Deep inside a top-secret U.S. Air Force research facility, a revolution in cybernetics is taking shape. Using ordinary domestic animals for their test subjects, the scientists of Project AWE have created a new class of cyborgs -- flesh-and-metal creatures designed to rule the battlefields of tomorrow.The project's crowning achievement is a trio of prototypes code-named WE3 -- each one custom-built and trained to work as specialists within a team. With their nervous systems enhanced and supplemented by cutting-edge military hardware, WE3 are the ultimate smart weapons -- programmable yet autonomous, loyal yet utterly ruthless.