The initial Jihadist assaults on British colleges killed many thousands of the best and brightest students, and destroyed some of the most advanced science projects in the United Kingdom. Most of the partial and complete British AIs died that day as well, even though many students broke the rules and took copies of AI code home to work on. Their homes were targeted too. Elizabeth survived the destruction of Cambridge only because her student went on vacation.
The Allied occupation of Constantinople was the first time the city had been conquered in five centuries. With it, the Allies demanded a partitioning of the Ottoman Empire. The Allies subdivided the lands of modern-day Persia, Israel, and the Arabian Desert into nations too small to survive, but easy to control. Their goal, after a millennium of off and on war with the Arab world, was to end their power to threaten the West forever. They failed.
Most works of fiction that suggest Altair is a welcoming system for life don’t realize that the sun is all wrong for it. There were planets there, but they’d gone downhill long before we found them. After Contact though, we went there with far more advanced Peloran terraforming technologies. It took a few years, but we managed to make them breathable and habitable for humanity. That was when the crazy started. That was when the Voice of Altair thanked us.
The Isle of Britain was a center of advanced computer programming before the Second Great Depression hit. Many of the best colleges in the known world competed in the drive to create true artificial intelligence. Oxford’s greatest creation was Victoria, using what they called an artificial soul algorithm. She passed the Turing tests with flying colors, but we don’t know how. The Jihadist firebombs and EMP strikes killed the programmers and irradiated her databanks.
Yes. Me again. I’m pleased with the general response I’ve gotten on the Forge of Wars rules. They are a good start, and I think I’m on the right track towards making a good game there. My current focus is on finishing my latest story, Angel Flight. It continues the story of Jack, taking place a couple years after his first story. I will shortly be pushing it up to wattpad, if you use that, and will happily send a preview copy to those who don’t.
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