Peter

by on April 30, 2017 at 12:01 am
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Peter volunteered to mete out vengeance on the Shang for killing his sister. It was a surprise to everyone when the cybernetic families chose to send a daughter designed to perfectly mimic that sister. Peter was overjoyed at first. And he was hesitant. He worried that accepting the cyber would be a betrayal of his sister’s memory. But he also did not wish to live without her. It was not precisely a rough start to their partnership. He liked that she picked his sister, even as he worried about it. And she understood why he was hesitant. They started slowly, and tested each other in the days and weeks that followed. They became as thick as thieves, of course, and that was good for both of them. Peter became something like the man I remembered before Yosemite, but with more maturity. He had weathered and survived great loss, and treasured his relationships more than before. In some ways he became more serious. More punctual in time and space. He was more hopeful as well. He wanted to see the good in people. I can think of worse ways to live than that.

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Alice

by on April 29, 2017 at 12:01 am
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Peter and Alice were twins. And like many twins, they had a special relationship with each other their entire life. They talked to each other about boys and girls and school and everything else. They were like two halves of a whole, twins standing against the world together. And then the Shang killed her when they dropped pieces of Yosemite down on San Francisco. He swore to avenge her, and the cybernetic families knew that when they chose him. I think they chose to mold their daughter in Alice’s image as a way of helping him heal. The new Alice stepped into his life like she’d never left and started off where they’d last been. She became his sister in every way that mattered, and they stood side by side against all the worlds and fought as one once more. Even their parents accepted her as their daughter, and I think that saved her. We all die someday, and when he fell, she went back to the home they’d grown up in. She still lives there now, the legal daughter and heir of one of San Francisco’s leading families.

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A Primer on the Races of Humanity – Arnam

by on April 28, 2017 at 12:01 am
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The Arnam’s primary weakness is that they do not handle heat well. Their dark, leathery skin resembles the blubber of seafaring creatures, though the Albion were able to keep it thin enough to give them full human mobility. It retains heat, insulating them from the deepest and coldest environs. And it is difficult to cut, protecting them from many more environmental dangers. But it retains heat when they are in hotter temperature zones, too. With so much of their design aiming at keep them warm they simply cannot dissipate enough heat to keep them comfortable in hotter climates. And an overheated Arnam is a very unhappy Arnam.

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Peter

by on April 27, 2017 at 12:01 am
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Peter White was the son of a leading family in San Francisco’s medical research industry. He and his twin sister Alice grew up keeping each out of trouble by the expedient of not getting caught performing all of the mischief they achieved. They were often their own best alibis, but few ever made the mistake of thinking them serious children. Peter and Alice remained close partners in adulthood with business schemes all over Earth and beyond. I once watched their tag team assault on a mutual business arrival, and it was a joy to behold in living color. They were one of the best teams I ever saw in action, and I was grieved to hear of Alice’s death when the Shang brought down Yosemite. Peter was inconsolable. I did not know what would happen when I brought him into my plans and asked him to join me. He was amazing, of course, but his cyber was a surprise to everyone.

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Alice

by on April 26, 2017 at 12:01 am
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The original Cowboy squadron was made up of two veterans and ten of us newbies from all over the northern United States. Pennsylvania, Dixie, Texas, the Indian Nations, Hawaii, and Minnesota, they all sent their sons and daughters to fight. So did California. That’s where Alice came from. Kinda. She was born in Texas like all of our cybers at the time, but she was unique in her own way. She formed herself in the image of a real living woman. Well…formerly living at least. The Shang bombardment killed a lot of people, you know. Alice chose to become one of them when she was born. She combed every database and every picture she could find on the networks, and built a personality and a body that matched that dead woman so well that if they’d been standing side by side, I don’t think anyone could have picked out the differences. Maybe Peter could have, but I wouldn’t have put money on that.

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