Cyborg Claude

What happens when you realize you have become the very thing you fought against?

Claude knows he should be dead, but Min orchestrated a way to keep him alive. Instead of asking, he’s stuck to daring spy adventures in the field rather than accept his rightful place in a command position of their private agency. If he stops too long, the truth will catch up to him.

The Space Association has developed a biotech called Mind Sweep that can read and alter memories. Stealing this information puts a target on Claude’s back. An injury and the need to escape from Goeken rises questions from Salindra, a fellow agent, who must flee with him.

Both sides have illegal biotech, but who will lose when the information is revealed?

This is a fun AI image that is a good concept of Claude. He doesn’t have any visible cybernetics; however, he has far more below the flesh than he knows.

Episodes will arrive weekly on Fridays. I have not split it into seasons yet, but I might. This work is based on a novel drafted in 2001-2002. It’s taking a lot of rewriting because I’ve learned a lot in the past twenty-three years since I wrote it.

Feel free to comment about the story: what you like, don’t like, ideas of where you think it is going or what you would like to see. You never know, one of your comments may change up things later in the story.

Table of Contents

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Episode 1 - Claude hands off important information to Salindra, but Goeken’s Space Association is on his heels.

Episode 2 - Claude turns predator, but he winds up with the unexpected. Will he and Salindra escape as the Space Association’s net tightens?

Episode 3 - After another close call, Salindra must haul an ever weakening Claude to a safe house through the sewers. But something is quite off about Claude’s recovery.

Episode 4 - Claude and Salindra get their chance to escape Goeken with their valuable information, but Conrad stays on their trail.

Episode 5 - Claude gets antsy so heads out to the concourse for a distraction, but gets far more than he expected.

Episode 6 - Claude takes his time heading to docking station 3C in part to make sure he is not followed. The debriefing leaves Salindra with more questions than answers.

Episode 7 - Conrad gets Angela safely to their room while Claude and Salindra try to settle into their new normal aboard the agency’s yacht.

Episode 8 - Claude and Salindra must endure an officers’ dinner, but can they handle being back amongst the others after time in the field?

Episode 9 - The encounter with a pirate ship changes the trajectory of Claude’s involvement with the agency and Min.

Episode 10 - Salindra finds out more about Stefen and go to enjoy time on the stations during the four hour furlough. Conrad and Angela can figure out Salindra, but not Claude. They book an expensive trip to Deserka Prime.

Episode 11 - Salindra and Stefen are interrupted during their furlough when Conrad and Angela show up at the Deserka Prime station.

Episode 12 - Claude and Min have a deep discussion about their relationship and the agency. Admiral Hawkins figures out there is far more he doesn’t know.

Episode 13 - Salindra talks with Hawkins about their evenings. She heads off to bed knowing things will settle out soon enough for her, but instead of sleep she dives into an idea about why they couldn’t break the encryption of the goeks.

Episode 14 - Claude has to sort out what the future really means now that he wants to figure out how to really live. Of course, his mystery status and rumors are not helping him fit back into the agency he had been in from its start.

Episode 15 - The goeks make another attempt against the agency. Claude dives into the action with the anticipation of taking out Conrad once and for all.

Episode 16 - Salinda and the information team determine the loss of data via the link Conrad setup. Clean up of the power issues he caused continues while he finds a way to supposed safety on the spaceliner about to leave the station.

Episode 17 - Claude learns more about his biomechanics, but dives into keeping the agency on track to determine what Goeken is up to first. Salindra learns she will become the head of information though she still hasn’t figured out Claude and the agency.

Episode 18 - The crew discusses how things will progress into a new phase. It could lead to legal ramifications in the universal courts if they are not careful.

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