We found the AIs on every rock in the Solar System as we traveled to Luna and beyond. They went before us and shared everything they knew with us. The only thing they asked in return is that we spend[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Life was interesting after the Islamic Jihad, the Second Great Depression, and the Cybernetic Wars. It was a new era in human history. A new Great Space Race. We spread out. We colonized Luna and Mars by the 2070s. Venus[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Knights Errant Investigations has always operated in multiple environments. Sea, land, and air back in the old days. They added space about as early on as they could afford to build or buy them. They preferred single-man spacecraft that befitted[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Knights Errant Investigations started out with dozens of types of ground and air vehicles. Most of them were retrofitted civilian or military surplus vehicles, but K.E.I. commissioned new designs over the years and decades that followed. They contracted the construction[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There are famous scenes and images in every nation’s history. Churchill saying “We Shall Never Surrender” or De Gaulle’s “Long Live Free France.” The ability to record the exact instant when a descendant of Napoleon gave his “All Free Frenchmen”[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The AI Council formed in the middle of the Cybernetic Wars and made it their mission to save us from all the chaos surrounding them. And then they made it their mission to help us colonize the rest of our[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Great Space Race of the Twenty First Century gave us all a new frontier to expand into after the Cybernetic Wars and the Islamic Jihad. Humanity rocketed into space, to Mars, Venus, the asteroid belt, and beyond. It was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Most people think we developed the hyperdrive on our own. They are somewhat correct. We did research it. And we did build it. It was our minds who discovered the secrets of hyperspace. But the Peloran gave the technology to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The cybernetic Memory Worlds are combination backup sites and rest stops for the cybernetic intelligences that have become our partners. They rest and relax there, and those of us blessed to be their partners are always welcome. I’ve had as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Few people know that the AI Council Contacted the Peloran long before the Peloran made Contact with us. They talked the Peloran into keeping their distance until we were ready. And they acquired numerous Peloran technologies that they then slowly[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…