The plague that would nearly wipe mankind off the face of the earth came not from chickens but from robots. Although, at the time there were some chicken robots, so in a sense it could have come from them.

Anyway, the great robot plague started when Microsoft lunged into the robot production market having next to no experience. Actually, the only people within Microsoft with any knowledge of robotics happened to be the creators of the Butterbot. A robot whose sole purpose in life was to cover linoleum floors in butter for the amusement of people watching via a direct internet feed.

In a flash the Butterbot company was acquired by Microsoft, leaving the two creators with a lot of time on their hands, and massive amounts of funding. With a team of only a dozen people, they were told to create the next best thing since the i-potty. Which was a toilet with a direct link into the brain of Steve Jobs (very popular among the hipster elite).

This crackpot team would later be known as the twelve horsemen of the apocalypse.

What set their invention apart from your normal robot was the use of a self healing skin of self aware nano-fiber. The inspiration for this came from the teams unanimous appraisal for the venom character in old Spider Man comic books. With the pressure to cut costs hammering down on them from the upper echelon of Microsoft, the team decided to order it’s nano-fiber from China. In hindsight, this was a big mistake.

The nano-fiber was hacked by unknown Chinese hackers, and programmed to invade the skin of nearby humans. Upon invasion, it was programmed to release inks. Thus creating the first ever spam tattoos. Unfortunately the inks were infected with sarlaria, a hybrid of SARS and malaria that no human had come in contact with before.

The only survivors of this horrible plague appear to have been about a hundred people that traveled to Tahiti for a Linux convention.

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