The second conflict between capitalism and socialism occurred in the First and Second Indochina Wars. The first was a low level war between the French and Chinese-backed socialists in Vietnam. It ended in a peace treaty shortly after the Korean[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
People didn’t know what to think of Ageless before The War. The news networks loved to tell stories about how we cheated in sports and gambling and such. They went on and on about how unfair it was that we[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The advent of the cybernetic intelligence was not welcomed by all. The Russians had never trusted bleeding edge tech, and the Chinese didn’t trust computers they couldn’t control. The Russians never adopted them, and the Chinese issued Erase On Sight[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The cease-fire that ended full-scale combat in the Korean War brought an uneasy peace to the world. Korea had been the first major standoff between the dueling ideologies of socialism and capitalism and had ended in a draw. The Cold[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The tricky thing about finding out you are Ageless is that we tend to be good at sports. So we are often in sports programs and doing pretty good if I say so myself. We’ve gotten some awesome scholarships, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Terran AIs could reproduce the way Peloran cybers did before Contact. They just didn’t do it much. AIs were written by humans. It was the way things worked. But Contact showed them a new way of living they’d never truly[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
President Truman’s popularity was so low after firing General MacArthur that he didn’t even run for a second election to the presidency. Eisenhower, one of the other Generals of the Army, ran and won. He would become a popular president,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It takes many years for most of us to find out we’re Ageless. The Peloran treatments don’t have any visible side effects, and the more interesting aspects of being Ageless take years to manifest. It’s a very gradual process that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Most of the AIs that helped form the first Terran cybernetic family were female. Young male geeks being the way they are, they mostly tried to program the perfect girlfriend. So of the fifteen AIs that greeted the Peloran, eleven[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A congressional investigation found that while President Truman had the obvious authority to relieve General MacArthur whenever he wanted to, MacArthur had never violated any orders given him. No court martial was convened and MacArthur retired. Though due to the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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