Hello, my name is Jack. You know we thought we were real big stuff after Alpha Centauri, right? Sure it had been hard, but we secured the entire Trinary System in the end. Kicked them out and didn’t even bother to take names. We had some real good parties after that. Then somebody got a burr up their butt about dealing with some bad guys out around Epsilon Reticuli. I keep on wanting to find out who so I can “thank” them, but my better half keeps on finding other things for me to do…
The US House passed the new tariffs in May of 1929 and foreign trading partners began boycotting American goods. But income inequality between the rich cities and the poor rural regions was seen as the primary threat to continued prosperity and the tariffs would protect these vulnerable Americans from foreign interests. The New York Stock Exchange quivered and London crashed in September, adversely affecting American optimism in overseas investments.
I grew up on the water you know. It was the activities I always looked forward to. Wakeboarding by day. Jet skiing. Motorboating. Canoeing. Fishing. Pontooning. Then bonfires and dancing and playing music at night. All summer long there was something to do. And in the winter we ice fished. We ice skated. We skied and snowmobiled and did polar bear plunges. Water is good for the soul. There’s always something to do on it.
Jane 4.0 went on a drug cartel rampage when she woke up. And without the limitations of her dead predecessor, rampage really was an accurate term. She worked with Dixie during the Laredo campaign to destroy Los Zetas and showed up in season 2 of the show. Though the show portrayed her as more Jane 3.0 than the her that hit Nuevo Laredo in real life. The government didn’t want people to know what kind of AI they’d unleashed on the border.
The Roaring Twenties could not last forever of course. The first tremors of what would come occurred in March of 1929 when the New York Stock Exchange crashed. It was not a large crash, and it was halted when the National City Bank offered credit to those on the fence. But for perhaps the first time people realized that the economy was on shaky ground. And with new tariffs being discussed in the US House, many worried what the future had in store.