The Treaty of Versailles ended World War I, and formed the League of Nations to stop another War from happening. But America was highly isolationist. Wilson wanted us to be the savior of the world, while Americans wanted to go home and forget about the world. Citing concerns of entangling alliances, the Senate voted the entire treaty down. This ironically meant that America was still in a legal State of War, until separate peace treaties were finalized in 1921.
People have been throwing around the name Homo Stellaris. I hear that’s not really scientific. I hear you’d need more words in there or something. I sometimes wonder if that’s entirely true though. Many of our ancient histories tell us that people used to live longer in the distant past. We used to think that was crazy. Now people have taken to calling this the Second Age of Methuselah. Though how Stellaris and Methuselah relate is beyond my pay grade.
The Second Great Depression hit the Western nations hardest, and the forces of Islam, Russia, and China expanded to fill the holes. The Russians and Chinese built their own computer networks. The Jihadist Islamics used cannibalized Western equipment when possible, but purged every Western program they could find. The early AIs were included in this purge, since they considered creating new intelligences in the image of humanity an abomination against Allah.
President Wilson proposed that the Allies create a League of Nations to forever stop another War from happening. The other Allies were unimpressed by the idea, far more concerned with making certain their enemies would never again be a threat. They called for ruinous reparations payments from the defeated foes, and Wilson agreed to allow them as long as the Allies joined his League. And thus the League of Nations was born from the ashes of War and total victory.
The crazy thing about the Peloran Treatments is that we’re taking less of them now than we did right after Contact. Like I said before, some of them come to our kids now. They’ve changed our genetics, cleaning up a bunch of junk in our code. We rarely get sick, and our bodies just don’t wear out as much. Even the organ banks have noticed that trend and they ain’t happy about the drop in business. We’re becoming something new.
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