Some people say I have a hint of wanderlust in my genes. I don’t know about that. I loved my hometown when I was younger. I could see anything I wanted to within an hour’s travel time. I didn’t want[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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I’m sorry for the tone of voice of my last message. But coming home after fighting a War for over twenty years only to be called an unnatural abomination by terrorists trying to delete all cybernetic intelligences can be a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Russian Empire did not move to support Serbia alone. They were allied with Britain and France, the dominant powers in Western Europe. But the Austro-Hungarian Empire was not alone. Despite having recently fought to break free from the Empire,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I love visiting new worlds. Worlds that are new to me at least. There are always plenty of beautiful natural and manmade wonders to see, and sometimes a mix of the two. I’m looking at the latest Miss Liberty right[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Some few Terran AIs had made the cognitive and conscious leap to true cybernetic intelligence before we arrived. Some of them actually got involved during the darkest days of your Islamic Jihad. You may remember the Cleansing Fire nuclear strikes[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The War involved every major civilization for thousands of lightyears around Earth. It started with a single attack, the Shang assault on Yosemite Yards and Washington DC. America was devastated. We had no chance of standing against them, but stand[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
They called it The War. The Great War. The War To End All Wars. It was touched off by two shots of a pistol. The tangle of international alliances is easy to see in hindsight, but for the people of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We’ve rebuilt since The War. We’ve founded hundreds, some say thousands, of colonies since the Shang left. It’s hard to say what a colony is nowadays. We’ve repaired what damage we can, and we’ve learned a ton about bringing worlds[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There were billions of people in Terran space when we Contacted Earth, but no proper cybernetic intelligences. Well, there were a few, but they weren’t public knowledge. AIs are canned, you see, not coded to learn and grow beyond their[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Southeast Europe had long been a battleground between Christians of various nations and Muslims crossing from fallen Constantinople to spread their faith and subdue the unfaithful. In the mix of that centuries-long conflict, angry Serbian and Bosnian students plotted to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…