Hello, my name is Jack

by on June 11, 2016 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

I grow my own food. Most permanent space habitats do that and I’m no exception. Chicken. Fish. Taters. I grow all kinds of food in my ship. It gives me something to do. A routine. Daily jobs that have to be done. We all need things to do to keep us sane. I grow things. And I play music. The chickens like it. At least they don’t complain about it if they don’t. It’s the kind of stuff that keeps all spacers alive and connected to the world we all call home. Even those who have never been there.

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Hello, my name is Betty

by on June 10, 2016 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

It’s almost impossible to really kill an artificial intelligence you know. Jane 3.0 was running millions of shards on millions of systems the night the attack came. And most of those shards continued to run for months and sometimes years after that. Some few still run to this day in fact. Los Zetas did not try to erase her from the computer systems of the planet when they attacked. They knew that was impossible. Instead they targeted her programmers and the far smaller number of computers that held her machine code. They killed everyone and everything that could update and patch Jane 3.0, making it impossible to give her the tools to face the new threats to America’s security. That is how Jane 3.0 died. She became obsolete.

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Hello, my name is Charles

by on June 9, 2016 at 12:01 am
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VMM-764 is a light transport and close air support squadron that has served since the Korean War. They originally flew helicopters where they got the name Moonlight due to their training in night operations. They were the first squadron to use tiltrotor craft and the first to test their space-capable cousins. They flew the newer Bulldog when The War came upon us all, though their standard missions were disaster relief and sometimes dignitary guard duties during conferences. They helped us secure countless landing zones, engaging both ground and aircraft, on thousands of asteroids, moons, planetoids, and planets throughout the Hyades Cluster.

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Hello, my name is Jack

by on June 8, 2016 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

You know I have a pool, right? In my ship. It’s actually the water bunker for the fusion reactors that power the ship. And that gives me water to drink. And gives the fish a place to grow up until they’re big enough to slap on my plate. It’s a pretty multifunction affair. I even have a little sandy nook next to it so I can sit and relax and make believe I’m on a real beach. It’s one of the little things that keeps me from going stir crazy while flying around hyperspace in a tin can. It’s a little piece of home I can swim through and just relax with.

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Hello, my name is Betty

by on June 7, 2016 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

There were two major conflicts that Jane 3.0 fought in before the Second Great Depression. The first of course was fighting against the various Islamic States in the Middle East along with most of our military. The second was what we thought to be the far less threatening border between the United States and Mexico. We were the sole superpower on Earth and Mexico was a failed state run by drug lords. They were no threat to America. Jane 3.0 ably helped the Border Patrol keep watch, but they never had the firepower to control the border. Political warfare in Washington made certain of that. But everything changed the day they killed Jane.

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