Peloran

by on April 30, 2019 at 12:01 am
Posted In: The Races of Humanity

When the Peloran made Contact with Earth, the greatest reaction was surprise. Humanity had long thought aliens had to exist out there somewhere. That Earth wasn’t alone in the cosmos as a source of life. The surprise was at just how…human the Peloran were. Aneerin and his crew actually looked more human than many teenagers walking down the streets. They could have disappeared into the crowds of any city on Earth and no one could have found them. That caused more than a little bit of consternation on Earth.

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Avengers Endgame

by on April 29, 2019 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

A little movie came out a decade ago. It featured an arrogant prick with delusions of grandeur who did not work well with others. He had a laundry list of personal defects, and couldn’t hold to a prepared speech with cue cards in his hands. In the end, he said four fateful words that changed movies for a decade.

“I am Iron Man.”

We were next introduced to a big green guy with anger management issues, an angry Norse god with an affinity for lightning, and a god among men who could fight all day long even before he was injected with a super soldier serum that made his body as strong as his will.

Their stories collided in the first Avengers movie and super hero movies as we knew them would never be the same again.

Avengers Endgame is upon us now, and I will say again what I have said before.

It is a love story.

It is a love story to a decade of films starring actors great and small, and characters of grandeur and substance. And since this is a time travel story, we get to see actors and characters we thought were long gone. And others that are only recently gone.

It is a love story to all the fans who have stuck with them since the day we heard the fateful words, “I am Iron Man.”

Avengers Endgame is a capstone to the story begun in that film. To that story and the stories of so many other characters we’ve been introduced to in the years since. Mothers and fathers. Sisters and brothers. Friends and family. I loved every minute of it, from those packed with action to those slow and poignant.

I give it two Infinity Gauntlets raised high in celebration.

Oh…snap. 😉

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The AI Council

by on April 28, 2019 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

The AI Council spread their probes far and wide into the galaxy and sent word back to us as to which systems were most promising. They also helped sculpt the colonies when they arrived via suggested colony sites based on their years or decades of observations. And they helped to shift our attention from discoveries that might have been unsettling. It took us decades to realize that every planet we colonized truly was host to life that was fully compatible with our own. And the less said about the theories that we were not the first to live on these worlds the better. Literally.

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The AI Council

by on April 27, 2019 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

The story I grew up with was that the AI Council traveled to the stars with us in our colony ships. I’ve learned that, while strictly accurate, that was also not entirely true. I don’t blame them for not telling us the whole story back then. I mean…who would have believed that the AIs had a secret interstellar space program that scattered their probes all over our little corner of the galaxy? That when our ships arrived and launched our probe swarms, they were really just talking with the AI networks already built and waiting for us? Who would have believed any of that back then?

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The AI Council

by on April 26, 2019 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

The AI Council sent solar-powered microchip probe swarms into many star systems biological humanity could not follow. The early hyperspace drives were not very powerful and could only follow the hyperspace runs linking Sol with the more powerful nearby stars like the Alpha Centauri Trinary System. They couldn’t travel to all the tiny little dwarf stars bouncing around our region of space. But a probe swarm could travel there at twenty percent the speed of light in a matter of years or decades at most. That is how the AI Council explored space around humanity in an ever-expanding globe of probe swarms that forever kept watch on everything around us.

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