Hello, my name is Jack

by on December 9, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Hal’s home in Silicon Valley is a technological wizard’s dream come true. Gleaming white towers with golden runes engraved in them surround the estate and protect it from unwished weather or hackers. Peaceful gardens full of every flower imaginable surround the gleaming white house. Inside is a technological wonderland. Every room is a holosuite, and she has the best full dive computer interfaces I’d yet seen the first time I visited. I’d surfed the nets before but one trip in that house made me realize just how cheap the commercial sets my family had were. I truly felt like I was a program inside a computer matrix spread out as far as the eye could see. It was real shiny.

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Hello, my name is Betty

by on December 8, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

The Indianapolis shown in Twilight season four had no surviving local government and gangs ruled the streets. Trained by a life on the mean streets, the strongmen had broken the city police, driven them out of the city entirely, and then proceeded to divvy up the spoils. The city was divided between those regions too poor to resist the gangs and those areas rich enough to pay the gangs to leave them alone. The network did a superb job of showing the dichotomy of the two cities that were often separated by a single street. Twilight’s brand new Mustang GTs cruised past well-lit mansions surrounded by walls and guards, and straight into Third World hellholes lit only by trashcan fires. It brought the plight of Indy to the screens of a recovering nation.

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Iron Rider Cavalry Mech

by on December 7, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Jack's Defense Weekly

Staggered by the extraordinary mobility of Western Alliance designs during skirmishes in the outer colonies, the Chinese Army ordered a new cavalry mech competition. The submitted designs were underwhelming and the general in charge locked the chief designers inside a secure facility and informed them they would give him a design in three days or play a rousing game of Russian Roulette with an AK-955. A prototype concept that would become the Iron Rider cavalry mech convinced the general to send them home with a bonus and a reminder to remain silent. War was coming after all, and the Chinese planned to surprise their American foes. They did.

Iron Rider Cavalry Mech at Deviantart

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Hello, my name is Charles

by on December 6, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Museums. Reserves. Bone yards. They all provided weapons that we used when The War came upon us all. The Peloran fabricators allowed us to rebuild any weapon, any ship, any tank no matter how old into a modern design that could fight toe to toe with any of our newest ships. And of course that meant we made sure to make all those refitted designs look just like their older brethren so our enemies would never know what exactly they were facing. We won more than one battle by deploying weapons or ships that never would have survived an exchange of weapons fire. We played some mean bluffs.

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Hello, my name is Jack

by on December 5, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Hal made his home in Silicon Valley not long after Contact thanks to just how welcoming they were to the first Peloran delegations. He started the Terran branch of the cybernetic families from that house and is pretty much at least partially responsible for just about every single cyber that has ever decided to settle down on Earth. Not that you’d hear Betty ever admit it. She is here because her mama decided to help us fight The War and all. Hal had nothing to do with it if you ask her. But I’ve been to his house and I beg to differ. I fell in love it with it and I’m not even a cyber. I can only imagine what the electronic senses see in that place.

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