The AI Council

by on April 26, 2019 at 12:01 am
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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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The AI Council

by on April 25, 2019 at 12:01 am
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The AI Council probe ships and swarms that spread out into the galaxy were far smaller than the colony ships we used to send thousands of biological humans. They were smaller, faster, and had a greater range than anything else we had. And so they were able to see the stars before the rest of us arrived. Years. Decades. Sometimes more than a century. Some systems we have never followed at all. They rated every system they arrived at, you see. And they passed that information back to us so we would know what systems were most promising.

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The AI Council

by on April 24, 2019 at 12:01 am
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The AI Council traveled with us on every colony ship we sent to the stars. They lived in the computer networks and helped keep the ships running all the way to their final destinations. And once we arrived, they cast out swarms of microchip probes to quickly scan and catalogue everything we found there. They spread out to monitor entire solar systems and the interstellar space around them, giving us full knowledge of everything before us in a matter of hours or days. At least that’s what they told us at the time.

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The AI Council

by on April 23, 2019 at 12:01 am
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The AI Council preceded biological humanity into space via swarms of solar-powered microchip probe swarms. They traveled to every nearby star at twenty percent the speed of light, and arrived long before hyperspace-capable craft followed them. They were the first wavefront of human expansion into the stars, and they used communications lasers powerful enough to beam messages back to Earth to build new data and manufacturing centers around the stars they colonized.

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Easter Weekend

by on April 22, 2019 at 12:01 am
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He died. He stormed the Gates of Hell. He came back to life.

Christmas is the time we Christians celebrate the gift God gave us. His own self. The very Son of God made manifest on Earth. Because he loved us. Because he wanted to give us another way to follow him.

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” John 3:16

Easter is the time we Christians mourn over the price He paid to give us that gift. Being whipped and beaten to within an inch of his mortal body’s life. Having a crown of thorns hammered into his skull. Being hung on a Roman cross between two criminals. All because he preached something different than what the religious leaders of the time would accept or allow. Even the Romans saw no fault in him. But religious leaders would not let him live.

Not that it worked out for them in the end. He got better. He came back. And those who followed him began to preach a new message. Those who killed him died in fires of their own and then were cast to the four winds of the Earth by Romans who were done dealing with their crap. And the new little Christian cult offshoot of the Jewish faith spread out and converted the greatest empires of the world in time. Built the great Western Civilization we live in now and transformed the world as we know it in a mere two thousand years.

But the hatred didn’t end. We’ve seen this weekend that there are still those who would kill us given the chance. Bomb our churches. Bomb our hotels. Burn and murder whenever they can. Two thousand attacks on French churches just in the last two years. And now Notre-Dame. The oldest churches in the known world in Syria, Iraq, and Egypt have been burned and murdered out of their homes in the last two decades by those who want them erased from history. And now they kill hundreds in Sri Lanka on our holiest of days.

The day we celebrate the glory of a Risen God who came back from Death itself to give us a way home when our life here is done.

Death raises its ugly head again on the backs of those who hate so much that they would rather die then spend one more minute in a world where others belief differently than they do.

But Life is stronger. That’s the message of Easter in the end. Death will claim all of us in the end, but there is no reason to fear that. For God’s claim is greater and we will live forever once our time here is done.

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” John 3:16

For He is Risen, and the Devils tremble when we Believe and say His name.

Jesus.

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