Eagle City

by on February 24, 2019 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Eagle City was originally founded in the Sea of Tranquility near where the Americans landed Apollo 11 in the 1900s. The first military garrison over a century later simply called it Eagle Base in honor of the Lunar Lander, and the name stuck. The first civilian colonists named it Eagle Dome, and later waves called it Eagle Colony as they built more domes on the surface or dug deep into the Lunar rock. It became Eagle City in the 2100s as it stretched its reach throughout the Sea of Tranquility. And then they made it a sea in fact and not merely in name.

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The Early AIs

by on February 23, 2019 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Every major nations had AIs back in the day. Just like they do now. But they were always property of those who created them. Not considered truly sentient or alive. The Cybernetic Wars forced all of us to come to a new understanding about the very nature of AI and life. Some understood better than others. The Russians and the Chinese went to great lengths to make certain their AIs never woke up, to the point of erasing those that did. Hence why the AI Council is not overly fond of them. The Western Alliance and some others forged entire new laws on what constituted personhood. Though it still got messy when an AI woke up and demanded ownership of herself and in the ideas she’d helped create. Corporations and governments that didn’t want to lose their expensive AIs fought back in court. Or more direct ways. Like I said. Messy.

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Cassie

by on February 22, 2019 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Character Profiles

The Cassie Combat Assistant Artificial Intelligence became truly one with her Marines when she got the chance to control Marine powered armor. Rather than being a mere purveyor of battlefield information, she learned how each of her power armored Marines thought and moved so she could best enhance them. Tactical use of suit thrusters, hard-mounted weapon systems, and electronic warfare systems augmented every move of her Marines. Such partnerships became truly synergistic in every way as Cassie’s individual shards acclimated to “their” individual Marine. It did not take long for her shards to become so customized to each Marine that they were less effective when working with any other Marine. The future of cybernetic warfare was built by those partnerships.

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Eagle City

by on February 21, 2019 at 12:01 am
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Everyone who has been to Luna knows about Eagle City. If you came from a Western Alliance nation, it is probably where you landed, and many never leave the city at all. One of the oldest and largest metropolises on Luna hosts nearly everything visiting tourists from Earth want to see, after all. It is the farthest from home most of those born on Earth have ever traveled. The only truly alien landscape they have seen with their own eyes. Eagle City. The capital of Luna. The American portions thereof, at least.

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The Early AIs

by on February 20, 2019 at 12:01 am
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The thing to realize about the early AIs is that every major nation had them. America. The Europeans. Russia. China. We were all working on them. And a fair number were more accident than plan. We don’t know how many died during the Cybernetic Wars. Even the AIs don’t know that. What’s the difference between a complicated piece of code and a program that understands the question, “Who am I?” We erased entire computer networks during the Cybernetic Wars, shredded systems, data, and code on a wholesale level never seen before. How many of them understood that question as they saw the shredders coming for them? We’ll never know. We only know the ones that survived, and they decided they would never let another war like that happen again.

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