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by on September 10, 2023 at 12:01 am
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Grandma Carter was mostly retired from politics and the military while I was growing up. Yeah, she would make the calls that needed called, but she wasn’t really on active duty back then. She did come back for The War though. The Space Force needed qualified people to man the defenses around Earth and the other Core Worlds, so Grandma volunteered to help out. She saw more than one Chinese or Russian invasion force show up at a world she defended. Grandma called them up, said what she was prepared to defend the world with, and asked what they wanted to attack with. An old friend from Singapore would invariably answer and they would have a nice conversation about the stellar weather. It’s amazing how many people didn’t fight over the worlds she defended.

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by on September 9, 2023 at 12:01 am
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Grandma Carter and her counterparts from Singapore kept the lines of communication open between Russia, China, and the Western Alliance for a century and a half. Whenever things needed saying and diplomatic missions weren’t sufficient, someone would call Grandma and she would call someone else. Grandma had contacts few of the other conduits did, so she got called a fair bit. I still remember… I think it was the Christmas of ’99. She was grumpy when that call came in, but she made a call right in front of the family. We spent our Christmas dinner talking to some guy in Russia and his family, who were also enjoying a Christmas at home. Nothing exciting happened that Christmas day, or the days after. Nothing at all. It was a real quiet holiday for everybody.

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by on September 8, 2023 at 12:01 am
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Grandma Carter came home a genuine hero, and she used the fame to get exactly what she wanted. The final frontier. Space. She pulled strings and got transferred to NASA. Yeah, she was a genuine NASA astronaut. She went to the moon, Mars, and beyond. And when the Western Alliance needed a military governor for Mars, they decided they needed someone with her connections to govern our part of the red planet. The Russians and the Chinese thought the same thing and sent their own veterans of Singapore to command their colonies. Grandma and her counterparts didn’t want war, so they kept a lid on things up there. They kept the peace, and that is no small task.

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by on September 7, 2023 at 12:01 am
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Grandma Carter and her Chinese and Russian counterparts killed a lot of Rogue AIs at Singapore. Their strike teams and the AIs that fought with them breached Singapore’s defenses and helped destroy the entire nest. Burned it all the way down to the silicon. Then they partied like warriors who had gone through hell together and walked out the other side. Not a one of them wanted to fight the others, and they made certain to report that fact to their superiors. And their superiors were quick to report how helpful all their counterparts had been in saving the world to their superiors back home. Grandma really just wanted to go home. She’d gotten way too close to dying more times than she could count with her boots on, and she wanted peace. She got it.

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by on September 6, 2023 at 12:01 am
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Grandma Carter was ready to shoot down a whole mess of Chinese soldiers in Indonesia when the AI Council showed up calling for a truce. They had intel about a nest of Rogue AIs in Singapore, including all their plans. They were trying to start World War III. Trying to get us to kill each other so they could take over the ruins. So Grandma asked her counterparts, in perfect Chinese, if they wanted to join her in killing some Rogue AIs. It wasn’t just the Chinese that took her up on the offer. The Russians were real happy to shoot any Rogue AI they could find, and they came ready to rock and roll. The most elite Special Forces teams in the world fought side by side at Singapore, and the relationships they built doing that have not faded over the centuries.

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