Wardens

The narrow corridor led to a central hub where there seemed to be branches of the building behind huge metal doors. Vega led the group through one of those doors and into a room where some sort of surgical operation procedure was being undertaken. The object of the procedure however was concealed from view via a large white covering which extended along the length of the table. Several members of the operating staff crowded around the table at one end.
The group stood outside the operating area looking through floor to ceiling glass panes.
“What are they doing?” asked Emmanuel.
“Research! We only just captured our first specimen of those wretched Sentinels alive and in an effort to understand how their telepathy organs function. We have been researching the complexities of their anatomy for a long time but they have a way of terminating their own lives at will so this is why we have not been able to get one live before now.” Vega explained
“How did you get this one?” asked Kennick
“Trap! Our new development in reality augmentation has proved rather useful on these critters, it seems they can’t read machine minds! Our AI engine has tipped the tide in this war.” Replied Vega
“Wait what war?” Jason asked
“My boy! We are more alike than you think. Sure we go by the name Wardens. But we are mere iterations of yourselves! We are humans! Only from further into the future. See all this started several years ago on your current timeline, you all may well remember the bug everyone feared at the dawn of the second millennium after the death of Christ’s death. Well, the technology sector was on a push to create an artificial intelligence which would eventually make our lives immensely easier than what it was, or I should say what it currently is in your cases. But a company called Neural Connect was secretly developing a way to augment humans to be programmable like a computer in effect making them bio-mechanic or bio-electric.
It was an ambitious project and over the decades ti seemed as though it would never happen. Around 1700 years form this current date we had fully masters the craft of nuclear fusion and with reactors fully operational, we had arrived at our utopia. Abundant energy, artificial intelligence was deployed across the industries of our civilization and everything seemed to have peaked.
Plants were at the maximum threshold of their yields, fish farms were so successful that the oceans slowly became overrun with life. Fishing lost its appeal as the abundance of fishes made them particularly throw themselves at you. Heck we made emerging species an extinct art. Bird shit piled as high as houses. But it seemed we were only getting started. The soil was so super fertile from all the excess animal droppings that synthetic fertilizers were eventually outlawed. Forests grew to their maximum potentials. Soon it was obvious humans needed to branch out.
Now we’d long since established colonies on every potential habitable rock in our solar system and with so many outposts this solar system became rather small. Space elevators lifted all supplies to the relevant depots to be carried to the outposts. Mars was fully teraformed, Titan and several other moons were in the process of having their atmospheres thickened. Still we drove ourselves to boredom. Everything done by machine.
The one thing you ought to know is humans are driven! Driven by dreams and nothing will ever escape these dreams. Work on a time engine had been ongoing for some time and in preparation of its launch we had designed the light sail which we could use pulse lasers to drive to extreme speeds. Having launched several crafts on these pulses of light we had sent packages to alpha century and its worlds. All the while several departments of science were making advances on projects which would revolutionize the world.
Variants of several extinct species were re-animated using gene recovered from fossils and living relatives of these species. But this private firm Neural Connect was secretly grinding away at their project. Once almost ignored, now they had iterations of robot cockroach, robot chicken, robot dog, an all sorts of animals which could be programmed or controlled via electricity. They had realized they would need to inject their brain mesh into the fetuses of whichever species they desired and as the fetus developed it would integrate the mesh within its biology from brain to limbs to all organs bones and tissues. Combined with knowledge learned from the electric eels another electrical organisms.