They had a secret innovation they were trying—the Daedalus program—to help the soldiers coming back.” “What sort of innovation?” Jericho took a deep breath. “A merging of man and machine. A human-automaton hybrid,” Jericho said. “They would replace what had been damaged beyond repair in the war or by disease with steel and wires and cogs. We would be the perfect miracle of the industrial age. The robotnik. You’re staring.”
