March of the Oppressors

Let's do it."

"There is further bad news that we have to consider," Mrs. Johnson remarked, "I was saving this for last but I guess this is as good a time as any."

"What do you mean," Sally Goode asked.

"Well, it seems that the organization is placing a price on all of the old folks, mostly the street people, the homeless. This means that for every person turned in, they pay a price. This is leading to bounty hunters, who are taking the people in for the money. We have to move fast to get the conversion process instigated and the chip modified."

"That's terrible," Tom remarked. "Is THIS confirmed information."

"Yes, we have it directly from a memo on the Net that someone intercepted."

"Well, let's get down to work, we have a lot of planning to do if we are going to survive," Tom suggested.

"Yes, let's," Everyone agreed.

Six-months later. Tom and Elizabeth went through the transformation successfully and lived in their little home with little attention from the organization. The Robin Hood Foundation was founded and flourished by channeling small amounts of value tips into their own accounts. Most of the members followed Tom and Elizabeth in the transformation process. The street people continued to attend the meetings and thus were informed and conformed to the new ways. They acquired the assistance of many scientists and engineers' as well as financial backing from some of the very bankers that the organization thought that they had under their wing. Their greatest procurement came in the form of BorOnWed which meant born on Wednesday. BorOnWed was a genetically engineered robot who had knowledge far beyond any of them and not only that but he was an expert at hacking the UniNet. He was able to reengineer the chips so that the organization received nothing but false information. Over a period of time, they would be able to completely destroy the organizations' own system and replace it with their own. The UniNet was so complex that they did not have enough people to monitor everything that went on and the RHF as it was getting to be called, was able to open up new channels so that they could communicate, unnoticed.

And so it was, that the aged people, who were the poor people, finally had a chance to make a life for themselves in a world created by science for the rich and powerful. The aged gained a new body, a new life and renewed their effort to destroy the very misguided social structure that had created them. These people could do something that nobody before them had ever done, they could live almost forever if they so desired. In March, 2576, miracles were finally happening. Science that was once the master would now be the slave. The same biological creatures that had been created on the earth millions of years ago gladly shared their world with the creatures that they had created, as it should be. Eventually, all creatures would be the same.