It all came down to the human brain being far too weak.
After watching Clone 4 activate Supercomputer-World and be forced to evolve into data life, Brad arrived at that conclusion.
"Even with a body enhanced by the Human Optimization Serum and the Skynet Program helping organize my thoughts, I only lasted seventeen seconds from activating the supercomputer to ascending into a data god."
"An ordinary human brain would fare even worse. By my calculations, lasting five seconds would already take a strong will."
"To use Supercomputer-World freely as an individual, I need to advance biotechnology further, until the human brain can handle a greater computational load."
"Then I could use Supercomputer-World as a conventional weapon."
Brad sank into thought.
Never mind that his biotechnology had always been abysmal-even gathering the world's finest researchers together would not make dramatically enhancing the human brain anything less than an incredibly difficult undertaking.
But there was another approach: converting himself entirely into a machine.
With the Reality Stone's assistance, the new project involving the T3000 nanomechanical aggregate had progressed by leaps and bounds.
It would not be long before they overcame the remaining hurdles and brought it into existence.
Although the T3000 had not reached the mind-boggling level of the future Sentinels, in which genes and metal coexisted, it still blurred the boundary between biology and machinery enormously.
Brad had always been unwilling to abandon his human components entirely for one simple reason: his mutant ability to control technological creations with utter disregard for reason.
It was such a useful ability. The further technology advanced, the more convenient it became for him.
Had this mutant ability existed on Earth several centuries ago, it might have been nothing but a baffling, pathetic power.
But put him beside Thanos's spaceship, and he could instantly crush