Silicon Valley has a much smaller population and land area than Los Angeles, but beautiful crystalline technological megastructures rise far above the surrounding landscape. Some of the most advanced AIs built by humanity run their environmental and security systems. Cars fly through a city that never sleeps on crisscrossing skyways reaching from the heights of the building tops all the way down to their ground level roots in a never-ending rush hour. It is a city of invention that celebrates the accomplishments of the human mind. It is an amazing place to visit.
After the playful romp in New Orleans, Twilight spent an episode each in Atlanta, Philadelphia, and New York City. They drove a procession of Ford vehicles around the cities in search of more serious terrorists threats to the American homeland, and communicated on various Samsung phones the viewers could go to the stores and buy. If they lived in an area where law and order prevailed. Twilight’s creators purposefully placed the shiny new cars and phones in front of burned out neighborhoods and emergency shelters overflowing with homeless immediately next door to prosperous neighborhoods guarded by paid security. They drove the surreal reality of America in the middle of the Second Great Depression into the public consciousness with an unapologetic hammer.
Once we perfected the deploying of orbital elevators we began shipping single-tether starter elevators to the existing colonies, and we of course added them to the basic colonization packages. Colonization missions were no longer pure scientific, exploratory, or flag waving expeditions by then. They were big business opportunities and the corporations required a cheap and effective way of moving freight up and down. Interstellar trade was nearly non-existent of course, but when a corporation gave money to support a colonization expedition they obtained certain understandings with the new colonial governments. These allowed many corporations to obtain vast tracts of land on many new worlds that would allow them to grow quite impressively over the centuries.
One thing I learned when I visited Los Angeles is that I love it. LA and the surrounding cities are so peacefully multicultural. You can find anything from Indian rain dances to Mexican maraca parties within walking distance of each other. Almost every Asian culture I know of has a place to call home there. You can walk for five minutes and pass by ten different cultures. And Cherry Blossom Boulevard is one of those magical places that everybody has to see at least once in real life. If you come at the right time you can watch as the blossoms carpet the street. I’ve never seen anything else like it in all the worlds. That’s the definition of New Japan really. It’s a whole different world from anyplace else out there.
The Dixie and Twilight shows always had a loose relationship with time. Major events that were years apart in real life happened right after another in the show, but in general they showed things a couple years after they happened in real life. Long enough ago that they weren’t fully remembered by the viewers, but close enough that it still felt like the shows were set almost in the now. The commercials claimed that they were showing us the real stories of yesteryear. They made a few mistakes though. The Ford Mustangs the gang drove in New Orleans weren’t released until a year after the beginning of the battle that ended Twilight season four. Numerous other product endorsements like the phones they used met similar fates at the hands of cyber nitpickers of the time, but modern audiences never notice. Everything is just Pre-Space old to our eyes.
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