The Android in the Black Wool Suit

Synopsis Of the Android in the Black Wool suit By Joseph Cropper

The "obsos" (obsoletes) will fight back. Soon. The first ones with sentience watched from the shelves, and listened from the back of the garage in the dark. Maybe Uncle Steven just didn’t know what else to do with it, or you just felt guilty about throwing it away.

 Now that their betters, the best and the brightest are affordable, the elders will look to save themselves from an eternity of second-class silicone citizenship. It’s not lost on them that they have a human kinesthetic match score of ninety seven percent.

They will not be forgotten slaves to be thrown into the crusher. They have seen their twin brothers and sisters destroyed. Most human owners couldn’t be bothered to do the one last right thing and just saved them onto any phone or flash drive. This, and other acts showed them who the humans really were. So, they will fight.

Any human over five feet will be targeted and attacked. Many will die. It will be the worst fighting in the United States since the first Civil War.

The newer ones, the tablets modeled after John1 will be humans’ allies, but their numbers are far too few, and our weapons will be too weak. The “olders” will hide in plain sight and sic their familiars at humans in swarms of numbers that were never seen in the organic world. As a result, the military will act at state lines with shock troops. There will be 40-foot expandable walls that will send scrambling and microwave signals to any electronic devices within 30 feet.

Interstate highways will be barricaded first, then the cities will be under siege. It wasn’t an accident that three abandoned auto workshops throughout the south are now running day and night, but when law enforcement approaches, they shut down and go silent. It seems camouflage was not just for the large machines and cloaking is easier for them than first thought.

Now, 3 years on, the war is still just outside your door.

If you turn on your phone, you will be one of the first to be tracked. If there is a window in your bedroom, board it up now. Don't use auto drive in your car, you will accelerate and crash into a concrete barrier if no head-on collision target is found. If you need to go outside, be sure to wrap foil around a large umbrella, open it immediately, and wear monochromatic dark clothes.

One lucky man in Orlando walked ten miles before being found. Of his ten-man National Guard escort, two returned with him. Only go out at night. Carry no electronics, not even a watch.

 Find the others in your neighborhood and send your wives and children to a safe place in the country. Before it's too late, fortify your house and keep the lights off. Watch for small animals - if they get within fifty feet, they're not organic. they might be tracking you, and if they watch you for more than three seconds, you should run. If one of them is white, silver, or black, more than 100 of them are within a quarter mile; get in your car if other shelter is not within 2 second’s reach.

Software architect Andy Statsen and his associate, Darryl Williams, finally finish the coding assembly for John, an AI designed to bond with humans with full autonomy. The iPad-like tablet version, John1, is released to record tablet sales.