[ well, at least he has a napkin to sort them out onto. small mercies. jack shrugs one shoulder on being complimented.

some days, it definitely didn't feel like one, that was for sure. the question on what they were fighting, goes unanswered as he picks through the edamame pods for a moment. ]

Omnics. A company had the idea of creating robots that would help humans. They went defunct and shut down, but the Omniums they produced - factories that self ran, that could learn and improve - didn't, and kept going for decades. The Omnium software became what it called a god program, and they sent Omnics to attack us.