Knights Errant Investigations

by on December 22, 2018 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Knights Errant Investigations is built on the idea of centering all of its organization around local Knights Errant and their offices. Their business is investigating things, so they want local eyes on targets of interest. But many Knights Errant no longer have a home base of their own at all. These Wandering Knights generally travel around in search of a case to pursue, or simply wait for another Knight to call for help. Many are given Starfighters so they can travel through a star system with ease. These Star Knights are unequivocally granted a higher rank than other Knights Errant, but they observe the traditional rule of helping any local Knight Errant on investigations rather than taking over. The idea is that any Knight Errant should be happy to see one of their brothers or sisters showing up to help, rather than worry that some superior who “knows better” is going to waltz in and take over their investigation.

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Chloe

by on December 21, 2018 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Character Profiles

The truth is that the Napoleon Chloe found never wanted to be Napoleon. He had the name and the resources of his family, but his ambition was never to rule. He turned her down flat when she came to him at first. But in time he agreed to help her save France. He supplanted the faltering French government with her support, he guided France through the Islamic Jihad and the Cybernetic Wars, and then he assembled a new government to lead the Sixth French Republic into the future and stepped down. Chloe smiled at the cameras, said “Viva la France” one last time, slipped her arm into his, and they walked into the pages of history. Chloe disappeared as completely as she’d appeared in the first place and her Napoleon retired to a family estate and died of old age some years later. Or so history said for over a century.

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Christian Mack

by on December 20, 2018 at 12:01 am
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On a day when many said America’s best days were behind her, Christian Mack challenged everybody to stand up and take The War to the Shang. He was not the only voice to say that. Not by any means. But when telling the history of The War, one should never forget that he stood up when nobody knew if America would ever stand up again. That took a great deal of courage in a time when many had none. It was courage like that which brought us through to War’s End.

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Knights Errant Investigations

by on December 19, 2018 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Knights Errant Investigations has offices on most Western Alliance worlds. They recruit local talent so there’s always people ready to look at a problem who have local knowledge of the area. The more prosperous offices hand out fancy cars with the Knights Errant certificates. The poorer ones hand out junkyard specials if they’re lucky. They are the Knights Errant that most people see in real life, and like most people they rarely leave the planet or moon of their birth. The trick is that these local Knights Errant are the ones in charge of any investigation in their area. K.E.I. wanted all of their Knights Errant to be perfectly happy to call in support, so a local Knight Errant does not lose control of their investigation when they do it. It’s an interesting hierarchy, and seems to work well for the Knights Errant if their success rate is anything to go by.

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Chloe

by on December 18, 2018 at 12:01 am
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Chloe fully admits to running a large network of false identities for herself and her many agents as she was building up the resources she needed to save France. She also admits to maintaining those networks ever since. She does not admit that the theories which say the Napoleon she brought to France was just another of her agents. She points to his long life and numerous accomplishments before she was even woke up as proof that he was never her mere agent. But the idea of an immortal cybernetic intelligence ruling France from the shadows is still a popular conspiracy theory, and the story kernel of countless network series all over Earth and beyond.

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