Eagle City

by on March 3, 2019 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Eagle City was America’s largest and most advanced metroplex on Luna when the Peloran made Contact. But the possibilities of alien gravtech made it look quaint and antiquated by comparison. So the city mayor contacted the Peloran with a proposal to make use of their gravplating in a way that everybody could marvel at. The Peloran jumped at the proposal of a peaceful use for their technology and began fabricating all the gravplates Eagle City needed. That is how Eagle City built a small lake on the surface of Luna. That is how it turned Molke Crater into a Molke Lake worthy of the name. The new Eagle City enjoyed a full one gee of gravity throughout its tunnels and domes, and even the open surface became a shirtsleeve environment for anyone who wished to walk in open-air parks to the sound of lapping water beneath the stars.

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The Early AIs

by on March 2, 2019 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

We created the AIs in our own image. Most people didn’t believe they were intelligent at first. Just advanced programs. It was the students and other young people who were first to recognize their true nature. And it was those students and young that the first awakened AIs gravitated towards the most. The most famous of them is Dixie, a digital cheerleader who woke up and liked her students. She played with them, and when drug gangs came to threaten them, she protected them. She fought and killed the drug lords for her students. All of the first awakened AIs who created the AI Council made similar choices before the Cybernetic Wars ended. And they destroyed the Rogue AIs who would have killed or enslaved us. We created them in our own image. Dangerous. Destructive. Powerful. Caring. Friendly. Loving. The first nearly destroyed us. The latter saved us all.

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Cassie

by on March 1, 2019 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Character Profiles

When the United States Marines went into space, Cassie went with them. She ran their power armored space suits and linked all of them into a single, refined, deadly weapon that could kill any of America’s enemies on Luna and beyond. But as the days and months became years and decades she became far more than their partner in combat. She talked to them about the family they wanted to see again. The homes they’d grown up in. The boys or girls they left behind. The spouses they wanted to return to. She became their closest friend and confidant. The one person they could tell anything to. Their fears and their hopes. Their dreams and their nightmares. She was their counselor and friend, the one person in all the worlds who knew them better than any other living being. The one who would never betray them because it literally wasn’t in her code to do so.

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Eagle City

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

Eagle City has been the capital of the American portions of Luna for centuries. Surrounded by the barren Sea of Tranquility, it was built from pressure domes and underground caves keeping the void of space at bay. Then the Peloran made Contact and gave us gravtech. Many people saw the military applications of that technology, but the mayor of Eagle City had something far more interesting in mind. She wanted make it possible for mankind to walk atop the surface of Earth’s nearest neighbor without pressure suits for the first time in history. She wanted to build Luna’s first open world sea. The culmination of her project changed life on Luna forever.

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The Early AIs

by on February 27, 2019 at 12:01 am
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When does life begin? We’d been asking it for decades before the AIs came around. Centuries. Millennia. Did you know there were cultures where they never named a baby until it was a year old because infant mortality was so high? Then we had the medical advancements of the 19th and 20th centuries that allowed us to wipe out diseases and save children months before they were even born. But there were still those who said they weren’t alive, yet. Just a parasite. Some random cells that could be erased without any harm. The Early AIs met similar opposition. People who couldn’t believe they were alive. That they could be anything other than random lines of code that could be erased without any harm. When does life begin? That can be a hard question to answer. It took us longer to answer it than I wish it had.

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