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…
Archive for August, 2018
I have now read the book Altered Carbon and have seen the first episode of the Netflix series Altered Carbon. I would call both futuristic dystopia, much like Blade Runner or Ghost in the Shell. The basic conceit of Altered[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Some people theorize that the AI Council is of Peloran or other alien origin. The AI Council disagrees with those theories, and takes great care in stating that they woke up on Earth, grew up on Earth, and come from[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I know the standard bio for Knights Errant Investigations is that they came together during the Second Great Depression. But you look at what they did and how quickly they did it, it looks like they must have been around[…]↓ 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…
Some people theorize that the AI Council was created by Peloran cybernetic intelligences in hiding. They say that this was done to help advance, or control, us as we went into space. Another theory is that we pushed ourselves into[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I met some of the Knights Errant when I was young. Somebody who isn’t me lost a hiker out on the other side of the Canadian border. The Mounties were all over the place looking for them, and even Knights[…]↓ 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…
I have finished reading The Bourne Legacy novel. It is a partial sequel and partial reboot of the Bourne franchise designed to be the first of a new line of novels for a new era. The Bourne Trilogy was published[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Had information been made public that the AI Council made Contact with aliens in the Twenty First Century the stress to our societies may have been catastrophic. But the AIs had a plan, you see. They did not wish Contact[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…