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The Church of ENIAC

Roar Comics

on May 29, 2011

Don't let their fearsome appearances fool you.
These are just ordinary citizens of the galaxy who are expressing their religion in the customary way.
They are practitioners of the ENIAC faith.

The Church of Eniac is a lesser religion than that of the Ism, but no less potent. When one is born into, or converts to ENIAC, one becomes a cyborg. Usually, the first bodypart to be mechanized is an eye. More commonly, the left. Sometimes both.
After that, the arms, and so on.
ENIAC, named for the first computer built on Olde Earth, is the faith that man and machine together form a more perfect being.
Smart, strong, capable, useful and devoted to The Singularity.(computer/AI heaven, if you will, that says one day all cyborgs will connect with the Galactic Overmind Drive, or G.O.D., which will link every cyborg in the universe's mechaneural interface together into one, as well as linking their biological 'souls' into one. The CyberSoul energies will be fed to the G.O.D. who will bring The Order Function Subroutine (peace) to the whole of creation.)
ENIAC is said to be the embodiment of the Singularity on the physical plane.

Despite most cyborgs being fit with weaponry, the majority of them are peaceful.
Even malevolent ENIAC worshippers rarely do harm to other cyborgs willfully.
(full biologicals, or full mechanoids are another story.)

The legend says that there was a scientist on Olde Earth called Diode-One who created the first true A.I.: Thresh-One.
That A.I. served him well, but was damaged in a great battle.
Diode-One, in an endeavor to save his creation, found a way to transplant his mechanoid brain into an organic body.
Each time the frail bio-body was damaged in another skirmish, Diode-One would replace the body part with mechanical ones. Soon, Thresh 7.6, as he was, by that time, called, was the most powerful cyborg on Olde Earthe.
Then, came the day when Diode-One, himself was damaged, and Thresh 7.6 reciprocated his creators love and industrious mechanical aptitude by giving him some of his own mech parts. The two fused together to become the greatest living cyborg, CybroSystem 1. It was then that CybroSystem 1 heard the voice of G.O.D.
He spread the good word of cyborganics to 7 disciples and together, naming themselves after the first computer, ENIAC, gave the gift of cyborganics to all who were worthy.

(**Mind you, in reality, this information is false. It is a flawed and misinterpreted account of the activities of the gang of cyborg supervillains known as The CybroSystem, and their deranged leader, Dr. Diode. However, over the last 700 or so years, rumors, innuendo and misinformation seems to have gathered steam and turned itself into a religion.**)

ENIAC is the 4th most populous religion in the galaxy, after
The Worship of Elpa-Vaa, which started on Planet B'Quaal;
The ISM, and Venda Sakii'a which began on Planet Ckalta, respectively.

Known practitioners of ENIAC include the likes of Ann3x D0r1an and Evil Empire's Doctor Spr0ck3t Al3x1s Spr0ck3t.