Hello, my name is Charles

by on June 14, 2015 at 12:01 am
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The government infighting following Peloran Contact froze the French economy. French corporations were losing billions of francs a day, and the economy was hemorrhaging people and businesses across every border. The House of Bonaparte had built up a consortium of the largest corporations by that time, and that entire fortune was at risk. They refused to hop the border in an attempt to save their fortune though. The House of Bonaparte was French after all. They would not sit still and watch their nation and fortune collapse because of a corrupt bureaucracy.

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Hello, my name is Jack

by on June 13, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

I meet some good people in my travels. I meet some bad people. But most people are somewhere in between. Most people don’t want to hurt others, but are perfectly willing to lie or cheat if it will help them out of a tight spot. The little white lies don’t bother them since they aren’t meant to hurt anyone. They violate little laws every day, considering them annoying and pointless. But they are the first to call for new laws to protect or punish other people. I meet them but rarely do anything beyond the most mundane of business with them. My business is with others.

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Hello, my name is Betty

by on June 12, 2015 at 12:01 am
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The Japanese had made giant strides in the realm of robotics during the half century before the Second Great Depression began. And they had shared their technology with their allies before the Chinese invaded. So when the Mexican drug lords sent men to shoot up Texas Tech, they ran into the same meat grinder that bled the Chinese army white. Autonomous robots under the command of advanced artificial intelligences. It was a fight for the history books.

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Hello, my name is Charles

by on June 11, 2015 at 12:01 am
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Some religions and governments collapsed when the Peloran made Contact. Others changed and adapted. The French did both. Some government officials pushed for their own private fiefdoms to have sole Contact, while others drafted regulations to outlaw the actions. Others walked a middle path, but the wild conflicting actions of the two extremes paralyzed the government and froze out even the private and public corporate interests. The French economy came to a grinding stop amidst the government corruption.

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Hello, my name is Jack

by on June 10, 2015 at 12:01 am
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I meet a lot of people in my line of business. Some of them are trustworthy. Some of them couldn’t tell the truth if you wrote it on the insides of their eyelids. But most people are mostly trustworthy. You can generally trust that they will tell the truth as they know it, as long as it doesn’t hurt them. The trick is in separating those who lie for fun from the rest. They are simply not good for business, and I’ve grown tired of their antics. And if there’s one thing I don’t need in my line of work, it is someone stirring up the pot for fun.

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