The ruptured bodies of our fallen warriors are not burned or buried, but reused. Into great vaulted halls the corpses or near-corpses are loaded onto belt-fed machines furnished with scalpel fingers, circular saws, and micro-tentacles that slice, chop, and peel the muscle, bone, and skin apart. Dividing the meat into vats, the valuable stuff - the brain and the nerves - is siphoned elsewhere to be repaired and reprogrammed. Anything viable ends up in the assembly lines, where it is placed together into a facsimile of a warrior. Then it is given life. And very soon, it is ready for war again.
Paddy Dobson
15th May 2022