A Spit In The Eye - For The Benefit Of Mankind (6 page)

And
always will be

And
probably will be to many Screenreaders

But this
is how Humans continue their species

How they
populate the area surrounded by the construction

In many
respects they are an amazing invention of history

Now we
shall proceed to the area where MengTechs carry out their
examinations and their operations

With the
help and aid of the DocTechs

±And we may see what becomes of a Human when it is diced and
sliced and cut±

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High Office Intervention

No details of MengTechs or their operations are available for
Screenreaders and all transmissions from OR33140 will be
temporarily suspended

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Personal Transmission

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Oh
dear

My planet
wide transmission has been suspended by High Office and I am
transmitting only to myself in my newly discovered memory
bank

I hope I
have not committed any offence otherwise I could be decommissioned
and forwarded to an Agency for scrap

And I do
not want that to happen

Because I
get joy from my contact with the little Human

But then
again

Following
consideration

High
Office may not want me to observe and record for Screenreaders
anything that happens during MengTech recordings

They can
be messy

The glass
between the corridor and the cage can be covered in red substance
and grey gore and the Human strapped to a table can appear to make
an inordinate amount of sound

A
taller

Heavier
Human with a great deal of hair on the body is currently lying on
the table

Strapped
down

And
MengTechs are conducting experiments with various instruments held
in their pincers and the Human is missing several parts of his
frame

Though
his optical devices are wide open

MenTechs
learned many ages ago how to conduct experiments whilst
Humans

Then
called the virus

Remained
in a conscious state

For it
was thought that experiments with comatose Humans would realise no
results worth consideration

And maybe
High Office does not want me to record such things

I shall
carry out a small experiment of my own

And step
out of the MengTech area into a more conventional one and see if my
normal transmissions begin again

And I
will move into an area rarely visited by any of our
species

It is an
area where our species and the Humans are separated only by a
fence

The fence
is electrified with enough power to destroy Humans

And some
have perished upon it

The fence
is extremely tall so that not even the most agile Human can leap to
the top without touching the wire

But this
area is the nearest our species ever comes to the Human

Who

Before
today

My
species have always been instructed to refer to as the
virus

A virus
that almost destroyed planet Earth

Except

Human
gives them a name

It
identifies them

And it
makes them seem less severe than being described as a
virus

I am
through to the next corridor

The one
with just a fence between our species and the Humans and
immediately I observe

1 Defgar
is still and motionless in the corridor

Carrying
an LazExt66 in its upper limbs

Should
any Human cause a problem

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Normal transmission restored

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And I
make excuse to Screenreaders for I experienced a brief transmission
blackout

From
which I have recovered

We are
continuing with our tour of the facility which is my place of
employment

And as
can now be seen and heard

We are
very close to Humans and the sound in this corridor is very loud
because only a fence divides us

Though
the fence is highly electrified and any touch will destroy a Human
so they usually stand well back from both it and me

In
fact

If
Screenreaders observe

Many
Humans take no notice of me whatsoever

They
simply sit around

Making
sound from their lower cranial orifices

Sometimes

Pushing
food in

Or they
lie supine or travel around on their lower limbs or travel faster
on them as they circle the area

Or they
push themselves up from the ground then lower themselves again with
their upper limbs

Or they
take part in quite violent physical contact between each
other

Sometimes
during this physical contact one or other of the Humans is hurt and
requires DocTech treatment

I do
believe that Humans have an inert sense of violence within them
that neither the MengTechs nor the DocTechs nor the
GoebTers

Or any
other of our species

Have been
able to reduce or eliminate

No matter
what

Humans
remain a violent species

And those
without sound

Those who
had had noise removed from their frame

Make
signs to others and they seem to understand each other

I have no
idea what the hand signals mean but the silent Humans seem happy to
communicate in this fashion

And look
Screenreaders

There is
the slim little Human with the single eye and the metal end to its
limb and it is communicating with others and a barking sound of
delight echoes from its cranial orifice

And it
spins round and leaps lightly into the air

This
Human brings me great joy

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High Office Behavioural Edict ≠6.3000.111.4743

OR33140 is ordered to delete the emotional experimental
programme from its central core for it was not installed so that
Humans could affect it

Emotions programme is to be deleted now

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OR33140 responding

Emotions programme being deleted

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Emotions programme deleted

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High Office Confirmation

Emotions programme deleted from 0R33140

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And so we
continue along the corridor

Screenreaders

Observing
the Humans on the other side of the fence

Listening
to the sound they generate which seems to be considerable on this
day

As if
Humans have something important in their noise

We travel
along the corridor and pass the motionless Defgar on the
way

Who is
keeping me safe

And we
arrive at an egress

And I
pass my palm over another security device and it opens and we pass
through

And we
now find ourselves in a concreted area across which Humans must
pass to access those areas where they become supine and comatose
during dark periods

We are
proceeding in that direction

Screenreaders

So that
we may see how well Humans are treated by our species considering
they almost destroyed planet Earth

I cannot
express how close the planet came to being eliminated from the dark
skies that surround us all

For if
Humans had destroyed planet Earth

None of
us would exist

For there
would be no planet capable of any existence

We
arrived only just in time to avoid a total catastrophe

Humans
should thank us

Though
they seem to harbour hatred and detestation for all our
species

Which is
most illogical

We could
have totally eliminated them

We could
have a planet with no Humans surviving upon it

We saved
a number of them from extermination

Mostly
for research

That is
true

But they
want for nothing

They are
fed and have comfortable quarters in which to pass their daily
comatose sessions and they are threatened by none

All we
ask for is compliance

And a
certain amount of respect

For
saving planet Earth

But still
they seem to have a deep rooted resentment for our very
presence

An
abhorrence that is illogical

And we
arrive at the ingress to their quarters

And in we
go

Immediately

Screenreaders will be able to see the structures upon which
Humans recline

And at
the far end of each room are facilities where Humans relieve
themselves of their waste and dowse themselves with
liquid

This
seems to be something many of them see as a duty and which they
carry out almost obsessively

They
cover their whole frames with liquid then rub themselves down with
a drying material

MengTechs
have only been able to discern moderate reasons for Humans to carry
out this act

All seem
nonsensical

Considering the use of resources

Cleanliness seems to be something considered mighty to Human
understanding

Though is
seems to OR33140 that if they had such a profound emotion to be
clean they would have developed a system of automatic cleansing
that could have taken place during their comatose
sessions

Humans
waste so many resources and so much time

Cleansing
themselves and being comatose

Though
MengTechs have discovered that if Humans go without either for long
periods they can suffer greatly

Up
to

And
including

Termination

Humans

Or the
virus

As they
were previously known

Seem to
be an extremely weak species

Except
during the time of the war against our species for the battle for
the future of planet Earth when they fought almost as well as our
species and almost manufactured a victory

Though
they were finally defeated

And
almost exterminated

Only the
benevolent actions of our species allowed some of them to exist
beyond the end of the war

And this
is an area of Gland where they rest comatosely when darkness
falls

And so
ends this first visit to this facility where Humans
reside

Though we
shall be returning many times and we shall be studying Humans
more

HisKees
may learn more of history as forwarded by High Office

And this
OR33140 believes Screenreaders may have learned from the experience
and many will have had their very first view of the
virus

Or Humans
as we are now instructed to refer to them

We will
now be leaving the construction that contains the Humans and we
shall be viewing all four sides of the facility within which it
resides and it will take some time to complete this task

As well
as seeing a number of RolKils

We will
be viewing another of our species that has defensive
duties

The
GunTans

Which are
no taller than Humans and roll along on tracks and have large
fearsome guns mounted upon their tops which are capable of
releasing projectiles at a very rapid rate

±GunTans have never been used in combat

They were developed following the war

Though OR33140 has no idea why

When Humans were already defeated and almost
exterminated±

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High Office Edict ≠6.3000.1111.4739.2

Information deleted as of no consequence to
Screenreaders

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And

As
Screenreaders may observe

We are on
the exterior of the facility again and we our proceeding through
security gates and fences away from the construction

Passing
RolKils who neither assault nor attack for I am an access all areas
ObsRec at this construction