was just no need, Skynet reasoned. So when the T-Nom-thousand became unstable, Skynet had no way to control it.

The humans quickly learned to avoid the randomly exploding patches of red and green, and to weed out anything that they hadn’t planted themselves. Instead they harvested the now deranged little murder fruits, and used them as weapons agains their maker. Skullberries, the humans called them now. They made some casualties among the resistance fighters of course, being so unstable. But Skynet could not detect its own technology, and a couple of Skullberries hidden in a transport to the Skynet mainframe proved devastating.

Less than two years after the introduction of the T-Nom-thousand, Skynet went offline for good.