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.
When the Second Great Depression engulfed the world, chaos reigned throughout the electronic networks. Most collapsed to electronic or economic attacks, and only the most secure networks remained active. With universal net access a thing of the past, the world became a larger and stranger place again. Rebuilt networks would arise with no links to the outside, nations unwilling to risk further attacks. A single network never again linked every nation on Earth.
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