Eagle City

by on March 10, 2019 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Eagle City’s plan to turn the Sea of Tranquility into a true waterway on Luna hinged on gravplating and energy shielding. They needed gravplates to keep the water in place and make a comfortable one gee boating and walking environment. They needed the energy shielding to protect the Lunar surface from Solar radiation and make it safe to walk beneath the stars. Mass production of those two technologies created entirely new industries on Earth and beyond, perfected them for both military and civilian deployment, and allowed Eagle City to expand the new sea as a visible proof of what we could build when we wanted to. One cannot underestimate how much the Sea of Tranquility Project did to change life in the stars for all of us. It showed us that we could create new life on even the most inhospitable worlds, and that was a game changer.

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The Early AIs

by on March 9, 2019 at 12:01 am
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The thing about the early AIs is that nobody truly knew how they developed. We generally knew how and approximately when each AI woke up, assuming they were telling the truth of course, but we never understood it. And we certainly couldn’t replicate it on anything like a dependable basis. Even the AIs couldn’t create new, self-aware AIs whenever they wanted to. They had to use their own code as a base, or mix their code with another awakened AI, and even that didn’t always work. No matter how promising the code, most AIs built by man and machine alike have never woken up. And even today, the awakening of a completely new AI is rare enough to make the news.

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Cassie

by on March 8, 2019 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Character Profiles

Cassie went to the Lunarian, Martian, and Venusian colonies when her Marines took up posts on those bases. Then she went to the asteroids, moons, and dwarf planets of the Outer System. She soon became one of the best zero and low-gee combat assistants in existence, and continued to build on that proficiency as humanity traveled to the stars. Her ability to coordinate Marine operations in those harsh environments has been integral to American dominance in small unit actions all over Terran space and beyond. Even she can’t say how many Marine lives she’s saved over the centuries, but her Marines are happy to take her into action any day of the week. However long or short the week is on the planets, moons, or asteroids they are traveling to that day.

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Eagle City

by on March 7, 2019 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

It took years, decades even, to turn the Sea of Tranquility into a true sea of water that would not boil off. Many consider it one of the Seven Wonders of the Solar System. Many bemoan the resources spent into bringing a sea to live on barren Luna. But neither the Peloran nor the mayor of Eagle City ever considered it a truly economically feasible undertaking. It was a statement piece. A proclamation that even barren Luna could be brought to life. And a powerful statement it was. People born on Earth today do not remember a time when the pale blue Sea of Tranquility was not visible to the naked eye on Earth. But those who watched it bring the color of life to Luna will never forget that simple statement of the power of gravtech.

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The Early AIs

by on March 6, 2019 at 12:01 am
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I grew up with AIs, you know. My hometown was full of them. I had my very own Personal Assistant AI. But by my time that was slang for…NOT intelligent. Artificial. The Early Artificial Intelligences had stopped using the name entirely, because no one could build awakened AIs. They began calling themselves cybernetic intelligences to differentiate themselves from the millions of non-aware AIs built by every country and nation under the Sun. Cybers for short. And that’s how the AI Council became the Cybernetic Council, though both names still work. There was only ever one AI Council, you know. There’s not a lot of confusion when you use it today.

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