Why spend millions building computers when you can hardwire some poor bugger's brain?! Yard sale in a plumbers' merchant, more like a car crash in a butcher shop! 
Stormwatch: Post Human Division #16 is an issue of the series Stormwatch: Post Human Division (Volume 1) with a cover date of January, 2009.
Synopsis for "Full Metal Jacket"
Led by Jon Drake, the Stormwatch field team teleports to Wrangel Island where the War Golem is housed in an underground facility. The team prepares to enter the facility but the War Golem emerges and destroys the facility to leave nothing behind that can be used against it. They are about to engage the Golem in combat but Jackson King orders them to stand down. He wants to capture the machine because it feeds off of the apocalyptic conditions of the world, in which King determines that they can reprogram it to absorb the worldstorm effluent - the carbon sulfur and volcanic ash in the air - to create power instead of an arsenal.
Deathblow, Fuji, Link, Flint and Drake infiltrate the machine while Winter, Fahrenheit and Hellstrike keep it distracted outside. They find missiles with biochemical markings. The Golem activates its internal defenses but Flint and Fuji are able to hold them off. Winter, Hellstrike and Fahrenheit try to damage the machine from the outside but it feeds off their attacks and shows no sign of slowing.
After Fuji and Flint destroy the War Golem's robots, the missiles are activated and prepared to launch. King finally orders the team out except Winter, Fahrenheit and Hellstrike in which he orders them to incinerate the War Golem. But Drake disagrees, claiming it would use every ounce of its resources to shield itself long enough to deploy its arsenal. Instead, Drake proposed to shut it down from within, as he and others had found something interesting in the machine's inner chambers: a man (Mikael) whose brain is hooked into the War Golem's systems.
The man's brain is acting as the Golem's central processing unit. Drake sees some data banks on the wall. After reviewing them Link realizes that they are memories that are fed into the man's mind so he has no idea what has really happened to him; like a movie replaying in his mind. Link deduces that playing a scenario which will show the man that he "dies" will shut down the machine. His hunch is right and the War Golem shuts down and Winter uses up the stored energy he had from fighting the machine to destroy it.
Back on Skywatch, King briefly laments the War Golem's destruction but congratulates Link for what he had done. Drake politely declines King's offer to join Stormwatch and bids everyone farewell. King then tells Christine that he has made his decision to meet the Authority.
Appearing in "Full Metal Jacket"
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Antagonists:
- War Golem (Destroyed)
Other Characters:
- Mikael (Single appearance; dies)
Locations:
- Earth-50
- Wrangel Island, Russia
- Mount Sovetskaya
- Skywatch III
- Wrangel Island, Russia
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Synopsis for "Cybernary: Father Knows Best - Part 4"
Kaizen Gamorra desperately tries to hold off the attacking Reapers while he waits for Cybernary to make her decision to help him. She finally steps in and helps Kaizen destroy the Reapers. Before teleporting the dead Reapers away before they detonate, Kaizen asks Cybernary if she will stay with him and help rebuild the world together. After looking at the monitors showing the world being ravaged by the Reapers, Cybernary reluctantly agrees.
Kaizen later announces to his people that the rest of the world is being destroyed as the Island of Gamorra begins to ascend, protected by its force field. Kaizen declares it New Gamorra, the last superpower on Earth.
Appearing in "Cybernary: Father Knows Best - Part 4"
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Notes
- This issue is collected in the Stormwatch PHD: World's End trade.
- Cybernary: Father Knows Best was preceded in Gen 13 (Volume 4) #24 and concludes in this issue.
Trivia
- The title of the issue is taken from the movie Full Metal Jacket.
See Also
- Cover gallery for the Stormwatch: Post Human Division series
- Images from Stormwatch: Post Human Division Vol 1 16