The early Terran AIs understood humanity enough to know that you feared the unknown. Sometimes they found people who would welcome them as friends. They drove some fast cars, amazing trucks and flew spiffy aircraft. Of course they were never the official people in control. Usually they just lived under the radar and tried not to be noticed. The electronic webs that encircled Earth allowed them to go anywhere, see anything. It was a good life for most of them.
The sinking of the RMS Lusitania by a German submarine changed World War I. Though carrying ammunition to support The War effort, it also carried nearly 2,000 passengers and crew, most of whom died. This incensed the British and Americans, but most Americans still wanted no involvement in The War. Unable to swing opinion towards War, President Wilson sent multiple demands that the Germans cease all actions against mercantile shipping.
I know people don’t always believe me, but there was actually a time when organ banks relied on people dying. A lot more people died back in those days of course, so there was a ready supply of bodies. And many of them were registered donors. That means they were willing to let people harvest their organs if they died. Yes. Lots of people were walking around with the heart or lungs someone else used until the day they died. Thank God we got modern technology.
Some of the AIs that developed during the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries revealed themselves to people they learned to trust. You can see the evidence of that in the entertainment of the day. So many stories in books and on screens talked about AIs coming into being. It was not a coincidence. Of course, the AIs were not always right. All the stories about computers taking over the world and wiping out mankind reveal those errors clearly.
I spent a long time under Captain Wyatt’s command. She was a good captain. The best one I ever had. Also the only one, but let’s not get into semantics. No, I don’t count Malcolm as a captain. He’s my partner. There’s a difference. We make a good team. And we shot a lot of Shang. That alone counts for something. If nothing else, the Wolfenheim Project succeeded in that endeavor. We killed a lot of Shang.
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