Hello, my name is Jack

by on December 2, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Did you know that Silicon Valley was one of the few American States where cybernetic intelligences were truly accepted before The War? They’d been working on AIs since forever, so when the Peloran showed up with little cybernetic friends of their own and it was love at first sight. They rolled out the red carpet and invited any and all cybers to come settle down and help develop newer and better little friends. It was a marriage made in electronic Heaven. Which is why “Made in Silicon Valley” is still one of the most common stamps on AI packaging to this day.

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Hello, my name is Betty

by on December 1, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Twilight Season Four spent an entire episode working with the Iroquois tribal police in their hunt for the terrorists. Twilight and her gang visited the most amazing casinos and the most backward of villages on their tour of the reservations. They helped the police run down leads, and the other AIs hacked any computer system they could find. The climax came with discovery of a particularly violent criminal that had been plaguing the Iroquois. The fight played out under an Iroquois war chant that ended when they discovered a lead to Indianapolis. The episode then faded to black on an ancient Iroquois victory dance and the credits rolled over the sound of chanting Indians. It was voted one of the top ten hauntingly beautiful scenes of the entire series.

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Kato Strike Mech

by on November 30, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Jack's Defense Weekly

The Kato strike mech was part of America’s Army 2300 Project and envisioned a mobile mech carrying a particle accelerator gun for superior striking power. Numerous Katos have been fielded since, from standard trooper mechs that fight in platoon strength to bring down their enemies to sword wielding ninja mechs that slice and dice the enemy like they are part of Japanese anime. One never knows what exactly you will face when a platoon of Katos charges you, but the Chinese and Shang learned to fear their arrival on the field of battle.

Kato Strike Mech at Deviantart

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Alpha Centauri

by on November 29, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: The Essential Galactic Atlas

Humanity lost more ships at Alpha Centauri then in any other system during The War. The warehouses, the elevators, the hyperspace runs, everything about it made Alpha Centauri more valuable than any system short of Terra itself. And some people considered it more important than that. The riches that flowed through it, the starships that could use it, and defenses that held it all made Alpha Centauri an amazing target for the Shang and the Chinese. They wanted to drive us out. We wanted the same thing. None of us got everything we wanted in that deal, and we lost far too many ships before the end came. But trade must continue, and so it did, and so it has.

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Hello, my name is Jack

by on November 28, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

One thing I learned about Silicon Valley is that they have seemingly endless patience when it comes to technological accidents. And they have exactly zero tolerance for outside interference that results in things that look like accidents. Hacking someone else without their prior permission is one of the very few unforgivable sins you can commit in that city. When I visited the city as a teenager, some hacker deployed a virus that broke the smart clothing of everybody within three blocks of the city center. I later heard that Silicon Valley’s tame white hat hackers blew straight through The Great Firewall of China and dropped a living virus on the girl that burned out every electronic item she ever touched for the rest of her life. They really don’t like hackers.

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