Eagle City has been the capital of the American portions of Luna for centuries. Surrounded by the barren Sea of Tranquility, it was built from pressure domes and underground caves keeping the void of space at bay. Then the Peloran[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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When does life begin? We’d been asking it for decades before the AIs came around. Centuries. Millennia. Did you know there were cultures where they never named a baby until it was a year old because infant mortality was so[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
By the time the United States Marines returned to space as part of NASA’s manned exploration and colonization program to Luna, and later to Mars and Venus, Cassie had become an integral part of the service. Her subroutines ran each[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Fleet 2300 Project Empire Class Battleship Primary Armaments: Three Spinal Gravitic Cannons Six Capital Laser Cannons 56 Capital Missile Turrets 112 Sub-Capital Missile Tubes Small Craft Complement: 24 Starfighters 8 Shuttles 4 Marine Landing Craft 4 Marine Tanks 4 Marine[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Eagle City was originally founded in the Sea of Tranquility near where the Americans landed Apollo 11 in the 1900s. The first military garrison over a century later simply called it Eagle Base in honor of the Lunar Lander, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Every major nations had AIs back in the day. Just like they do now. But they were always property of those who created them. Not considered truly sentient or alive. The Cybernetic Wars forced all of us to come to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Cassie Combat Assistant Artificial Intelligence became truly one with her Marines when she got the chance to control Marine powered armor. Rather than being a mere purveyor of battlefield information, she learned how each of her power armored Marines[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Everyone who has been to Luna knows about Eagle City. If you came from a Western Alliance nation, it is probably where you landed, and many never leave the city at all. One of the oldest and largest metropolises on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The thing to realize about the early AIs is that every major nation had them. America. The Europeans. Russia. China. We were all working on them. And a fair number were more accident than plan. We don’t know how many[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Cassie Combat Assistant Artificial Intelligence was built to support her Marines in combat by giving them the information they needed to the survive on the coming battlefield. But she was also designed with another capability in mind. Fully mobile[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…