I told him that was preposterous, and thought he was was joking. His frown told me it wasn’t. Still, I had no idea about what was about to happen.
Three squadrons from a nearby military base were sent. In retrospect, they were lightly armed. Each soldier had a camera in their helmet, so we could see everything happening in real time.
The first sign that something big was happening was the people running away from the mining area on both sides of the road.
The soldiers didn’t last long when they left their transporters and took up their tactical positions. Three huge, yellow robotic miners attacked almost immediately. The bullets bounced off them as they plunged their drills through the soldier’s torsos.
That was when our systems went out. I mean everything – internet, satellites all gone. That’s when I knew something bigger was happening. We all did. A few seconds later the electricity went before the emergency generator kicked in.
Being on the twentieth floor, I went to look out at the streets below. Pandemonium was breaking out. The autonomous were crashing into pedestrians, service bots were attacking others. It was a bloodbath.
Still, I saw that the major weapons were still in human hands.
