Morgan wasn’t the first Thunderbird I met. That honor goes to the ship captain who hailed me after they arrived at Sunnydale. But she was certainly one of the first Thunderbirds I ever met. She’s not an artificial intelligence. Nobody[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Thunderbirds cannot speak our languages, and we cannot speak theirs. We can understand each other given practice, or use translator programs if we lack it, but those options do not fill one serious hole in our communications. Names. The inability[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Morgan died over a thousand years ago on the Thunderbird’s home planet. She left her flesh and blood body behind to become one with the networks and gain immortality. She spent the first millennia of her second life traveling throughout[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Virginia Adams was one of the first Ageless to come out of the original Peloran Treatments. She was a teenager at the time, and still wore the body of a teenager a century later when the Shang came for us.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Abigail’s status as one of the few fully functioning AIs before Contact was instrumental in gaining access to Peloran cooperation and technologies. The Peloran cybernetic families recognized that the Adams Family treated her as a family member rather than an[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Adams Family is one of the oldest great families of America, having left Britain in the 1600s. They were leading figures in the revolution against British rule, provided two presidents and numerous other public servants to the first republic,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Abigail Adams was the closest advisor and wife of John Adams, second president of the United States. When the Adams Family began working on artificial intelligence, they named the result after her. Generations of Adams children grew up with Abigail,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
James Rousseau was an outsider in his homeland, his very name pronouncing his half-breed status in the Apache Nation. But at Alpha Centauri he found the chance to change his destiny. The Cowboys needed reinforcements to make up our casualties,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Most cybers are designed for a certain purpose, optimized for it in the written code of their most basic matrixes, and then compiled into a single great mass of machine code that can run without any outside interference. Then they[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
James Rousseau grew up in the Apache Nation, son of an Apache mother and a French father. It is unsurprising that the Apache named him a half-breed, and he was a perennial outcast for it his entire life. He worked[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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