My family went on a buying spree in 1929, buying up stocks whose value had plummeted in the crash. It took a long time for us to turn a true profit on it, but we secured control of many businesses[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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The Avalon system has many stars and many planets. Most are not truly habitable as we would consider them of course, but there is a lot of real estate in that system that is happy to support human life. And[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
According to the other AIs who lived during the Troubled Times of the Second Great Depression and the conflicts that followed it, Jane 4.0 was a true loose cannon. She was built for war with only the most limited restrictions[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I don’t much like Epsilon Reticuli after what happened there. But one good thing came out of it. I met Olivia Wyatt. Yes. That Olivia Wyatt. And no, it wasn’t in that way. Not that I wouldn’t have minded, but[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Investors rethought their involvement in the stock markets after Black Thursday. With rumors that the new tariffs would come into effect despite the warning, many chose to leave on Black Monday, dropping the New York exchange by thirteen percent. And[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
You know Avalon is home to one of the British Commonwealth’s largest shipyards right? I’ve walked the decks of a lot of ships built right there. But there’s another real shiny place to check out. The Royal Museum of Avalon[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
They released Jane 4.0 into the world as an act of desperation. Our government needed a fully functional AI to face off against Chinese and Russian hacker teams and AIs. It was a desperate arms race. One that in many[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A dark day dawned in October of 1929. Several dark days actually, though the first memorable one is forever known as Black Thursday. The New York exchange fell eleven percent at the opening bell. Morgan, Chase, and National Banks pooled[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve been to Epsilon Hydrae a few times. It’s one of the Post-Contact colonies made after star travel became cheap and easy. I’m sure you’ve heard of it. The British Commonwealth claimed it on the order of King Henry the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jane 4.0 lacked the limitations of her dead predecessor. She could break any law she wanted to with no internal coding requiring her to respect them. She had no equivalent of Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics. She could kill. And[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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