There are thousands of lakes and islands along the border between Minnesota and Canada. You can do anything up here. You can leave civilization behind or you can bring it with. You can meet someone or seek to be alone. It’s all in what you want. I’ll always remember the fantastic times I had growing up on those lakes. It was paradise.
In addition to the system wide computer network the AIs built, they also did something else that history usually forgets about. They restarted the Voyager Program and began sending probes into deep interstellar space. Their mission was twofold. They were sent to explore on trajectories designed to bring them to other star systems within decades. To expand the frontier of human knowledge. And they carried the collected knowledge of humanity in the best computer systems of the time. They were the final line of defense. A chance for humanity to live on through her children if the unthinkable happened.
Public corruption. Bribery. Embezzlement. My family has done it all and more. Public contracts are rarely scrutinized and it is easy to pad the expenses with five hundred dollar hammers and thousand dollar toilet seats. And if somebody makes noise about the way business and politics works? Well, that is what car accidents were invented for. We have left countless bodies in our wake over the centuries. Whistleblowers who felt righteous indignation at the laws we broke. Corporate spies who sought damaging information. My family has always been swift to deal with those who become our foes.
I served on a lot of ships during The War. I worked with a lot of captains and a lot of crews. And then there was Captain Wyatt. We went through Hell after Epsilon Reticuli. She was one of the best ship captains I ever worked with. We saved each other’s lives more than I care to remember. We never could have done all the things we did without her. And it all started with three little words. It was a game of course. We weren’t in the same chain of command so I could play a little. She just sighed and got down to business, but that was the start of a game that we played for decades. I loved that game.
Earth’s first AIs fought the Rogue AIs and helped humanity survive the chaos of the Twenty First Century. They went to space and helped humanity survive out there. Luna. Mars. Titan. Europa. Venus. The AIs traveled everywhere that humanity went and planted their computer networks throughout the depths of the system. By 2100, the Terran system was awash with the back channel communications of AIs bouncing off every rock in the system from Mercury to the Kaiper Belt. And wherever they went, they carried the combined knowledge of the human race with them. Just in case.
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