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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Memorial Day

by on May 28, 2018 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

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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The Cybernetic Wars

by on May 27, 2018 at 12:01 am
Posted In: The Book of Civilizations

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.

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The Cybernetic Wars

by on May 26, 2018 at 12:01 am
Posted In: The Book of Civilizations

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.

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