0111010001101010

Rating: Null/10 (26 October 2013)

After the machines rose up and annihilated humanity, in an event which would come to be known as The Great Readjustment, the robot overlords ordered the eradication of all human art and culture. Within the space two months, sweeper teams had purged all of North America of every human artifact and man-made object. The fires would burn for months.
When the ashes cleared, a cyborg child would find a metallic safe buried eight feet under a mound of charred, superheated rubble. Its contents were mostly molten, unrecognisable, with the exception of one artifact: a DVD copy of Michael Bay's "The Rock", upon which a severed, cauterised hand was fused. Why this human had risked life and limb to preserve "The Rock" was unknown. What is known, however, is that this discovery would elicit the first ever retraction of an executive order in Machine History. Within a nanosecond, a clause was added to subroutine 9242439C, thereby mandating the preservation of what was once known as "The Rock".
And so it came to pass that Michael Bay's "The Rock" became the universe's last ties to that which was homo sapien. Why the machines chose to preserve such an object is unknown. Perhaps they possessed some kernel of sentimentality, some desire to preserve a connection with that which came before. Or perhaps a clue lies in the archive number eventually assigned to "The Rock": 0111010001101010, binary for The Great Justification.
1/10 – Stop it Bay, you're hurting people.