There are many names for us. Some call us immortal. I try to stay away from that name. We die like anybody after all. Some call us Methuselahs, though I step back there too. Too religious. Cowboy I am happy[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for August, 2014
Someone asked me the other day if all Cowboys are Ageless. Well no. Many of the Cowboys were normal people. There were never enough Ageless back then to go everywhere we needed to go. Even now we aren’t really enough. […]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Contact brought great change to those who lived on Earth. It changed us too though. It took longer. We had two thousand years of inertia to get past. We knew how to do things right. The Terran AIs didn’t have[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Gencon is big. Gencon is fun. It is the best four days in gaming and thank God it’s not five. I don’t think I could survive five. So here I am, Gencon is done, and it’s been another good one.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Great Peace after War’s End has been a time of rebuilding for us all. Russian. Chinese. Alliance. Non-Aligned. We have all spent our time colonizing and exploring new worlds, expanding in the directions that the Treaty of Geneva outlined.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
You know the hardest part about being a Cowboy? Slowing down. Using soft hands. Amongst other Cowboys we have some real interesting sports. But when working or playing with other people we have be careful not to break them. The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Peloran cybernetic intelligences that came with Contact had lived the better part of two thousand years in real time. And as the most aware Terran AIs recognized them, they recognized those AIs and adopted them as cousins. They become[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The War united us in many ways. In other ways it fractured us anew. The great alliances became further estranged from each other, while the nations within them became closer brothers. War’s End saw us arrayed as if for the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Cowboys are a bunch of alpha guys and girls that know we are the best of the best of the best. That can lead to some really energetic debates over who truly is the best. And sometimes we can[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Very few AIs ever gained what we consider true awareness. That being the ability to recognize how they think and modify themselves in the way that other humans do. What most people think of as life experiences. The best AIs[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…