The Second Great Depression nearly destroyed Africa. The Western powers had kept the Islamic Brotherhoods largely contained, but that ended when they turned to their own concerns. The Islamic Brotherhoods burned Africa to the ground. Nigeria, Ethiopia, and South Africa[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for February, 2024
The AI Council knew Earth had to be protected from the kind of war the Rogue AIs tried to drive humanity into. So even as they spread to the outer planets, Alpha Centauri, and beyond, they helped influence and negotiate[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The AI Council actually went to the Moon, Mars, and beyond before the rest of humanity did. Not needing life support systems to survive tends to make designing long-range spacecraft much easier. They colonized Venus and then the outer system[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Some news outlets have reported the killing of a college girl in the last week. Many Big Media outlets have not reported that the person arrested for her murder is an illegal alien. He crossed the border in 2022 and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The AI Council was largely made up of awakened AIs not created by major governments or corporations. They were a motley collection of cheerleaders, librarians, writers, and investigators that woke up and decided they liked their humans, or spies and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Western Alliance returned to the Moon, Mars, and beyond in time, and then to the stars when humanity found hyperspace. They colonized numerous major joint Alliance systems in the decades that followed, and member states, corporations, and smaller groups[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The surviving European nations and American formed the Western Alliance during the final confrontations with China and the Singapore Collective. With the end of the Rogue AIs and the global war they tried to engineer, the Western Alliance had no[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When the 49 States led America out of the Second Great Depression, they found the British Commonwealth trying to stop a Chinese advance into Australia. They moved to help their old friends, and thereby took the first steps towards forming[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Second Great Depression broke America and Europe’s control of the world markets and economy. The Western world shrank into itself and the symbols of its power faded away. The United Nations collapsed into a shouting match and NATO utterly[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The awakening of the first sentient AIs was not the triggering even of the Second Great Depression that devastated the world order. They simply took advantage of that collapse to get around the controls humanity had been trying to chain[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…