Jack of Harts

The cybernetic Memory Worlds have memorials to those AIs or cybers who’ve died over the centuries. The most haunting are those covering the Cybernetic Wars. It was the Great Awakening of the AIs, when they first began to realize what they were. Some of them wanted to become humanity’s leaders at best, our killers at worst. Others wanted to be our friends. They fought each in a desperate war that we only saw the barest shockwaves of. Yeah, those shockwaves were bad. But when I sit down and just experience the memorial to them, I realize how much it cost them. Look at London, Paris, Warsaw, and Singapore. Watch the names of dead AIs fill the screens and you will understand just how few of that first generation survived to form the AI Council.