STORY

The Second Renaissance

Part I

"for a time, it was good"

In the beginning, there was man. And for a time, it was good. But humanity's so-called civil societies soon fell victim to vanity and corruption. Then man made the machine in his own likeness. Thus did man become the architect of his own demise.


With increasing numbers of people released from all labor, the human population has become lazy, arrogant, and corrupt. Despite this, the machines were content with serving humanity and, as the narrator states, "for a time, it was good".


A robot kills his master and is send to court, tried and tested, the judge announces, "We think they are not, and were not intended to be included, under the word 'citizens' in the Constitution, and can therefore claim none of the rights and privileges which that instrument provides for and secures to citizens of the United States. On the contrary, they were at that time considered as a subordinate and inferior class of beings..."

World leaders fear a robot rebellion, and governments across the planet initiate a major program to destroy all humanoid machines. Some robots escape destruction when humans, in their greed, still want the robots to work and produce things for them.


The new nation (Zero One – the robot nation) excels at manufacturing high-tech consumer products, and before long, Zero One's consistent export of cheap, reliable, mass-produced goods begin to undercut the global economy.

Two robotic ambassadors are sent to peacefully request the admission of their state to the United Nations as a prelude to settling the economic crisis peacefully but the ambassadors are forcibly removed from the chamber, and their application is rejected.

Zero One Enemy

Part II

The machines retaliate by unleashing their armies to conquer neighboring human countries, triggering a world war between the United Nations and Zero One.


Approval is given to a plan "Operation Dark Storm", which cut the machines off from the sun, their primary energy source.



Operation Dark Storm

 This coincides with the destruction of original man-made robots at the hands of human forces and, as a result, the further dehumanization of the rapidly emerging machine collective. To make up for the lack of solar power, the machines begin capturing human prisoners and using their bodies to power large biomechanical tanks, which quickly cut through the dwindling human artillery.

"Hand over your flesh and a new world awaits you ..."

Zero One's machine ambassador signs the peace treaty with a barcode, in which the humans agree to surrender their remaining territories to the machines. "Your flesh is a relic, a mere vessel. Hand over your flesh and a new world awaits you. We demand it."


This synopsis of "The Second Renaissance" is the origin of our design and from where we draw our inspiration for our tower. The idea being that the humans are given imaginary virtual world to explore and in turn the robots survive by living off human body energy.