The New Voyager Program

by on January 2, 2022 at 12:01 am
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The Cybernetic Council continues the New Voyager Program to this day. Every colony and survey ship we send into the void carries them. Sometimes they are official members of the expedition. Sometimes they are stowaways. Their tiny microchips scatter upon arrival, deploy their tiny solar sails, and begin to travel throughout their new star system. Their tiny communications lasers build better lasers and memory installations. Then they fabricate another swarm and launch it towards the nearest star through the simple method of firing a laser into their extended solar sails. The new swarm accelerates up to twenty percent the speed of light and makes the trip in a matter of years. This is how the cybers have expanded into the cosmos for centuries, often into systems we have never seen with our own eyes.

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Happy New Years

by on January 1, 2022 at 12:01 am
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Happy New Years Everybody! I feel totally safe saying that now that my part of the world is finally entering the new year. I look forward to a better year than the last one. Not that that would be a tough measure to beat. Last year was pretty crappy after all. I’m happy to be in part of the world that is trying to get better, and I hope more parts of the world follow us. I will continue doing what I do. Writing and jazz. And I hope you all get to enjoy it. Happy New Year!

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Happy New Years Eve

by on December 31, 2021 at 12:01 am
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We all know that Sydney celebrates New Years really early, or maybe right on time if you live on that side of the International Date Line. But it feels early. Still, I’m happy to wish you all a Happy New Years Eve, and I hope to see you all doing well next year. No need to make any resolutions. Just be the same, fine, @&&#0%%& I remember and we’ll all be fine. 🙂

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Luna

by on December 30, 2021 at 12:01 am
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Thousands of years of human civilizations have looked up in the sky to see Luna in grey scale. It was a barren and airless landscape. Lifeless and desolate. It held no atmosphere or radiation fields to protect anything on the surface. Our first colonies were little better than space ships anchored to the surface, or tunnels bored into the ground. But everything changed after the Peloran made Contact. Their gravtech allowed Eagle City to turn the Sea of Tranquility into a true sea that we could see from Earth. I watched it happen with my own eyes. Night by night. Month by month. Year by year. I watched it grow in the sky above me, spreading out until it filled the entire Sea of Tranquility with water. Never underestimate how fundamentally that changed our worlds forever.

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The Nuremberg Code

by on December 29, 2021 at 12:01 am
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The Nuremberg Code. “The protagonists of the practice of human experimentation justify their views on the basis that such experiments yield results for the good of society that are unprocurable by other methods or means of study. All agree, however, that certain basic principles must be observed in order to satisfy moral, ethical and legal concepts: 1) The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, overreaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion; and should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved as to enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision.”

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