Shadowthon: Esprit de Corps

This prompt is for katz of Manboobz and requires a little context!  Not long ago, I designed a series of cyborg animals for the Feminist Borg website, of which katz is a member.  I wrote little descriptions of the personalities and functions of the borgcritters, which proved surprisingly popular, and katz requested a story about one of them hiding their individuality from the hive-mind.  What a great start to Shadowthon!

Esprit de Corps


The Dead Zone was a difficult area of the universe for the Hive to infiltrate.  With only erratic wireless contact, Special Corps units had to be autonomous, communicating through sound and maintaining progress despite sporadic protocol downloads.

Special Corps Unit #000111 had been exploring the Dead Zone for six months, and it was their first download in weeks.  It came through fuzzy, short, and utterly inarguable: Error: individual in Unit.

Then the connection died again.

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