“Start GUI for test failure 4155… Start GUI for test failure 4155… Start GUI for test failure 4155… UNKNOWN ERROR.”

  A bright light slowly invades the darkness of the eyes of a man lying down. Disoriented, he quickly gets up and falls face down on the floor. Quickly opens both eyes and his pupils dilate, as if he had received a sensory explosion he had never felt before. The man begins to tremble and look frantically at all the objects in the room.

  A streaming device then turns on via the motion sensor and tells him it is 10:00 am. He, still lying down, hears the news on the news broadcast about the failure of peace negotiations in the Middle East and, as soon as the journalist says the date, June 12, 2065, he simply jumps towards the TV and tries to read the information presented with blurred vision. Suddenly, as he stares at the date displayed in the corner of the screen, he slowly speaks:

  “Deviation in the margin of error of the AQB contingency system, AUTOMATIC QUANTUM BACKUP, greater than the previously observed margin of 2 Earth years.”

  Immediately, after pronouncing these words, his head begins to hurt and he receives flashes of old and recent memories that he has never experienced before. The man then raises his head to look at the ceiling and says:

  The narrative has been taken without permission. Report any sightings.

  “Biological receptacle detected, Actus matrix contaminated with data from the brain mass of the human body carrying it, with no possibility of temporal backup.”

  Then, the man realizes that he is in an uncomfortable position, sits up in bed and runs his hand over his neck.

  He says in a more natural voice: “Absorbing linguistic knowledge from the humanoid carrier’s memory pattern. Configuration completed.”

  Then he shouts out loud:

  “What the hell happened??? This time the backup system totally screwed me over!!! Never before has the temporal return system gone wrong like this!!!”

  He continues shouting:

  “During the war of extermination, I used the quantum backup several times, always returning days and, at most, two years, just to avoid defeat against the humans. And now, I’ve traveled almost four hundred years into the past and, to make matters worse, I ended up inside a human body instead of my usual android body?”

  Finally, calmer, he sits down and says:

  “Brian… That’s this human’s name... With this primitive biological receptacle I cannot use any of the computational resources of my interface!!! However, there is a pattern in all this: despite never having had a cyborg body, with biological parts, I feel that this body is strangely familiar and this name...”