Unlike our previous, beautiful cyborgs, these beauties were never human…

… they are military-grade androids, deliberately made to look like beautiful young woman for the psychological edge it gives them when fighting humans…

… they are two meters tall, and weigh 500 kilograms, they are powered by a tiny fusion reactor that is buried deep in their heavily armoured and shielded chests. Most of their body is taken up with hydraulic and pneumatic strength multiplier systems… they are incredibly strong, they are capable of tearing the turret off a tank with their bare hands, if they can get a good enough grip, which they usually can…

… like a cheetah, they have a top running speed of 120kph, unlike a cheetah, they could maintain that speed for years, should they need to. Their minds run several times faster than a humans, so, to them, humans are very slow, even bullets are slow… couple that with the fact they can move several times faster than humans, and the equation becomes severely weighted in the favour of these gorgeous machines. They don’t carry weapons because, well, they are weapons. Their battlefield job is to seek out, and destroy, enemy infantry. Not only are they extremely well armoured, but they also generate an electro-magnetic field which is, in fact, a forcefield, which repels all small-arms fire… they can withstand almost any assault other than a direct hit from a tank shell, or a missile. One of them, on her own, is quite capable of eliminating an entire company of soldiers, especially as the soldiers become more terrified, and begin firing blindly, killing each other as they try to hit something that is running through them at speeds of 120kph, while it pulls them to pieces like toys…

… there are only a handful of these creatures, each one costing about as much as a nuclear submarine, but, hey, you don’t need more than a few.

So, after are brief sojourn into the surreal, as a palette cleanser, we returned, refreshed, and invigorated, to what you must surely, now, recognise as our most favourite theme…

… gorgeous post-human babes! Our little break paid off spectacularly, as we feel these are our best-yet series of cyber-babes…

… it took us countless hours to get Mj to create images like this! Apart from Mj’s puritanical refusals to create any image with more than the tiniest amount of what it sees as naked flesh, to deal with, there is also Mj’s propensity to produce pin-up-like woman in robot-like clothing, instead of images of females that actually are machine/half-machine….

… so we were delighted when we started getting images like these after hours/days of not-quite-what-we-asked-for results…

… once Mj gets on a roll, we just run with it, because we know, from experience, that Mj eventually, suddenly, will lose the plot/thread, and revert back to pin-ups wearing b-grade robot outfits…

… but, for now, Mj is making us very happy, producing these beautiful cyborg sweethearts (:

As time goes by, these augmented warrior babes become ever more augmented…

… eventually, their pretty faces are the only ‘human’ element left, apart from their bi-pedal, two-armed body shapes…

… keeping their beautiful faces becomes a psychological connection to their previous reality. Unfortunately, soft, flesh faces are easily damaged, and, they, too, get swapped out for synthetic replacements…

… the augmented now have plastic, doll faces…

… everything else is insanely durable, super-metal on a titanium battle-chassis…

… unless they sustain catastrophic damage, they are immortal, and slowly losing any feeling for what it was to be ‘human’.

About a decade ago, the human (so, I, too…) read a couple of very good SF books by Ann Leckie. They were about a (space) battleship with an AI (she worked in conjunction with a human captain, but, basically, controlled every aspect of the ship)…

… the AI not only monitored every function of the ship, but also moved among the crew in the form of ‘ancillaries’, which were mind wiped humans (can’t remember why, perhaps they were criminals?) who were now controlled by the AI. These ancillaries were highly trained soldiers, as well as negotiators/psychologists/experts in human interaction…

… they not only monitored the crew, but fought as soldiers, as well as did covert operations on planets… the ship AI could see through all of their eyes at the same time, as well as control a massive warship. Due to treachery, the ship, the AI, and all her ancillaries were destroyed…

… all except one, who was on some covert mission (I think, can’t really remember). That single creature used to have the mind of a warship, the eyes of a thousand others like her… now she is alone…

… we LOVED this concept! We would have made the ancillaries androids, not humans, and we felt that the story, though with an astonishing concept, was far too slow and timid with the main character, but all kudos to Ann Leckie for that fabulous concept, which has stayed in our imaginations long after we put the slightly disappointing books down…

… we are drawn to tales of powerful female protagonists, seemingly vulnerable woman who are, actually, mind-boggelingly powerful. We were thinking of this character when we did these images. Our girl isn’t human, she’s a synthetic being, possibly immortal, but she now has no access to the massive resources she once had, and must remain hidden while she tracks down those responsible for the murder of 99.9% of herself, and all the humans she loved, especially her captain. She looks like a young woman, but she has more skills than 100 humans ten times older than she looks… and those looks are totally deceptive, as, physically, she is already 90 years old. Of course, she can kick your ass, and the ass of everyone you know, but she’d rather not hurt anyone she doesn’t need to (: