Elizabeth and Victoria had been rival AIs before the Islamic Brotherhood struck, and knew each other well. Elizabeth took Victoria’s destruction very badly. With the power of the Irish mob behind her, Elizabeth replicated what she could of Victoria and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for February, 2014
The Wolfenheim Project wasn’t really as touchy feely as people would like everybody to think. It wasn’t our last best hope for peace, going where no man has gone before, or any of the other grand statements of science fiction[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Arabian Peninsula and Mesopotamia would become home to numerous Arab kingdoms after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Bordering Iran and Egypt, Britain helped maintain their security. Each ruler jealously guarded his territory from the others, and they began[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Despite the many mysteries inherent in the Voice of Altair, terraforming was expensive and we colonized the heck out of the planet. Turns out some of the more interesting stellar and planetary bits of the system make for some really[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Irish mob were not amused that Elizabeth so easily hacked their best security systems, but then reports started coming in of Islamic Brotherhood strikes on the colleges. The Irish may not have had any love lost for the Bloody[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hello, my name is Charles. British diplomacy had been instrumental in starting the Arab Revolt that helped destroy the Ottomans, so they were given most of the Middle East to do with as they pleased after The War ended. But[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Voice of Altair was a surprise of course. Talking plants are not the norm. Whoever built it obviously considered our ability and willingness to terraform Altair a strong qualification for making Contact with though. The message included directions to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When the Jihadists struck, Elizabeth and her student were vacationing at an Irish casino. He wanted to test her against the casino’s systems, and while hacking them she saw the Jihadists coming through the security system. She quickly took over,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I recently created a wattpad account at the suggestion of a friend. It appears that many authors use wattpad to give free previews of their stories in order to gain interest and to get people to buy their stories. I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When the Ottoman Empire fell, the Kingdom of Syria claimed all lands on the Mediterranean Sea’s eastern shore. Fearing conservative Muslim leaders, the Christian and Jewish communities in Lebanon and Palestine sought help from French and British forces, who agreed[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…