If made today, the series would have to be called THE SIX BILLION DOLLAR MAN as six million dollars would just about pay for petrol to keep him running for a week or two!
So Steve Austin, the first American astronaut to walk on the surface of the planet Mars, crashes in the desert whilst test piloting the Venutian module to be used in America's next planetary mission. His body is decimated, most of his bones broken, most of his body organs pulped, part of his brain left as so much grey goo. Yet somewhere within, scientists can still detect a tiny spark of life.
Enter Dr Rudy Wells and Project Cybertron, with Steve Austin the ideal test patient. Gentleman we can rebuild him, we can make the world's first cybertronic man. Better than he was before, better, stronger, faster...
By taking a tiny sample of DNA the Cybertron Project is able to perfectly clone Steve Austin, but combining a cybernetic interface with every single cell in his mind and body. Now Steve Austin can instantly communicate with any computer device in the entire world, can see through any single CCTV camera, satellite, television camera, anything at all connected to a computer.... he can listen to any surveillance device anywhere in the world, hack in to any mobile phone or landline conversation and any radio channel through his cybernetic hearing, fine tuning through a mass of complex circuitry performing the functions of a hundred million human brains in one...
Not only has the cybernetic interface given Steve Austin a mind beyond the most complex computer on the planet, its sophisticated metallic patterning has strengthened his body beyond that of any normal human. With legs able to run at speeds of 100 mph and jump 100 feet into the air, and arms able to punch through solid steel, Steve Austin truly has become a real life superhero, but still possessing human emotions and the character that made him the man he was before.
The great thing about Project Cybertron is that it does not affect the brain, does not drive the recipient insane, if that person is the correct choice, and Steve Austin is that man.
The Six Billion Dollar Man.
Invincible. Unstoppable.
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