Isso soa como o primeiro livro da série War Surplus de Lawrence Watt-Evans, O Cyborg e os Sorcerors .
Slant, the Cyborg warrior, a type of spacefaring Robocop, has been ordered to kill the enemies of Earth and return with their weapons technology. The problem was that Earth had perished three hundred years before, but no-one had told the spaceship.
Slant tem suas sinapses em ponte:
Slant's nervous system had been completely rewired, and the synapses bridged or eliminated, so that his reaction time was measured in millionths of a second instead of hundredths.
e ele tem uma bomba na cabeça:
The Command's method of ensuring the loyalty of its IRU cyborgs and making certain that none of them fell alive into enemy hands was very simple; any attempt at surrender, or any sign of cooperation if captured, and the thermite bomb at the base of his skull would go off.
O navio tenta destruir o planeta porque está programado para causar a maior destruição possível se o seu piloto (ou seja, Slant) morrer, e por alguma razão eu esquecer que o navio pensa que Slant está morto. Eu acho que é quando a bomba termite é removida, como a cirurgia envolvida também remove o link do Slant para o navio.