The announcer's voice boomed out around the concrete stadium over the roaring crowd.<br/><br/>"Our male competitor is Nova-7, the lastest in a long line of battle cyborgs.  7 years in development has led to this lean mean fighting machine.<br/><br/><br/>Our female competitor is Amanda- also part human, part machine.  But she's all woman."<br/><br/>Catcalls and wolf whistles echoed around the concrete pit- for although the future had taken women forward in equality there were still many who saw them as little more than sexual objects.  The televised arena was notoriously sexist despite deliberately arranging male vs female bouts.<br/><br/>"... and I've just been told that representatives of the Eastern Fedaration Military will be watching this bout- if Nova 7 wins perhaps his creators will win the contract of their dreams!<br/><br/><br/>Odds are currently running<br/>1:1 on both fighters but look set to change throughout the battle.  Remember- we never close the book until someone dies or falls unconscious."<br/><br/>The voice prattled on about the fighters form and previous battles- but the two in the pit had only eyes for each other.<br/><br/>