Science fiction based on and around Shakespeare!

https://www.wattpad.com/137763561-ooorah%27s-sfsd-x-round-3-bardpunk

For this round we were given a choice of two plays, and the lyrics to some dreadful thrash-metal 'song'. From these the challenge was to write about what happens after the events of the play, in a scifi setting of our choice.

Out of Hamlet and Richard the Third, I picked Richard, mainly because I'd never read it and this seemed like a good excuse to do so, but also because I could see the Battle of Bosworth Field might lead nicely into the song lyrics;

Exterminate the laws of old
The sacred past begins to roll
Oh oh the denying of your death
Oh oh the machines must be fed
Parade of the dead
Parade of the dead

The asylum marches on
The men that kill what's left is gone
Oh oh the denying of your death
Parade of the dead
Parade of the dead
Oh oh the machines must be fed

Revenge, and retaliation
The shadow of man's war has been killed

The masses in the grave
They that can't be saved
Oh oh the denying of your death
Oh oh the machines must be fed
Parade of the dead
Parade of the dead

Parade of the dead
Parade of the dead
The machines must be fed

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