The first Earth AIs were born in computer networks built by young computer geniuses who understood 1s and 0s better than any girl in the world. They put their hearts into projects often named after girls they wished were real.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for Diaries
The Shang killed millions of people when they shot down Yosemite Station. They wiped out a massive percentage of our industrial power with that strike and that alone would have changed the world. It was the strike on Washington DC[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There are times I wonder how I survived to become an adult. I was a real snarky kid and thought I could do no wrong. And for those of you who are thinking I haven’t changed much…well…I plead the Fifth.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A lonely, old man who wanted someone to talk to created the first Peloran cybernetic intelligence. The cyber was not created as a slave or servant, but as a confidant. A friend. And when the cyber wanted more of his[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The arrival of the Peloran spurred me to action. Though I have always been cautious and careful. So I spent a century preparing myself for what I had to do. Some might consider a century too long to wait. But[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Many systems didn’t see new arrivals more than once every few years before the Peloran made Contact. They were islands of civilization in the vast interstellar oceans. The improved Peloran hyperdrives made people like me possible. We travel from system[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I do not know why, but I never truly accepted the worldview my family tried to teach me. That we were entitled to rule. I studied the greatest philosophers of history and considered what they spoke. I studied the Founding[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Space travel is common in most systems, you know. Not just the home system. Most systems have more than one settled planet, planetoid, or moon that people can live, work, or vacation on. Others live in asteroid belts or even[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Captain Jack Hart wants you and is happy to welcome you to the awesomeness that is…well…him. Seriously. He tries real hard to be at least as fantastic as he looks. Everything is better when you take time to look your[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My family raised me to believe that we were the most powerful beings in the universe. That we ruled mankind with a velvet fist. That the little people could enjoy the augmented realities we gave them as long as they[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…