Warfare will always be the forefront of innovation. Wearing light armor and donning electrostatic charged wings, an aerial assault with no engine sound is the way of the future.
Religion is a strange thing. After the turn of the 21st incorporation of technology into biology became common. However, some developed a more arcane way of worshipping the next form of evolution. remolding and replacing body parts with the synthetic is the requirements for the church of tech. This high priestess is not above punishing those who do not bend to the will of the techno-god.
Linked into every system she can reach, this priestess of the techno church ponders the need for human existence. Her body fully integrated into the virtual world, she can compute and calculate faster than any stand alone machine.
Combining artificial intelligence with a dynamic body designed for war is a risky proposition. This aged automaton escaped it's created purpose of death, and now soars over the landscape, clear of the humans that once created it.
Genetic manipulation, cybernetic enhancement and virtual reality re-training are common these days for the military. But when it was first tested, the outcomes were less than pleasant. Mindless killing machines, working solely on rage were nearly impossible to control.
With most innovation in technology, base emotions and desires usually take the most opportunist approaches. Pleasure droids are now commonplace, taking over the oldest industry. This early model, on display at the museum of automata shows how far we have come in the field.
Genetic testing on animals , gene splicing from various insects and creatures from the past was never a good idea. It only took one to escape and kill dozens before the programs were shut down.
Once agin, the most profound steps forward in technology and research will eventually find their way into the gutter. Genetic manipulation has been commonplace for decades, eliminating the most nefarious of diseases, increasing human performance and improving lifespan. But, in the lower levels of urban centers, splicing animal and human DNA has found its own niche in the pleasure industry.
this was once your city...now it is ours. Gangs are nothing new, but urban blight and multiple failures in the financial systems caused the most affected to rise up and claim their own kingdoms.