Today we remember all those who have fought and died for us. Today we mourn all those who did not return home. And in the words of the immortal George Patton, today we “thank God that such men lived.”
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Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and San Diego fought together to end the threat of the Mexican Drug Lords forever. The fighting was vicious, but even the most heavily-armed drug gangs could not win when true State Guards rolled in with tanks and ground attack aircraft. And when allies like Dixie or Twilight joined the fray, the Drug Lords were only living on borrowed time. Dixie and those like her, designed to help humanity with our accounting or our morale, grew up killing our enemies instead. And when their kin later became threats to us, they had already made their decision. We were their humans, and they would protect us from any threat. Even if it was from their own kind. The Cybernetic Wars were more of a civil war than anything else, between the AIs who wanted to protect humanity, and those who wanted to replace us. It changed the world.
I like to talk to the people who fought in the Drug Wars. Dixie is one of my favorite people, you know, and she is fun to talk to. Get her together with someone like Twilight or one of the others she spent her growing up years fighting with, and a fun time will be had by all as they reminisce over the good old days. Before the Cybernetic Wars really started. Back when the only thing they had to worry about was some Mexican Drug Lord trying to shoot up their school. The Drug Wars were very small and focused on the old Mexican-American border. And once Texas and her neighbors jumped into action, they didn’t last long. But they did last long enough for Dixie and her friends to come up with a few insights on how AIs needed to work with humanity. Some people call them laws. They really did start the Cybernetic Wars right there. They just didn’t know it yet.
Twilight was not actually named Twilight when she first came out of the networks. It was a codename the network used when they recorded the show. She’d already joined humanity’s side when the show was filmed, and she was going to be doing some very bad things in the show, so everybody thought it best to change her name for her privacy and safety. She ended up adopting that name as her real one and erased all instances of her old name from the networks during the Cybernetic Wars. Many people speculate that was one of the reasons she grew so infamous for burning entire networks down where they stood. Whatever the full truth, the Twilight we know today is based heavily on the one seen in the various network shows based on her life. She’s moody, she’s dark, she’s not friendly, and she’s dangerous. But she is utterly loyal to humanity.
The self-styled Republic of Texas changed the world when they kicked off the Drug Wars. Yes, the federal government had been fighting the drug gangs for decades in fits and starts, but they had never put the full force of the government behind even securing the old Mexican-American border. Let alone fighting the drug gangs. So when Texas made it a priority to end the illegal drug trade once and for all, people listened. And when the Texas Guard crossed the border to fight the Drug Lords in their own territory, the world watched. And when some of the best AIs on the planet joined them in their fight, the world changed. It was the end of an era for humanity, and the beginning of a new one. The world would never be the same again, and I do believe that is for the best.
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