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© 1998 J. Goss Original Art © 1998 Matt Childers

In the not too distant future, The United States and its allies enter a war so brutal, so deadly, normal soldiers are not enough. The quest for a new super-soldier to match the mystery men of the last great war leads to a company called AmeriCorp being commissioned to create cyborg soldiers -- half man, half machine and all killer. Against all the odds, they succeeded...

...up to a point.

The man/machine interface was flawed, fatally so; it seems the human mind is not properly conditioned to working under such stress. After a while, the cyber-soldiers turned burner, becoming psychotic, merciless and virtually unstoppable death machines, spreading death and destruction indiscrimanently.

Some people saw this as an advantage.

Then came the turning point. A scientist named Davis Boyd designed a regulator chip that allowed man and machine to interface successfully and painlessly. The Davis cyborgs turned the tide and won the war.

Now the soldiers return from war. America had created two sub-classes, one of then unstable but at the same time, undistinguishable from the others. The soldiers become disenfranchised. Children with cyborg arms are disowned by parents, wives with replacement limbs are divorced. The average citizen cannot look at a cyborg without imagining all the people they have killed, even if they are stable.

And there's always that small chance that they might not be.

Different cyborgs react to the bias in their own manner; renegade cliques begin to form as anti-cyborg hysteria begins to get out of hand. The new, post-war government quickly forms the Commission to monitor, regulate, and if they must, kill rogues in an attempt to appease the people; an attempt that might just have worked.

And then, just as things seem to be evening out, everything goes to hell.

In the middle of advanced cybernetic research, Davis Boyd is attacked and his children almost killed. Saving their lives by creating possibly the youngest cyborgs in existence, Davis destroys his notes and goes into hiding, leaving his children alone against a world that hates and fears them.

Now they must begin their quest for their father -- unaware that others too are searching for the missing scientist. People who will do anything to get what they want...

Coming soon.