BMA115, comic writing, 14 July

Macintyre and McMurdo follow the Aurora borealis (which looks at times like a DNA strand) North to the pole where The Machine is pumping out the retrovirus into the atmosphere.  The retrovirus was created to make populations amenable to "proper" government but will make the people so passive in 200 years that they just die off because they can't be bothered to do ANYTHING.  Robots have been programmed to do stuff for them and they listen to their programming first and keep going, even though nobody's around anymore.

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