The Dalek (3)

A Dalek has no soul. All non-essential parts are surgically removed from the Dalek's brain, it is devoid of emotion, feeling, it becomes part of a hive-mind, a super-computer, with no individual thoughts or feelings.

And yet ...

For some reason the Dalek had left its fellow kind to start a life alone on Earth. It was still attached to the hive mind and it's lack of morality and feeling was demonstrated by the job it took - product development for the most corrupt of multinational companies.

It developed mega-bombs, killer lasers and miniature drones armed with mega-bombs and killer lasers. It developed equipment to strip the Earth of resources at inconceivable speed, oil sucked from the bowels of the Earth like water through a straw.

And then the Dalek met the girl. Susan. His corporate liaison's daughter and had started giving her lessons. She learnt an impossible amount in a short time, but the Dalek too was learning. It began to contemplate the destruction it had created. For now the world mattered, it mattered because it was her home. The Earth's future was Susan's future.

The Dalek had been paid handsomely for its work, and having access to all knowledge in the known universe it had multiplied that wealth infinitely through impossibly shrewd investments. Secretly it had bought up shares in the company that employed it, closed down the weapons division, the oil-exploration division. With its previous work thus sabotaged it left the company.

A new company surfaced overnight, Nice. It was loaded with money and led by the a CEO who was just 18, a young woman, attractive, full of ideas, and the most intelligent woman who ever lived.

Nice launched an amazing array of new products and new technologies, all of them beneficial to the planet and the human race. It paid its workers well, cared for the environment and made huge profits. 

Some say that in the background, behind the all-smiling, do-gooding face of the company, there is an evil genius. That may be true, but maybe an evil genius trying to do good for a change.