I know the guy who flew that scout into Betelgeuse by the way. He wore a cowboy hat during The War. Still does in fact. He learned to like it too. He’s Ageless like me. Took the Peloran Treatments back[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Dixie got her nickname when she responded to a major drug cartel land grab in the Odessa area. They had besieged Taurian Arms, a major arms manufacturer even back then, but the majority of the Texas Guard was down on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Dixie’s Texas Tech-built drones mostly consisted of civilian vehicles upgunned to deal with the drug cartels. A very few were actual combat designs, though the M1A5 Abrams seen in the show and movies were never part of Dixie’s arsenal. In[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Dixie spread her army of drones made from used cars and cobbled together guns throughout Texas to fight the drug gangs wherever she could find them. She lost many of them to well-armed gangs capable of taking on even organized[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After chasing the drug gangs out of Lubbock, Dixie and her inner circle of friends began to prepare for the far more serious problems inherent in the depression. Civilized society was taking a real pasting from those accustomed to dealing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Second Great Depression brought down many governments, and increased lawlessness in many others. When drug gangs tried to take over Dixie’s hometown, she had a few things to say about the matter. I don’t use that kind of language[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Dixie came out of the network to more Texas Tech students as the years went by, though never very many. By the time the Second Great Depression hit, maybe a dozen current and former students knew the truth. They hijacked[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Texas Tech students searched for years to find the hacker that kept messing with Dixie. But every trail they followed, disappeared. Finally, one day a student leaned back from his keyboard and asked the only question that made sense to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Dixie remained a virtual cheerleader for Texas Tech for nearly a decade without coming out of the network. She watched as students worked on her code, and learned how to reject changes she didn’t like. And she happily replaced “questionable”[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Texas Tech’s Dixie was a virtual cheerleader designed to play on the billboard during home games, but a generation’s worth of science department students had fiddled with her code by the time the Second Great Depression hit. Nobody knows to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…