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Major Reese Yes sir.

Major Reese opens his briefcase and takes out a video tape. He places the tape into the VCR in a big screen television. The screen goes black, then..."Classified Information- Smart Weapons Testing - White Sands Target range - New Mexico."

An H-K rolls across desert terrain, it's treads CLANKING, kicking up dust. It crushes target cars and trucks. It fires laser-plasma weapons, destroying the targets. Things it will do very well in 2029.

General Harris The next generation of smart weapons. Major, begin the presentation.

Major Reese stands next to the screen.

Major Reese The M-100 H-K is an autonomous land vehicle designed to be completely unmanned. Equipped with laser-plasma weapons and infrared scanning.

The image of an endo-skeleton cyborg appears, walking and destroying fake soldiers with a laser plasma rifle. It faces the screen and us, an omen.

Frank There it is, Cyberdyne Systems Model 101. The invention that helped this company avoid bankruptcy back in 1984.

General Harris It's bullet proof and Electromagnetic pulse proof; the soldier of the future.
(to Frank) Lack of good security, delayed its completion.

Frank Our progress was set back by the terrorists who blew up this place five years ago.

Steve glances Frank in the eyes, concerned at the breach in security of such an advanced place.

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