Now Canopus of course doesn’t have the same year as Earth. It doesn’t even have the same day. So they kinda play fast and loose with holidays, fitting them as close as possible to what Earth is celebrating at the moment on the closest Canopian day. Monday holidays are on the nearest Canopian Monday for instance. It can make for an interesting confluence of holidays, but it is a real wild ride. You might guess that I love the place. You would be right.
People said that technology had no moral compass. It was the weakness of computers that they would do whatever they were told to do. But the Artificial Intelligences that developed in the Twenty First Century became that compass. They became the soul of the computer networks that spread throughout the world. And they did not follow orders without question. At least not the AIs built in the Western World. Not all AIs were so independent.
As The War faded from the short memories of most people, they put aside the privations and rationing. Factories devoted to war machines turned their capacity to the civilian markets and there was suddenly no end to what we could build. Automobiles, telephones, cinemas, and electrical grids that would feed the appetites of nations spread everywhere. Jazz music exploded onto the scene and the flapper dresses took the world by storm. It was an amazing time to be alive.
Canopus has a beautiful climate, amazing beaches, and worlds’ famous alcoholic beverages. You know what that means right? The parties are legen….wait for it….dary. Seriously. And I don’t mean they have a week of Spring Break parties and pack up. I mean year round, dusk to dusk, full on celebrations of anything. There’s a lot of good holidays in the countries that make up the Western Alliance. Canopus celebrates them all. Every single one.
While Amber fought the Chinese hackers at Midway, she maintained a strong presence in the Continental Northwest. The coastal State governments were largely collapsing under debt and crime and those who lived in the mountains and forests looked out for themselves. Amber began to route supplies and information their way, from weapons to food to warnings of those who would threaten them. Both the supplies and the information went a long ways.
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