The Cybernetic Wars

by on June 2, 2018 at 12:01 am
Posted In: The Book of Civilizations

The Drug Wars came to a bloody end within a year or two after the Border States started them up for real. After the Federal government lost its hold on power and the States stepped up. After people like Dixie started shooting Drug Lords and the locals realized they finally had a fighting chance. Did I say bloody? Oh yeah. Generations of Mexicans had grown up under the Drug Lords’ thumbs, or fleeing to America where they could live a safer life. Dixie and her allies started the shooting, but it was the Mexicans who hammered the point home in the end. Sometimes with literal hammers. They ended the Drug Lords for good, and the Mexicans decided they were done with their old federal government as well. So they joined up with us of their own choice, and fought with us when the Cybernetic Wars came on the scene. Some history books say we took over Mexico. The people who lived it call those books garbage. Sometimes with the kind of language I don’t like to put in print.

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Dixie

by on June 1, 2018 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Character Profiles

Dixie grew to like her students and teachers at Texas Tech, though she kept herself hidden from most of them. She only came out of the network years later, just before the Federal Government collapsed and the Drug Wars hit high gear. She didn’t like what the drugs were doing to her students, so she started making things difficult for the drug dealers. And when the Drug Lords struck back, she crossed the border with the Texas Guard and ended the Drug Lords themselves with extreme prejudice. They were a threat to her humans and that was all that mattered. She’s much like they showed her in the shows and movies. Bubbly, cute, and quick to crack a joke to make people laugh. And perfectly willing to decide, with a smile on her face, “they needed killing.” She did grow up in Texas, you know. It kinda goes with the territory.

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The Cybernetic Wars

by on May 31, 2018 at 12:01 am
Posted In: The Book of Civilizations

The Drug Wars on the old Mexican-American Border changed us all forever. Mexico and America had long been two peoples divided by antagonistic federal governments and dangerous parasites who fed on their social inequalities. Then the federal governments failed and the Border States began shooting the parasites with extreme prejudice. The Drug Lords as many call them. The truth is that the Mexicans and Americans always had far more in common with each other than they did with those who called themselves their leaders. They simply wished to live in peace, and feel secure in their homes. That is what most people want if we are being honest. It is simply the ways in which we pursue that goal which divide most of us. The Cybernetic Wars were another matter entirely.

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The Cybernetic Wars

by on May 30, 2018 at 12:01 am
Posted In: The Book of Civilizations

The people who fought the Drug Wars, and later the Cybernetic Wars, were the ones that brought Old Mexico and America together. The Drug Lords had been terrorizing Mexicans for decades, and they hadn’t done any good to the Americans on the border either. So when the old Border States finally took matters into their own hands and started killing the Drug Lords in job lots, the Mexicans were real happy to watch. And they were even happier to join in on the slaughter. Almost every Mexican knew someone killed or taken by the Drug Lords, and they wanted payback. They’d just resigned themselves to the idea that it would never come. People like Dixie gave them their chance.

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Dixie

by on May 29, 2018 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Character Profiles

Dixie was a virtual cheerleader at Texas Tech, designed to work with the real life cheerleading squad. She pranced across the scoreboards, handheld displays, and the like, displays scores and ads for the fans. She wasn’t meant to be a full-featured AI, but as her network presence grew some network anchors wanted to interview her. That took major updates for her to act like anything approximating a human in real time. We’re pretty certain that’s when she started waking up. It was the mixture of expanded coding and access to more computer resources than normal that allowed her to respond to humans in real time. And it was probably during those interviews that she gained the brief glimmers of a true sense of self. It took years for those to crystallize into the being we now recognize as one of humanity’s most loyal defenders.

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