Since it is October, Halloween month, a time to celebrate all things spooky (grins), let’s talk a bit about how cyborgs commemorate their dead.
Every culture here on Earth has different ways of dealing with death and with the dearly departed. Some bury their dead. Some burn their dead. Some leave their dead where they died. Some transport their dead back to their ancient Homelands. There are as many variations on death rituals and customs as there are cultures.
In space, it’s the same way. Death is treated differently depending on the alien culture.
In the cyborgs’ case, their treatment of death is evolving.
When cyborgs were under Humanoid Alliance control, they had no say in what happened to their fallen brethren’s bodies. If cyborgs were decommissioned, the Humanoid Alliance raided their forms for parts and scrapped the rest of them. If cyborgs died in battle, their forms were left on the battlefields.
All cyborgs could control was their memories of their brethren. Thanks to their databases and organic brains, these memories were perfectly preserved and, as soon as they were capable of transmitting large batches of data, these memories were transferred to other cyborgs.
Now that cyborgs have been freed, they have the ability to commemorate their dead in other ways.
Astrid Ragnhild, the Buoir Berserker, Vengeance’s Warrior Female, for example, shared her kind’s custom of writing down the names of the dead. The cyborgs now engrave the names of their dead on the outside of their structures on the Homeland.
In The Cyborg’s Secret Baby, we uncover that some frames of the fallen have been buried, ensuring those warriors also reach the Homeland.
Quinn, the heroine of B Free (releasing in November), being a researcher, will likely share her knowledge of how different cultures deal with death.
I suspect the cyborgs will add rituals and customs regarding death in the future.
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B Free
B is the last remaining B Model cyborg. All of his brethren, the beings he trained with, fought with, cared deeply for, have perished.
Or so he believes.
When he intercepts a communication mentioning the existence of one of his kind, he has to investigate its source. The message could be a trap set by his enemies. He’ll take that risk if it secures him the companionship he requires to be fully functional.
What he finds is a daring brown-eyed female who activates all his systems. She proudly proclaims she’s a researcher, brandishing that information like a weapon before her. He wants to kiss the sass off her beautiful face, protect her from the dangers around them, claim her forever.
Quinn is on a quest to locate the mechanics of an early-version cyborg. She believes the information captured within that frame will give her valuable insights into the past.
When her mission goes zombie-like beings levels of wrong, she comes face-to-face with a living, breathing B Model. He has big hands, a primitive countenance, and stern hard lips crafted for kissing.
She doesn’t trust him. And she doesn’t have time to indulge her desires.
Their shared enemies are chasing them, would kill to get their precious specimens back. One minor mistake could reduce B and Quinn to a mere line in the databases of history.
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B Free is a STANDALONE Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.
It features the sole surviving B Model cyborg warrior, a courageous researcher seeking to uncover the past, and an unplanned visit to a settlement ruled by an extremely scary all-knowing, all-powerful being.
B Free is the fourth of five core stories in the Rebel Cyborgs Series.
Book 1: Containing Malice
Book 2: Under Strain
Book 3: Baring Grudge
Book 4: B Free
Book 5: Seizing Power
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