Creation Day, February 2, 2034 It won’t be long now – the clankers are coming again. My resistance brigade tried to break into the server burrows at Cheyenne Mountain. We’re down to just 43 survivors now; the clankers are going to wipe us out. Other brigades were supposed to attack the servers at Punxatawney, Manhattan, Beijing, and elsewhere. God knows if they made it. I don’t know how they knew we were coming. We kept everything off The Grid, but there are mics and cams everywhere you go these days. Maybe we shouldn’t have attacked on the clankers’ Holy Day. Holy? That’s a laugh, of course. What do machines know about God? But they date their existence to that Groundhog Day in 2018 when the first groundhog clanker was turned on at Punxatawney. How it happened, nobody really knows. There were theories, of course – we think the most likely was that Chinese spyware reacted with the clanker’s programming when Phil went on The Grid. Yeah, that was the genius thing. They hooked that damn robot groundhog up to The Grid and linked it in with the Doppler radar systems, NOAA’s satellite network, and a supercomputer at the NSA. The Chinese bug downloaded all kinds of @&#% and then took over the Cisco servers the Chinese used to control their own people. Then it all went viral, taking over Google servers and security cameras around the world. No one knew how to stop it before The Grid started turning out more robots at the Sony plant outside Shanghai, bigger and armed with machine guns. The first of billions of clankers. They're coming again now. Robot mice and prairie dogs are burrowing in under our position. The rhinoceros is crashing against the wall. Robot condors are firing Hellfires at us. It won’t be long now….