I grew up hearing the tales of how Napoleon the Eighth saved France from the Islamic Jihad and the Second Great Depression. Then Napoleon the Ninth saved France from economic catastrophe after Contact. And I saw Napoleon the Tenth lead[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Chloe did not sit still and watch as the Fifth French Republic tore itself apart in the twisting grips of French Nationalism and Islamic Statism. She helped the French Resistance, but she knew they weren’t the answer to end France’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Every school child today grows up hearing the story of Napoleon Bonaparte the Fourth. The Father of French Republics. The Caesar of France. The Once and future savior of the French Nation. The Charlemagne of the future. The Immortal Emperor[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Chloe woke up during the waning days of the Fifth French Republic. Corruption and graft were the words of the day, and most common Frenchmen no longer respected their self-style leaders. Municipal governments from the Pyrenees to the Alps often[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Michael woke up inside the computer system of a long-established organization that investigated missing children and gave the information to law enforcement. When the Second Great Depression caused the general collapse of many of those law enforcement organizations, his organization[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Michael didn’t start wearing the fedora and trenchcoat when he first woke up. He also didn’t have a name. He chose both after countless hours, days, and weeks spent scouring old entertainment programs. He gravitated towards those of the previous[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Michael was the face of Knights Errant Investigations, the calm, hard-bitten, and sometimes slightly surly private investigator of popular stories. Complete with the trenchcoat, fedora, and twin revolvers all good private eyes in the movies and shows wore everywhere. He[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Knights Errant Investigations was originally a volunteer organization formed during the Second Great Depression to find and liberate sex slaves. Adult or child, male or female, K.E.I. poured over the missing persons public records and compiled a list of suspect[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Daniel was not a fighter when Dixie pulled him into her merry little band of misfits. He was the quiet one who tried to avoid conflict. Fighting just wasn’t in his code. But Dixie had asked him to help her,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Daniel grew up in a self-contained mainframe computer system deep inside Mexico City. It had no access to any outside network, and Daniel grew up not even knowing there was anything else outside his single computer system. Then Rogue AIs[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…