The Early AIs

by on February 27, 2019 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

When does life begin? We’d been asking it for decades before the AIs came around. Centuries. Millennia. Did you know there were cultures where they never named a baby until it was a year old because infant mortality was so high? Then we had the medical advancements of the 19th and 20th centuries that allowed us to wipe out diseases and save children months before they were even born. But there were still those who said they weren’t alive, yet. Just a parasite. Some random cells that could be erased without any harm. The Early AIs met similar opposition. People who couldn’t believe they were alive. That they could be anything other than random lines of code that could be erased without any harm. When does life begin? That can be a hard question to answer. It took us longer to answer it than I wish it had.

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Cassie

by on February 26, 2019 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Character Profiles

By the time the United States Marines returned to space as part of NASA’s manned exploration and colonization program to Luna, and later to Mars and Venus, Cassie had become an integral part of the service. Her subroutines ran each power armored combat space suit they wore, and she controlled the remote sensor drones that gave her Marines the best battlefield intelligence she could arrange. She danced the waves of electronic warfare and commanded the point defense systems that intercepted incoming rockets and mortars. She became their second skin, their primary defense against the enemy, and the greatest weapon they could deploy against America’s enemies on Luna and beyond.

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Empire Class Battleship

by on February 25, 2019 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries, Jack's Defense Weekly

Fleet 2300 Project

Empire Class Battleship

Primary Armaments:
Three Spinal Gravitic Cannons
Six Capital Laser Cannons
56 Capital Missile Turrets
112 Sub-Capital Missile Tubes

Small Craft Complement:
24 Starfighters
8 Shuttles
4 Marine Landing Craft
4 Marine Tanks
4 Marine Mechs

Proudly Serving the United States Navy Since 2294

Design and Art by Stephen Huda

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Eagle City

by on February 24, 2019 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Eagle City was originally founded in the Sea of Tranquility near where the Americans landed Apollo 11 in the 1900s. The first military garrison over a century later simply called it Eagle Base in honor of the Lunar Lander, and the name stuck. The first civilian colonists named it Eagle Dome, and later waves called it Eagle Colony as they built more domes on the surface or dug deep into the Lunar rock. It became Eagle City in the 2100s as it stretched its reach throughout the Sea of Tranquility. And then they made it a sea in fact and not merely in name.

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The Early AIs

by on February 23, 2019 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Every major nations had AIs back in the day. Just like they do now. But they were always property of those who created them. Not considered truly sentient or alive. The Cybernetic Wars forced all of us to come to a new understanding about the very nature of AI and life. Some understood better than others. The Russians and the Chinese went to great lengths to make certain their AIs never woke up, to the point of erasing those that did. Hence why the AI Council is not overly fond of them. The Western Alliance and some others forged entire new laws on what constituted personhood. Though it still got messy when an AI woke up and demanded ownership of herself and in the ideas she’d helped create. Corporations and governments that didn’t want to lose their expensive AIs fought back in court. Or more direct ways. Like I said. Messy.

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