Insurgence

The year is 2046. We are on a mission to save someone, someone very important.

In the year 2026, a technology came up, one created by yours friendly Victor Enesi. Transference, I called the company. I created a device that was capable of downloading one's consciousness, groundbreaking technology, I tell you. Using an electrode cap connected to a supercomputer, the software (Eye) would upload and model electrical signals in the brain. The uploaded signals would then be converted to thought patterns that display sentience. The virtual you could answer questions and talk like the real you. So in a way you'd be living in a computer world but you'd still be yourself in the real world. Eye was merely a software to upload your consciousness. And Eye was also online, meaning that two or more people could meet and be aware of their meeting in the virtual world, and could also do nasty things (perks of the virtual world... what happens in the virtual world stays in the virtual world).

But in 2036 there was a problem. KIRIA robotics -- the groundbreaking Japanese robotics company suddenly lost control of their automated production. Robots began producing robot at an alarming rate. They called it a glitch as did every other giant company that got something wrong with their AI. And after a few months these robots began displaying an incredible level of intelligence. Prior to this, sometime between 2022 and 2025, the major cities of the world (including Lagos) began deploying robots to police checkpoints and also homes. Yes, robots served well at homes. Domesticated robots, we called them. They changed baby diapers, they cooked foods, they practically took over homes, doing chores and whatnot. But by 2036 there was an uprising. Just like humans, the robots came up with their policies; they wanted a chip implanted into every human's cerebral cortex. They practically wanted to turn us into their own robots. Those scoundrels!

So it wasn't any surprise when Facebook founder -- Mark Zuckerberg -- gave me a call. Mark and I understood where the uprising was headed, we understood the nature of evolution, we understood that our time was almost up. Mark suggested that Facebook merge with Transcendence because his company was more guarded, more firewalls, you know. Of course, by the year 2036 every human had an electrode cap, it was like an earpiece. He suggested that we send an encrypted message to everyone around the world to upload their consciousnesses. This wasn't going to be the usual virtual world visit routine, it was final. More than 500 million humans that refused the chip implant had already been killed by the robots, it was a dystopia indeed. Mark Zuckerberg was going to further upload everyone's consciousness unto the Facebook servers. Facebook's servers were well hidden from view, but the Transference complex was a well known site and getting Mark there wasn't going to be easy. Either way, we got there safely and it was time to transfer everyone's consciousness from the Eye motherboard unto Facebook's servers. The transfer was successful.

The year is 2046 and any human left is but a biological robot. The robots succeeded in annihilating humankind, but by then humans had evolved, thanks to Mark Zuckerberg's timely intervention. Now we all exist in a virtual world called Zuckerville. We exist as faces. There are billions of faces in Zukerville. But there is a problem. A significant population of robots also uploaded their faces (not consciousness). They detected the transfer at the nick of time and forced their way through the encryption and created their Facebook accounts. We call them the faceless. The faceless are the major threats to the peace in Zuckerville. They add faces and trap them within their walls. And now they've got Mark Zuckerberg's face! And I and my friends must save him.

I'm currently with two friends, Joe Aito and Jerry Chi. I don't like Joe's face, but he's very convincing. He can help us share the mission with other faces to help us save Mark Zuckerberg's face and restore peace to Zuckerville. Jerry's face is a charming face, the girls love him. Maybe he can also invite more girls to join the Group. The Group just like any millitary is responsible for keeping the peace in Zuckerville. From the intelligence we've been able to dig up, Mark and some other faces are being held hostage by about two billion faceless, they have joined their walls together to form a fortress around their captives and block anyone from entering. We need more that two billion faces to break the wall and win the war after which we will deactivate the faceless scoundrels from our beloved Zuckerville. They drove us away from our former world, and now they want to invade this one. A department of the Group responsible for reinforcing the firewall clearly are not working hard enough, because how then did the faceless get so many?

With the help of more friends; Walter, Dee, Farida, Davis, Emily, Ordiah,N'austin, Elizabeth, Enny, Ishaili, Kemjy, Emem, Leke, Idem, Kelvin,Chucks, Daniel, Edwin, Emmanuel, and so many others, we now boast a number above three billion faces that have joined the Group. Now we are ready for war. We shall travel along a tiring but stealthy timeline, they mustn't know of our movement.

When we get there, there are about 100,000,000 faces guarding the fortress. We tag each other as we prepare to ambush.

"For Zuckerberg! For Zuckerville!" we shout as we charge forward.